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Members of the Arsenault Lab.
Principal Investigator
Samuel V. Arsenault, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Mississippi State University
Samuel Arsenault is an entomologist and bioinformatician whose research centers on the evolutionary and molecular biology of polymorphisms in social insects. He completed his Ph.D. in Entomology at the University of Georgia under the mentorship of Brendan G. Hunt, where he studied the regulatory mechanisms of the fire ant social supergene and the epigenetics of maternal care in Ceratina calcarata. He subsequently worked as a postdoctoral fellow with Buck Trible at Harvard University, developing Leptothorax ergatogyneous as a model for queen polymorphism and investigating caste differentiation in Ooceraea biroi. His work integrates comparative genomics, in vivo functional experiments, and ecological surveys to explore fundamental questions in evolution, development, and ecology.
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Current Lab Members
The Arsenault Lab officially launches in Fall 2026 at Mississippi State University. We are actively recruiting undergraduate researchers, M.S. students, and Ph.D. students interested in ant genetics, evolutionary genomics, and bioinformatics. If you are interested in joining the lab, please reach out!
Past Lab Members
Lab members from previous positions and collaborations will be listed here.