The Delph Lab

Department of Biology, 1001 East Third Street,Indiana University,
Bloomington, IN 47405, USA

(812-855-1831; email: ldelph@indiana.edu)

Left to right: Rebecca Penny, Deidra Jacobsen, Lynda Delph, Laura Weingartner,

Phil Nista, Jonathan Andicoechea

Current graduate students -- Jonathan Andicoechea, Deidra Jacobsen, Phil Nista,
Rebecca Penny, Deanna Soper, Laura Weingartner

Current postdocs -- none (!) (interested? contact me)

Current undergraduate students -- Melissa Burger, Megan Wade

Past Ph.D. students, what they are doing now, and their thesis titles --

Kayri Havens '94
(Director of Endangered Plant Research, Chicago Botanic Gardens)

Nonrandom reproductive success in an endangered evening primrose (Oenothera organensis Munz)

Deborah Marr '97
(Associate Professor, Indiana University at South Bend)

Effects of a pollinator-transmitted pathogen (Microbotryum violaceum) on the
population biology of a long-lived host (
Silene acaulis)

Sandra Davis '98
(Associate Professor, University of Indianapolis)

Ecological and genetic factors maintaining stamen production in females of
cryptically dioecious
Thalictrum pubescens Pursh (Ranunculaceae)

Cynthia Weinig '98
(Associate Professor, University of Wyoming)

Phytochrome photoreceptors, developmental flexibility and plant adaptation to heterogeneous environments

Dana Dudle '99
(Associate Professor, DePauw University)

Maintenance and consequences of females in the gynodioecious plant, Lobelia siphilitica

Naoki Takebayashi '00
(Associate Professor, University of Alaska)

Self-fertilization, genetic associations, and genetic architecture: understanding
the components of mating-system evolution

Maia Bailey '02
(Assistant Professor, Providence College)

The genetic components of sex expression in a gynodioecious species

Frank Frey '03
(Associate Professor, Colgate University)

Floral evolution: how pollinators, herbivores, and pathogens maintain floral-color variation
in natural populations of Claytonia virginica

Jeremiah Busch '05
(Assistant Professor, Washington State University)

The evolution of self-compatibility and its genetic consequences in Leavenworthia alabamica (Brassicaceae)

Ingrid Anderson '05
(Director of Cancer Trials, Sarah Cannon Research Center)

The role of developmental constraint in mating-system evolution in Leavenworthia: a quantitative genetic analysis

Amanda Brothers '10
(Postdoc with M. Arnold & N. Martin, University of Georgia)

Pre- and post-zygotic isolating barriers in Silene

Past Master's students --

Kelly Sullivan 1992, Neil Kenny 1995, Marianne Laporte 1994, Suzanne Folke 1994, Jennifer Richardson 2010

Past Postdocs --

Ingrid Anderson (Sarah Cannnon Research Institute), Michele Arntz (Oregon), Maia Bailey (Providence College), Daniela Bell (Minnesota), Steven Carroll (Blandy Experimental Field), Rebecca Flanagan (Texas), Janet Gehring (Bradley Univesity), Chris Herlihy (Middle Tennessee State University), Benjamin Montgomery (University of South Carolina, Upstate), Pia Mutikainen (Zurich), Molly Nepokroeff (University of South Dakota), Maureen Levri (Penn State-Altoona), Ivan Scotti (INRA-ECOFOG, French Guiana), Thomas Städler (ETH Zurich), Janet Steven (Sweet Briar College)