Regina Minjares Grajeda
Position
- Graduate Student
Department
- Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology
I enjoy going to the cinema, taking long walks, urban exploration, reading manga, dancing, and writing.
Contact
Email
mrmg96@iastate.edu
328 Bessey Hall
119 9th street
Ames
,
IA
50010
Social Media and Websites
Education
- MSc in Biodiversity - Universitat de Barcelona (UB), Spain
- Bachelor of Science: Ecology Engineering - Autonomous University of Chihuahua (UACH), Mexico
I am a PhD student in the Adams Evolutionary Morphology Laboratory. My research combines systematics, multilocus phylogenetics, geometric morphometrics, and comparative methods to quantify patterns of morphological diversification in spiders. Currently, I'm focusing on the macroevolution of somatic traits in cave-dwelling spiders in the US, testing the repeatability versus contingency of troglomorphic traits across independently evolved subterranean lineages.