Associate Professor, Biological Sciences
Dean's Eminent Scholar, College of Arts & Sciences
IGBB Fellow
matthew.brown{at}msstate.edu
……Office: 008 Harned Hall
……Lab: 032 Harned Hall
……Office Tel: 662.325.2406
……Lab Tel: 662.325.4008
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Education
……B.Sc. Biology, University of Arkansas
……Ph.D. Biology, University of Arkansas
Postdoctoral Research
Centre for Comparative Genomics and Evolutionary Bioinformatics,
Dalhousie University (under Andrew J. Roger, FRSC)
Postdoctoral Scholars
Mgr. Tomáš Pánek, Ph.D.
Fulbright Scholar, Biological Sciences
2018-2019
Education
B.Sc. Charles University in Prague (summa cum laude)
M.Sc. Charles University in Prague (summa cum laude)
Ph.D. Zoology, Charles University in Prague; supervisor: doc. RNDr. Ivan Čepička, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research
2015 – 2019: Postdoctoral fellow, University of Ostrava, Department of Biology and Ecology, Marek Eliáš lab
Current Position
2019 – on: Assistant Professor (Equivalent) Charles University Prague
Grad Students
Robert Jones, B.Sc.
Ph.D. Student (2018-)
Education
……B.Sc. Mississippi State University
Ph.D. Project: Comparative Genomics of Amoebozoa
Seungho Kang, M.Sc.
Ph.D. Student (2014-)
Education
……B.Sc. (Honors) Biology, University College London
……M.Sc. Molecular Medical Genetics, Aberdeen University
……M.Sc. Applied Parasitology and Medical Entomology, Liverpool
Ph.D. Project: Phylogenomics of Amoebozoa
Christopher Lebeau, B.Sc.
Ph.D. Student (2019-)
Education
……B.Sc. Biological Engineering, Mississippi State University
Alexander Tice, M.Sc.
Ph.D. Student (2014-)
Education
……B.Sc. Biology, University of Arkansas
……M.Sc. Biology, University of Arkansas
Ph.D. Project: Developmental Transcriptomics in Sporocarpic and Sorocarpic Amoebozoans
Visiting Scholars and Grad Students
David Žihala, M.Sc.
Ph.D. Student
(11/2018-12/2018)
David is an expert programmer working on software development on phylogenetics.
Alfredo Leonardo Porfirio de Sousa, B.Sc.
M.Sc. Student
(3/2018-8/2018)
Alfredo is getting his M.Sc. in Dr. Daniel J.G. Lahr's laboratory in Sao Paulo Brazil. He is working on testate amoeba transcriptomics.
Kina García Martín, M.Sc.
Ph.D. Student
(9/2015-12/2015 | 6/2016-11/2016)
Kina is getting her Ph.D. in Prof. Carlos Lado’s laboratory in Madrid Spain. She is working on Myxogastrid Transcriptomics.
Undergrad Students
Sammira Rais-Rohani
B.Sc. Bio-Engineering Undergraduate Researcher
(2018-) Amoebae from Mississippi State University campus
Former Students
Gabriel Schuler, M.Sc.
M.Sc. Graduate (2016-2018)
Education
……B.Sc. Biology, St. Francis University
M.Sc. Biology, Mississippi State University
M.Sc. Project: Evolution of zoonotic amoebae
Currently a Ph.D. student at Cornell University in Microbiology
G. Robert Berry, B.Sc.
B.Sc. General Science Undergraduate Researcher
(2017) Diversity of protosteloid amoebae
Emily Foreman, B.Sc.
B.Sc. Microbiology Undergraduate Researcher
(2016-2017) Diversity of zoonotic amoebae.
Peter Kooienga, B.Sc.
B.Sc. Biochemistry Undergraduate Researcher
(2016-2018) Diversity of marine amoebozoans.
Priya Patel, B.Sc.
B.Sc. Biology Undergraduate Researcher
(2017) Acrasid cellular slime mold development.
Austin Walthall (2015-2017)
B.Sc. Microbiology Undergraduate Researcher
Project: Diversity of freshwater amoebae in Mississippi ephemeral pools
Nicholas Bailey (2014-2015)
B.Sc. Biology Undergraduate Researcher
Project: Protosteloid amoebae of Mississippi
Nicolas Lee (2013)
B.Sc. Biology Undergraduate Researcher
Shackouls Honors College at Mississippi State University
Project: Protistan parasites of Mississippi anurans
Funded by:
……MSU Department of Biological Sciences Undergraduate Research Award
……Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal Undergraduate Research Award
Stephanie Sorrell (2013-2014)
B.Sc. Medical Technology Undergraduate Researcher
Shackouls Honors College at Mississippi State University
Project: Amoebozoa phylogenomics
Society of Scholars
Pamela Watson (2013-2015)
B.Sc. Biology Undergraduate Researcher
Project: Diversity of ruminate inhabiting amoebae