Samantha Apgar

Doctoral Student (Elphick lab)

Tidal marsh bird ecology and conservation

John Bator

BS/MS Student (Simon lab)

Systematics, taxonomy and phylogeography of New Zealand cicadas; conservation biology; wildlife biology

Laura Bizzarri

Masters Student (García-Robledo lab)

Ecology and entomology, specifically plant-insect interactions and insect evolution under climate change

Matthew Brandt

BS/MS Student (Schultz lab)

Biodiversity, wildlife conservation, morphology of mammals, specifically Mustelids

Charles Brown

Masters Student (Bagchi lab)

Hongfei Chen

Doctoral Student (Yuan lab)

Mimulus genetics

Elizabeth Clifton

Doctoral Student (Adams lab)

Behavioral ecology of social insects; more specifically, interspecific fighting in ants and termites

Rebecca Colby

Doctoral Student (Schultz lab)

Fish ecology and whole organism performance; Life history form differences between anadromous and landlocked populations of Alewives

Francisco Concha Toro

Doctoral Student (Caira lab)

Biology, reproduction, ecology behavior and conservation of Chondrichthyes

Dipanjana Dalui

Doctoral Student (Bagchi lab)

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

Amanda Deguire

BS/MS Student (Knutie lab)

I am a first year masters student studying Biodiversity and Conservation Ecology at the University of Connecticut. I am a member of the Knutie lab with research interests in conservation ecology and endangered species.

Annette Evans

Doctoral Student (Jockusch lab,Urban lab)

How changing climatic and environmental conditions affect polymorphic populations of the eastern red-backed salamander, Plethodon cinereus, across New England

Ruth Fisher

Doctoral Student (Jockusch lab)

Evo-devo and gene regulation; evolution of insect morphology, especially prothoracic projections; metamorphosis; bioinformatics; next generation sequencing; RNAi Tribolium castaneum

Henry Frye

Doctoral Student (Jones lab,Silander lab)

Plant ecology; botany; quantitative ecology; remote sensing

Kaitlin Gallagher

Doctoral Student (Caira lab)

Host-parasite relationships; parasites as bioindicators for elasmobranchs; evolution of elasmobranch cestodes

Eliza Grames

Doctoral Student (Elphick lab)

Mechanisms of area sensitivity; avian population response to forest fragmentation and urbanization

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

Jessica Gutierrez

Masters Student (Knutie lab)

Host-parasite-microbiome interactions in box-nesting bird-parasite systems in northern Minnesota

Diler Haji

Masters Student (Simon lab)

I study host-associated microorganisms in cicadas to understand their role in speciation and inform phylogenetic hypotheses

Georgia Hernández

Masters Student (García-Robledo lab)

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

Amanda Hewes

Masters Student (Schwenk lab)

Comparative functional morphology and kinematics of squamate feeding systems; squamate evolution and phylogenetics

Jacob Kasper

Doctoral Student (Schultz lab)

Jacob recently completed a Long Island Sound-specific stock assessment for Tautog (Tautoga onitis) and is now focusing on research that supports and drives fisheries management

Kevin Keegan

Doctoral Student (Wagner lab)

Entomology and botany with a focus on the systematics and conservation of Lepidoptera, along with investigations of their hostplant relationships

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.

Amy Lafountain

Doctoral Student (Yuan lab)

Mechanisms of pigmentation and patterning in Mimulus flowers

Jason Lech

Doctoral Student (Willig lab)

Biodiversity, community and metacommunity ecology; anthropogenic disturbance, landscape ecology, and conservation of freshwater lakes and watersheds, with a particular focus on aquatic macrophytes and algae

Qiaoshan Lin

Doctoral Student (Yuan lab,Wegrzyn lab)

Bioinformatics for plants genomics and genetics, application development

Tanner Matson

Doctoral Student (Wagner lab)

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

Susan McEvoy

Masters Student (Wegrzyn lab)

Hayley McMahon

Masters Student (Seemann lab)

Valerie Milici

Doctoral Student (Bagchi lab)

The recovery of/changes to species interactions following anthropogenic disturbance, particularly in the tropics; Plant-insect interactions; Plant-fungal interactions

Graham Montgomery

Doctoral Student (Tingley lab)

Community ecology and anthropogenic change; widespread insect declines, their causes, and potential effects on insectivorous birds

Zachary Muscavitch

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

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

Lucas Myers

Masters Student (Bush lab)

Wildlife conservation and paleoecology

Christopher Nadeau

Doctoral Student (Urban lab)

Spatial ecology; climate change ecology and evolution

Kristen Nolting

Doctoral Student (Holsinger lab)

Patterns of plant diversity and coexistence; plant functional trait evolution and community assembly through evolutionary time

Jackson Phillips

Masters Student (Schwenk lab)

Herpetology; comparative functional morphology and anatomy of reptiles and amphibians; patterns of evolution and biodiversity

Christian Polania

Doctoral Student (Bolnick lab)

Host-parasite interactions; metabolomics

Nasim Rahmatpour

Doctoral Student (Goffinet lab)

Evo-devo, gene regulation, and peristome development in mosses, specifically Funaria hygrometrica (Funariaceae)

Eileen Schaub

Masters Student (Diggle lab)

Effects of climate change on shrubs and other perennial flowering plants

Anna Sjodin

Doctoral Student (Willig lab)

Anthropogenic disturbance; neotropical mammals; host-parasite ecology and evolution; wildlife disease; landscape ecology; behavioral ecology; conservation biology

Austin Spence

Doctoral Student (Tingley lab)

Physiological ecology of hummingbirds; niche theory; global change

Lauren Stanley

Doctoral Student (Yuan lab)

Regulation of carotenoid biosynthesis in Mimulus; developmental genetics; evo-devo; the role of floral color pattern in plant adaptation; reproductive isolation; speciation

Andrew Stillman

Doctoral Student (Tingley lab)

Avian ecology and conservation in post-fire forests; population dynamics of Black-backed Woodpeckers in the Sierra Nevada

Mark Stukel

Doctoral Student (Simon lab)

Systematics and phylogeography of insects, specifically cicadas

Katie Taylor

Doctoral Student (Henry lab)

Insect behavior and evolution

Elizaveta Terlova

Doctoral Student (Lewis, L. lab)

Physiology and evolution of algae

Alexander Trouern-Trend

Masters Student (Wegrzyn lab)

Grace Vaziri

Doctoral Student (Knutie lab)

Host-parasite-microbiomei interactions and co-infection dynamics

Kathryn Weeks

BS/MS Student (Tingley lab)

The ability of large carnivores to behaviorally adapt to human populations, most specifically in North America

Tanisha Williams

Doctoral Student (Holsinger lab,Schlichting lab)

Phenotypic plasticity and evolution; adaptation; functional ecology; geographic distribution (limits); population genetics; conservation biology

Theresa Wisneskie

Doctoral Student (Elphick lab)

Evan Zhao

BS/MS Student (Schultz lab)