Simona Augyte

(Yarish lab)

Ecology, evolution and aquaculture of seaweeds

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Phone: 203.251.8530

Christina Baer

(García-Robledo lab)

Tri-trophic interactions; thermal ecology; shelter-building caterpillars; natural history

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Phone: 860.486.3756

Kevin Burgio

(Rubega lab)

Evidence-based conservation biology; avian behavior, especially the Psitticidae family; invasive species; human/wildlife interactions; ecological modeling

Phone: 860.486.3839

Caroline Chong

(None)

Phone: 860.486.4027

Baoqing Ding

(Yuan lab)

Evolution and developmental genetics of monkeyflower

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Phone: 860.486.4154

Ruth Fisher

(Jockusch lab)

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

Phone: 860.486.6215

Sean Giery

(Urban lab)

The evolutionary ecology of sexual selection and food web ecology

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Phone: 860.486.8964

Geert Goemans

(Army Ant Guest Collection)

Taxonomy, systematics, phylogeny, biodiversity and biogeography of the cicada tribe Zammarini

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Phone: 860.486.3947

Heidi Golden

(Urban lab)

Metapopulation dynamics, population genetics and trophic interactions of Arctic freshwater fish

Phone: 860.486.6154

Eric Gordon

(Simon lab)

Evolution of Hemiptera and their symbioses, especially Cicadidae and Reduviidae

Phone: 860.486.3947

Johanna Harvey

(Knutie lab)

Nic Herndon

(Wegrzyn lab)

Big data, machine learning, data mining and knowledge discovery, bioinformatics, and computational biology

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Phone: 860.486.3672

Heather Kittredge

(Urban lab)

Assembly and persistence of microbial communities in the environment; microbial evolution via horizontal gene transfer; evolution of genetic recombination.

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Justin Kratovil

(Jockusch lab)

Genetic interactions that occur between speciating lineages and the evolution of reproductive compatibility; species boundaries and gene flow among Desmognathus salamander populations in the Appalachians.

David Marshall

(Simon lab)

Molecular systematics and evolution of Cicadidae, from intraspecific phylogeography to speciation and higher clade evolution and diversification; insect behavior and acoustic communication

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Phone: 860.486.3947

James Mickley

(Bagchi lab)

Forest fragmentation, trophic interactions, botany, floral evolution, petal number, microenvironment, ecological sensors, databases, collections management

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Phone: 860.486.8964

Tim Moore

(Schlichting lab)

Plant molecular systematics; primarily in its application to questions of adaptation and understanding of the processes that drive inter- and intraspecific variation in functional attributes, as well as the implications these processes may have for ecology

Phone: 860.486.4638

Suman Neupane

(Lewis, P. lab)

Botany; phylogenetics; systematics; evolution

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Phone: 860.486.2075

Nikisha Patel

(Goffinet lab)

Plant systematics; Plant reproductive biology; Pteridology; Bryology; Apomixis in ferns

Rui Pereira

(None)

Phone: 203.251.8530

Steven Presley

(Willig lab)

Use of a metacommunity approach to understand patterns of species distributions along latent environmental gradients; use of data on Caribbean vertebrates to explore biogeographic factors associated with species richness

Phone: 860.486.1772

Jonathan Richardson

(None)

Phone: 860.486.6154

Maria Rodgers

(Bolnick lab)

Creating microfluidic chips to understand the interaction of intestinal epithelial cells, immune cells, and resident microbiota of three-spined stickleback

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Bikash Shrestha

(Wegrzyn lab)

Cyto-nuclear co-evolution, specifically interaction between genomes in plastids and nucleus; Passifloraceae molecular systematics and evolution; Bioinformatics-genome assembly and annotation.

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Irene Cobo Simón

(Wegrzyn lab)

Evolution, biodiversity, molecular ecology, genetic basis of adaptation, population genetics, climate change, forest health, conservation

Jacob Socolar

(Tingley lab)

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Phone: 860.486.5522

Valerie Steen

(Tingley lab,Elphick lab)

Avian distribution modeling; ecological impacts of climate change; landscape ecology; citizen science data

Phone: 860.486.5522

Casey Youngflesh

(Tingley lab)

Quantitative ecology; demographic and phenological responses to global change, particularly with respect to birds; hierarchical modeling; remote sensing

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