Maurice Amee

Doctoral Student (Wegrzyn lab)

Kristin Anderson

Doctoral Student (Goffinet lab)

Bryophyte systematics

Samantha Apgar

Doctoral Student (Elphick lab)

Tidal marsh bird ecology and conservation

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

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

Hongfei Chen

Doctoral Student (Yuan lab)

Mimulus genetics

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

Brendan Enochs

Masters Student (Jockusch lab)

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

Henry Frye

Doctoral Student (Jones lab,Silander lab)

Plant ecology; botany; quantitative ecology; remote sensing

G. Young Kim

Masters Student (Heyduk lab)

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

Franco Gigliotti

Doctoral Student (Elphick lab)

Vandana Gurung

Doctoral Student (Diggle lab)

I am interested in deciphering the genetic basis of flower development. I am enthusiastic to know how pollinators shape up or affects the genetics of flower development

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 (Knutie lab)

Steven Jarsen

Masters Student (Yuan lab)

Taylor Kang

Masters Student (Rubega lab)

Noor Kaur

Doctoral Student (Jones lab)

Chelsea Kintz

Masters Student (Rubega lab)

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)

Tanner Matson

Doctoral Student (Wagner lab)

Life history and biosystematics of Zygaenoid moths with emphasis on Nearctic Lacturidae

Alyssa McGurer

BS/MS Student (Knutie lab)

Effects of climate change on host-parasite interactions; conservation education; animal specimen preservation and curation

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

Masters Student (Jockusch lab)

Evolutionary and developmental consequences of genome expansion in salamanders

Sarita Muñoz-Gómez

Masters Student (Yuan lab)

I study how color patterns form in the petals of Mimulus flowers

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

Mia Nahom

BS/MS Student (Knutie lab)

Amanda Pastore

Masters Student (Jockusch lab,Urban lab)

Plastic traits developed from predation pressures, particularly in Daphnia

Nicholas Piscitelli

BS/MS Student (Schultz lab)

Growth rate and body condition of juvenile herring; diadromous fish ecology; otolith microstructure analysis

Christian Polania

Doctoral Student (Bolnick lab)

Host-parasite interactions; metabolomics

Ketki Samel

Doctoral Student (Elphick lab)

Community ecology, interspecies interactions, and conservation of Northeastern birds

Vikas Sarathy

Masters Student (García-Robledo lab)

Plant-Insect interactions, specifically the relationship between Chelobasis beetles and their Heliconia hosts in the neotropics

Alex Soldo

Masters Student (Knutie 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

Tess Swiecanski

BS/MS Student (Schultz lab)

Nicholas Van Gilder

Masters Student (Jockusch lab)

Conservation genetics of amphibians; specifically 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)

Anne Washington

BS/MS Student (Wagner lab)

Public outreach and education of the conservation of our natural spaces, with the long-term goal of becoming a manager of a refuge or park system

Cynthia Webster

Masters Student (Wegrzyn lab,Knutie lab)