Deb Clopton serves as Lab Coordinator on campus. Prior to her arrival at Peru State
College she conducted research as a laboratory technician at Texas A&M University
and University of Nebraska – Lincoln in reproductive physiology and developmental
biology. She has instructed laboratories in General Biology, Zoology, Ornithology,
Prairie Ecology and Physiology. She is currently working with Dr. Richard Clopton
on the evolution of gregarines in damselflies and cockroaches in an attempt to understand
the forces underlying speciation in hyperdiverse parasitic lineages.
