Brett Seymoure, PHd (He/Him)

Assistant Professor

Curator of Entomological Collections

Director of Chihuahuan Desert Biodiversity Research Experience for Undergraduates

CV January 2025

Oceane da cunha, phd (she/her)

Lecturer and Research Scientist

My research focuses on understanding behavioral ecology, with specific interests in animal personality, predator-prey interactions, visual ecology, and spatial ecology, using rattlesnakes as a model organism. When I am not in the field following rattlesnakes, you can find me hiking around with my two dogs, Darwin and Naia, or on my couch playing video games.

L. Miles Horne, MS (he/him)

PhD Student

I am interested in spiders going night night and I dream about spiders in the night and…

Oliver Neria (He/Him)

PhD Student; NSF Graduate Research Fellow

My research interests involve interactions between insect communities and nocturnal flowers, and the potential changes occurring in these intricate relationships under anthropogenic light sources. I’m also an El Paso native who loves being out and about in the Chihuahuan Desert, and I have been known to talk at great length about bees!

John Deitsch (He/Him PhD Student; NSF Graduate Research Fellow; Check out my website!

My research is focused on understanding how artificial light pollution influences insect behavior and communities. I am interested in the interaction of light pollution with factors such as habitat type and the lunar cycle. I will happily study a variety of insects, and even non-invertebrates(!), but moths seem to have a way of being practical study systems for the research questions I like to explore. Outside of work, you can find me chasing rare birds, photographing wildlife, reading books from the public library, and letting much of my day-to-day happiness depend on the outcome of Major League Baseball games.

Braulio Sanchez (he/him)

Post-bacc: NSF RAMP

… “I am going to take some photos…”. “You know what’s funny, is how John just said that this is a better path”