Nancy C. Rotzel

Research Assistant, Lab Manager

Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Harvard University

26 Oxford Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

MCZ Labs Room 309a
Tel: 617-496-2398
Fax: 617-495-5667

email: nrotzel(at)oeb.harvard.edu

Education:

Bachelors of Science in Biology,
Marquette University, Milwaukee Wisconsin

Research Interests:

Nancy came from Milwaukee Wisconsin to Boston to help set up Scott Edwards' new lab at Harvard University in July 2004. Previously, Nancy was working as a technician in the Human and Molecular Genetics Center at the Medical College of Wisconsin. Her training there in high-throughput sequencing for the discovery of SNPs was instrumental in her transition to bird genetics with Scott Edwards. She brings experience in automation and robotics to the study of non-model organisms, and is currently working on a project involving multilocus phylogeography of Australian Treecreepers ( Climacteris picumnus and melanura ) using anonymous noncoding loci.

You can download her poster of the 2005 meetings of the Society for the Study of Evolution here.

Nancy contributed ancient DNA sequences of the ivory-billed woodpecker for this paper.

Brown Treecreeper (Climacteris picumnus) video