current Graduate Students
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Name | Advisor | Room | Research Summary |
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Mira Abrecht | David Jacobs | TLSB 2162 | eDNA analysis of biodiversity in California lagoons |
Ary Amaya | Elsa Ordway | Botany 4th Floor | Effects of climate change on urban terrestrial ecosystems using remote sensing, ecological niche modeling, and traditional Indigenous ecological knowledge |
Wilmer Amaya-Mejia | Pamela Yeh | Botany 2nd Floor | Urbanization of dark-eyed juncos and their diseases. |
Ioana Anghel | Felipe Zapata | Evolution of species and floral scent in the flowering plant genus Linanthus | |
Berenice Badillo | Victoria Sork | TLSB 4140 | Local adaptation and phenotypic plasticity of trees in response to climate change, conservation biology |
Alec Baird | Lawren Sack | Botany 4th Floor | Comparative leaf development, anatomy and physiology |
Taylor Bastian | Dan Blumstein | Environmental impacts on animal behavior | |
Austin Betancourt | Paul Barber | TLSB 2140 | Conservation henomics/marine ecology and evolution |
Elizabeth Blackmore | James Lloyd-Smith | TLSB 4000 | Historical ecology of infectious disease |
Marvin Browne | Lawren Sack | LS 3218 | Prediction and consequences of variation in plant stress tolerance |
Brandon Chan | Colin Kremer | ||
Madeline Cowen | Priyanga Amarasekare & Pamela Yeh | I study how bird populations respond to climate change using mathematical models. | |
Joseph Curti | Robert Wayne and Bradley Shaffer | TLSB 4146 | Application of whole-genome sequencing to California conservation management in California quail (Callipepla californica), California red-legged frogs (Rana draytonii), and Yuma myotis bats (Myotis yumanensis). |
Morgan Dean | Elsa Ordway | Vegetation structure and animal-landscape interactions | |
Christina (Tina) Del Carpio | Kirk Lohmueller | LS 4207 | Recombination rates and landscapes in canids & STEM graduate education |
Carissa DeRanek | Elsa Ordway | ||
Eleanor (Ellie) Diamant | Pamela Yeh | Botany 2nd Floor | How bird populations respond to strong anthropogenic change |
Evan Doughty | Jonathan Marcot and Blaire Van Valkenburgh | Botany 310 | Using functional traits (e.g., body mass) to discern relationships between the large mammalian herbivore and predator guilds and how those relationships change alongside the climatic and vegetative transitions of the North American Cenozoic (66 Ma-present) |
Tanner Dulay | Priyanga Amarasekare | Boyer 660 | Emergence of community structure in ecological interactions, particularly mutualisms |
Janine Fischer | Gregory Grether and Debra Shier | LS 4329 | How interspecific competition affects species coexistence and the conservation of threatened and endangered species |
John Amiel Flores | Paul Barber | Investigating the potential of organism transport on problematic macroalgal mats using metabarcoding techniques | |
Ashlyn Ford | Peggy Fong | LS 4100 | Assessing the health of tropical reef communities and evaluating how infectious diseases are impacting these communities |
Cynthia Frausto | Peter Nonacs | ||
Sara Freimuth | Pamela Yeh | Botany 2nd Floor | Urban ecology, evolution, gut microbiome, science communication |
Kaija Gahm | Noa Pinter-Wollman | Botany 3rd Floor | Movement ecology and social behavior of vultures; open science, open code, and computational reproducibility |
Alejandra Gamboa | Noa Pinter-Wollman | Reciprocal relationships between host behavior and the microbiome | |
Lauren Glevanik | Nathan Kraft | Botany 4th Floor | Traits that affect seed dispersal, community assembly, and patterns of biodiversity and coexistence in Californian grasslands |
Katya Gonzalez | Michael Alfaro | TLSB | Broadly interested in evolutionary biology, currently focused on human exceptionalism through comparative studies |
Shalanda Grier | Peggy Fong | Anthropogenic stress, resilience, species interactions, coral reefs | |
Katie Hannibal | Peggy Fong | Anthropogenic effects on nearshore marine ecosystems, specifically how algal interactions influence community structure | |
Kenji Hayashi | Nathan Kraft | Botany 410 | Consequences of competitive interactions in spatially heterogeneous environments for plant species distributions and coexistence |
Aidan Howenstine | Karen Sears | TLSB 2162 | The influence of development on the generation of variation and evolution, with a focus on mammal limbs |
Christiane Jacquemetton | Blaire Van Valkenburgh | TLSB 2162 | Morphology and variation across Canidae |
Mark Juhn | Michael Alfaro and Blaire Van Valkenburgh | Botany 3rd Floor | Carnivora macroevolution and tanager color evolution |
Elizabeth Karan | Michael Alfaro | TLSB 2154 | Reef fish color pattern evolution , macroevolution, evolutionary ecology |
Nurit Katz | Dan Blumstein | Urban ecology | |
Hannah Larson | Colin Kremer | Eco-evolutionary effects of dormancy on phytoplankton fitness in fluctuating environments | |
Peter Laurin | Nandita Garud | LS 4114 | Population genetics, adaptation, life history, bacteria, microbiomes |
Onny Nurrahman Marwayana | Paul Barber | TLSB 2140 | Enviromental DNA (eDNA) for marine biodiversity in Indonesia |
Rosa McGuire | Priyanga Amarasekare | Boyer 660 | Temperature effects on population dynamics and species interactions |
Graham Montgomery | Morgan Tingley | Insect declines & their impacts on insectivorous bird populations, ecological monitoring, and evidence synthesis | |
Carly Myers | Malcolm Gordon | ||
Scott O'Donnell | Victoria Sork | ||
Sean O'Fallon | Noa Pinter-Wollman | Ecological and evolutionary relationship between nest architecture and collective behavior, considering the spatial structure of the nest as an extended phenotype of the ant colony | |
Marissa Ochoa | Lawren Sack and Victoria Sork | California oak physiology and drought tolerance | |
Anna Jiselle Ongjoco | Lawren Sack | Botany 4th Floor | Plant physiological ecology and anatomy |
Xochitl Ortiz Ross | Dan Blumstein | LS 4802 | Long-term fitness consequences of early-life adversity in yellow-bellied marmots |
Eliseo Parra | Dan Blumstein | ||
Sara Sofia Pedraza | Felipe Zapata | Plant biotic interactions, their relevance for biodiversity maintainance, evolution and effects of climate change. | |
Conner Philson | Dan Blumstein | Evolution of social behavior | |
Amanda Reshke | Peter Nonacs and Molly Fox | Botany 3rd Floor | Evolutionary medicine, reproductive health, the microbiome, mental health, behavior |
Amanda Robin | Peter Nonacs | Animal decision making, cognition, personality, place-based education research, undergraduate research program administration | |
Nick Russo | Thomas Smith | LKH 300 | Movement ecology, remote sensing, tropical ecology, animal-vegetation feedbacks |
Kelsi Rutledge | Malcolm Gordon | Life Sciences | Functional morphology, systematics, biomechanics, fluid dynamics |
Chris Sayers | Morgan Tingley | Botany 310 | Spatiotemporal impacts of gold mining on tropical bird communities |
Mackenzie Scurka | Dan Blumstein | Animal behavior, heritability of behavioral traits, human-wildlife conflict | |
Yoonjin Shu | Michael Alfaro | ||
Lauren Smith | Peggy Fong | ||
Celine Snedden | James Lloyd-Smith | TLSB 4000 | Modeling within-host viral infection dynamics |
Hayden Speck | David Jacobs | TLSB 2154 | Evolution of early animals, evolution of development in cnidarians, EvoDevo of moon jellyfish (Aurelia coerulea) life cycle transitions |
Ben Tonelli | Morgan Tingley | Botany 3rd Floor | Migration and disease |
Whitney Tsai Nakashima | Michael Alfaro and Thomas Smith | TLSB 2153 / LKH 300 | Avian conservation genomics and evolution |
Mary Van Dyke | Nathan Kraft | Botany | Plant communities, coexistence, climate change, species interactions |
Nidhi Vinod | Elsa Ordway and Lawren Sack | Botany 4th Floor | Linking leaf level physiology and functions to forest ecosystems level processes to understand how forests are functioning during climate change |
Richard Wolff | Nandita Garud | ||
Joanna Wu | Morgan Tingley | Botany 3rd Floor | Conservation, ornithology, ecology |
Carolyn Xue | Pamela Yeh | Antibiotic resistance, urban ecology, urban bird ecology | |
Heidi Yang | Victoria Sork | TLSB 4140 | Ecological genomics/epigenomics |
Stella Yuan | Kirk Lohmueller and Bob Wayne | Conservation genomics and epigenomics | |
Diego Zapata | Victoria Sork | TLSB 4140 | Landscape genomics; impact of urbanization, climate change, and other disturbances on the fitness of California plant communities |
Erick Zerecero Marin | Paul Barber | ||
Madeleine Zuercher | Gregory Grether and Debra Shier | LS 4329 | Behavioral ecology, conservation, mammalian evolution, field biology |
Regina Zweng | Peggy Fong | LS 4111 | Impacts of eutrophication on marine and estuarine ecosystems |