Veronica Bueno
Postdoctoral Associate
Research Interests: Taxonomy, systematics, genomics, and evolution of tapeworms that primarily infect elasmobranchs (sharks, skates, stingrays and guitarfish). Analysis of phylogenomic datasets, effects of taxon sampling and models of molecular evolution on phylogenetic inference. Collections-based research, parasite collections recovery, curation and digitization.
Amy Lafountain
Postdoctoral Associate
Research Interests: Mechanisms of pigmentation and patterning in Mimulus flowers
Rong-Chien Lin
Postdoctoral Associate
Research Interests: The regulatory mechanisms of anthocyanin-based pigmentation patterning in Mimulus.
Brandon Lind
Postdoctoral Associate
Research Interests: Biodiversity informatics and the evolutionary genomics of climate adaptation
Ashley Love
Postdoctoral Associate
Research Interests: Effects of diet and gut microflora on host immunity and host-parasite interactions
Natalie Lozano-Huntelman
Postdoctoral Associate
Research Interests: Using a novel flow cytometry approach, I aim to understand how temperature-dependent stress and mortality influence phytoplankton populations and limit their spatial and temporal distribution, and the effectiveness of dormancy in surviving heatwaves and acute stress.
Ya Min (MinYa)
Postdoctoral Associate
Research Interests: Mechanisms of organ initiation and patterning in Mimulus flowers
Arshad Padhiar
Postdoctoral Associate
Research Interests: Understanding the differences in immune response among freshwater stickleback population against cestode infection by creating transgenics through CRISPR/CAS9, and/or by culturing primary fibroblast and macrophages
Anna Pardo
Postdoctoral Associate
Research Interests: Understanding variability in CAM photosynthesis traits and drought tolerance in Yucca gloriosa.
Erin Patterson
Postdoctoral Associate
Research Interests: Evolution and development of floral morphology in monkeyflowers.
Steven Presley
Postdoctoral Associate
Research Interests: Use of a metacommunity approach to understand patterns of species distributions along latent environmental gradients; use of data on Caribbean vertebrates to explore biogeographic factors associated with species richness
Andrea Roth Monzón
Postdoctoral Associate
Research Interests: Understanding the interaction between parasite host and its effects, specifically the fibrosis in three-spine sticklebacks both phenotypically and genetically caused by a tapeworm.
Rogini Runghen
Postdoctoral Associate
Research Interests: Using network science as our toolbox, we are studying evolutionary changes in the gene co-expression networks of Three spined stickleback fish from the Alaska population
Kristel Schoonderwoerd
Postdoctoral Associate
Research Interests: Diversity of resting bud structure and leaf preformation within temperate trees
Ben Wasserman
Postdoctoral Associate
Research Interests: Patterns of STEM teacher retention and attrition. Evolutionary ecology in aquatic ecosystems. The role of intraspecific variation in organismal performance.
David Wickell
Research Interests: Convergent evolution of CAM photosynthesis, polyploid speciation, and the genomic consequences of ancient whole genome duplication