Scientific Collaborators
Lenin Arias Rodriguez
Lenin is a Professor at Universidad Juárez Autónoma Tabasco. We have been collaborating on the biology of cave mollies and sulfide spring fishes since 2009.
Evan Carson
Evan is a population geneticist at U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. We are collaborating on the conservation genetics of desert spring pupfishes and mosquitofishes.
Nathan Franssen
Nate is the Deputy Director at the Southwestern Native Aquatic Resources And Recovery Center in Dexter, NM. We collaborator on the conservation of desert spring fishes.
Francisco García-De León
Paco is a Professor at CIBNOR. We are interested in the biology of Mexican Poecilia.
Puni Jeyasingh
Puni is a Professor at Oklahoma State University. We are both interested in fundamentally integrating ecological and evolutionary analysis.
Joanna Kelley
Jo is a Professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz. We are collaborating on the ecological genomics of sulfide spring fishes.
Johanna Kowalko
Johanna is an Associate Professor at Lehigh University. We are collaborating on evolutionary analyses of cavefishes.
Suzanne McGaugh
Suzanne is a Professor at the University of Minnesota. We are collaborating on evolutionary analyses of cavefishes.
Patricia Ornelas García
Paty is a Senior Researcher at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. We are collaborating on evolutionary analyses of cavefishes.
Allison Pease
Allison is an Assistant Professor at the University of Missouri. We are interested in the ecology of southern Mexican fishes.
Martin Plath
Martin is a Professor at Northwest A & F University in China. We are interested in the ecology and evolution of the cave molly.
Rudy Riesch
Rudy is a Senior Lecturer at Royal Holloway, University of London, in the UK. We are interested in the ecology and evolution of extremophile mollies.
Gil Rosenthal
Gil is a Professor at the University of Padova. We are interested in the role of ecology in swordtail speciation and hybridization.
Peter Scott
Peter is an Assistant Professor at Eckerd College. We are working on the conservation genetics on desert spring fishes.
Ingo Schlupp
Ingo is a Professor at the University of Oklahoma. We are interested in the ecology and evolution of poeciliids.
Gary Voelker
Because everybody needs a bird guy, I have Gary. He is a Professor at Texas A&M University, and we collaborate on fish phylogeography.
Kirk Winemiller
Kirk is a Professor at Texas A&M University. We are interested in eco-morphological diversity in fish communities occurring along environmental gradients.
Collaborations with educators & communicators
Jared Bixby
Jared is the Fred Saigh Director of Conservation Education at the Saint Louis Zoo. We are collaborating on providing science communication training for graduate students and faculty and on creating new public engagement events.
Robbie Shone
Robbie is a cave explorer and photographer. He accompanied one of our expeditions to Mexico in 2014 while on assignment for GEO magazine. His photos have since been featured some of our publications, presentations, and this website.
Collaborations with dedicated hobbyists
Over the years we have received much appreciated support from the fish hobbyist community. Various people continuously and selflessly commit fish and other samples to our research projects, provide crucial information about field sites, help with fish husbandry know-how, and supply photographs for publications. At this point, we would like to express our sincerest thanks to everybody that has been supporting us in the past.
Juan Miguel Artigas Azas
Juan lives in San Luis Potosi (Mexico) and knows the fishes of Mexico like nobody else. His underwater photographs are amazing, his collection tips invaluable. Juan is also the mastermind behind the Cichlid Room Companion.
Ken Davis
Ken lives in Statham (Georgia), maintains his own fish hatchery, and currently works in a petshop in Atlanta. We share are keen interest in fishes from Honduras, although Ken is focusing increasingly on cichlids from Uruguay.
Joel Healy
Joel lives in Kansas CIty (Missouri) and has a keen interest in goodeid fishes. He has been indispensable in establishing populations of Characodon in our lab.
Michael Köck
Michael is a curator at the “Haus des Meeres“, a large public aquarium in Vienna, Austria. We are both interested in the conservation of livebearing fishes.
Jim Langhammer
Jim lives in Royal Oak (Michigan) and has a long standing history of collaborating with scientists, as he worked with Bob Miller on goodeids of Mexico. Jim has lent his invaluable expertise and contributed fish stocks to our ongoing projects on Characodon.
Joe Middleton
Joe lives in Portland (Oregon), is well travelled in Central America, and keeps contributing to our cichlid projects.
Rich Serva
Rich lives in Stowe (Ohio) and is a longtime member of the American Livebearer Association. He has been active in forming bridges between hobbyists and scientists particularly through helping graduate students.
Stephan Tanner
Ste lives in Columbus (Ohio) and is among the most avid hobbyists I’ve met. He is the man that can breed anything, and he mainly focused on keeping cyprinids and loricariid catfish. Ste has been an invaluable resource for optimizing fish care in our lab, particularly in terms of filtration and fish nutrition. He distributes a fantastic filter system, quality fish food, and home-bred fish on his Swiss Tropicals website.
Rusty Wessel
Rusty lives in Louisville (Kentucky), keeps his fish in a first class fish house, and travels regularly through Central America to collect fish. We share are an interest in Central American cichlids.