Lacie Newton

Postdoctoral Fellow

Lacie Newton stands in a forest, with fall leaves on the ground.
Email:
lnewtonSPAMFILTER@amnh.org
Phone:
662-552-0846

Education

2022, Doctor of Philosophy, University of California, Davis, Department of Entomology and Nematology
2016, Bachelor of Science, Millsaps College, Department of Biological Sciences

Research Interests

Lacie Newton is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Jessica Ware's lab at the American Museum of Natural History. Broadly, she is interested in terrestrial arthropod systematics, speciation, and character evolution. She uses primarily molecular phylogenetic techniques and species distribution modeling to reconstruct evolutionary relationships, discover and catalogue undocumented biodiversity, and infer biogeographic histories.

Her graduate dissertation focused on speciation pattern and process in two different mygalomorph spider groups: collar-door spiders (Antrodiaetus unicolor) and trapdoor spiders in the genus Aptostichus. Her postdoctoral work has a similar theme of assessing evolutionary relationships and biogeographic histories but within another arthropod group, the odonates (i.e., dragonflies and damselflies).

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