Graduate Alumni Directory

Jacqueline Popma, Ph.D. | Advisor: Knute Nadelhoffer

Buck Castillo, Ph.D. | Advisors: Knute Nadelhoffer and Timothy James

Siria Gámez, M.S. | Advisor: Nyeema Harris

Sara Colom, Ph.D. | Advisor: Regina Baucom

Amy-Charlotte Devitz, M.S. | Advisor: Ben Dantzer

Michelle Fearon, Ph.D. | 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. | Advisors: Jianzhi Zhang and Adam Lauring

Jillian Myers, Ph.D. | Advisor: Timothy James

Khadijah Payne, M.S. | Advisor: Meghan Duffy

Abigail Potts, M.S. | Advisor: Mark Hunter

Lisa Walsh, Ph.D. | Advisor: Priscilla Tucker

Wesley Bickford, Ph.D. | Advisors: Deborah Goldberg, Timothy James and Donald Zak
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Plant Invasions and Microbes: The Interactive Effects of Plant-Associated Microbes on Invasiveness of Phragmites australis

Iris Holmes, Ph.D. | Advisor: Alison Davis Raboksy
Dissertation on Deep Blue: When Does Gene Flow Stop? A Mechanistic Approach to the Formation of Phylogeographic Breaks in Nature

Marcella Baiz, Ph.D. | Advisors: Liliana Cortés Ortiz and Priscilla Tucker
Dissertation on Deep Blue: The Genetic Architecture of Speciation in a Primate Hybrid Zone

Anat Belasen, Ph.D. | Advisor: Timothy James
Dissertation on Deep Blue: The Impacts of Habitat Fragmentation on Amphibian Genetics and Health in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest Biodiversity Hotspot

Kenzo Esquivel, M.S. | Advisor: Jacob Allgeier

Jonathan Massey, Ph.D. | Advisor: Patricia Wittkopp
Dissertation on Deep Blue: The Function of Pigmentation Genes in the Development and Evolution of Drosophila Mating Behavior

Beatriz Otero Jimenez, Ph.D. | Advisor: John Vandermeer
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Rodent Population Connectivity in Coffee Agroecosystems

Briana Sealey, M.S. | Advisor: Alison Davis Rabosky

Andrew Wood, Ph.D. | Advisor: Thomas Duda
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Genetic Drivers of Diversification in the Conus Adaptive Radiation

Christian Cely Ortiz, Ph.D. | Advisor: Elizabeth Tibbetts
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Natural Variations in Social Behaviors: Phenotypic Consequences and Genetic Differentiation in Paper Wasps

Pamela Murillo, Ph.D. | Advisor: Barry O'Connor
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Disentangling Species Boundaries and the Evolution of Habitat Specialization for the Ecologically Diverse Mite Family Acaridae

Caroline Parins-Fukuchi, Ph.D. | Advisor: Christopher Dick
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Developments for the Next Generation of Evolutionary Paleobiology

Clara Shaw, Ph.D. | Advisor: Meghan Duffy
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Drivers of Epidemic Timing and Size in a Natural Aquatic System

Marian Schmidt, Ph.D. | Advisor: Vincent Denef
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Microhabitats Shape Bacterial Community Composition, Ecosystem Function, and Genome Traits

Byron Smith, Ph.D. | Advisor: Thomas Schmidt
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Integrated Analysis of the Gut Microbiota and Their Fermentation Products in Mice Treated with the Longevity Enhancing Drug Acarbose

Stephanie Alcala, M.S. | Advisor: Christopher Dick

Cynthia Bick, Ph.D. | Advisor: Diarmaid Ó Foighil
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Can Oceanic Island Endemic Partulid Tree Snails Survive the Anthropocene?

Leslie Decker, Ph.D. | Advisor: Mark Hunter
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Plant Quality Mediates the Response of Disease to Global Environmental Change

Paul Glaum, Ph.D. | Advisor: John Vandermeer
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Parsing the Particulars of Pollination: Ecological and Anthropogenic Drivers of Plant and Pollinator Dynamics

Mariah Kenney, M.S. | Advisor: L. Lacey Knowles

Amanda Meier, Ph.D. | Advisor: Mark Hunter 
Dissertation on Deep Blue: The Influence of Mutualisms Below Ground on Multitrophic Interactions Above Ground

Xorla Ocloo, M.S. | Advisor: Liliana Cortés Ortiz

Jeff Shi, Ph.D. | Advisor: Daniel Rabosky
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Diversity and Diversification Across the Global Radiation of Extant Bats

Pascal Title, Ph.D. | Advisor: Daniel Rabosky
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Species Richness in Time and Space: a Phylogenetic and Geographic Perspective

Joseph Walker, Ph.D. | Advisor: Stephen Smith
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Novel Phylogenomic Methods for Uncovering the Evolutionary History of the Hyperdiverse Clade Caryophyllales

Jordan Bemmels, Ph.D. | Advisor: Christopher Dick
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Species Range Shifts in Dynamic Geological and Climatic Landscapes: Studies in Temperate and Tropical Trees

Katherine Crocker, Ph.D. | Advisor: Mark Hunter
Dissertation on Deep Blue: The Past Is Never Dead, It Isn't Even Past: Maternal Environment Affects Multiple Generations of Offspring via Hormone Provisioning

Teal Harrison, M.S. | Advisor: Diarmaid Ó Foighil

Imani Russell, M.S. | Advisor: Alison Davis Rabosky

Xinzhu (April) Wei, Ph.D. | Advisor: Jianzhi Zhang
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Genetic Interactions and Gene-by-Environment Interactions in Evolution

Shawn Colborn, M.S. | Advisor: Nyeema Harris

Corbin Kuntze, M.S. | Advisor: Nyeema Harris

Paula Matzke, M.S. | Advisor: Thomas Duda

Kevin Bakker, Ph.D. | Advisor: Timothy James
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Uncovering the Mechanisms Governing Childhood Infectious Disease Dynamics

Susanna Campbell, M.S. | Advisors: Liliana Cortés Ortiz and Benjamin Winger

Wei-Chin Ho, Ph.D. | Advisor: Jianzhi Zhang
Dissertation on Deep Blue: The Genotype-Phenotype Map: Origins, Properties, and Evolutionary Consequences

Chuan Li, Ph.D. | Advisor: Jianzhi Zhang
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Quantifying and Understanding Intragenic and Intergenic Epistasis in Yeast

Thomas Jenkinson, Ph.D. | Advisor: Timothy James
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Population Structure and Evolutionary Ecology of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest

Tristan McKnight, Ph.D. | Advisor: L. Lacey Knowles
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Ecological Specialization in Predatory Lasiopogon Robber Flies and its Role in Facilitating Diversification and Species Coexistence

Tristan McKnight, Ph.D. | Advisor: L. Lacey Knowles
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Ecological Specialization in Predatory Lasiopogon Robber Flies and its Role in Facilitating Diversification and Species Coexistence

Mariana Cecilia Valencia Mestre, Ph.D. | Advisor: John Vandermeer

Carlos Muñoz-Ramirez, Ph.D. | Advisor: L. Lacey Knowles
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Mismatched Mimics: Insights and Conundrums from the Evolutionary History of Colorful Ground Beetles

Theresa Wei Ying Ong, Ph.D. | Advisor: John Vandermeer
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Biocomplexity: the Autonomous Agroecological Alternative

Andréa Thomaz, Ph.D. | Advisor: L. Lacey Knowles
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Riverscape Genetics: Insights Into the Drivers of Divergence in Coastal Brazilian Fishes

John Guittar, Ph.D. | Advisor: Deborah Goldberg
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Trait-Based Community Assembly in a Changing Climate: Dispersal Dynamics and Ecological Filtering In a Grassland Metacommunity

Chau Ho, M.S. | Advisors: Robyn Burnham and Christopher Dick
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Effect of shade trees on microclimate conditions and coffee leaf rust

Kristel Sanchez, M.S. | Advisor: Meghan Duffy

Rafael D'Andrea, Ph.D. | Advisor: Annette Ostling
Dissertation on Deep Blue: From Trait Patterns to Species Lifetimes: Effects of Niche Differentiation on Coexistence and Community Structure 

Sylvie Kademian, M.S. | Advisor: Jo Kurdziel
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

Senay Yitbarek, Ph.D. | Advisor: John Vandermeer
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Population Level Consequences of Spatial Networks: Species Coexistence and Implications for Invasive Species

Delaney Cargo, M.S. | Advisor: Liliana Cortés Ortiz

Peter Cerda, M.S. | Advisors: Thomas Duda and Alison Davis Rabosky

Susan Cheng, Ph.D. | Advisor: Knute Nadelhoffer
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Shedding light on photosynthesis: The impacts of atmospheric conditions and plant canopy structure on ecosystem carbon uptake

Alison Gould, Ph.D. | Advisor: Paul Dunlap
Dissertation on Deep Blue: The Evolutionary Ecology of a Bioluminescent Vertebrate-Microbe Symbiosis

Zachary Hajian-Forooshani, M.S. | Advisor: John Vandermeer

Jen-Pan Huang, Ph.D. | Advisor: L. Lacey Knowles
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Species Delimitation and Diversification History in Rhinoceros Beetles: How Many and Why So Many Species? 

Ivan Monagan, M.S. | Advisor: Thomas Duda

Johanna Nifosi, M.S. | Advisor: Mark Hunter
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Effects of Rising Temperature on Interactions between Monarch Butterflies and their Parasites

Chatura Vaidya, M.S. | Advisor: John Vandermeer

Taylor Forrest, M.S.

Madsen Zimbric, M.S.

Rob Massatti, Ph.D. | Advisors: L. Lacey Knowles and Anton Reznicek
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Effects of the Dynamic Pleistocene Climate on Plant Evolution: Integrative Tests Across Multiple Spatial and Temporal Scales

Brian Metzger, Ph.D. | Advisors: Patricia Wittkopp and Jianzhi Zhang
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Disentangling the Effects of Mutation and Selection on the Evolution of Gene Expression

Buck Castillo, M.S. | Advisors: Knute Nadelhoffer and Timothy James

Audra Huffmeyer, M.S. | Advisor: Liliana Cortés Ortiz

Aaron Iverson, Ph.D. | Advisors: John Vandermeer and Robyn Burnham
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Biological Control, Biodiversity, and Multifunctionality in Coffee Agroecosystems

Bryan Juarez, M.S. | Advisors: Daniel Rabosky and Lauren Sallan
Thesis on Deep Blue: Ecomorphological change in lobe-finned fishes (Sarcopterygii): disparity and rates

Micaela Martinez, Ph.D | Advisors: Pejman Rohani and Aaron King
Dissertation on Deep Blue: The Drivers of Acute Seasonal Infectious Diseases

Adrian Melo Carillo, M.S. | Advisor: Liliana Cortés Ortiz

Rob Powers, M.S. | Advisor: Timothy James

Sergio Redondo, M.S. | Advisor: Liliana Cortés Ortiz

Lucy Tran, Ph.D. | Advisor: L. Lacey Knowles
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Biotic and Abiotic Factors Influencing Diversification of Herbivorous Mammals

Na Wei, Ph.D. | Advisor: Christopher Dick
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Gene Dispersal In Tropical Trees: Ecological Processes And Genetic Consequences

Holly Andrews, M.S. | Advisor: Mark Hunter

Gordon Fitch, M.S. | Advisor: John Vandermeer

Qixin He, Ph.D. | Advisor: L. Lacey Knowles
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Inferring Histories of Adaptive Divergence with Gene Flow: Genetic, Demographic and Geographic Effects

Anneka Jankowiak, M.S. | Advisor: Regina Baucom

Sahar Haghighat, M.S.

Nelson Omar Bonilla, M.S.

Clarisse Betancourt Roman, M.S.

Jingchun Li, Ph.D.
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Evolutionary Diversification of the Marine Bivalve Clade Galeommatoidea

Lisa Walsh, M.S.

Naim Edwards, M.S.

Dylan Grippi, M.S.

Ben Miller, M.S.
Thesis on Deep Blue: Terrestrial-aquatic transfers of carbon dioxide, methane, and organic carbon...  

Lizette Ramirez, M.S. 

Jay Reed, Ph.D. | Dissertation on Deep Blue: Examination of the evolution and function of mite pockets in lizards  

Judy Wan, Ph.D.
Deep Blue: Ecological Replacement of Peromyscus maniculatus gracilis by Peromyscus leucopus in Northern Michigan

György Barabás, Ph.D.
Dissertation on Deep Blue: The robustness of ecological communities: theory and application

Jasmine Crumsey, Ph.D.
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Exotic earthworm communities as drivers of soil carbon dynamics in northern temperate forests

Jason Dobkowski, M.S.

Samantha Flowers, M.S.

John Marino, Ph.D.
Deep Blue: Interactions between Echinostome Parasites and Larval Anurans across Ecological Contexts and Scales 

David Marvin, Ph.D.
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Disentangling the mechanisms and uncovering the scale of the neotropical liana takeover

Andres Baeza, Ph.D.
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Malaria population dynamics and climate forcing under agricultural development

Marcella Baiz, M.S. 
Thesis on Deep Blue: Intragroup genetic relatedness in two howler monkey species

Edward Baskerville, Ph.D.
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Groups and niches in food-web structure: Bayesian methods and consequences for robustness

Juan Pablo Busso, M.S.
Thesis on Deep Blue: Variation of female preference influences the maintenance of phenotypic diversity

Huijie Gan, Ph.D.
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Oribatid mite communities in soil: structure, function and response to global environmental change

Alex Moore, M.S.
Thesis on Deep Blue: Taxonomic and morphological evaluation of an endemic freshwater gastropod

Brian Sedio, Ph.D.
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Trait evolution and species coexistence in the hyperdiverse tropical forest tree genus Psychotria

Diego Alvarado Serrano, Ph.D.
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Exploring the opportunities for divergence in environmentally heterogeneous environments in the tropical Andes

Leiling Tao, Ph.D.
Dissertation on Deep Blue: A tale of two elements: effects of foliar nitrogen and phosphorus stoichiometry on plant-insect interactions 

Anna Arias, M.S.

Brian Dorsey, Ph.D.
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Phylogenetics and morphological evolution of Euphorbia subg. Euphorbia

Allison Injaian, M.S.
Thesis on Deep Blue: Intraspecific variation and development of specialization in Polistes fuscatus, a model system

Keely Briggs, M.S.

Dan Chang, Ph.D.
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Evolution and expression of gene families at the interface of predator-prey interactions

Celia Churchill, Ph.D.
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Evolutionary history and global phylogeography of the neuston

Hyunmin Han, M.S.

Semoya Phillips, M.S.

Kassandra Semrau, M.S.

Wenfeng Qian, Ph.D.
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Functional evolutionary genomics: Yeast as a model system

Cindy Bick, M.S.

Rachel Cable, MS

Doug Jackson, Ph.D.
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Fungal biocontrol in coffee: a case study in agroecology

Leslie McGinnis, M.S.

Iman Sylvain, M.S.

Alexa Unruh, M.S

Lucia Luna Wong, Ph.D.
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Differentiation on the Akodon mollis species group (Rodentia: Cricetidae: Sigmodontinae) in the Andes of Peru

Jeremy Wright, Ph.D.
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Ecological and evolutionary consequences of venom production in catfishes

Tory Hendry, Ph.D.
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Genome reduction and evolution in an obligate luminous symbiont

Michael Sheehan, Ph.D.
Dissertation on Deep Blue: The evolution of individual recognition in paper wasps

Liz Wason, Ph.D.
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Plants make scents: variation in plant volatile organic chemical emission at multiple scales

David Allen, Ph.D.
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Succession and spatial pattern in a Michigan forest

Huateng Huang, Ph.D.
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Understanding how stochasticity impacts reconstructions of recent species divergent history

Susanna Messinger, Ph.D.
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Space: the final frontier of predator evolution?

Ya Yang, Ph.D.
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Phylogenetics of Euphorbia subgenus Chamaesyce

Mairin Balisi, M.S.

Meg Bakewell, Ph.D.
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Genomic patterns of gene evolution

Serge Farinas, M.S.

Elizabeth Haber, M.S.

Amanda Izzo, Ph.D.
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Spotting the top male: sexual selection in a lek-mating paper wasp, Polistes dominulus

Theresa Ong, M.S.
Thesis on Deep Blue: Coexistence in multi-exploiter systems

Dana Thomas, M.S.

Rachel Vannette, Ph.D.
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Whose phenotype is it anyway?

Ryan Bebej, Ph.D.
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Vertebral anatomy of Remingtonocetidae (Mammalia, Cetacea)

Heidi Liere, Ph.D.
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Complex interactions and ecosystem function

Jess Middlemis-Maher, Ph.D.
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Ecological and evolutionary context of the stress response in Larvcal Anurans

Lei Qin, M.S.

John Berini, M.S.

Melissa Brady, M.S.

Clay Cressler, Ph.D.
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Multi-trait Selection and the Evolution of the integrated phenotype

Kelsey Pressler, M.S.

Joseph Brown, Ph.D.
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Embracing uncertainty in molecular phylogenetic analysis

Sandra Yap, Ph.D.
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Phylogeography and demography of common plant species from the Philippine Islands

Hannah Foster, M.S.

Rachel Hessler, M.S. 

Aley Joseph, M.S., M.P.H. 

Zhi Wang, Ph.D.
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Evolutionary Systems Biology

Heather Adams, Ph.D.
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Controls on Bacterial Productivity in Arctic Lakes and Streams

Sarah Barbrow, M.S.

Emily Farrer, Ph.D.
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Plant-Environment Feedbacks in a Native and Invasive System

Ken Luzynski, M.S.

Marielle Newsome, M.S.

Jess Peirson, Ph.D.
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

Amanda Zellmer, Ph.D.
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Ecological and Evolutionary Consequences of Population Connectivity in an Amphibian with Local Adaptation

Matt Chatfield, Ph.D.
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)

Sarah Cobey, Ph.D.
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Ecological and Evolutionary Dynamics of Influenza Viruses

Tim Connallon, Ph.D.
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Evolutionary Consequences of Sex Linkage and Sex-Specific Selection

M. Jahi Chappell, Ph.D.
Dissertation on Deep Blue: From Food Security to Farm to Formicidae: Belo Horizonte, Brazil's Secretaria Municipal de Abastecimento and Biodiversity in the Fragmented Atlantic Rainforest

Shalene Jha, Ph.D.
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Movement in the Matrix: Pollination and Dispersal Processes in a Tropical Coffee and Forest Landscape Mosaic

Eladio Marquez, Ph.D.
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

Zach Miller, Ph.D.
Dissertation on Deep Blue: The diversity-enhancing effects of plant pathogens:
Moving beyond the Janzen-Connell hypothesis to explore how plant species abundance drives the accumulation of pathogen species and the effects of a specialist fungal pathogen on diversity in temperate forests of Eastern North America

Elen Oneal, Ph.D.
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Biogeographic and Evolutionary Mechanisms Driving Diversification in Caribbean Ground Crickets (genus Amphiacusta)

Diego Ruiz Moreno, Ph.D.
Dissertation on Deep Blue: The Role of Primary and Secondary Transmission on the Dynamics of Cholera in Endemic Areas

Bin Wang, Ph.D.
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Origin and Evolution of Mycorrhizal Symbioses in Land Plants

Bret Weinstein, Ph.D. 
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Evolutionary Trade-Offs: Emergent Constraints and Their Adaptive Consequences

Yan Yancy Lo, M.S.

Andrea Walther, Ph.D.
Dissertation on Deep Blue: A Systematic Study of North American Freshwater Limpets (Gastropoda: Hygrophila: Ancylidae)

Lauren Yelen, M.S.

Leah Boris, M.S. 

Luis Fernando Chaves, Ph.D. 
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Ecological Dynamics of Vector-Borne Diseases in Changing Environments

James Crants, Ph.D.
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Pollination and Pollen Limitation in Mayapple (Podophyllum Peltatum L.), A Nectarless Spring Ephemeral

Wendy Grus, Ph.D.
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Evolution of the Vomeronasal System Viewed through System-Specific Genes

Ben-Yang Liao, Ph.D.
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Expression Evolution of Mammalian Genes

Nicole Maturen, Ph.D.
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Genetic Analysis of the Evolution of Petaloid Bracts in Dogwoods

Javier Ruiz, Ph.D.
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Effects of Dispersal and Insect Herbivory on Seedling Recruitment of Dipteryx Oleifera Benth (Fabaceae) a Tropical Tree

Nonyelum Alozie, M.S.

Corinne Richards, Ph.D 
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Ecological and Evolutionary Implications for the Conservation of Panamanian Golden Frogs

Beth Hahn, Ph.D.
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Socially-facilitated habitat selection by two migratory forest songbirds

Heather Lerner, Ph.D.
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Molecular Phylogenetics of Diurnal Birds of Prety in the Avian Accipitridae Family

Rachel Matthews, M.S.

Ondrej Podlaha, Ph.D.
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Evolution of Genes Involved in Mammalian Reproduction and Sex Determination

Xiaoxia Wang, Ph.D.
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Mechanisms of Human Gene Evolution

Jose Cabrera Schneider, M.S.

Michael Fraker, Ph.D.
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Predation risk assessment and the anti-predator behavioral dynamics of larval anurans

Krista McGuire, Ph.D.
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Ectomycorrhizal associations function to maintain tropical monodominance: Studies from Guyana

Ben Montgomery, Ph.D. 
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Patterns and Consequences of Competition for Pollination between Introduced and Native Species with Different Floral Traits

Ronald Oldfield, Ph.D.
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Effects of Behavioral Interaction on Sex Determination in the Midas Cichlid

Carrie Beyers, M.S.

Mary Anne Evans, Ph.D. 
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Phytoplankton ecology of arctic lakes

Xionglei He, Ph.D. 
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Genomic studies on gene duplication

Deborah Huddleston, M.S.

Meghan Shilts, M.S.

Heok Hee Ng, Ph.D.
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.

Prosanta Chakrabarty, Ph.D. 
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Phylogenetic and biogeographic analyses of Greater Antillean and Middle American Cichidae

Tanya Dewey, Ph.D.
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Systematics and phylogeography of North American Myotis (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae)

Glenn Fox, Ph.D.
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Total evidence and the evolution of Ophidia (Reptilia: Squamata)

Malini Sridharan, M.S.

Steven Albee-Scott, Ph.D. 
Dissertation on Deep Blue: The phylogeny and phylogeography of two false-truffles, Leucophleps spinispora and Hymenogaster sublilacinus, in the Great Basin, United States

Laura Eidietis, Ph.D.
Dissertation on Deep Blue: A biomechanical description of the anuran tadpole startle response and some implications of anatomical diversity

Katia Koelle, Ph.D.
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Host immunity and climate forcing in cholera dynamics and evolution

Kate Teeter, Ph.D.
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Patterns of introgression in the European house mouse hybrid zone: Comparisons among loci and between transects

John Whitlock, M.S.

Jacqueline Belle Courteau, Ph.D.
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Direct, indirect, and interacting effects of overabundant deer and invasive autumn olive on native vegetation

Carol Lynn Landry, Ph.D.
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Androdioecy in white mangrove Laguncularia racemosa: Maintenance of a rare breeding system through plant -pollinator interactions

Ashley Patrick Dowling, Ph.D.
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Molecular systematics and the evolution of parasitic associations of dermanyssoid mites (Acari: Dermanyssoidea)

Michael H. Reiskind, Ph.D.
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Oviposition behavior and larval ecology of Culex mosquitoes in southeast Michigan

Keith Wayne Pecor, Ph.D.
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Some aspects of the chemical ecology of the crayfish Orconectes virilis and Orconectes rusticus

Shannon McCauley, Ph.D. 
Dissertation on Deep Blue: Species distributions in anisopteran odonates: Effects of local and regional processes