EPSCoR Graduate Fellow

Email: fskbh1@uaf.edu  

Master's student, Biological Sciences, University of Alaska Fairbanks (2008-present)
B.S., Biological Sciences, University of Alaska Fairbanks (2006)
 

Research Interests
Molecular ecology, phylogeography, speciation and species limits, rates of molecular evolution, molecular techniques, conservation genetics
 

Alaskan research
Resolve the longstanding taxonomic uncertainty surrounding the Glacier Bay water shrew (Sorex alaskanus) and increase our understanding of its distribution and abundance using both field and molecular techniques.
 

Madagascar Research
Phylogeography and and conservation genetics of the aquatic tenrec (Limnogale mergulus) using DNA extracted from fecal pellets.

Olson, L.E., E.J. Sargis, W.T. Stanley, K.B.P. Hildebrandt, and T.R.B. Davenport. 2008. Additional molecular evidence strongly supports the distinction between the recently described African primate Rungwecebus kipunji (Cercopithecidae, Papionini) and Lophocebus. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 48: 789–794

Laakkonen, J., A. Smith, K.B.P. Hildebrandt, J. Niemima, and H. Henttonen. 2005.   Significant morphological but little molecular differences between Trypanosoma of rodents from Alaska. Journal of Parasitology. 91:1:201-203.

(Presenter is indicated by bold text.)

"A preliminary analysis of morphological and molecular differentiationamong the three species of Rhynchocyon." Oral presentation, Annual Meetingof the American Society of Mammalogists, Albuquerque, NM, 2007.  William T. Stanley, Galen B. Rathbun, Trina E. Roberts, Kyndall Hildebrandt, and Link E. Olson.

"Additional molecular data support the phylogenetic position and taxonomic status of Rungwecebus kipunji (Primates: Cercopithecidae)." Oral presentation, Annual Meeting of the American Society of Mammalogists, Albuquerque, NM, 2007.   Link E. Olson, William T. Stanley, Kyndall B.P. Hildebrandt, Eric J. Sargis, andTim R.B. Davenport.

"Mitonuclear phylogeography and species limits in the Malagasy mole-tenrec, Oryzorictes hova." Oral presentation, Annual Meeting of the American Society of Mammalogists, Albuquerque, NM, 2007.   Kyndall B.P. Hildebrandt, Steven M. Goodman, and Link E. Olson.

"Taxonomic and distributional status of the enigmatic Glacier Bay watershrew (Sorex alaskanus)." Oral presentation, Annual Meeting of the American Society of Mammalogists, Amherst, MA, 2006.  Kyndall B.P. Hildebrandt and Link E. Olson.

"The effects of differential dispersal on phylogeographic structure among Madagascar's oryzorictine tenrecs." Poster presentation, Evo-WIBO meetings (Evolutionary Biologists in the Pacific Northwest), Port Townsend, WA, 2006. Kyndall B.P. Hildebrandt, Steven M. Goodman, and Link E. Olson.

"The effects of differential dispersal on phylogeographic structure among Madagascar's oryzorictine tenrecs."   Oral presentation, Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Evolution, Fairbanks, AK, 2005. Kyndall B.P. Hildebrandt, Steven M. Goodman, and Link E. Olson.

Alaska EPSCoR Graduate Research Fellowship (2008)

Alaska EPSCoR Undergraduate Travel Grant (2006)

Alaska EPSCoR Undergraduate Summer Research Internship Grant (2005)

University of Alaska Fairbanks Research Opportunities Program, Office of