Graduate students
Kaylin Chong
Graduate Student
My interests are centered around the diversity of invertebrate sensory systems, including the evolutionary and ecological factors driving this diversity. I have previously worked with Dr. Lauren Sumner-Rooney at the Oxford Natural History Museum where I...
Jordan Johnson
Graduate Student
Prior to pursuing my PhD at Harvard, I undertook an MPhil project at Cambridge University, studying the burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides . This spirited little beetle reproduces on carrion—a highly variable ecological resource—and exhibits complex...
Recent Student Publications
2026
Chong KL, Casadei-Ferreira A, Richter A, Büsse S, Giribet G, Farrell BD, Economo EP. Cut and Taste: Functional Morphology of the Feeding Apparatus of the Longhorn Tick Haemaphysalis longicornis (Arachnida: Ixodida). Journal of Morphology. 2026;287:e70170. doi:https://doi.org/10.1002/jmor.70170
Chong KL, Casadei-Ferreira A, Richter A, Büsse S, Giribet G, Farrell BD, Economo EP. Cut and Taste: Functional Morphology of the Feeding Apparatus of the Longhorn Tick Haemaphysalis longicornis (Arachnida: Ixodida). Journal of Morphology. 2026;287:e70170. doi:https://doi.org/10.1002/jmor.70170
2025
Chong K. An eclectic encounter: ticks feeding on an electric eel and the untapped potential of natural history collections. Journal of Medical Entomology. 2025;(tjaf148). doi:10.1093/jme/tjaf148
Chong K. An eclectic encounter: ticks feeding on an electric eel and the untapped potential of natural history collections. Journal of Medical Entomology. 2025;(tjaf148). doi:10.1093/jme/tjaf148
2024
Chong K, Grahn A, Perl C, Sumner-Rooney L. Allometry and ecology shape eye size evolution in spiders. Current Biology. 2024;34:3178–3188.e5. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2024.06.020
Chong K, Grahn A, Perl C, Sumner-Rooney L. Allometry and ecology shape eye size evolution in spiders. Current Biology. 2024;34:3178–3188.e5. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2024.06.020