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Sarah Boyer serves as Professor of Biology and Department Chair at Macalester College, where she is based in the Olin-Rice Science Center. Her research program, the Boyer Lab, focuses on the diversity, evolution, and biogeography of invertebrate animals, utilizing both molecular and morphological data to address evolutionary questions.
Her educational background includes a BA from Swarthmore College (1996), an MA from the University of California, Berkeley (1998), and a PhD from Harvard University (2007).
Professor Boyer's primary research interests encompass evolutionary biology, invertebrate systematics, phylogenetics, biogeography, and arachnology. Current projects investigate the evolution of mite harvesters in New Zealand and the reproductive biology of local daddy long-legs in Minnesota. Her lab engages undergraduates in field and laboratory research, leading to numerous co-authored publications.
While Professor Boyer's research has received significant grant support from the National Science Foundation, the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation, the National Geographic Society, and the National Park Service, no specific scientific awards or honors were mentioned in the provided information.
Professor Boyer has mentored many undergraduate students, including Uni Vang, Sarah Henderson, Haley Heine, Pete Aspholm, Pietro Tardelli Canedo, Margot White, Zach Popkin-Hall, Jill Oberski, Penny Kahn, Rina Morisawa, Phoebe Fu, Nathaniel Moyes, Rachel Christensen, Yvonne Moreira-Andrade, Elsa Vieregg, and Zade Alafranji. She works closely with students in both lab and field settings, and her lab has presented research at conferences such as Evolution and SICB.
The Boyer Lab conducts fieldwork in diverse locations such as New Zealand and Minnesota's Ordway Field Station, and utilizes advanced techniques including scanning electron microscopy. Collaborations with researchers like Dr. Mercedes Burns and Dr. Shahan Derkarabetian enhance the scope of the lab's investigations.
