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 Bigwood

Doctoral Student (Adams lab)

Laura Bizzarri

Masters Student (Garcia-Robledo lab)

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

Veronica Bueno

Doctoral Student (Caira lab)

Taxonomy, systematics and biogeography of Eucestoda parasites and their elasmobranch hosts; co-evolutionary patterns using both morphological and molecular data

Elizabeth Clark

BS/MS Student (Wagner lab)

Applied entomology; conservation biology

Elizabeth Clifton

Masters Student (Adams lab)

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

Rebecca Colby

Masters 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

Charlie DeLavoi

Doctoral Student (Goffinet lab)

Moss systematics

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

Cera 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

Andrew Frank

Doctoral Student (Jockusch lab)

Taxonomy, systematics, and speciation of marine Nemertean worms; and speciation of cave and spring morphs of freshwater amphipods; speciation, parallel evolution, and mechanical reproductive isolation in North American skinks

Henry Frye

Doctoral Student (Jones lab,Silander lab)

Broadly plant evolution, ecology and morphology. In particular, leaf morphology and climate correlations

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

Diler Haji

Masters Student (Simon lab)

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

Sarah Hurley

BS/MS Student (Garcia-Robledo lab)

Conservation biology; reducing anthropogenic consequences on the environment; how these effects cause changes in survival and adaptation in insects and other invertebrates, and how overall ecosystems are impacted

Michael Hutson

Doctoral Student (Urban lab)

Community ecology; coexistence/stability of species assemblages, particularly in relation to prey-switching behavior by predators and functional differences among prey species; ecological network (e.g. food web) structure and dynamics

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

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

Masters Student (Wagner lab)

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

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

Kerri Mocko

Doctoral Student (Jones lab)

Evolution of form and function in vascular plants; leaf traits; South African plants and specifically the genus Pelargonium (Geraniaceae)

Christopher Nadeau

Doctoral Student (Urban lab)

Spatial ecology; climate change ecology and evolution

Morgan Napier

Masters Student (Rubega lab)

My research interests include studying the microbiome and its effects on physiology and behavior. I would eventually like to extend these interests to husbandry and captive breeding research, while focusing on the conservation of microbes in order to influence and change behaviors.

Kristen Nolting

Doctoral Student (Holsinger lab)

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

Genevieve Nuttall

BS/MS Student (Tingley lab)

Biodiversity and Conservation Biology; Avian Conservation

Jake Perfetto

BS/MS Student (Schultz lab)

Jackson Phillips

Masters Student (Schwenk lab)

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

Jaleigh Pier

Masters Student (Bush lab)

Paleontology (Dinosaurs!), invertebrate fossils, climate change, species and environmental interactions, mass extinctions, evolution throughout “deep time”

Tim Pullen

BS/MS Student (Schultz lab)

Conservation Biology and Biodiversity; Feeding Ecology of Tomcod in the Hudson River; Fish Ecology and Conservation

Nasim Rahmatpour

Doctoral Student (Goffinet lab)

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

Dustin Ray

Doctoral Student (Jones lab)

Structure-function relationships in the petioles of the South African genus Pelargonium (Geraniaceae); allometric patterns in vascular tissues; leaf traits

Manette Sandor

Doctoral Student (Elphick lab,Tingley lab)

Plant-animal interactions; mutualisms; frugivory; seed-dispersal; climate change

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

Michael Stankov

BS/MS Student (Elphick lab)

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

Katie Taylor

Doctoral Student (Henry lab)

Insect behavior and evolution

Elizaveta Terlova

Doctoral Student (Lewis, L. lab)

Physiology and evolution of algae

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)

Sumaira Zaman

Masters Student (Wegrzyn lab)

Genome annotation of conifer trees, identifying and visualizing orthogroups in trees

Evan Zhao

BS/MS Student (Schultz lab)