Mira Abrecht

Advisor: David Jacobs
Office: TLSB 2162
Research: Environmental DNA, genomics of estuarine fish

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Ary Amaya

Advisor: Elsa Ordway
Office: Botany 4th Floor
Research: Effects of climate change on urban terrestrial ecosystems using remote sensing, ecological niche modeling, and traditional Indigenous ecological knowledge

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Wilmer Amaya-Mejia

Advisor: Pamela Yeh
Office: Botany 2nd Floor
Research: Urbanization of dark-eyed juncos and their diseases.

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Ioana Anghel

Advisor: Felipe Zapata
Research: Evolution of species and floral scent in the flowering plant genus Linanthus

Berenice Badillo

Advisor: Victoria Sork
Office: TLSB 4140
Phone: 310-794-1431
Research: Local adaptation and phenotypic plasticity of trees in response to climate change, conservation biology

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Alec Baird

Advisor: Lawren Sack
Office: Botany 4th Floor
Research: Comparative leaf development, anatomy and physiology

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Taylor Bastian

Advisor: Dan Blumstein
Research: Environmental impacts on animal behavior

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Austin Betancourt

Advisor: Paul Barber
Office: TLSB 2140
Research: Conservation henomics/marine ecology and evolution

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Elizabeth Blackmore

Advisor: James Lloyd-Smith
Office: TLSB 4000
Research: Historical ecology of infectious disease

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Marvin Browne

Advisor: Lawren Sack
Office: LS 3218
Research: Prediction and consequences of variation in plant stress tolerance

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Brandon Chan

Advisor: Colin Kremer

Madeline Cowen

Advisor: Priyanga Amarasekare & Pamela Yeh
Research: I study how bird populations respond to climate change using mathematical models.

Joseph Curti

Advisor: Robert Wayne and Bradley Shaffer
Office: TLSB 4146
Research: 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).

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Morgan Dean

Advisor: Elsa Ordway
Research: Vegetation structure and animal-landscape interactions

Christina (Tina) Del Carpio

Advisor: Kirk Lohmueller
Office: LS 4207
Research: Recombination rates and landscapes in canids & STEM graduate education

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Carissa DeRanek

Advisor: Elsa Ordway

Eleanor (Ellie) Diamant

Advisor: Pamela Yeh
Office: Botany 2nd Floor
Research: How bird populations respond to strong anthropogenic change

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Evan Doughty

Advisor: Jonathan Marcot and Blaire Van Valkenburgh
Office: Botany 310
Phone: 310-825-4669
Research: 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)

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Tanner Dulay

Advisor: Priyanga Amarasekare
Office: Boyer 660
Research: Emergence of community structure in ecological interactions, particularly mutualisms

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Janine Fischer

Advisor: Gregory Grether and Debra Shier
Office: LS 4329
Research: How interspecific competition affects species coexistence and the conservation of threatened and endangered species

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John Amiel Flores

Advisor: Paul Barber
Research: Investigating the potential of organism transport on problematic macroalgal mats using metabarcoding techniques

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Ashlyn Ford

Advisor: Peggy Fong
Office: LS 4100
Research: Assessing the health of tropical reef communities and evaluating how infectious diseases are impacting these communities

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Cynthia Frausto

Advisor: Peter Nonacs

Sara Freimuth

Advisor: Pamela Yeh
Office: Botany 2nd Floor
Research: Urban ecology, evolution, gut microbiome, science communication

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Kaija Gahm

Advisor: Noa Pinter-Wollman
Office: Botany 3rd Floor
Research: Movement ecology and social behavior of vultures; open science, open code, and computational reproducibility

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Alejandra Gamboa

Advisor: Noa Pinter-Wollman
Research: Reciprocal relationships between host behavior and the microbiome

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Lauren Glevanik

Advisor: Nathan Kraft
Office: Botany 4th Floor
Research: Traits that affect seed dispersal, community assembly, and patterns of biodiversity and coexistence in Californian grasslands

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Katya Gonzalez

Advisor: Michael Alfaro
Office: TLSB
Research: Broadly interested in evolutionary biology, currently focused on human exceptionalism through comparative studies

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Shalanda Grier

Advisor: Peggy Fong
Research: Anthropogenic stress, resilience, species interactions, coral reefs

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Katie Hannibal

Advisor: Peggy Fong
Phone: 8189424269
Research: Anthropogenic effects on nearshore marine ecosystems, specifically how algal interactions influence community structure

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Kenji Hayashi

Advisor: Nathan Kraft
Office: Botany 410
Phone: 310-825-4967
Research: Consequences of competitive interactions in spatially heterogeneous environments for plant species distributions and coexistence

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Aidan Howenstine

Advisor: Karen Sears
Office: TLSB 2162
Research: The influence of development on the generation of variation and evolution, with a focus on mammal limbs

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Christiane Jacquemetton

Advisor: Blaire Van Valkenburgh
Office: TLSB 2162
Research: Morphology and variation across Canidae

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Mark Juhn

Advisor: Michael Alfaro and Blaire Van Valkenburgh
Office: Botany 3rd Floor
Research: Carnivora macroevolution and tanager color evolution

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Elizabeth Karan

Advisor: Michael Alfaro
Office: TLSB 2154
Phone: 310-206-2240
Research: Reef fish color pattern evolution , macroevolution, evolutionary ecology

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Nurit Katz

Advisor: Dan Blumstein
Phone: 818.384.9493
Research: Urban ecology

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Hannah Larson

Advisor: Colin Kremer
Research: Eco-evolutionary effects of dormancy on phytoplankton fitness in fluctuating environments

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Peter Laurin

Advisor: Nandita Garud
Office: LS 4114
Research: Population genetics, adaptation, life history, bacteria, microbiomes

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Onny Nurrahman Marwayana

Advisor: Paul Barber
Office: TLSB 2140
Phone: 310-889-4552
Research: Enviromental DNA (eDNA) for marine biodiversity in Indonesia

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Rosa McGuire

Advisor: Priyanga Amarasekare
Office: Boyer 660
Research: Temperature effects on population dynamics and species interactions

Graham Montgomery

Advisor: Morgan Tingley
Research: Insect declines & their impacts on insectivorous bird populations, ecological monitoring, and evidence synthesis

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Carly Myers

Advisor: Malcolm Gordon

Scott O'Donnell

Advisor: Victoria Sork

Sean O'Fallon

Advisor: Noa Pinter-Wollman
Research: 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

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Marissa Ochoa

Advisor: Lawren Sack and Victoria Sork
Research: California oak physiology and drought tolerance

Anna Jiselle Ongjoco

Advisor: Lawren Sack
Office: Botany 4th Floor
Research: Plant physiological ecology and anatomy

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Xochitl Ortiz Ross

Advisor: Dan Blumstein
Office: LS 4802
Research: Long-term fitness consequences of early-life adversity in yellow-bellied marmots

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Eliseo Parra

Advisor: Dan Blumstein

Sara Sofia Pedraza

Advisor: Felipe Zapata
Research: Plant biotic interactions, their relevance for biodiversity maintainance, evolution and effects of climate change.

Conner Philson

Advisor: Dan Blumstein
Research: Evolution of social behavior

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Amanda Reshke

Advisor: Peter Nonacs and Molly Fox
Office: Botany 3rd Floor
Phone: 6503157509
Research: Evolutionary medicine, reproductive health, the microbiome, mental health, behavior

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Amanda Robin

Advisor: Peter Nonacs
Research: Animal decision making, cognition, personality, place-based education research, undergraduate research program administration

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Nick Russo

Advisor: Thomas Smith
Office: LKH 300
Research: Movement ecology, remote sensing, tropical ecology, animal-vegetation feedbacks

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Kelsi Rutledge

Advisor: Malcolm Gordon
Office: Life Sciences
Phone: 8287020201
Research: Functional morphology, systematics, biomechanics, fluid dynamics

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Chris Sayers

Advisor: Morgan Tingley
Office: Botany 310
Research: Spatiotemporal impacts of gold mining on tropical bird communities

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Mackenzie Scurka

Advisor: Dan Blumstein
Research: The heritability of behavioral traits

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Yoonjin Shu

Advisor: Michael Alfaro

Lauren Smith

Advisor: Peggy Fong

Celine Snedden

Advisor: James Lloyd-Smith
Office: TLSB 4000
Research: Modeling within-host viral infection dynamics

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Hayden Speck

Advisor: David Jacobs
Office: TLSB 2154
Research: Evolution of early animals, evolution of development in cnidarians, EvoDevo of moon jellyfish (Aurelia coerulea) life cycle transitions

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Ben Tonelli

Advisor: Morgan Tingley
Office: Botany 3rd Floor
Research: Migration and disease

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Whitney Tsai Nakashima

Advisor: Michael Alfaro and Thomas Smith
Office: TLSB 2153 / LKH 300
Research: Avian conservation genomics and evolution

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Mary Van Dyke

Advisor: Nathan Kraft
Office: Botany
Research: Plant communities, coexistence, climate change, species interactions

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Nidhi Vinod

Advisor: Elsa Ordway and Lawren Sack
Office: Botany 4th Floor
Phone: 540-746-0542
Research: Linking leaf level physiology and functions to forest ecosystems level processes to understand how forests are functioning during climate change

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Richard Wolff

Advisor: Nandita Garud

Joanna Wu

Advisor: Morgan Tingley
Office: Botany 3rd Floor
Research: Conservation, ornithology, ecology

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Carolyn Xue

Advisor: Pamela Yeh
Research: Antibiotic resistance, urban ecology, urban bird ecology

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Heidi Yang

Advisor: Victoria Sork
Office: TLSB 4140
Research: Ecological genomics/epigenomics

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Stella Yuan

Advisor: Kirk Lohmueller and Bob Wayne
Research: Conservation genomics and epigenomics

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Diego Zapata

Advisor: Victoria Sork
Office: TLSB 4140
Research: Landscape genomics; impact of urbanization, climate change, and other disturbances on the fitness of California plant communities

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Erick Zerecero Marin

Advisor: Paul Barber

Madeleine Zuercher

Advisor: Gregory Grether and Debra Shier
Office: LS 4329
Research: Behavioral ecology, conservation, mammalian evolution, field biology

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Regina Zweng

Advisor: Peggy Fong
Office: LS 4111
Research: Impacts of eutrophication on marine and estuarine ecosystems

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