Graduate Student
BEES Program
Department of Biology
University of Maryland
2235 Biosciences Research Building
College Park, MD 20742
301-405-7018 (office)
email:koquin@umd.edu
Education:
2006 B.S.,
Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University
Present Ph.D., Behavior, Ecology,
Evolution and Systematics, University of Maryland, College Park
Positions held:
2006 - 2008- Graduate
Teaching Assistant, Principles of Biology II: Organismal, Ecological, and
Evolutionary Biology, University of Maryland
2009 – Present Graduate
Teaching Assistant, Principles of Genetics, University of Maryland
O'Quin, KE, RT Brumfield,
RT Chesser. A molecular phylogeny of the Neotropical ovenbird genera Asthenes
and Phacellodomus. In prep. .
Hofmann, CM, KE O’Quin, NJ Marshall, TW Cronin, O Seehausen, KL
Carleton. Changes in gene expression and coding sequence contribute to cichlid
visual adaptation. Submitted
Presentations:
O'Quin, KE, NJ
Marshall, TW Cronin, KL Carleton. 2008. Exceptional visual system diversity
among the cichlid fishes of Lake Malawi.
Ecology
and Evolutionary Ethology of Fishes, Boston, MA, USA.
O'Quin, KE, NJ Marshall, TW
Cronin, KL Carleton. 2008. Rapid visual system evolution within the cichlid
species flock of Lake Malawi.
Society
for Integrative and Comparative, Boston, MA, USA.
Awards and Funding:
2006 Darwin Fellowship,
University of Maryland
2008 Cosmos Club
Foundation Grant
2008 GIAR, Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society
2008 GIAR,
Guy Jordan Endowment Fund of the American Cichlid Association
2009 Jacob K. Goldhaber
Travel Grant, University of Maryland
Go to Carleton lab or Biology dept