Student Summer Internships at the Yale Peabody Museum

Research Project: Entomology

Mentor: Larry Gall
Informatics Manager, Entomology,
Yale Peabody Museum
lawrence.gall@yale.edu
Division of Entomology Website

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Biology and Taxonomy of Moths
My research focuses on the biology and systematics of Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies), with an emphasis on the Nearctic fauna and Catocala moths in particular.

The studies are based in the field, laboratory and museum. Field work would involve collecting caterpillars and adult moths in Connecticut and the south central United States, raising them to document life histories and host plant use of particular species, and preparing morphological and molecular voucher specimens for laboratory study.

The corollary taxonomic work in the laboratory focuses on describing, measuring and analyzing morphological characteristics of the moths (wing patterns, egg microsculpturing, genitalic structures, etc.). The overall goal is to delimit species boundaries among the moths, and resolve the broader phylogenetic relationships among the species.

To Apply

Interested? Send a one- to two-page project description, along with a letter of support from the mentor of this research project, to the internship program coordinator:

Eric Lazo-Wasem
Senior Collections Manager
Division of Invertebrate Zoology
Peabody Museum of Natural History
Yale University
P.O. Box 208118
New Haven, CT 06520-8118 USA

203.432.3784
Fax 203.432.9816
eric.lazo-wasem@yale.edu


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