Regina Minjares Grajeda

Regina Minjares is a PhD student in the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology program, working in the Adams Evolutionary Morphology Laboratory. Her research background includes systematics, multilocus phylogenetic analysis, geometric morphometrics, and comparative phylogenetic methods to assess patterns of morphological diversification in spiders quantitatively. Her current work focuses on the macroevolutionary analysis of somatic diversification in cave-dwelling spiders in the United States, with a particular emphasis on testing the repeatability versus contingency of troglomorphic traits across independently evolved subterranean lineages.