Lucky Barahebuza
Masters Student
Research Interests: My research interests are focused on the effects of megafauna loss in tropical forests and how it affects the natural regeneration patterns of individual tree species and ecosystems as a whole
Cindy Barreto
Doctoral Student
Research Interests: Host-parasite interactions; urban evolutionary biology; bird behavior; avian ecology and conservation.
Peter Billman
Doctoral Student
Research Interests: Ecological responses to climate change, drivers of animal range limits, biogeography, evolutionary ecology, stress response, and especially how these all tie together in montane systems, globally
Laura Bizzarri
Doctoral Student
Research Interests: Mechanisms structuring tropical communities, using phoretic mites as a model system; interaction networks; climate change effects at the organismal and community levels
Savanna Brown
Doctoral Student
Research Interests: Molecular mechanisms underlying the evolution and diversification of novel traits, particularly in the body plans of arthropods
Michael Burgess
Masters Student
Research Interests: Understanding migratory behavior of juvenile anadromous fish; Assessing understudied factors to improve conservation approaches
Brandon Chan
Doctoral Student
Research Interests: Climate change effects on phytoplankton-bacteria interactions; antibiotic resistance in marine environments; phytoplankton ecology
Dipanjana Dalui
Doctoral Student
Research Interests: Modelling host-pathogen interactions in plants, how it can explain biodiversity
Matthew Donahue
Doctoral Student
Research Interests: I'm interested in studying the ways that anthropogenic activities shape evolution on a contemporary timescale and how we can use evolutionary principles to promote conservation
Kaitlyn Drumma
Masters Student
Research Interests: My study interests include natural sciences such as botany, ecology, and zoology
Jessica Espinosa
Doctoral Student
Research Interests: Conservation biology; how seabird movement, behavior, and morphology are affected by climate change and anthropogenic disturbance
Emily Feng
Masters Student
Research Interests: Exploring the interface of human-natural systems; Developing conservation strategies for biodiversity and human well-being
Mandy Game
Doctoral Student
Research Interests: I am interested in the evolution and development of panarthropods
Kara Heilemann
Masters Student
Research Interests: Systematics, taxonomy, and morphology of tapeworms hosted by elasmobranchs
Georgia Hernández
Doctoral Student
Research Interests: Physiological ecology of Zingiberales: thermal tolerances and phylogenetic relationships along an elevational gradient
G. Young Kim
Masters Student
Research Interests: Epiphytic CAM (Crassulacean Acid Metabolism) plants in tropical rainforests, specifically native Hawaiian Peperomia (family Piperaceae)
Michael LaScaleia
Doctoral Student
Research Interests: I'm interested in researching why forests contain the species they do, and what we can do to conserve those species. In general, I work with plants (trees) and insects (moths, flies, and wasps), but I'm always interested in every organism that calls the forest home.
Ellie Loew-Mendelson
Doctoral Student
Research Interests: I am interested in exploring adaptations among the aquatic plants of New England -- how they grow, reproduce, and co-exist
Noah Manuel
Masters Student
Research Interests: Plant and algae taxonomy and evolution are my study interests
Kelsey Miles
Doctoral Student
Research Interests: Physiological and behavioral ecology in family Chrysomelidae: thermal tolerances and impacts of climate change on survivorship, fecundity, behavior, physiology.
Baaqeyah Muhammad
Doctoral Student
Research Interests: Evolutionary and developmental consequences of genome expansion in salamanders
Zachary Muscavitch
Doctoral Student
Research Interests: Systematics, taxonomy, and phylogeography of lichenized fungi and their symbionts. Symbiont biology
Frank Muzio
Doctoral Student
Research Interests: Functional and evolutionary morphology of vertebrates, primarily birds and mammals
Alyssa Pendergast
Masters Student
Research Interests: Her study interests lie in animal behavior, particularly within and between species, and how that could influence the overall ecosystem
Kyle Rossner
Masters Student
Research Interests: Factors influencing changes in populations of Lepidoptera in pine barrens ecosystems, the concepts and perception of ecological rarity as they relate to species of megachilid bees, and the biogeography of Nearctic waterscorpions.
Ketki Samel
Doctoral Student
Research Interests: Community ecology, interspecies interactions, and conservation of Northeastern birds
Mark Stukel
Doctoral Student
Research Interests: Systematics and phylogeography of insects, specifically cicadas
Swapna Subramanian
Doctoral Student
Research Interests: Yeast experimental evolution and genetic networks; predicting evolutionary outcomes to climate change
Brenden Thomson
Masters Student
Research Interests: My research interests include bryophyte systematics and symbiosis
Nicholas Van Gilder
Doctoral Student
Research Interests: Conservation genetics, systematics, and phylogenetics of plethodontid salamanders
Grace Vaziri
Doctoral Student
Research Interests: Host-parasite-microbiomei interactions and co-infection dynamics
Vidya Vuruputoor
Doctoral Student
Research Interests: Genomics and its application towards understanding plant-parasite interactions
