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Pop Bio Student Directory
The following represents an A - Z listing of Pop Bio students.
Name |
Contact Information |
Research Interest |
Faculty Mentor |
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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. |
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meafkhami |
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Ajie, Beverly |
bcajie |
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kmaquilino |
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rjbest |
Ecological and evolutionary determinants of species diversity and invasion success, community ecology in seagrass meadows, amphipods. |
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cboettig |
Theoretical ecology; scaling from stochastic individuals to population-level dynamics. |
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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. |
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Chandler, James "Angus: |
jschandler |
Evolutionary Genetics: genetic basis of speciation and adaptation. |
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Dalrymple, Sarah |
sdalrymp |
How fire affects ant behavior and how fire mediates complex ant-tree interactions in Jeffrey Pine forests. |
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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. |
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kedwards |
Mechanisms of coexistence in fouling communities. |
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Fabina, Nicholas |
nsfabina |
Ecological and evolutionary aspects of species interactions, structure and function of communities, and the effects of environmental change. |
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Grossenbacher, Dena |
dgrossenbacher |
Botany, evolution and ecology:including adaptation of plants to unusual environments, range limits, and island biology. |
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Haloin, Jon |
jrhaloin |
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Harris, David |
davharris |
Behavioral ecology, evolution of social cooperative behavior, disease |
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James, Marisano |
mjajames |
Microorganisms, prokaryote population structure. |
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Kelly, Morgan |
mwkelly |
Local adaptation and contemporary evolutionary processes, especially in marine invertebrates. |
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Lee, Grace |
grylee |
Population genetics and molecular evolution of Drosophila transposable elements; host-transposable elements coevolution. |
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chmartin |
<Broadly interested in the evolution and ecology of adaptive radiations, particularly in fishes. |
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McGee, Matthew |
mcgee |
Phenotypic plasticity and its role in generating diversity, using teleost fishes as a model. |
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McIntyre, Patrick |
pjmcintyre |
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Miller-Messner, Gabrielle |
gmessner |
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taperkins |
Mathematical models of coupled ecological and evolutionary processes applied to invasive species, genetically modified organisms, and infectious diseases. |
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Piovia-Scott, Jonah |
jpioviascott |
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ssporter |
How microbial endosymbiont adaptation affects host niche breadth and how endosymbiotic interactions vary across environments in the legume-rhizobia symbiosis. |
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Runquist, Ryan |
rdbriscoe |
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meryan |
Community effects of tiger salamander hybridization; conservation applications of scale transition theory/metacommunity dynamics. |
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Sabella, Clarissa |
casabella |
Colonial marine invertebrates, self/non-self recognition, and innate immunology. |
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jbsaltz |
My research aims to abuse our detailed functional knowledge of Drosophila melanogaster to assemble an evolutionary-genomic understanding of social behavior. |
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Searcy, Christopher |
casearcy |
Community assembly, trophic dynamics, and conservation of vernal pools. |
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Sedghifar, Alisa |
sedghifar |
Drosophila evolutionary genetics and population genetics; most recently…the genetic basis of desiccation resistance in Drosophila. |
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klsellheim |
Community ecology - the causes consequences of genetic and species diversity, especially in vernal pool invertebrates. |
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msherriffs |
I use the leafhopper Zyginidia pullula and its feminizing Wolbachia to study the evolutionary ecology of cytoplasmic sex ratio distorters. |
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Signor, Sarah |
sasignor |
The genetics of phenotypic evolution in Drosophila. |
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Swezey, Daniel |
dsswezey |
Experimental biogeography, marine community and evolutionary ecology, |
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rcthomson |
Systematics, bioinformatics and conservation biology, largely focusing on amphibians and reptiles. |
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Truszczynski, Ania |
amtruszczynski |
Invasion ecology. I would like to explore the area where ecology meets evolution. |
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ijwang |
Phylogeography, landscape genetics, and the evolution of phenotypic polymorphism, primarily in amphibians. |
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Wetzel, William |
wcwetzel |
Spatial food web ecology of insect-parasitoid systems. |