Gina Crespo

Emerging Scholars Student Research Assistant 
Email: g.crespo@ufl.edu 

I am currently a senior undergraduate student studying biology in the college of Agricultural and Life Sciences at the University of Florida. I am interested in studying evolution and genetics. At the Kawahara Lab, I have helped with projects focused on moth behavior and phylogenetics. I have worked with digital images of specimens in the family Saturniidae, created wing vouchers, and will soon begin to assist with DNA extractions.

Rhys Campo

Student Research Assistant 
Email: campoj@ufl.edu 

I am an undergraduate senior studying Entomology & Nematology in the college of Agricultural and Life Sciences. During my time at the Kawahara Lab I have been working on a project measuring environment-driven phenotypic plasticity in the larvae of the pest species Plodia interpunctella. Insect behavior is my main area of interest and there is still a lot we can learn, especially with less-studied species.

Christian Couch

Emerging Scholars Student Research Assistant 
Email: christian.couch@ufl.edu 

I am an undergraduate student studying Biotechnology in the college of Agricultural and Life Sciences.  I work on many molecular projects relating to conservation, biodiversity and phylogenetics within Lepidoptera. I am also interested in studying Chemistry and Ecology and Conservation outside of research. I enjoy the wildlife, collecting insects and traveling.