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Graduate Alumni Directory
Winter 2021
Kevin Amses, Ph.D.
Advisor: Timothy James
Gordon Fitch, Ph.D.
Advisor: John Vandermeer
Brianna Mims, M.S.
Advisor: Alison Davis Rabosky
Fall 2020
Jacqueline Popma, Ph.D.
Advisor: Knute Nadelhoffer
Spring/Summer 2020
Buck Castillo, Ph.D.
Advisors: Knute Nadelhoffer and Timothy James
Siria Gámez, M.S.
Ph.D. Student, University of Michigan
Advisor: Nyeema Harris
Winter 2020
Sara Colom, Ph.D.
Advisor: Regina Baucom
Amy-Charlotte Devitz, M.S.
Ph.D. Student, University of Minnesota
Advisor: Ben Dantzer
Michelle Fearon, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Michigan
Advisor: Elizabeth Tibbetts
Elizabeth Feliciano, M.S.
Advisor: Timothy James
Camden Gowler, Ph.D.
Advisor: Meghan Duffy
Michael Grundler, Ph.D.
Advisor: Daniel Rabosky
Joanna Larson, Ph.D.
Advisor: Daniel Rabosky
Daniel Lyons, Ph.D.
M.D. Student, University of Michigan MSTP
Advisors: Jianzhi Zhang and Adam Lauring
Jillian Myers, Ph.D.
Research Lab Specialist, University of Michigan
Advisor: Timothy James
Khadijah Payne, M.S.
Advisor: Meghan Duffy
Abigail Potts, M.S.
National Forest Foundation Stewardship
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Unraveling the roles of genotype and environment in the expression of plant defense phenotypes
Advisor: Mark Hunter
Lisa Walsh, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Education Research and Outreach Lab, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
Advisor: Priscilla Tucker
Fall 2019
Wesley Bickford, Ph.D.
Pathways Ecologist, U.S. Geological Survey Great Lakes Science Center
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Plant Invasions and Microbes: The Interactive Effects of Plant-Associated Microbes on Invasiveness of Phragmites australis
Advisors: Deborah Goldberg, Timothy James and Donald Zak
Iris Holmes, Ph.D.
Dissertation on Deep Blue: When Does Gene Flow Stop? A Mechanistic Approach to the Formation of Phylogeographic Breaks in Nature
Advisor: Alison Davis Raboksy
Spring/Summer 2019
Marcella Baiz, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Penn State University
Dissertation on Deep Blue: The Genetic Architecture of Speciation in a Primate Hybrid Zone
Advisors: Liliana Cortés Ortiz and Priscilla Tucker
Kenzo Esquivel, M.S.
Ph.D. Student, University of California, Berkeley
Advisor: Jacob Allgeier
Beatriz Otero Jimenez, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Stony Brook University
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Rodent Population Connectivity in Coffee Agroecosystems
Advisor: John Vandermeer
Andrew Wood, Ph.D.
Research Technician, Penn State University
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Genetic Drivers of Diversification in the Conus Adaptive Radiation
Advisor: Thomas Duda
Anat Belasen, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Cornell University
Dissertation on Deep Blue: The Impacts of Habitat Fragmentation on Amphibian Genetics and Health in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest Biodiversity Hotspot
Advisor: Timothy James
Jonathan Massey, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Boston Children’s Hospital
Dissertation on Deep Blue: The Function of Pigmentation Genes in the Development and Evolution of Drosophila Mating Behavior
Advisor: Patricia Wittkopp
Briana Sealey, M.S.
Ph.D. Student, University of Texas, Austin
Advisor: Alison Davis Rabosky
Winter 2019
Christian Cely Ortiz, Ph.D.
Current affiliation coming soon
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Natural Variations in Social Behaviors: Phenotypic Consequences and Genetic Differentiation in Paper Wasps
Advisor: Elizabeth Tibbetts
Caroline Parins-Fukuchi, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Developments for the Next Generation of Evolutionary Paleobiology
Advisor: Christopher Dick
Pamela Murillo, Ph.D.
Faculty, Department of Agronomony, University of Costa Rica
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Disentangling Species Boundaries and the Evolution of Habitat Specialization for the Ecologically Diverse Mite Family Acaridae
Advisor: Barry O'Connor
Clara Shaw, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Penn State University
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Drivers of Epidemic Timing and Size in a Natural Aquatic System
Advisor: Meghan Duffy
Fall 2018
Marian Schmidt, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Texas, Austin with Dr. Howard Ochman, funded by the Simon's Foundation
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Microhabitats Shape Bacterial Community Composition, Ecosystem Function, and Genome Traits
Advisor: Vincent Denef
Byron Smith, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow with Dr. Katie Pollard, University of California, San Francisco
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Integrated Analysis of the Gut Microbiota and Their Fermentation Products in Mice Treated with the Longevity Enhancing Drug Acarbose
Advisor: Thomas Schmidt
Summer 2018
Stephanie Alcala, M.S.
Sustainability Supervisor, Coffee Manufactory
Advisor: Christopher Dick
Leslie Decker, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Plant Quality Mediates the Response of Disease to Global Environmental Change
Advisor: Mark Hunter
Mariah Kenney, M.S.
Current affiliation coming soon
Advisor: L. Lacey Knowles
Xorla Ocloo, M.S.
Ph.D. Student, Emory University
Advisor: Liliana Cortés Ortiz
Alex Taylor, Ph.D.
Senior Associate in Scientific Communications, Weber Shandwick
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Deep Homology and Evolutionary Tinkering in Origins of Nodulation
Advisor: Yin-Long Qiu
Pascal Title, Ph.D.
Research Fellow, Environmental Resilience Institute, Indiana University
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Species Richness in Time and Space: a Phylogenetic and Geographic Perspective
Advisor: Daniel Rabosky
Cynthia Bick, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Santa Barbara
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Can Oceanic Island Endemic Partulid Tree Snails Survive the Anthropocene?
Advisor: Diarmaid Ó Foighil
Paul Glaum, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Michigan
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Parsing the Particulars of Pollination: Ecological and Anthropogenic Drivers of Plant and Pollinator Dynamics
Advisor: John Vandermeer
Amanda Meier, Ph.D.
USDA-NIFA Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Entomology, University of Georgia
Dissertation on Deep Blue: The Influence of Mutualisms Below Ground on Multitrophic Interactions Above Ground
Advisor: Mark Hunter
Jeff Shi, Ph.D.
Scientific Computing Consultant, Minnesota Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Diversity and Diversification Across the Global Radiation of Extant Bats
Advisor: Daniel Rabosky
Joseph Walker, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, University of Illinois, Chicago
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Novel Phylogenomic Methods for Uncovering the Evolutionary History of the Hyperdiverse Clade Caryophyllales
Advisor: Stephen Smith
Winter 2018
Katherine Crocker, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health
Dissertation on Deep Blue: The Past Is Never Dead, It Isn't Even Past: Maternal Environment Affects Multiple Generations of Offspring via Hormone Provisioning
Advisor: Mark Hunter
Imani Russell, M.S.
Ph.D. Student, University of California, Santa Barbra
Advisor: Alison Davis Rabosky
Xinzhu (April) Wei, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Cornell University
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Genetic Interactions and Gene-by-Environment Interactions in Evolution
Advisor: Jianzhi Zhang
Jordan Bemmels, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Georgia
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Species Range Shifts in Dynamic Geological and Climatic Landscapes: Studies in Temperate and Tropical Trees
Advisor: Christopher Dick
Teal Harrison, M.S.
Environmental Fellow, University of Michigan, School for Environment and Sustainability (SEAS) and Erb Family Foundation
Advisor: Diarmaid Ó Foighil
Fall 2017
Shawn Colborn, M.S.
Current affiliation coming soon
Advisor: Nyeema Harris
Paula Matzke, M.S.
Current affiliation coming soon
Advisor: Thomas Duda
Corbin Kuntze, M.S.
Ph.D. Student, University of Wisconsin
Advisor: Nyeema Harris
Summer 2017
Kevin Bakker, Ph.D.
NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Individual Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Statistics, University of Michigan and University of Chicago
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Uncovering the Mechanisms Governing Childhood Infectious Disease Dynamics
Advisor: Timothy James
Wei-Chin Ho, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Arizona State University
Dissertation on Deep Blue: The Genotype-Phenotype Map: Origins, Properties, and Evolutionary Consequences
Advisor: Jianzhi Zhang
Thomas Jenkinson, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, California State University, East Bay
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Population Structure and Evolutionary Ecology of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest
Advisor: Timothy James
Mariana Cecilia Valencia Mestre, Ph.D.
Lecturer, Loyala University Chicago
Advisor: John Vandermeer
Theresa Wei Ying Ong, Ph.D.
NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, Princeton University and University of California, Santa Cruz
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Biocomplexity: the Autonomous Agroecological Alternative
Advisor: John Vandermeer
Susanna Campbell, M.S.
Ph.D. Student, University of Michigan, EEB
Advisors: Liliana Cortés Ortiz and Benjamin Winger
Chuan Li, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Damon Runyon Fellow, Stanford University
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Quantifying and Understanding Intragenic and Intergenic Epistasis in Yeast
Advisor: Jianzhi Zhang
Tristan McKnight, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Practice, Department of Entomology, University of Arizona
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Ecological Specialization in Predatory Lasiopogon Robber Flies and its Role in Facilitating Diversification and Species Coexistence
Advisor: L. Lacey Knowles
Carlos Muñoz-Ramirez, Ph.D.
Center for Studies on Biodiversity and Sustainable Environments (CIBAS), Catholic University of the Most Holy Conception, Concepción, Chile
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Mismatched Mimics: Insights and Conundrums from the Evolutionary History of Colorful Ground Beetles
Advisor: L. Lacey Knowles
Andréa Thomaz, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of British Columbia Biodiversity Research Centre, Vancouver, British Columbia
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Riverscape Genetics: Insights Into the Drivers of Divergence in Coastal Brazilian Fishes
Advisor: L. Lacey Knowles
Winter 2017
John Guittar, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Kellogg Biological Station, Michigan State University
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Trait-Based Community Assembly in a Changing Climate: Dispersal Dynamics and Ecological Filtering In a Grassland Metacommunity
Advisor: Deborah Goldberg
Kristel Sanchez, M.S.
Ph.D. Student, University of Michigan, EEB
Advisor: Meghan Duffy
Chau Ho, M.S.
Ph.D. Student, University of Michigan, EEB
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Effect of shade trees on microclimate conditions and coffee leaf rust
Advisors: Robyn Burnham and Christopher Dick
Fall 2016
Rafael D'Andrea, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Dissertation on Deep Blue: From Trait Patterns to Species Lifetimes: Effects of Niche Differentiation on Coexistence and Community Structure
Advisor: Annette Ostling
Sylvie Kademian, M.S.
Current affiliation coming soon
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Supporting Beginning Teacher Planning and Enactment of Investigation-based Science Discussions: The Design and Use of Tools within Practice-based Teacher Education
Advisor: Jo Kurdziel
Senay Yitbarek, Ph.D.
NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Population Level Consequences of Spatial Networks: Species Coexistence and Implications for Invasive Species
Advisor: John Vandermeer
Summer 2016
Delaney Cargo, M.S.
Current affiliation coming soon
Advisor: Liliana Cortés Ortiz
Peter Cerda, M.S.
Ph.D. student, University of Michigan, EEB
Advisors: Thomas Duda and Alison Davis Rabosky
Alison Gould, Ph.D.
Research Fellow, California Academy of Sciences
Dissertation on Deep Blue: The Evolutionary Ecology of a Bioluminescent Vertebrate-Microbe Symbiosis
Advisor: Paul Dunlap
Jen-Pan Huang, Ph.D.
Assistant Research Fellow, Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Species Delimitation and Diversification History in Rhinoceros Beetles: How Many and Why So Many Species?
Advisor: L. Lacey Knowles
Ivan Monagan, M.S.
Ph.D. Student, Columbia University
Advisor: Thomas Duda
Chatura Vaidya, M.S.
Ph.D. Student, University of Michigan, EEB
Advisor: John Vandermeer
Susan Cheng, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Associate, Cornell University
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Shedding light on photosynthesis: The impacts of atmospheric conditions and plant canopy structure on ecosystem carbon uptake
Advisor: Knute Nadelhoffer
Zachary Hajian-Forooshani, M.S.
Ph.D. student, University of Michigan, EEB
Advisor: John Vandermeer
Johanna Nifosi, M.S.
Contractor - Ecology, United States Geological Survey
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Effects of Rising Temperature on Interactions between Monarch Butterflies and their Parasites
Advisor: Mark Hunter
Winter 2016
Taylor Forrest, M.S.
Research Assistant, University of Michigan Health System, Division of Nuclear Medicine
Madsen Zimbric, M.S.
Research Lab Specialist, University of Michigan Medical School
Fall 2015
Rob Massatti, Ph.D.
Ecologist, U.S. Geological Survey Soutwest Biological Science Center
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Effects of the Dynamic Pleistocene Climate on Plant Evolution: Integrative Tests Across Multiple Spatial and Temporal Scales
Advisors: L. Lacey Knowles and Anton Reznicek
Brian Metzger, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Chicago
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Disentangling the Effects of Mutation and Selection on the Evolution of Gene Expression
Advisors: Patricia Wittkopp and Jianzhi Zhang
Summer 2015
Buck Castillo, M.S.
Ph.D. Student, University of Michigan, EEB
Advisors: Knute Nadelhoffer and Timothy James
Audra Huffmeyer, M.S.
Ph.D. Student, University of California, Los Angeles, Department of EEB
Advisor: Liliana Cortés Ortiz
Bryan Juarez, M.S.
Ph.D. Student, Iowa State University, EEB
Thesis on Deep Blue: Ecomorphological change in lobe-finned fishes (Sarcopterygii): disparity and rates
Advisors: Daniel Rabosky and Lauren Sallan
Adrian Melo Carillo, M.S.
Ph.D. Student, University of Michigan, EEB
Advisor: Liliana Cortés Ortiz
Sergio Redondo, M.S.
Ph.D. Student, Stanford University
Advisor: Liliana Cortés Ortiz
Na Wei, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pittsburgh
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Gene Dispersal In Tropical Trees: Ecological Processes And Genetic Consequences
Advisor: Christopher Dick
Aaron Iverson, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Cornell University
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Biological Control, Biodiversity, and Multifunctionality in Coffee Agroecosystems
Advisors: John Vandermeer and Robyn Burnham
Micaela Martinez, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Columbia University
Dissertation on Deep Blue: The Drivers of Acute Seasonal Infectious Diseases
Advisors: Pejman Rohani and Aaron King
Rob Powers, M.S.
Ph.D. Student, University of Michigan, EEB
Advisor: Timothy James
Lucy Tran, Ph.D.
NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Berkeley (start Jan. 2016)
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Biotic and Abiotic Factors Influencing Diversification of Herbivorous Mammals
Advisor: L. Lacey Knowles
Winter 2015
Holly Andrews, M.S.
Ph.D. Student, University of California, Riverside, Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal
Advisor: Mark Hunter
Qixin He, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, The University of Chicago, Department of Ecology and Evolution
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Inferring Histories of Adaptive Divergence with Gene Flow: Genetic, Demographic and Geographic Effects
Advisor: L. Lacey Knowles
Gordon Fitch, M.S.
Ph.D. student, University of Michigan, EEB
Advisor: John Vandermeer
Anneka Jankowiak, M.S.
Michigan State University Teaching Fellow, SET-UPS Program. Currently at Southfield High School for the Arts & Technology, teaching botany and human anatomy/physiology
Advisor: Regina Baucom
Fall 2014
Sahar Haghighat, M.S.
Ph.D. student, Michigan State
University, Department of Forestry
Summer 2014
Nelson Omar Bonilla, M.S.
Ph.D. Student
Jingchun Li, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor and Curator of Invertebrates, Department of EEB, University of Colorado, Boulder
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Evolutionary Diversification of the Marine Bivalve Clade Galeommatoidea
Clarisse Betancourt Roman, M.S.
Research Lab Specialist, University of Michigan Medical School, Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases
Lisa Walsh, M.S.
Ph.D. Student, University of Michigan
Winter 2014
Naim Edwards, M.S.
Director, Michigan State University Detroit Partnership in Food, Learning and Innovation
Ben Miller, M.S.
Ph.D. Student, University of Washington
Thesis on Deep Blue: Terrestrial-aquatic transfers of carbon dioxide, methane, and organic carbon...
Jay Reed, Ph.D.
Current affiliation coming soon
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Examination of the evolution and function of mite pockets in lizards
Dylan Grippi, M.S.
Consumer Safety Officer, U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Lizette Ramirez, M.S.
Judy Wan, Ph.D.
Instructor, Bikram Yoga
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Ecological Replacement of Peromyscus maniculatus gracilis by Peromyscus leucopus in Northern Michigan
Fall 2013
György Barabás, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Linköping University, Sweden
Dissertation on Deep Blue: The robustness of ecological communities: theory and application
Jason Dobkowski, M.S.
Research lab technician, U-M EEB
John Marino, Ph.D.
Faculty, Bradley University
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Interactions between Echinostome Parasites and Larval Anurans across Ecological Contexts and Scales
Jasmine Crumsey, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Exotic earthworm communities as drivers of soil carbon dynamics in northern temperate forests
Samantha Flowers, M.S.
David Marvin, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution, for Science, Stanford University
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Disentangling the mechanisms and uncovering the scale of the neotropical liana takeover
Spring/Summer 2013
Andres Baeza, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Arizona State University
Dissertation on Deep Blue:Malaria population dynamics and climate forcing under agricultural development
Edward Baskerville, Ph.D.
Software Developer, Mount Sinai Health Data and Design Innovation Center (HD2i)
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Groups and niches in food-web structure: Bayesian methods and consequences for robustness
Huijie Gan, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Cornell University
Dissertation on Deep Blue:Oribatid mite communities in soil: structure, function and response to global environmental change
Alex Moore, M.S.
Postdoctoral Fellow, American Museum of Natural History, New York
Adjunct Professor, Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology Dept., Columbia University
Thesis on Deep Blue: Taxonomic and morphological evaluation of an endemic freshwater gastropod
Diego Alvarado Serrano, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Ohio University
Dissertation on Deep Blue:Exploring the opportunities for divergence in environmentally heterogeneous environments in the tropical Andes
Marcella Baiz, M.S.
Ph.D. student, U-M EEB
Thesis on Deep Blue: Intragroup genetic relatedness in two howler monkey species
Juan Pablo Busso, M.S.
Thesis on Deep Blue: Variation of female preference influences the maintenance of phenotypic diversity
Beatriz Otero Jimenez, M.S.
Ph.D. student, U-M EEB
Brian Sedio, Ph.D.
Earl S. Tupper Postdoctoral Fellowship, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Trait evolution and species coexistence in the hyperdiverse tropical forest tree genus Psychotria
Leiling Tao, Ph.D.
Master's Student, Simon Fraser University (Email)
Dissertation on Deep Blue: A tale of two elements: effects of foliar nitrogen and phosphorus stoichiometry on plant-insect interactions
Winter 2013
Anna Arias, M.S.
Ph.D. student, University of Michigan, School of Education
Allison Injaian, M.S.
Ph.D. student, University of California
Thesis on Deep Blue: Intraspecific variation and development of specialization in Polistes fuscatus, a model system
Brian Dorsey, Ph.D.
Botanist, The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens
Dissertation on Deep Blue:Phylogenetics and morphological evolution of Euphorbia subg. Euphorbia
Fall 2012
Keely Briggs, M.S.
Celia Churchill, Ph.D.
Current affiliation coming soon
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Evolutionary history and global phylogeography of the neuston
Semoya Phillips, M.S.
Kassandra Semrau, M.S.
Oligo Library Product Manager at MYcroarray
Dan Chang, Ph.D.
Senior Scientist, Merck Research Laboratories, Information and Analytics, Computational Genomics and Genetics
Dissertation on Deep Blue:Evolution and expression of gene families at the interface of predator-prey interactions
Hyunmin Han, M.S.
Analyst, Korea Trade Investment Promotion Agency (KOTRA), Detroit
Wenfeng Qian, Ph.D.
Principal Investigator, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Functional evolutionary genomics: Yeast as a model system
Spring/Summer 2012
Cindy Bick, M.S.
Ph.D. student, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan
Doug Jackson, Ph.D.
Staff Scientist and Engineer, Eastern Research Group, Lexington, Mass.
Dissertation on Deep Blue:Fungal biocontrol in coffee: a case study in agroecology
Iman Sylvain, M.S.
Ph.D. student, University of California, Berkeley
Lucia Luna Wong, Ph.D.
Spanish Medical Interpreter, University of Michigan Health System
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Differentiation on the Akodon mollis species group (Rodentia: Cricetidae: Sigmodontinae) in the Andes of Peru
Rachel Cable, MS
Research Lab Technician, Duhaime Lab, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan
Leslie McGinnis, M.S.
Graduate student, University of California Berkeley, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management
Alexa Unruh, M.S
Educator, Leslie Science & Nature Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Jeremy Wright, Ph.D.
Curator of Ichthyology, New York State Museum
Dissertation on Deep Blue:Ecological and evolutionary consequences of venom production in catfishes
Winter 2012
Tory Hendry, Ph.D.
Research Scientist, Department of Microbiology, Cornell University
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Genome reduction and evolution in an obligate luminous symbiont
Liz Wason, Ph.D. Managing Editor, Resources for the Future, Washington DC |
Michael Sheehan, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Neurobiology and Behavior, Cornell University
Dissertation on Deep Blue: The evolution of individual recognition in paper wasps
Fall 2011
David Allen, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Middlebury College (Email)
Dissertation on Deep Blue:Succession and spatial pattern in a Michigan forest
Susanna Messinger, Ph.D.
Data Analyst, Zions Bancorporation
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Space: the final frontier of predator evolution?
Huateng Huang, Ph.D.
Research Lab Specialist Senior, University of Michigan Medical School
Dissertation on Deep Blue:Understanding how stochasticity impacts reconstructions of recent species divergent history
Ya Yang, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Plant Biology and Assistant Curator, College of Biological Sciences, University of Minnesota
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Phylogenetics of Euphorbia subgenus Chamaesyce
Spring/Summer 2011
Mairin Balisi, M.S.
EEB Ph.D. program, University of California, Los Angeles
Serge Farinas, M.S.
Grants Compliance Manager and Data Analyst, Red Shield Services
Amanda Izzo, Ph.D.
Senior Science Writer, Institute for Disease Modeling, Intellectual Ventures, Seattle, Wash. (Email)
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Spotting the top male: sexual selection in a lek-mating paper wasp, Polistes dominulus
Dana Thomas, M.S.
Meg Bakewell, Ph.D.
Associate Director, Center for Research on Learning and Teaching, University of Michigan
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Genomic patterns of gene evolution
Elizabeth Haber, M.S.
Ph.D. student, Geosciences Department, Utrecht University, the Netherlands
Theresa Ong, M.S.
Ph.D. student, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan
Thesis on Deep Blue: Coexistence in multi-exploiter systems
Rachel Vannette, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, University of California, Davis
Dissertation on Deep Blue:Whose phenotype is it anyway?
Winter 2011
Ryan Bebej, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Calvin College, Department of Biology
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Vertebral anatomy of Remingtonocetidae (Mammalia, Cetacea)
Jess Middlemis-Maher, Ph.D.
Associate Director, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Delta Program in Research, Teaching and Learning
Dissertation on Deep Blue:Ecological and evolutionary context of the stress response in Larvcal Anurans
Heidi Liere, Ph.D.
Visiting Scholar, Reed College, Department of Biology, Portland, Ore.
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Complex interactions and ecosystem function
Lei Qin, M.S.
Director, Health Economics and Payer Analytics, AstraZeneca
Fall 2010
John Berini, M.S.
Ph.D. Student, University of Minnesota
Clay Cressler, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, School of Biological Sciences
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Multi-trait Selection and the Evolution of the integrated phenotype
Melissa Brady, M.S.
Kelsey Pressler, M.S.
Contractor, Senior Lab Technician, Dow Chemical
Spring/Summer 2010
Joseph Brown, Ph.D.
Research Associate, University of Sheffield, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Embracing uncertainty in molecular phylogenetic analysis
Sandra Yap, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, University of the Philippines, College of Biology
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Phylogeography and demography of common plant species from the Philippine Islands
Winter 2010
Hannah Foster, M.S.
Ph.D student, Harvard University, Burton Lab
Aley Joseph, M.S., M.P.H.
Graduate Student, University of Michigan School of Public Health
Rachel Hessler, M.S.
Ph.D. program, Wayne State University
Zhi Wang, Ph.D.
Current affiliation coming soon
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Evolutionary Systems Biology.
Winter 2009
Heather Adams, Ph.D.
Data Analyst, Gravy Analytics, Washington DC
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Controls on Bacterial Productivity in Arctic Lakes and Streams.
Emily Farrer, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Tulane University, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Plant-Environment Feedbacks in a Native and Invasive System.
Marielle Newsome, M.S.
Amanda Zellmer, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Occidental College, Department of Biology
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Ecological and Evolutionary Consequences of Population Connectivity in an Amphibian with Local Adaptation
Sarah Barbrow, M.S.
Library Systems-Dean's Office, School of Information, University of Michigan
Ken Luzynski, M.S.
Teach for America, Tulsa, Okla., fall 2010
Jess Peirson, Ph.D.
Research Compliance Specialist, University of Michigan Office of Research
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Biogeography, Ecology, and Evolution of the Endemic Vasular Flora of the Glaciated Greate Lakes Region: A Case STudy of the Solidago Simplex Species Complex.
Spring/Summer 2009
Sarah Cobey, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, University of Chicago, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Ecological and Evolutionary Dynamics of Influenza Viruses.
Akane Uesegi, Ph.D.
Research Fellow, Monash University, School of Biological Sciences
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Tritrophic Investigation of the Evolution of Host Plant Use in an Insect Herbivore: A Case Study with a Leafminer (Amauromyza Flavifrons).
Shalene Jha, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, University of Texas
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Movement in the Matrix: Pollination and Dispersal Processes in a Tropical Coffee and Forest Landscape Mosaic.
Diego Ruiz Moreno, Ph.D.
Professor of Statistics, Univerisidad Nacional Arturo, Argentina
Dissertation on Deep Blue: The Role of Primary and Secondary Transmission on the Dynamics of Cholera in Endemic Areas.
Matt Chatfield, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Unity College, School of Biodiversity Conservation
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Evolutionary Dynamics among Salamanders in the Plethodon glutinosus Group, with an Emphasis on Three Species: P. jordani, P. metcalfi, and P. teyahalee (Caudata: Plethodontidae).
Eladio Marquez, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Florida State University
Dissertation on Deep Blue: A General Framework for Inferring the Developmental Causes of Modularity of Morphological Variation with Applications to the Craniomandibular Complex in Morphological Variation with Applications to the Craniomandibular Complex in Rodents.
Bret Weinstein, Ph.D.
Professor, Evergreen State College
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Evolutionary Trade-Offs: Emergent Constraints and Their Adaptive Consequences.
Tim Connallon, Ph.D.
Lecturer, Monash University, School of Biological Sciences
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Evolutionary Consequences of Sex Linkage and Sex-Specific Selection.
M. Jahi Chappell, Ph.D.
Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience, United Kingdom
From Food Security to Farm to Formicidae: Belo Horizonte, Brazil's Secretaria Municipal de Abastecimento and Biodiversity in the Fragmented Atlantic Rainforest.
Elen Oneal, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Biology, Duke University
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Biogeographic and Evolutionary Mechanisms Driving Diversification in Caribbean Ground Crickets (genus Amphiacusta).
Bin Wang, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Nanjing University
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Origin and Evolution of Mycorrhizal Symbioses in Land Plants.
Yan Yancy Lo, M.S.
University of Michigan: School of Public Health
Zach Miller, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Montana State University
Fall 2008
Andrea Walther, Ph.D.
Visiting Assistant Professor, Kalamazoo College
Dissertation on Deep Blue: A Systematic Study of North American Freshwater Limpets (Gastropoda: Hygrophila: Ancylidae)
Lauren Yelen, M.S.
Masters Student, SNRE, University of Michigan
Spring/Summer 2008
Leah Boris, M.S.
River Bend Nature Center, Minn: River Bend Intern Naturalist
James Crants, Ph.D.
Research Associate, University of Minnesota
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Pollination and Pollen Limitation in Mayapple (Podophyllum Peltatum L.), A Nectarless Spring Ephemeral.
Ben-Yang Liao, Ph.D.
Investigator, Institute of Population Health Sciences, National Health Research Institutes, Taiwan
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Expression Evolution of Mammalian Genes.
Javier Ruiz, Ph.D.
Associate Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Effects of Dispersal and Insect Herbivory on Seedling Recruitment of Dipteryx Oleifera Benth (Fabaceae) a Tropical Tree.
Luis Fernando Chaves, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Ecological Dynamics of Vector-Borne Diseases in Changing Environments
Wendy Grus, Ph.D.
Genome Interpretation Scientist, Knome, Inc.
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Evolution of the Vomeronasal System Viewed through System-Specific Genes.
Nicole Maturen, Ph.D.
Research Associate, Faraday Institute for Science and Religion, Cambridge University
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Genetic Analysis of the Evolution of Petaloid Bracts in Dogwoods.
Winter 2008
Nonyelum Alozie, M.S.
Visiting Assistant Professor, Albion College
Corinne Richards, Ph.D
Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences: University of Pittsburgh
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Ecological and Evolutionary Implications for the Conservation of Panamanian Golden Frogs.
Spring/Summer 2007
Beth Hahn, Ph.D.
Regional Wildlife Ecologist, Forest Service, USDA
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Socially-facilitated habitat selection by two migratory forest songbirds.
Rachel Matthews, M.S.
Xiaoxia Wang, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, San Diego
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Mechanisms of Human Gene Evolution.
Heather Lerner, Ph.D.
Museum Director and Assistant Professor, Earlham College
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Molecular Phylogenetics of Diurnal Birds of Prety in the Avian Accipitridae Family.
Ondrej Podlaha, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard University, Boston
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Evolution of Genes Involved in Mammalian Reproduction and Sex Determination.
Fall 2007
Jose Cabrera Schneider, M.S.
Krista McGuire, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Barnard College
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Ectomycorrhizal associations function to maintain tropical monodominance: Studies from Guyana.
Ronald Oldfield, Ph.D.
Lecturer, Case Western Reserve
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Effects of Behavioral Interaction on Sex Determination in the Midas Cichlid.
Michael Fraker, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Ohio State University
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Predation risk assessment and the anti-predator behavioral dynamics of larval anurans.
Ben Montgomery, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, University of South Carolina Upstate
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Patterns and Consequences of Competition for Pollination between Introduced and Native Species with Different Floral Traits.
Winter 2007
Carrie Beyers, M.S.
Xionglei He, Ph.D.
Endowed Professor, Sun Yat-sen University: Guangzhou, China
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Genomic studies on gene duplication.
Meghan Shilts, M.S.
Research Associate, Yale University
Mary Anne Evans, Ph.D.
Research Fellow, University of Michigan-SNRE
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Phytoplankton ecology of arctic lakes.
Deborah Huddleston, M.S.
Fall 2006
Heok Hee Ng, Ph.D.
Research Associate, National University of Singapore
Dissertation on Deep Blue: A phylogenetic analysis of the Asian catfish family Sisoridae (Teleostei: Siluriformes), and the evolution of epidermal characters in the group.
Yi Cui, M.S.
Spring/Summer 2006
Prosanta Chakrabarty, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Curator of Ichthyology
Louisiana State University Museum of Natural Sciences
Baton Rouge, La.
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Phylogenetic and biogeographic analyses of Greater Antillean and Middle American Cichidae.
Winter 2006
Tanya Dewey, Ph.D.
Research Program Officer, UMMZ, University of Michigan
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Systematics and phylogeography of North American Myotis (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae).
Malini Sridharan, M.S.
MBA student, MIT Sloan School of Management
Glenn Fox, Ph.D.
Lecturer III, Div. of Anatomical Sciences, Dept. of Surgery, Univ. of Michigan Medical School
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Total evidence and the evolution of Ophidia (Reptilia: Squamata).
Fall 2005
Steven Albee-Scott, Ph.D.
Instructor Environmental Sciences, Wilbur L. Dungy Endowed Chair of the Sciences, Jackson Community College
Dissertation on Deep Blue: The phylogeny and phylogeography of two false-truffles, Leucophleps spinispora and Hymenogaster sublilacinus, in the Great Basin, United States.
Katia Koelle, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Dept. of Biology, Emory University
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Host immunity and climate forcing in cholera dynamics and evolution.
John Whitlock, M.S.
Ph.D. Student, University of Michigan
Laura Eidietis, Ph.D.
Lecturer in Biology, University of Michigan
Dissertation on Deep Blue: A biomechanical description of the anuran tadpole startle response and some implications of anatomical diversity.
Kate Teeter, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Northern Michigan University
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Patterns of introgression in the European house mouse hybrid zone: Comparisons among loci and between transects.
Spring/Summer 2005
Jacqueline Belle Courteau, Ph.D.
Lecturer III and Academic Advisor, University of Michigan, Program in the Environment
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Direct, indirect, and interacting effects of overabundant deer and invasive autumn olive on native vegetation.
Carol Lynn Landry, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, The Ohio State University
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Androdioecy in white mangrove Laguncularia racemosa: Maintenance of a rare breeding system through plant -pollinator interactions.
Michael H. Reiskind, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Oklahoma State University
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Oviposition behavior and larval ecology of Culex mosquitoes in southeast Michigan.
Ashley Patrick Dowling, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, University of Arkansas
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Molecular systematics and the evolution of parasitic associations of dermanyssoid mites (Acari: Dermanyssoidea).
Keith Wayne Pecor, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair of Biology, The College of New Jersey
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Some aspects of the chemical ecology of the crayfish Orconectes virilis and Orconectes rusticus.
Winter 2005
Shannon McCauley, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, University of Toronto, Mississauga
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Species distributions in anisopteran odonates: Effects of local and regional processes.