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The Janovy lab is currently focusing on problems of parasite population and community structure, host specificity, life cycle evolution, and taxonomy. We work primarily with small fish and invertebrate hosts; the parasites are mainly apicomplexans, particularly septate gregarines, but we're also dealing with parasite communities of small fish. The research group typically includes undergraduates as well as graduates; most years there are 2-3 graduate students and 2-4 undergraduates doing research in my lab. Our field sites are in western Nebraska, near the Cedar Point Biological Station north of Ogallala, NE, in the Salt Valley watershed north and west of Lincoln, and in Cass County east of Lincoln.
The links below are to educational items, including the unique Field Parasitology class at Cedar Point Biological Station, writing assignments for General Education learning outcomes (ones that have actually been used in large classes), parasitology seminar schedule, audio files and presentations, and a third-year parasitology course syllabus.
NEWS: JJ's new book, Pieces of the Plains: Memories and Predictions from the Heart of America, is now available from Lee Booksellers, 1265 So. Cotner, Lincoln, NE 68510. ($23.49 for Lincoln residents; $23.16 + $3.00 mailing for other Nebraska residents, and $21.95 + $3.00 mailing for out-of-state). Pieces of the Plains also is available on Kindle. His other recent book, The Ginkgo: An Intellectual and Visionary Coming-of-Age (June, 2009) is still available from Amazon.com (order), CreateSpace.com (order), and on Kindle; click here for the prologue as sampler.
NEWS: In April, 2009, seven students (one grad, six undergrads) from our lab presented their research at the Southwestern Association of Parasitologists meetings at Lake Texoma, University of Oklahoma Biological Station. Mohammed Vhora won the undergraduate student paper competition and he's on his way to graduate school in Matt Bolek's lab at Oklahoma State. Congrats to all these students!!! See their titles and abstracts on the SWAP link on the Research page.
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