Kaitlyn Mai Abshire
Ph.D. student
kmabshire at wisc dot edu

Research interests:

I am fascinated by gastropods and especially the diversity of Stylommatophora. I am interested in understanding land snails' adaptations for life on land and the evolution of gastropod head appendages. Toward these goals, I am working on the development of the helicid ​Cornu aspersum as a model system for understanding land snail evolution.

Research snapshots