Oceanography Scripps Institution of Oceanography, 2014 MS - Marine Biology Scripps Institution of Oceanography, 2011

Stanford University, 2009

My research focuses on student learning and undergraduate research experiences in invertebrate diversity, evolution, and systematics.

Rouse GW, Lanterbecq D, Summers MM, & Eeckhaut I. 2015. Four new species of Mesomyzostoma (Myzostomida, Annelida). Journal of Natural History. 50: 1-23. Summers MM, Pleijel F, & Rouse GW. 2015. Whale falls, multiple colinisations of the deep, and the phylogeny of Hesionidae (Annelida). Invertebrate Systematics. 29: 105-123. Summers MM & Rouse GW. 2014. Phylogeny of Myzostomida (Annelida) and their relationships with echinoderm hosts. BMC Evolutionary Biology 14: 170. Summers MM, Messing CG, & Rouse GW. 2014. Phylogeny of Comatulidae (Echinodermata: Crinoidea: Comatulida). Molecular Phylogenetics & Evolution 80:319-339. Summers MM, Al-Hakim I, & Rouse GW. 2014. Turbo-taxonomy: 21 new species of Myzostomida (Annelida). Zootaxa. 3873: 301-344. Summers MM, Katz S, Allen EE, & Rouse GW. 2013. Association of rhizobia with a marine polychaete. Environmental Microbiology Reports 5: 492-498. Payne JL, Summers M, Rego BL, Altiner D, Wei J, Yu M, & Lehrmann DJ. 2011. Early and Middle Triassic trends in diversity, evenness, and size of foraminifers on a carbonate platform in south China: implications for tempo and mode of biotic recovery from the end-Permian mass extinction. Paleobiology 37: 409-425.