PhD Student
Contact Information
Email: tjraszick@gmail.com
Office: Entomology Research Lab, Rm 120 (Bldg 815)
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Education & Employment
University of Central Florida – Orlando, FL
Aug. 2011 – May 2014
Degree earned: M.S. in Biology
GPA: 4.0
University of Florida – Gainesville, FL
Aug. 2006 – Dec. 2010
Degrees earned: B.S. in Environmental Science, B.S. in Entomology
GPA: 3.2
Research Interests
I am broadly interested in microevolutionary processes and the short-term effects of ecology on population-level divergence. Although my research program primarily revolves around ecological and genomic divergence in the grasshopper species Schistocerca lineata, I am also involved in DNA-barcoding diet analysis projects in herbivorous insects, including some agriculturally important pest species. Additionally, I am investigating the evolution of the grasshopper genome with regards to genome size and microheteroplasmy in the mitochondria.