Mary Faith Flores

I specialize in ancient and degraded DNA laboratory techniques and aim to continue research in historical DNA with a focus on museomics while expanding my expertise to include modern samples collected in the field. 

BS Biochemistry - University of Oklahoma

Hinckley, A., G. E. Pinilla-Buitrago,  J. E. Maldonado, et al.  2025. “ Pliocene Forest Fragmentation Shaped Speciation in Tropical Asia's Giant Squirrels (Ratufa).” Molecular Ecology e70179. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.70179.

Hinckley Arlo, Flores Mary Faith C., Inayah Nurul and Hawkins Melissa T. R. (2025) Uncovering new lineages in the Sunda pangolin (Manis javanica) with museum mitogenomics. Biol. Lett. 21: 20250222. http://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2025.0222

McGowen MR, Caballero S, Flores MFC, Murphy KR, Archer FI, Ayyagari S, Beasley I, Cohen CS, Dolar MLL, Junchompoo C, Kaewmong P, Klinsawat W, Kreb D, Sui Hyang Kuit, Robertson K, Sabin R, Sakornwimon W, Smith KJ, Zhi Yi Teoh, Budi T, Ponnampalam LS and Hines E (2024) Range wide phylogeographic structure of the endangered Irrawaddy dolphin (Orcaella brevirostris) using expanded sampling from contemporary and historical specimens. Marine Mammal Science, 40(4), e13159. https://doi.org/10.1111/mms.13159

Hawkins MTR, Flores MFC, McGowen M and Hinckley A (2022) A comparative analysis of extraction protocol performance on degraded mammalian museum specimens. Front. Ecol. Evol. 10:984056. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2022.984056

Speer KA, Hawkins MTR, Flores MFC, McGowen MR, Fleischer RC, Maldonado JE, Campana MG and Muletz-Wolz CR (2022) A comparative study of RNA yields from museum specimens, including an optimized protocol for extracting RNA from formalin-fixed specimens. Front. Ecol. Evol. 10:953131. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2022.953131

Kennedy JR, Bingham B, Flores MF, Kemp BM. (2021). Ancient DNA Identification of Giant Snakehead (Channa micropeltes) Remains from the Market Street Chinatown and Some Implications for the Nineteenth-Century Pacific World Fish Trade. American Antiquity, 1-17. doi:10.1017/aaq.2021.61

Lanman RB, Hylkema L, Boone CM, Allée B, Castillo RO, Moreno SA, Flores MF, DeSilva U, Bingham B, Kemp BM. (2021) Ancient DNA analysis of archaeological specimens extends Chinook salmon’s known historic range to San Francisco Bay’s tributaries and southernmost watershed. PLoS ONE 16(4): e0244470. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0244470