Student Summer Internships at the Yale Peabody Museum

Research Project: Entomology

Mentor: Antónia Monteiro
Assistant Professor, Yale Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology; Assistant Curator of Entomology, Yale Peabody Museum
antonia.monteiro@yale.edu | Monteiro Lab Website
Division of Entomology Website

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The Monteiro lab seeks to understand the evolution of morphological novelties by focusing on the evolution and development of butterfly wing patterns. Research in the lab addresses both the ultimate selective factors that favor particular wing patterns, as well as the proximate mechanisms that generate those patterns. Present work combines tools from ethology, population genetics, phylogenetics, and developmental biology to understand the nature of the variation underlying developmental mechanisms within or between species, and why species display their particular color patterns. The organisms studied (so far) have been African satyrid butterflies in the genus Bicyclus, pierid butterflies, and saturniid moths.

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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