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Pop Bio Student Directory

 

The following represents an A - Z listing of Pop Bio students.









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Name

Contact Information
(follow prefix with @ucdavis.edu)

Research Interest

Faculty Mentor

Abbott, Jessica

jmabbott

The relationship between diversity and disturbance at the community level; how genetic diversity in eelgrass affects the community response to anthropogenically driven perturbations.

Jay Stachowicz

Afkhami, Michelle

meafkhami

Sharon Strauss

Ajie, Beverly

bcajie

Andy Sih

Aquilino, Kristin

kmaquilino

Jay Stachowicz

Best, Rebecca

rjbest

Ecological and evolutionary determinants of species diversity and invasion success, community ecology in seagrass meadows, amphipods.

Jay Stachowicz

Boettiger, Carl

cboettig

Theoretical ecology; scaling from stochastic individuals to population-level dynamics.

Alan Hastings

Bradburd, Gideon

gbradburd

Ecology and evolutionary biology of reptiles and amphibians; the methods used to estimate phylogenies, and ways to use trees to learn more about the processes that drive and shape evolution.

Brad Shaffer

Chandler, James "Angus:

jschandler

Evolutionary Genetics: genetic basis of speciation and adaptation.

Artyom Kopp

Dalrymple, Sarah

sdalrymp

How fire affects ant behavior and how fire mediates complex ant-tree interactions in Jeffrey Pine forests.

Rick Karban

Diaz, Ryder

rydiaz

Multi-species interactions particularly those examining plant-insect-parasite interactions. I'm interested in what these interactions can tell us about the evolution of traits and behavior.

Sharon Strauss

Edwards, Kyle

kedwards

Mechanisms of coexistence in fouling communities.

Jay Stachowicz

Fabina, Nicholas

nsfabina

Ecological and evolutionary aspects of species interactions, structure and function of communities, and the effects of environmental change.

Sebastian Schreiber

Grossenbacher, Dena

dgrossenbacher

Botany, evolution and ecology:including adaptation of plants to unusual environments, range limits, and island biology.

Maureen Stanton

Haloin, Jon

jrhaloin

Sharon Strauss
Jay Rosenheim

Harris, David

davharris

Behavioral ecology, evolution of social cooperative behavior, disease
dynamics, constraints on selection, and theoretical ecology.

Andy Sih

James, Marisano

mjajames

Microorganisms, prokaryote population structure.

Jonathan Eisen

Kelly, Morgan

mwkelly

Local adaptation and contemporary evolutionary processes, especially in marine invertebrates.

Rick Grosberg

Lee, Grace

grylee

Population genetics and molecular evolution of Drosophila transposable elements; host-transposable elements coevolution.

Charles Langley

Martin, Christopher

chmartin

Broadly interested in the evolution and ecology of adaptive radiations, particularly in fishes.

Peter Wainwright

McGee, Matthew

mcgee

Phenotypic plasticity and its role in generating diversity, using teleost fishes as a model.

Peter Wainwright

McIntyre, Patrick

pjmcintyre

Sharon Strauss

Miller-Messner, Gabrielle

gmessner

Rick Grosberg

Perkins, Alex

taperkins

Mathematical models of coupled ecological and evolutionary processes applied to invasive species, genetically modified organisms, and infectious diseases.

Alan Hastings

Piovia-Scott, Jonah

jpioviascott

Thomas Schoener

Porter, Stephanie

ssporter

How microbial endosymbiont adaptation affects host niche breadth and how endosymbiotic interactions vary across environments in the legume-rhizobia symbiosis.

Maureen Stanton
Kevin Rice

Runquist, Ryan

rdbriscoe

Maureen Stanton

Ryan, Maureen

meryan

Community effects of tiger salamander hybridization; conservation applications of scale transition theory/metacommunity dynamics.

Brad Shaffer
Peter Chesson

Sabella, Clarissa

casabella

Colonial marine invertebrates, self/non-self recognition, and innate immunology.

Rick Grosberg

Saltz, Julia

jbsaltz

My research aims to abuse our detailed functional knowledge of Drosophila melanogaster to assemble an evolutionary-genomic understanding of social behavior.

Andy Sih

Searcy, Christopher

casearcy

Community assembly, trophic dynamics, and conservation of vernal pools.

Brad Shaffer
Thomas Schoener

Sedghifar, Alisa

sedghifar

Drosophila evolutionary genetics and population genetics; most recently…the genetic basis of desiccation resistance in Drosophila.

David Begun
Graham Coop

Sellheim, Kirsten

klsellheim

Community ecology - the causes consequences of genetic and species diversity, especially in vernal pool invertebrates.

Jay Stachowicz

Sherriffs, Margaret

msherriffs

I use the leafhopper Zyginidia pullula and its feminizing Wolbachia to study the evolutionary ecology of cytoplasmic sex ratio distorters.

Jay Rosenheim
Sergey Nuzhdin

Signor, Sarah

sasignor

The genetics of phenotypic evolution in Drosophila.

Artyom Kopp

Swezey, Daniel

dsswezey

Experimental biogeography, marine community and evolutionary ecology,
climate change science, and phylogeography.

Eric Sanford

Thomson, Robert

rcthomson

Systematics, bioinformatics and conservation biology, largely focusing on amphibians and reptiles.

Brad Shaffer

Truszczynski, Ania

amtruszczynski

Invasion ecology. I would like to explore the area where ecology meets evolution.

Sharon Strauss

Wang, Ian

ijwang

Phylogeography, landscape genetics, and the evolution of phenotypic polymorphism, primarily in amphibians.

Brad Shaffer

Wetzel, William

wcwetzel

Spatial food web ecology of insect-parasitoid systems.

Don Strong