Associates

Gary Alpert

Associate, Museum of Comparative Zoology

Research Associate, Museum of Northern Arizona

Gary is an environmental biologist and MCZ Associate, specializing in ants. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1981 and has been conducting field studies on the ants of New England since 1990. He has photographed many ant species in the field and is...

S. Bruce Archibald

Associate, Museum of Comparative Zoology

Curator of Paleontology Collections, Beaty Biodiversity Museum, Univ. of British Columbia

Patrick Gorring

Associate, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology

Research Curator of Coleoptera and Odonata, FL Dept. of Ag. & Consumer Services and FL State Collection of Arthropods

I am an evolutionary biologist and entomologist who uses species-rich herbivorous insects to study how the insect-plant interface has contributed to diversity and will respond to global change. I use genomic tools to investigate factors limiting ranges...

Alyssa Hernandez

Alyssa Hernandez, Assistant Professor of Biology, Bard College

Graduate student through August 2021; biography below is based on graduate studies: Before pursuing my PhD at Harvard, my background had been largely focused on examining various ecological processes throughout the natural world. As an undergraduate at...

Sangil Kim

Associate, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology

Research Fellow at the Research Institute of Basic Sciences, Seoul National University

Graduate student through May 2023 My broad interests include systematics, phylogeny, and evolution of stag beetles (Coleoptera: Lucanidae). Previously I have worked on a taxonomic review of the Korean lucanids with the description of one new species and...

Anthony (Tony) Kiszewski

MCZ Associate

Associate Professor of Public Health Entomology, Bentley University

Piotr Naskrecki

pnaskrec@oeb.harvard.edu

MCZ Associate

Director of the E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Laboratory, Gorongosa, Mozambique

Piotr (Peter) Naskrecki is an entomologist, photographer and author, based at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, USA.). He received his M. Sc. degree in Zoology from the A. Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland;, and a...

Thalles Platiny Lavinscky Pereira

tlavinsckypereira@fas.harvard.edu

Associate, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology

MCZ Biodiversity Postdoctoral Fellow, 2023-2025 50 new species for the 49th state - Alaska: using integrative taxonomy to illuminate a dark taxon (Diptera: Phoridae) Thalles’ research focuses on the diversity of flies (Diptera), especially the Phoridae...

Jessica Rykken

MCZ Associate

Entomology Collections Manager, Univ. of Alaska Museum, Univ. of Alaska Fairbanks

Andrea S. Sequeira

MCZ Associate

Gordon and Althea P. Lang ’26 Professor of Biological Sciences, Wellesley College

Scott Shaw

MCZ Associate

Professor of Entomology and Insect Museum Curator, Univ. of Wyoming

Paulino Siqueira Ribeiro

Associate, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology

MCZ Biodiversity Postdoctoral Fellow 2023-2025 Taxonomic and phylogenetic revision of the subgenus Decamyia Dyar, genus Wyeomyia Theobald (Diptera: Culicidae) with a description of new species Paulino is a biologist interested in the study of mosquitoes...