Maurice Amee

Doctoral Student (Wegrzyn lab)

Lucky Barahebuza

Masters Student (Bagchi lab)

My research interests are focused on the effects of megafauna loss in tropical forests and how it affects the natural regeneration patterns of individual tree species and ecosystems as a whole

Cindy Barreto

Doctoral Student (Rubega lab)

Host-parasite interactions; urban evolutionary biology; bird behavior; avian ecology and conservation.

Akriti Bhattarai

Masters Student (Wegrzyn lab)

Peter Billman

Doctoral Student (Urban lab)

Ecological responses to climate change, drivers of animal range limits, biogeography, evolutionary ecology, stress response, and especially how these all tie together in montane systems, globally

Laura Bizzarri

Doctoral Student (García-Robledo lab)

Mechanisms structuring tropical communities, using phoretic mites as a model system; interaction networks; climate change effects at the organismal and community levels

Savanna Brown

Doctoral Student (Jockusch lab)

Molecular mechanisms underlying the evolution and diversification of novel traits, particularly in the body plans of arthropods

Michael Burgess

Masters Student (Schultz lab)

Understanding migratory behavior of juvenile anadromous fish; Assessing understudied factors to improve conservation approaches

Brandon Chan

Doctoral Student (Kremer lab)

Climate change effects on phytoplankton-bacteria interactions; antibiotic resistance in marine environments; phytoplankton ecology

Emma Choi

Masters Student (Bolnick lab)

Yettive Crestohl

Masters Student (Bush lab)

Dipanjana Dalui

Doctoral Student (Bagchi lab)

Modelling host-pathogen interactions in plants, how it can explain biodiversity

Matthew Donahue

Doctoral Student (Urban lab)

I’m interested in studying the ways that anthropogenic activities shape evolution on a contemporary timescale and how we can use evolutionary principles to promote conservation

Kaitlyn Drumma

Masters Student (Bagchi lab)

My study interests include natural sciences such as botany, ecology, and zoology

Jessica Espinosa

Doctoral Student (Rubega lab)

Conservation biology; how seabird movement, behavior, and morphology are affected by climate change and anthropogenic disturbance

Emily Feng

Masters Student (Elphick lab)

Exploring the interface of human-natural systems; Developing conservation strategies for biodiversity and human well-being

G. Young Kim

Masters Student (Heyduk lab)

Epiphytic CAM (Crassulacean Acid Metabolism) plants in tropical rainforests, specifically native Hawaiian Peperomia (family Piperaceae)

Mandy Game

Doctoral Student (Jockusch lab)

I am investigating photoreceptor cell differentiation and opsin regulation in tardigrades in order to understand the origins of visual systems within animals

Franco Gigliotti

Doctoral Student (Elphick lab)

Kara Heilemann

Masters Student (Caira lab)

Systematics, taxonomy, and morphology of tapeworms hosted by elasmobranchs

Brett Henry

BS/MS Student (Elphick lab)

Georgia Hernández

Doctoral Student (García-Robledo lab)

Physiological ecology of Zingiberales: thermal tolerances and phylogenetic relationships along an elevational gradient

Sydney Horan

Doctoral Student (Caira lab)

Host-parasite interactions and environmental change

Steven Jarsen

Masters Student (Yuan lab)

Martin Kang

Masters Student (Rubega lab)

Noor Kaur

Doctoral Student (Jones lab)

Chelsea Kintz

Doctoral Student (Rubega lab)

Functional morphology of birds

Lindsey Kollmer

BS/MS Student (Diggle lab)

Katja Kwaku

Doctoral Student (Urban lab)

Amphibian ecology and conservation

Michael LaScaleia

Doctoral Student (Bagchi lab)

I’m interested in researching why forests contain the species they do, and what we can do to conserve those species. In general, I work with plants (trees) and insects (moths, flies, and wasps), but I’m always interested in every organism that calls the forest home.

Hannah Larson

Doctoral Student (Kremer lab)

Weijun Liang

Doctoral Student (Yuan lab)

Evolutionary genetics of floral traits

Ellie Loew-Mendelson

Doctoral Student (Heyduk lab)

I am interested in exploring adaptations among the aquatic plants of New England — how they grow, reproduce, and co-exist

Noah Manuel

Masters Student (Lewis, L. lab)

Plant and algae taxonomy and evolution are my study interests

Claire Marino

Doctoral Student (Heyduk lab,Bagchi lab)

Kelsey Miles

Doctoral Student (Elphick lab)

Physiological and behavioral ecology in family Chrysomelidae: thermal tolerances and impacts of climate change on survivorship, fecundity, behavior, physiology.

Analisa Milkey

Doctoral Student (Lewis, P. lab)

Phylogenetic methods

Valerie Mingrone

BS/MS Student (Elphick lab)

Baaqeyah Muhammad

Doctoral Student (Jockusch lab)

Evolutionary and developmental consequences of genome expansion in salamanders

Zachary Muscavitch

Doctoral Student (Goffinet lab,Lewis, L. lab)

Systematics, taxonomy, and phylogeography of lichenized fungi and their symbionts. Symbiont biology

Frank Muzio

Doctoral Student (Rubega lab)

Functional and evolutionary morphology of vertebrates, primarily birds and mammals

Alyssa Pendergast

Masters Student (Jockusch lab)

Her study interests lie in animal behavior, particularly within and between species, and how that could influence the overall ecosystem

Maya Ray

Masters Student (Elphick lab)

Kyle Rossner

Masters Student (Wagner lab)

Interested in insect biogeography and systematics, the concepts and perception of ecological rarity, and the factors contributing to global insect decline.

Ketki Samel

Doctoral Student (Elphick lab)

Community ecology, interspecies interactions, and conservation of Northeastern birds

Alex Soldo

Masters Student (Knutie lab)

Douglas Stephan

Doctoral Student (Caira lab)

Mark Stukel

Doctoral Student (Simon, C. lab)

Systematics and phylogeography of insects, specifically cicadas

Swapna Subramanian

Doctoral Student (Bolnick lab)

Yeast experimental evolution and genetic networks; predicting evolutionary outcomes to climate change

Brenden Thomson

Masters Student (Goffinet lab)

My research interests include bryophyte systematics and symbiosis

Nicholas Van Gilder

Doctoral Student (Jockusch lab)

Conservation genetics, systematics, and phylogenetics of plethodontid salamanders

Grace Vaziri

Doctoral Student (Bolnick lab)

Host-parasite-microbiomei interactions and co-infection dynamics

Vidya Vuruputoor

Doctoral Student (Wegrzyn lab)

Genomics and its application towards understanding plant-parasite interactions

Anni Wang

Doctoral Student (Bolnick lab)

Cynthia Webster

Doctoral Student (Wegrzyn lab)

Bioinformatics and conservation genomics