EEB Students
Adeyinka Aduragbemi
Ecology & Conservation Biology Interests: Phylogenetics, biogeography, diversification processes, sedges | Advisor: Spalink
Asif Ahmed
Marine Biology Interests: Conservation biology, behavioral ecology, wildlife biology | Advisor: Schulze
Oluwaseun David Ajileye
Ecology & Conservation Biology Interests: Host-parasite interactions, disease ecology, vector-borne diseases | Advisor: Light
Meredith Anderson, DVM
Veterinary Integrative Biosciences Interests: Ecotoxicology, avian disease ecology, conservation biology | Advisor: S. Hamer
Zamira Andrews
Ecology & Conservation Biology Interests: Hybridization, evolution, molecular genetics, population genomics | Advisor: Hurtado
R. Keith Andringa
Ecology & Conservation Biology Interests: Ornithology, ecophysiology, urban ecology, conservation biology | Advisor: Grace
Carolina Bertuol
Ecology & Conservation Biology Interests: Metagenomics, microbiomics, transcriptomics, genomics, and molecular evolution | Advisor: Voelker
Michael Bliss
Ecology & Conservation Biology Interests: Conservation biology, biodiversity, primatology, tropical ecology, islands and insular systems | Advisor: Gondor
Adam Bower
Veterinary Pathobiology Interests: Ornithology, community ecology, conservation biology | Advisor: Brightsmith
Chris Brennan
Entomology Interests: Insect behaviour, phenotypic plasticity, nutrition | Advisor: Behmer
Alister Brown
Anthropology Interests: Primate behavioral ecology, ethnoprimatology | Advisor: Gursky
Stephen Caird
Geology & Geophysics Interests: Nesting ecology, territoriality, vocal communication; acoustic ecology; spatial ecology | Advisor: Raymond
J. Leonardo Collazos
Ecology & Conservation Biology Interests: Tropical forest ecology, plant community ecology, ecological restoration | Advisor: Veldman
Chloe Dannenfelser
Ecology & Conservation Biology Interests: Conservation biology, ornithology, ecophysiology | Advisor: Grace
Isis Davis
Ecology & Conservation Biology Interests: Testudines hybridization (turtle hybridization) and community dynamics | Advisor: Fitzgerald
Loris Di Vozzo
Ecology & Conservation Biology Interests: Herpetology, biogeography, conservation biology | Advisor: Lawing
Tom Dodson
Ecology & Conservation Biology Interests: Freshwater systems, community ecology, conservation biology, paleontology | Advisor: Perkin
Elena Duran
Ecology & Conservation Biology Interests: Ecophysiology of birds, conservation biology | Advisor: Grace
Serena Farrell
Entomology Interests: Insect behavior, nutrition, microbiomes | Advisor: Behmer / Sword
Benton Fry
Ecology & Conservation Biology Interests: Freshwater ecology, food web ecology, niche partitioning | Advisor: Winemiller
Alanna Fulkerson
Ecology & Conservation Biology Interests: Phylogenetics, hybridization, conservation | Advisor: Mateos
Shannon Harris
Ecology & Conservation Biology Interests: Evolution, symbiosis, molecular genetics/genomics | Advisor: Mateos
Maria A. Hurtado-Materon
Ecology & Conservation Biology Interests: Community ecology, evolutionary ecology and conservation biology | Advisor: Lawing
Ilyas Ibrahim
Ecology & Conservation Biology Interests: Population genetics, conservation genetics, molecular ecology, molecular systematics, evolution | Advisor: Hurtado
Sijad Islam
Ecology & Conservation Biology Interests: Phylogenetics, molecular systematics, evolutionary ecology, species interactions, conservation genetics Advisor: Hurtado
Eliyashaib James
Entomology Interests: Insect behavior, phenotypic plasticity, gene expression Advisor: Sword
Uthpalawarna Jayaweera
Ecology & Conservation Biology Interests: Island biogeography, evolution, animal distribution along elevation gradients, host-parasite interactions, conservation biology | Advisor: Voelker
Ben Lake
Ecology & Conservation Biology Interests: Primate behavior | Advisor: Yorzinski
Ali Zeltzin Lira-Olguin
Ecology & Conservation Biology Interests: Parasitology, host-parasite interactions, bat flies | Advisor: Light
Matthew Marano
Ecology & Conservation Biology Interests: Genome and trait evolution, sex and mating systems, phylogenetics and macroevolution | Advisor: Casola
Billy Mayer
Anthropology Interests: Primatology, nutritional ecology, comparative anatomy and physiology | Advisor: Gursky
Audélia Mechti
Entomology Interests: Animal behavior, phenotypic plasticity, behavioral plasticity, collective mass movement | Advisor: Sword
Jorge Medina-Durán
Entomology Interests: Macroevolutionary processes; parasite-insect interactions | Advisor: Song
Lydia Morley
Ecology & Conservation Biology Interests: Speciation and diversification processes, models of evolution, epistemology of theory development | Advisor: Spalink
Ruby Mustill
Biology Interests: Primate behavioral ecology, sexual selection | Advisor: Fitzpatrick
Griffin Nicholson
Ecology & Conservation Biology Interests: Herpetological conservation, conservation biology, community ecology | Advisor: Fitzgerald
Tabitha Olsen
Biology Interests: Avian ecology and conservation, stable isotopes, migratory plasticity | Advisor: Butler
Mickey Parker
Ecology & Conservation Biology Interests: Ecological restoration of the dunes sagebrush lizard in west Texas | Advisor: Fitzgerald
Vivian Peralta Santana
Entomology Interests: Evolution, natural history, phylogenetics and genomics | Advisor: Song
Skai Peterson
Entomology Interests: Plant-insect interactions, plant chemical ecology, plant-microbe interactions, and biological control | Advisor: Helms
Mei Rao
Ecology & Conservation Biology Interests: Landscape genomics, urban ecology, population ecology, conservation biology | Advisor: Ausprey
Breann Richey
Ecology & Conservation Biology Interests: Speciation and hybridization | Advisor: Lawing
Sierra Sanders
Ecology & Conservation Biology Interests: Plant evolutionary genetics, stress tolerance in plants, de novo genes | Advisor: Casola
Briana Sebastian
Marine Biology Interests: Community ecology, restoration ecology | Advisor: Armitage
Kyle Simpson
Ecology & Conservation Biology Interests: Phylogenetics, ecology, and conservation of rare plant species | Advisor: Spalink
Nicole Stevens
Ecology & Conservation Biology Interests: Herpetology, conservation biology, population/community ecology | Advisor: Fitzgerald
Brooke Torjman
Marine Biology Interests: Facilitative interactions, community ecology, salt marsh ecology | Advisor: Armitage
Milton Torres-Ceron
Ecology & Conservation Biology Interests: Environmental impact, ecosystem quality, restoration ecology | Advisor: Fujiwara
Timara Vereen
Entomology Interests: Host-pathogen interactions, vector-borne diseases, one health | Advisor: G. Hamer
Malith Viduranga
Ecology & Conservation Biology Interests: Plant systematics, biogeography, niche modeling and phylogenetics | Advisor: Spalink
Myles Wagner
Biology Interests: Cnidarian symbiosis, coral bleaching, genomics | Advisor: Strader / Kitchen
Shelbie Weaver
Biology Interests: Aquatic ecology, invasive species, and invertebrate zoology | Advisor: Blackmon
Bhagya Weththasinghe
Ecology & Conservation Biology Interests: Systematics, evolution, and biogeography of the plant family Poaceae | Advisor: Spalink