There are currently 52 graduate students in EEB.
Maurice Amee
Doctoral Student (Wegrzyn lab)
Kristin Anderson
Doctoral Student (Goffinet lab)
Bryophyte systematics
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.
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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
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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
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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
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Rebecca Colby
Doctoral Student (Schultz lab)
Fish ecology and whole organism performance; Life history form differences between anadromous and landlocked populations of Alewives
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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
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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
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Henry Frye
Doctoral Student (Jones lab,Silander lab)
Plant ecology; botany; quantitative ecology; remote sensing
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
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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
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Qiaoshan Lin
Doctoral Student (Yuan lab,Wegrzyn lab)
Bioinformatics for plants genomics and genetics, application development
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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
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Kelsey Miles
Doctoral Student (García-Robledo lab)
Physiological and behavioral ecology in family Chrysomelidae: thermal tolerances and impacts of climate change on survivorship, fecundity, behavior, physiology.
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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
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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
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Zachary Muscavitch
Doctoral Student (Goffinet lab,Lewis, L. lab)
Systematics, taxonomy, and phylogeography of lichenized fungi and their symbionts. Symbiont biology
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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
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Vikas Sarathy
Masters Student (García-Robledo lab)
Plant-Insect interactions, specifically the relationship between Chelobasis beetles and their Heliconia hosts in the neotropics
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Mark Stukel
Doctoral Student (Simon, C. lab)
Systematics and phylogeography of insects, specifically cicadas
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Swapna Subramanian
Doctoral Student (Bolnick lab)
Yeast experimental evolution and genetic networks; predicting evolutionary outcomes to climate change
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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
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Vidya Vuruputoor
Doctoral Student (Wegrzyn lab)
Genomics and its application towards understanding plant-parasite interactions
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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