J.P. Masly, Associate Professor and Associate Director for the School of Biological Sciences

J.P. received a B.S. in Biology from the Pennsylvania State University and spent a year at the University of Crete in Greece as a J. William Fulbright Scholar before receiving his M.S. and Ph.D. in Evolutionary Genetics at the University of Rochester. He was a NIH-NRSA Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Southern California and joined the faculty at the University of Oklahoma in 2010.

Mehrnaz Afkhami, Ph.D. student

Mehrnaz received a B.S. in Animal Biology and M.S. in Animal Biosystematics from University of Tehran before joining the lab in 2017. She is interested in the impact of male genital variation on evolution of female genitalia.

Md Golam Azom, Ph.D. student

Azom received a B.Sc in Fisheries Science from the Hajee Mohammad Danesh Science and Technology University, and M.S in Fisheries Biology and Genetics from the Bangladesh Agricultural University where he received the  President’s Gold Medal. Azom joined the lab in Fall 2021 to study the genetic and developmental bases of phenotypic diversity among reproductive traits.

Harriet Lumula, Ph.D. student

Harriet received a B.S. in Biological Sciences from Missouri University of Science and Technology  before joining the lab in 2022. Her research interests include evolutionary genetics, reproductive biology, and germline development.

Subah Chowdhury, Undergraduate researcher

Subah is a third-year double-major in Biochemical Sciences and Social Work. She is interested in understanding how variation in Drosophila male genital morphology affects female reproductive behaviors and physiology.  

Conley Holloway, Undergraduate researcher

Conley is a fourth-year Biology major interested in understanding how genetic variation directs developmental variation in male genital morphology.  

Ashley Bentz, Undergraduate researcher

Ashley is a third-year Biology major interested in studying the function of novel genes, and how sequence variation affects gene function.

Will Northcutt, Undergraduate researcher

Will is a fourth-year Biology major interested in understanding how genetic variation directs developmental variation in male genital morphology.  

Ivy Broughton, Undergraduate researcher

Ivy is a third-year Biology major with an emphasis on genetic and developmental biology. Her research interests include functional characterization of novel genes, and how sequence variation affects gene function.  

Atticus Aguilar

Current position: Medical student at the OU College of Medicine

Brittany Smith

Tom Buckman

Current position: Senior Software Engineer at GE Healthcare

Michelle Wood

Dr. Kentaro Tanaka

EMBO Fellow

Dr. Angel Harper

Current position: Forensic Toxicologist at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner of Oklahoma

Dr. Alex Barnard

Current position: Assistant Professor of Biology at National Parks College

Stephen Frazee

Current position: Physician's Assistant in OKC

Bernard Chu

Rotation student

Anna Holderidge

Erica Nadolski

Current position: Ph.D. student in the Genome, Cell, and Developmental Biology program at Indiana University

John McCrory

Current position: Ph.D. student in the Division of Medicinal Chemistry at UT Austin

Stephanie Amorim, DO

Farris Tedder

Current position: Masters student in the Bioinformatics Program at the University of Oregon

Lawri Sanders

Current position: Masters student in the Genetic Counseling Program at the University of Minnesota

Albert Talbot

Arash Ghazanfari

Covenant Elenwo, MPH

Gary Cox

Amanah Fatima

Julie Hall, MD

Dan Simmons

Daniel Arkfeld, MD

Ameel Chaudhary, MD

Jessi Pagan

Sarah Grebennikov, DO

Taylor Schmidt, MD

Zain Hyder, MD

Thomas Portier, MPH

Molly Pasque, MD

Ashley Maggia (medical student at the University of Wisconsin College of Medicine)

Linda Lieu (Ph.D. student in Chemistry at OU)

Anita Sundaramoorthy, MD

Anjali Sundaramoorthy, DO

Lindsay Lacroix

Md Hossein

Emily Miller

Lauren Calaza

Aubrey Rottschaefer

Ashley Gardner

Caitlyn Gunter

Mallory McMahon