Current Graduate Students

Mason Dean
2003 Fall
GAANN Fellow 2004-2005
MSA President's Award 2005
NSF CO-PI Research Assistant '06-'08

Mason received a Master's degree from the University of South Florida where he investigated the morphology and feeding kinematics of electric rays. His current research is on the mechanisms and significance of mineralization in cartilaginous skeletons.

Andrew Clark
2004 Fall
APS Porter Fellow 2005-2007

Andrew is a product of the University of Maryland where he did research on hard prey crushing in pile perch. He is currently casting about for projects while looking at feeding in hagfish and the mechanics of placoid scales.

Jaquan Horton
2004 Fall
NSF Bridges Fellow 2004-2006
UCI FMP Fellow 2006-2007

Jaquan comes from Beth Brainerd's lab at the University of Massachusetts. He studied salamander locomotion and swimming in salmon as an undergraduate. His current research interest is in the material properties of acellular bone and in swimming mosquito pupae.