The master’s thesis of alumna Rachel Rodgers, ChE’09, was recently accepted for publication in Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. Rodgers’ article, “Phylogenomic analysis of Fundulidae (Teleostei: Cyprinodotiformes) using RNA-sequencing Data” is published in the Dec. 28, 2017, issue of the journal.
Rodgers completed her thesis in 2017 under the direction of Dr. David Duvernell, now professor and chair of biological sciences at Missouri S&T, while he served as head of the biology department at Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville.
Rodgers is currently a bioinformaticist at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.