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Stephanie “Steph” Blain
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Dept: Biology
Lab: Delmore
Research: Genetics of ecological speciation in an avian hybrid zone
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Kiedon Bryant
Research Assistant
Dept: Biology
Lab: Moran
Research: Repeated evolution of paternal care and secondary trait loss in darters
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Rachel Busselman
DVM Candidate, Part-time Postdoctoral Research Associate
Dept: Veterinary Integrative Biosciences
Lab: S. Hamer
Research: Canine Chagas disease, vector-borne disease, disease ecology and epidemiology
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Sierra Cagle
Assistant Research Scientist
Dept: Marine Biology
Lab: Roelke
Research: Ecology of planktonic communities, ecology and bloom formation mechanisms of harmful algae, influences of freshwater inflows and nutrient loading on productivity of coastal estuaries, and mechanistic numerical modeling
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Mysia Dye
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Dept: Biology
Lab: Moran
Research: Speciation, genomics, and animal behavior
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Nicole Foley
Associate Research Scientist
Dept: Veterinary Integrative Biosciences
Lab: Murphy
Research: Recombination aware phylogenomic approaches to understand the evolution of mammals and their adaptations
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Chetan Gaonkar
Assistant Research Scientist
Dept: Oceanography
Lab: Campbell
Research: Ecology of phytoplankton, taxonomic and function annotations of microbial community
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Alexandra “Alex” Howard
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Dept: Ecology and Conservation Biology
Lab: Lawing
Research: Phenotypic evolution of Sceloporus (spiny lizards)
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Shrutarshi Paul
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Dept: Ecology and Conservation Biology
Lab: Gonder
Research: Conservation of large mammals, Spatial Ecology
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Javier Ruiz-Pérez
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Dept: Ecology & Conservation Biology
Lab: Veldman
Research: Paleofire ecology, environmental archaeology, phytolith and charcoal research, open science
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Tonya Shepherd
Research Specialist I and Assistant Lecturer
Dept: Entomology
Lab: Rangel
Research: Honey bee biology, microbiology
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Colton Watts
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Dept: Biology
Lab: Fitzpatrick
Research: Evolutionary Ecology