Faculty Profile

Ryan Garrick
Assistant Professor of Biology
Phone Number: (662)915-2341
Email: rgarrick@olemiss.edu
http://olemiss.edu/depts/biology/people/faculty/garrick/index.php

Key Words: Evolutionary biology, population genetics & phylogeography, biodiversity conservation, forest invertebrates, plant-insect co-evolution, molecular markers

Research Description: There are opportunities for highly-motivated students who are passionate about biology to work on independent research projects over summer and/or during the semester. While all of these projects are intended to feed into my own larger projects, the things you do can be tailored to your interests:

  1. molecular laboratory skills: DNA extraction, PCR, gel electrophoresis, DNA sequence editing
  2. data-basing skills: specimen / tissue collections (localities, sample sizes), DNA sequence data
  3. microscopy & digital imaging: morphometric data collection, curating specimens scientific literature: navigating Web of Science, searching / reading papers, review writing
  4. computer simulations: generate population genetic data in silico & analyze using specialist software

I will ask you to commit to a spending a certain number of hours per week on your project, and this usually involves being physically present in the lab... we can work around your class schedule. Send me an email and let me know the sorts of things you'd be most interested in doing, as well as a rough idea of how much time you are able to devote to independent research.

Honors Theses:

Holman, Lora Grace (2022) Invasion of the Northeastern United States by the Southern Pine Beetle, Dendroctonus Frontalis, and the Impacts on Signatures of Isolation by Distance Assessed using Mitochondrial DNA (full text)

Ong, Isabelle (2021) The Biodiversity of Deadwood-associated Arthropods in the southern Appalachian Mountains (full text)

Stubbs, Megan (2020) Population Genetics of a Recent Range Expansion by the Southern Pine Beetle, Dendroctonus Frontalis, into the Northeastern United States (full text)

Passarella, Lee Ann (2018) Population Genetics of the Eastern Subterranean Termite, Reticulitermes flavipes, in the Southern Appalachian Mountains (full text)

Ladner, Kayla Elayne (2017) Population Genetics of the Giant Red Centipede Along the Appalachian Mountains (full text)

Collins, Benjamin (2014) DNA-based Species Identification and Population Genetics of the Eastern Subterranean Termite, Reticulitermes flavipes, in the Southern Appalachian Mountains. (full text)

Yi, Rachel (2014) Preliminary Investigations into the Population Genetics of the Horned Passalus Beetle, Odontotaenius Disjunctus (Coleoptera), in Forests of the Southeastern United States. (full text)