Jeremiah Degenhardt PhD

Currently I work in biotech developing therapeutics, but my formal education spans organismal biology, molecular biology, computational biology, and population genetics/genomics. I have a PhD in Computational Biology and Population genetics and have worked on multiple genome sequencing projects. During undergraduate at the University of Idaho I worked on phylogeography of Pacific Northwest taxa, including multiple species of salamanders and xystodesmid millipedes in the lab of Professor Jack Sullivan. I learned millipede biology and ID of western Xystodesmids from Professor Rowland Shelley during this time. I have continued to expand my love and knowledge of arthropods and biology by being an active member of iNatuarlist and bugguide. I also help researchers with field collections whenever possible.

Recently I have started a different type of project. I have set out to photographically document all of the west coast xystodesmid species. I will be adding high quality images of each species with photos of the gonopods and other ID features on iNaturalist and bugguide to help others be able to ID these species. You can follow the project here: West coast xystodesmids

March 2025