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

Brett Henry

BS/MS Student (Elphick lab)

Cindy Barreto

Doctoral Student (Knutie lab)

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

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)

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

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

Henry Frye

Doctoral Student (Jones lab,Silander lab)

Plant ecology; botany; quantitative ecology; remote sensing

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)

Georgia Hernández

Masters 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)

Noor Kaur

Doctoral Student (Jones 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.

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

Doctoral Student (Wegrzyn lab)

Assembly, annotation, and comparative genomics of hardwood and conifer forest trees; bioinformatic tool development

Kelsey Miles

Doctoral Student (García-Robledo 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

Analisa Milkey

Doctoral Student (Lewis, P. lab)

Valerie Mingrone

BS/MS Student (Elphick lab)

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

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)

Danielle Schwartz

BS/MS Student (Elphick lab)

Mark Stukel

Doctoral Student (Simon 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)

Elizaveta Terlova

Doctoral Student (Lewis, L. lab)

Physiology and evolution of algae

Nicholas Van Gilder

Masters Student (Jockusch lab)

Conservation genetics of amphibians; specifically plethodontid salamanders

Grace Vaziri

Doctoral Student (Knutie 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