Students, Alumni & Affiliates

EEB Students

	Natalie Aguirre Entomology advisor: helms	Interests: Plant physiology, plant disease, chemical ecology
	Jamie Alfieri Poultry science advisor: athrey	Interests: Functional genomics, bioinformatics Projects: Genomics of avian hybridization
	Amanda Beckman biology advisor: Rosenthal	Interests: Social behavior, cooperation, and ornithology
	Stephen Bovio Biology advisor: Rosenthal	Interests: Behavioral ecology: Animal communication
	Alyson Brokaw biology advisor:  smotherman	Interests:  Animal behavior and physiology, communication and sensory ecology
	Rachel Busselman veterinary integrative biosciences advisor: hamer	Interests:  Disease ecology
	Mason Clark entomology advisor: sword / behmer	Interests: Fungal ecology and genetics; fungal-plant-insect interactions
	Allison Collins anthropology advisor: gursky	Interests: Primate behavioral ecology
	Arani Cuevas-Sanchez marine biology advisor: jurgens	Interests: Ecological physiology, environmental variation
	Daniel De Jesus biology advisor:  wicksten	Interests:  Invertebrate coloration, invertebrate behavior
	Owen Dorsey biology advisor: rosenthal	Interests: Kin recognition, inbreeding avoidance behavior, and mate choice in swordtail fish
	Paola Fascinetto-Zago biology advisor: rosenthal	Interests: Animal behavior, evolutionary ecology, and animal communication
	Melanie Florkowski Ecology & conservation biol advisor: Yorzinski	Interests: Behavioral ecology
	Mateo Garcia Olazabal biology advisor: rosenthal	Interests: Behavioral ecology
	Rachael Glazner marine biology advisor:  armitage	Interests:  Community & ecosystems ecology: Coastal ecology Wading bird behavior in salt marshes and mangroves
	Janelle Goeke marine biology advisor:  armitage	Interests:  Community coastal ecology Bottom-up effects relating to a changing plant community in salt marshes
	Zachary Hancock biology advisor:  wicksten	Interests:  Crustacean ecology and evolution
	Toan Hoang entomology advisor:   song	Interests:  Evolution genetics and behavior
	Cecilia Huang Entomology advisor:  slotman	Interests:  Evolutionary genetics and genomics
	Jocelyn Hunyadi Ecology & conservation biol advisor: Yorzinski	Interests:  Animal Behavior, interspecific interactions, conservation biology
	Elena Iocono ecology & Conservation biol advisor: grace	Interests: Ecophysiology of birds, conservation biology
	Amy Janik biology advisor: delmore	Interests: Animal behavior, speciation, ornithology, and conservation biology
	Hannah Justen biology advisor:  delmore	Interests:  Speciation
	Simon Kiacz veterinary pathobiology advisor:  brightsmith	Interests:  Ecological modeling, avian ecology & conservation
	Emma Lehmberg biology advisor: Rosenthal	Interests:  Behavioral ecology, genomics
	Joshua Lerner Ecology & conservation biol advisor: Yorzinski	Interests:  Animal behavior, visual ecology
	Michael McCloy Ecology & conservation biol advisor: Grace	Interests:  Ornithology, landscape ecology, disturbance ecology
	Jorge Medina Duran Entomology advisor: Song	Interests: Macroevolutionary processes; parasite-insect interactions
	Lydia Morley Ecology & conservation biol advisor: Spalink	Interests: Speciation and diversification processes, models of evolution, epistemology of theory development
	Erin Nguyen Ecology & conservation biol advisor: perkin	Interests:  Community and conservation ecology
	Griffin Nicholson Ecology & conservation biol advisor: fitzgerald	Interests: Herpetological conservation, conservation biology, community ecology
	Mickey Parker Ecology & conservation biol advisor: fitzgerald	Interests:  Ecological restoration of the dunes sagebrush lizard in west Texas
	Breann Richey veterinary integrative biosciences advisor: katju	Interests: Speciation and hybridization
	Jordan Salomon veterinary integrative biosciences advisor: s hamer	Interests: Disease ecology, parasitology and biodiversity
	Kelley Sampeck Veterinary Pathobiology advisor:  brightsmith	Interests:  Psittacine breeding ecology, landscape ecology, wildlife conservation
	Leila Siciliano-Martina Ecology & conservation biol advisor(s):  lawing/light	Interests:  Evolutionary ecology
	Kyle Simpson Ecology & conservation biol advisor: spalink	Interests: Phylogenetics, ecology, and conservation of rare plant species
	Tori Spencer Ecology & conservation biol advisor: winemiller	Interests: Niche partitioning, comparative physiology, behavioral and community ecology
	Zachary Steffensmeier Ecology & conservation biol advisor:  perkin	Interests:  Fish ecology
	Milton Torres-Ceron Ecology & conservation biol advisor: fujiwara	Interests: Environmental impact, ecosystem quality, restoration ecology
	Ryan Weesner Ecology & conservation biol advisor: Voelker	Interests: Population/community ecology, behavioral ecology, avian conservation

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EEB Alumni

Ecology & Evolutionary Biology is proud to announce the program’s first graduates, Erin Buchholtz and Kristina Chyn!

	Erin Buchholtz, PhD, Dec 2019 Interests: Population/community ecology, behavioral ecology, avian conservation
	Kristina Chyn, PhD, Dec 2019 Interests:  Population ecology, community ecology, behavioral ecology

EEB Affiliate Students

Name	Dept	Lab	Research Interest
Anderson, Drew	BIOL	Jones	Evolutionary genomics, comparative biology
Angeli, Nicole	WFSC	Fitzgerald	Physiological ecology
Arantes, Caroline	WFSC	Winemiller	Population ecology, community ecology, ecosystems ecology
Baloch, Jasmine	WFSC	Hurtado	Conservation genetics, bioinformatics, toxicology
Beebe, Lauren	ENTO	Tarone	Forensic entomology, thermal biology
Bokhutlo, Thethela	WFSC	Winemiller	Community ecology
Bower, Luke	WFSC	Winemiller	Community ecology: ichthyology, convergent evolution
Brashear, Wesley	GENE	Murphy	Evolutionary genomics
Breaux, Bre	VTPB	Criscitiello	Comparative immunogenetics
Bredemeyer, Kevin	GENE	Murphy	Mammalian phylogenetics and evolutionary genomics
Castellanos, Adrian	WFSC	Light	Phylogenetics, comparative Biology
Davila, Edward	VIBS	Hamer	Vector-borne disease ecology
de la Rosa, Xochitl	WFSC	Hurtado	Conservation genetics, bioinformatics, phylogenetics
DeBrock, Spencer	VIBS	Hamer	Avian disease ecology
Deiss, Thad	VTPB	Criscitiello	Evolutionary genomics
Dubie, Joseph	GENE	Katju	Evolutionary genetics and genomics
Elkins, Blake	ENTO	Eubanks	Community and landscape ecology and agroecology
Exnicios, Megan	BIOL	Rosenthal	Mate choice and personality
Gao, Weiqian	ESSM	Angerer/Wu	Landscape ecology
Gilbert, Jessica	WFSC	Lacher	Community ecology
Golnar, Andrew	ENTO	G Hamer	Disease ecology; medical entomology
Grimes, Candace	MARB	Schulze	Genetics, physiology
Gulas-Wroblewski, Bonnie	VTPB	Esteve-Gassent	Wildlife disease ecology and conservation medicine
Hajduk, Marissa	MARB	Schulze	Community ecology, genetics
Hannon, Mary Coleen	MARB	Schulze
Harvey, Johanna	WFSC	Voelker	Phylogenetics, comparative biology
Hiers, Quinn	ESSM	Rogers
Hewlett, Jeremy	ENTO	Eubanks	Community ecology
Hilliard, Justin	MARB	Schulze	Evolutionary biology
Hjelmen, Carl	ENTO	Johnston	Population and quantitative genetics
Holt, Jocelyn	ENTO	Medina	Evolutionary ecology
Howard, Sam	ENTO	Oswald	Comparative morphology and biology, phylogenetics
Jacisin, John	ESSM	Lawing	Morphology and physiology
Jaime, Xavier	ESSM	Wu/Angerer	Landscape ecology
Jofre-Rodriguez, Gaston	BIOL	Rosenthal	Evolutionary genomics
Jones, Tara-Kay	ENTO	Medina	Vector biology
Keppeler, Friedrich Wolfgang	WFSC	Winemiller	Community ecology
King, Cragen	WFSC	Conway	Phylogenetics and comparative biology
Kjeldgaard, Mackenzie	ENTO	Eubanks	Community ecology
Kubicek, Kole	WFSC	Conway	Comparative anatomy
Lau, Pierre	ENTO	Rangel	Community ecology
Li, Jingjia	ESSM	Casola	Evolutionary genomics
Li, Zheng (Jenny)	ESSM	Wu	Landscape ecology
Lin, Constance	ENTO	Eubanks	Insect ecology
Lopez-Delgado, Edwin	WFSC	Winemiller	Community ecology
McDowell, Bryant	ENTO	Vargo	Community ecology
Meyers, Alyssa	VIBS	S Hamer	Population ecology
Mock, Iliana	WFSC	Conway	Comparative anatomy
Ott, Jeannine	VTPB	Criscitiello	Comparative immunogenetics
Payne, Alex	ENTO	Rangel	Community ecology
Pinion, Amanda	WFSC	Conway	Comparative anatomy
Poh, Karen	ENTO	G Hamer	Community ecology
Popkin-Hall, Zach	ENTO	Slotman	Evolution genetics and genomics, behavior
Powell, Daniel	BIOL	Rosenthal	Behavioral ecology
Preisser, Whitney	WFSC	Light	Community ecology: Parasitology
Quintana, Yasmin	WFSC	Winemiller	Community ecology
Roach, Nikki	WFSC	Lacher	Population ecology
Rogan, Jordan	WFSC	Lacher	Community ecology
Ruckman, Sarah	BIOL	Blackmon	Evolution, genetics, behavior
Saenz, David	WFSC	Winemiller	Community and physiological ecology
Short-Martin, Rachel	ESSM	Lawing	Comparative anatomy
Tietjen, Mackenzie	ENTO	Medina	Population and quantitative genetics
Vaughan, Matthew	GEOG	Lafon	Population Ecology: Biogeography, vegetation dynamics, applied GIS
Walkup, Danielle	WFSC	Fitzgerald	Population ecology
Walsh, Liz	ENTO	Rangel-Posada	Physiological and behavioral ecology
White, Brian	GENE	Katju	Evolutionary genetics and genomics
Woller, Derek	ENTO	Song	Phylogenetics and comparative biology
Wright, Crys	ENTO	Medina	Integrated pest management: Biological control
Zhu, Weixi	ESSM	Casola	Evolutionary genomics

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