I am a recent addition to the volunteer stock of the Abbott Lab. I have actually been around for several years, although not in physical form, as an acrid smell floating through the air ducts of Brackenridge Field Lab. In my physical form, I smell only slightly better, but am much more useful as a volunteer. Currently I sort through samples, curate target taxa, and emit slightly noxious fumes when irritated or scared. One day I will return to my atomized state and resume my place in the lab's ventilation system, wreaking havoc on the eyes, mucus membranes, and pulmonary systems of all research scientists! Mwaaahhaaaahahahhaaaahaa!!!!!!!!

I am a volunteer at the Abbott lab. I have been working on sorting and doing field work for about 3 months now, and soon will actually morph into an insect myself. Over these last few months, I have developed an obsessive fascination with all things insect and am currently completing talks with local plastic surgeons to aid in my total entomo-transformation. I also plan to break the lease at my apartment and move to a place I have selected in the Green Belt where I can properly pupate and possibly overwinter in the soft mud. Over the next few months, I plan on mating as frequently as possible, laying my eggs in a stream, and then dying, of course, with my legs pointed straight in the air.

Research Interests: Lepidoptera! Also looking at whether Dyar's Law is a good model for the growth of Culex tarsalis.

My name is Sabina Lorca, and I was born on the plains of Africa as a Spanish-speaking zebra. Since I am part zebra, and part Sabina, my friends call me Zabina. I enjoy cattle drives, the name Djibuti, and delicious, delicious bugs. Since I spent most of my time on the plains of Africa, and wandering the streets of Santiago, Chile, I developed an enhanced appreciation of all things Arthropod, and a taste for Hemipterans. Currently I am doing research in the Abbott Lab, sorting insect samples and field work. It is very hard to use soft forceps when you have hooves instead of hands. My fine motor skills are a bit lacking, so it's safe to assume I will never be a cardiovascular surgeon, but I sure can sort some bugs into their proper orders and place them into vials. One day when I return to the plains of Africa, or the streets of Santiago, Chile, I will say hello to the bugs of my childhood, and then gently place them in a plastic vial filled with cyanide, so that I may pin their dead bodies and stuff them into styrofoam.

Feel my wrath! All who fail to bow before me shall suffer the pain that is I - The Great Medina! The earth shall drink much blood and the ground shall shake as I take my vengeance on the undeserving.

I also have a kitten. She is very soft and cuddly.

Did I say you could make eye contact with me? Bow lower you peon!

Hail, hail, hail!

My name is Colleen Sziudzinski, and even I don't know how to pronounce my last name. I am currently a volunteer in the Abbott Lab, sorting samples and curating specimens, but look forward to a hostile '80's-movie-style takeover of the Abbott Lab domain. I figured I would go about it by starting at the bottom and eventually curating my way to the top, wearing shoulder pads and horribly-conceived blue eyeshadow and pink lipstick all the while. The hostile takeover will begin with systematic demoralization of all employees and volunteers, followed up by the implementation of what I shall call "Mandatory Malaise Week". This will further the blow. Once my curating powers are complete, I will be the foremost entomologist in the world, using my Abbott Lab minions to move junk bonds and buy businesses to break them up and sell them by the piece. When nothing is left of the world as we know it, I shall retire to my glorious collection and put away the shoulder pads for good. Watch out for me, Colleen Szzz.., Szud..., Szz... Well, Colleen Smith!

My current research involves describing Erpetogomphis eutainea.

In my free time I enjoy crossdressing with an emphasis on old women's clothing, oh, and collecting and learning about insects. My favorite colors include all of those residing on the infra red or ultra violet portions of the spectrum, and as a hidden superpower, I can spit crickets 9+ meters (on a good day, when the wind is at my back)

My name is Craig Something-or-Other and I am a volunteer in the Abbott Entomology Lab. I am very tall, so bugs are naturally afraid of me and cower in my presence. Some things I enjoy are: The Ice Capades, shaving my legs, and very strange disco-sounding music. Currently I am sorting insects from various collection projects for the lab, but will eventually be transformed into a manual labor source/drug mule under the dark overlord, Sara, of room 103. Don't let anyone tell you she doesn't rule her feifdom with an iron fist. I hope to one day be completely immersed in Ethanol, much like the insects I sort, and pinned through my right side and stuffed in styrofoam. What joys those days will be!