# Jim Mallet group *To deter spam harvesting, some email addresses are given as unclickable images. Just type them in instead.* - [**James Mallet**](https://jamesmallet.github.io) (Professor in Residence of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University; Emeritus Professor of Biological Diversity, University College London). ![people in a field](/sites/g/files/omnuum6606/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/malletlab/files/lab_picnic_with_a_horse_2024_06_01_crop.jpg?itok=b5EkgBaZ) On June 1, 2024, we had a **picnic with a black stallion in Berlin, Massachusetts**. From left to right; <horse>, Sarah Dendy, James Mallet, Neil Rosser, Shuzhe Guan, Yuttapong Thawornwattana. (N.B. I thought "black stallion" sounded good, but Sarah, whose horse it is, just informed me the horse is actually a dark bay gelding!). - [**Sarah Dendy**](https://oeb.harvard.edu/people/sarah-dendy) (PhD student, OEB Harvard) - [**Shuzhe Guan**](https://shuzhe-guan.com) (PhD student, OEB Harvard) **With Bob Reed in front of Museum of Comparative Zoology, October 4, 2023** ![Some people standing in front of the Museum of Comparative Zoology](/sites/g/files/omnuum6606/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/malletlab/files/neil_rosser_jim_mallet_bob_reed_fernando_seixas_img_6033_sm.jpg?itok=yabkrMTz) Left to right: Neil Rosser, James Mallet, Bob Reed, Fernando Seixas **Lab outing, Aug 2021** ![Some people outside celebrating after lockdown from Covid Aug 2021](/sites/g/files/omnuum6606/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/malletlab/files/neil_rosser_fernando_seixas_yuttapong_thawornwattana_tianzhu_xiong_sarah_dendy_at_soldiers_field_park_2021_aug_i_think_sm.jpg?itok=ePucRiN5) Left to right: Neil Rosser, Fernando Seixas, Yuttapong Thawornwattana, Tianzhu Xiong, Sarah Dendy #### **Administration** ![Tracy mugshot](/sites/g/files/omnuum6606/files/2026-01/tracy%20barbaro.jpg) - [Tracy Barbaro](https://www.oeb.harvard.edu/people/tracy-barbaro) (Keeps us sane) #### **Former group members** ![Jim, Nate, Liang, Tianzhu](/sites/g/files/omnuum6606/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/malletlab/files/img_2095_lab_group_crop_sm.jpg?itok=8wK8qsm6) Jim Mallet, Nate Edelman, Liang Qiao, and Tianzhu Xiong- [**Jorge Amaya Romero**](https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/profile/jorge-amaya-romero/) ([MEME Master's student](http://www.evobio.eu/cohort-2015-2017)). (Went on to a [PhD studentship at Groningen](https://michaelcfontaine.wordpress.com/poeple/), Netherlands; now at Harvard School of Public Health). - **Margarita Beltrán** (Teacher; her most difficult projects yet -- Catalina and Manuela). - **Martin Brookes** (Now a science writer). - **Vanessa Bull** (Now a forensic scientist). - **Jaewoo Chung** (Now a diplomat for Republic of Korea - 'South Korea'). - **Sarah Darwin** (Botanist who worked on *Solanum* in the Galapagos, now in Berlin). - [**Kanchon Dasmahapatra**](http:/www.york.ac.uk/res/dasmahapatra/) (Professor, University of York). ![Jorge Amaya](/sites/g/files/omnuum6606/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/malletlab/files/img_1929_sm.jpg?itok=sPeX867G) Jorge Amaya- **Michele Drès** (Now Michele Hingle; postdoc at Cardiff University, administrator at UCL Medical School). - [**Nathaniel Edelman**](https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=MDfp6aAAAAAJ) (Now Hutchinson Environmental Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale University) - **Igor Emelianov** (Senior Research Scientist, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden; now private sector back in Belarus) - **Stéphanie Gallusser** (Conservationist in Tarapoto, Peru) - [**Sebastién Gourbière**](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=eNf-ppoAAAAJ&hl=en) (Maître de Conférences, Université de Perpignan). - [**Blanca Huertas**](http://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/departments-and-staff/staff-directory/blanca-huertas.html) (Senior Curator in Entomology, The Natural History Museum) - [**Chris Jiggins**](https://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/directory/chris-jiggins) (Professor of Evolutionary Biology, FRS, University of Cambridge) - [**Mathieu Joron**](https://joron.cefe.cnrs.fr/) (Directeur de Recherche, Génétique et Ecologie Evolutive, CEFE/CNRS, Montpellier) - [**Dmytro Kryvokhyzha**](https://www.ludc.lu.se/resources/ludc-bioinformatics-unit) (MEME Masters student; went on to a PhD studentship, Uppsala Universitet). - **Lisa Leadbeater de Silva** (Postdoctoral fellow, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle). - [**Jesús Mavárez**](https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=PKriwI8AAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate) (CNRS-Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France). - [**W. Owen McMillan**](https://stri.si.edu/scientist/owen-mcmillan) (Dean of Academic Programs, STRI, Panama). - **Russell Naisbit** (Postdoc at the Université de Fribourg, now a Freelance Scientific Editor) - **Liang Qiao** (Postdoctoral fellow, OEB Harvard) - **Owen Rose** (Business training consultant in Cambridge, UK). - [**Neil Rosser**](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=bKyzoi0AAAAJ) (Postdoc, Princeton University, now Assistant Professor University of Miami). See also: [Geographic distribution of *Heliconius* butterflies and allies](https://heliconius-maps.github.io/). - **Julia Carolina Segami Marzal** (MEME Master's student, Harvard and Munich; went on to a PhD studentship at Uppsala) - [**Fernando Seixas**](https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=kNo-2lsAAAAJ) (Former postdoc, OEB Harvard) - [**Fraser Simpson**](http://www.fssbirding.org.uk/) (Technician, bird photographer extraordinaire). - [**Yuttapong Thawornwattana**](https://ythaworn.github.io/) (Went on to a postdoctoral fellowship, University College London). [yuttapong.thawornwattana@gmail.com]() - **Alaine Whinnett** (Now Alaine Nabarro, teacher). - [**Keith Willmott**](http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/butterflies/neotropica/) (Curator, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida). - **Ian Wynne** (Postdoc at the University of Copenhagen, then -- WHERE ARE YOU? Please contact Jim!) - [**Tianzhu Xiong**](https://sites.google.com/site/tzxiong1993/personal-album) (Went on to a postdoc, Cornell University) - [**Marie Zimmermann**](https://www.univ-tours.fr/site-de-l-universite/marie-zimmermann--185638.kjsp) (Maître de Conférences, Université François Rabelais, Tours). #### Other collaborators and associates - [**heliconius.org**](http://www.heliconius.org/researchers/), The *Heliconius* Genome Consortium - [**Marianne Elias**](http://isyeb.mnhn.fr/fr/annuaire/marianne-elias-399), L’Institut de Systématique, Évolution, Biodiversité, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France - [**André Freitas**](https://www2.ib.unicamp.br/labor/site/?page_id=409), Departamento de Biologia Animal, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), SP, Brazil - [**Marcus Kronforst**](http://www.kronforstlab.org/), Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago. - [**lepbase.org**](http://ensembl.lepbase.org/)**,** Lepidoptera genome database - [**Gerardo Amadeo Guillermo Lamas Müller**](https://jamesmallet.github.io/Mim/lamas.html), [Museo de Historia Natural](http://museohn.unmsm.edu.pe/), Universidad Mayor de San Marcos, Lima. - [**Sean Mullen**](https://sites.bu.edu/mullenlab/), Department of Biology, Boston University. - [**Bob Reed**](https://blogs.cornell.edu/reedlab/), Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University - [**Camilo Andrés Salazar Clavijo**](https://pure.urosario.edu.co/es/persons/camilo-andres-salazar-clavijo-2), Universidad del Rosario, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales - [**Karina da Silva-Brandão**](https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Karina-Brandao), Ecologia - Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), SP, Brazil - [**Ziheng Yang**](http://abacus.gene.ucl.ac.uk/), Department of Biology, UCL. ![Yuttapong Thawornwattana](/sites/g/files/omnuum6606/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/malletlab/files/yuttapong_img_3242_2.jpg?itok=86tmwvSQ) Yuttapong Thawornwattana ![fernando seixas](/sites/g/files/omnuum6606/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/malletlab/files/fernando_seixas.jpeg?itok=jX0zxoDN) Fernando Seixas ![lisa_fraser_kanchon](/sites/g/files/omnuum6606/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/malletlab/files/lisa_fraser_kanchon.jpg?itok=6ZSRs1md) Lisa de Silva, Fraser Simpson, and Kanchon Dasmahapatra, Boquerón del Padre Abad, Río Huallaga, Peru ![neil_jim.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum6606/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/malletlab/files/neil_jim_1.jpg?itok=u5URdmnW) Neil Rosser and Jim Mallet in Pongo de Cainarache, Peru