J.P. Masly, Associate Professor and Associate Director for the School of Biological Sciences
J.P. received a B.S. in Biology from the Pennsylvania State University and spent a year at the University of Crete in Greece as a J. William Fulbright Scholar before receiving his M.S. and Ph.D. in Evolutionary Genetics at the University of Rochester. He was a NIH-NRSA Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Southern California and joined the faculty at the University of Oklahoma in 2010.
Lab members

Masly Lab, Spring 2023
Mehrnaz Afkhami, Ph.D. student
Mehrnaz received a B.S. in Animal Biology and M.S. in Animal Biosystematics from University of Tehran before joining the lab in 2017. She is interested in the impact of male genital variation on evolution of female genitalia.
Md Golam Azom, Ph.D. student
Azom received a B.Sc in Fisheries Science from the Hajee Mohammad Danesh Science and Technology University, and M.S in Fisheries Biology and Genetics from the Bangladesh Agricultural University where he received the President’s Gold Medal. Azom joined the lab in Fall 2021 to study the genetic and developmental bases of phenotypic diversity among reproductive traits.
Harriet Lumula, Ph.D. student
Harriet received a B.S. in Biological Sciences from Missouri University of Science and Technology before joining the lab in 2022. Her research interests include evolutionary genetics, reproductive biology, and germline development.
Subah Chowdhury, Undergraduate researcher
Subah is a third-year double-major in Biochemical Sciences and Social Work. She is interested in understanding how variation in Drosophila male genital morphology affects female reproductive behaviors and physiology.
Conley Holloway, Undergraduate researcher
Conley is a fourth-year Biology major interested in understanding how genetic variation directs developmental variation in male genital morphology.
Ashley Bentz, Undergraduate researcher
Ashley is a third-year Biology major interested in studying the function of novel genes, and how sequence variation affects gene function.
Will Northcutt, Undergraduate researcher
Will is a fourth-year Biology major interested in understanding how genetic variation directs developmental variation in male genital morphology.
Ivy Broughton, Undergraduate researcher
Ivy is a third-year Biology major with an emphasis on genetic and developmental biology. Her research interests include functional characterization of novel genes, and how sequence variation affects gene function.








Atticus Aguilar
Current position: Medical student at the OU College of Medicine


Masly Lab Alumni
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Lab technicians and Research associates
Postdoctoral researchers
Graduate students
Tom Buckman
Current position: Senior Software Engineer at GE Healthcare
Michelle Wood
Dr. Kentaro Tanaka
EMBO Fellow
Dr. Angel Harper
Current position: Forensic Toxicologist at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner of Oklahoma
Dr. Alex Barnard
Current position: Assistant Professor of Biology at National Parks College
Stephen Frazee
Current position: Physician's Assistant in OKC
Bernard Chu
Rotation student
Undergraduate students
Anna Holderidge
Erica Nadolski
Current position: Ph.D. student in the Genome, Cell, and Developmental Biology program at Indiana University
John McCrory
Current position: Ph.D. student in the Division of Medicinal Chemistry at UT Austin
Stephanie Amorim, DO
Farris Tedder
Current position: Masters student in the Bioinformatics Program at the University of Oregon
Lawri Sanders
Current position: Masters student in the Genetic Counseling Program at the University of Minnesota
Albert Talbot
Arash Ghazanfari
Covenant Elenwo, MPH
Gary Cox
Amanah Fatima
Julie Hall, MD
Dan Simmons
Daniel Arkfeld, MD
Ameel Chaudhary, MD
Jessi Pagan
Sarah Grebennikov, DO
Taylor Schmidt, MD
Zain Hyder, MD
Thomas Portier, MPH
Molly Pasque, MD
Not pictured:
Ashley Maggia (medical student at the University of Wisconsin College of Medicine)
Linda Lieu (Ph.D. student in Chemistry at OU)
Anita Sundaramoorthy, MD
Anjali Sundaramoorthy, DO
Lindsay Lacroix
Md Hossein
Emily Miller
Lauren Calaza
Aubrey Rottschaefer
Ashley Gardner
Caitlyn Gunter
Mallory McMahon