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Doctorates

Student

Advisor

Title

Awarded

Where are they now?

Current E-mail/date

Richard Huddleston Baker

Wagner

A comparative analysis of morphological variation in stalk-eyed flies (Diopsidae) (sexual dimorphism)

May 1999

Postdoctoral Fellow, University of London

 

Oliver Balmer

Stearns

Ecological dynamics and evolutionary consequences of multiple strain infections and analysis of phylogenetic and population genetic patterns in Trypanosoma bruce

December 2006

Postdoctoral Fellow, Zoologisches Institut der Universitat Basel Evolutionsbiologie

E-mail

James J. Bonacum

DeSalle

Molecular systematics of the Hawaiian Drosophilidae

May 2001

University of Illinois – Springfield

E-mail

Charles David Bell

Donoghue

Phylogeny and Biogeography of Valerina (Dipsacales)

December 2003

Department of Biology, Xavier University of  LA
, New Orleans

E-mail

Catherine E. Burns

Schmitz

Investigating the response of white-footed mice to habitat loss:  from individual behavior to landscape ecology

December 2004

Research Assistant Professor of Wildlife Ecology, University of Maine, Orono

E-mail

Ashley J.R. Carter

Wagner

On specific scenarios in molecular evolution; theoretical and computer simulation approaches

December 2002

Postdoctoral Fellow, Biological Sciences, Florida State University
August 2008, Assistant Professor of biology, California
State University Long Beach (CSULB)

E-mail

Homayoun Bagheri-Chaichian

Wagner

Evolution of mutational effects in metabolic physiology

May, 2001

Assistant Professor, department of Zoology, University of Zürich, Switzerland. 

E-mail

Luis Fernando Cadavid

Buss

Genetic characterization of the Hydroid Allorecognition complex

December 2001

Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Sede Bogota

E-mail

Kyle Brubaker Cole

Dorit

In vitro selection of E. coli Rnase P: a study in molecular adaptation

December 2000

Geballe Lab for Advanced Materials, 476 Lomita Mall, McCullough 126B
Stanford University

E-mail

Phaedra Doukakis

DeSalle/
Powell

Systematics and conservation genetics of sturgeons (Order Acipenseriformes)

December 2000

Pew Institute, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, Miami

E-mail

Siobain Duffy

Turner

Evolution of Generalism and Specialism in the dsRNA Bacteriophage Phi-6

December 2006

NSF Postdoc in Biological Informatics, Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics, Mueller Lab
Pennsylvania State University

E-mail

Casey William Dunn

Wagner

The colony-level evolution and development of the Siphonophora (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa)

December 2005

Assistant Professor, Department of  Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University

E-mail

Erika Jeannine Edwards

Donoghue

Pereskia and the Origin of the Cactus Life Form

December 2005

Assistant Professor, Department of  Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University

E-mail

Julia Kreychman Hartling

Kim

Symmetry, Compactness and Designability in the Genotype-Phenotype Map of Proteins

December 2004

 

E-mail

Nathan  Havill

Stearns

Evolutionary history of the interaction between adelgids and  their host plants

December 2006

Postdoctoral Fellow Yale University, Caccone Lab
Visiting Scientist, USDA Forest Service

E-mail

Alexander M. Kerr

Kim

Evolution and systematics of Holothuroidea (Echinodermata)

May 2000

Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre for Coral Reef Biodiversity, James Cook University

E-mail

Sang-tae Kim

Donoghue

The Role of Allopolyploid Speciation in the Diversification of Persicaria (Polygonaceae)

December 2007

Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology

 

Benjamin C. Kirkup, Jr.

Riley

The Ecology of Colicins

May 2004

Postdoctoral Associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

E-mail

David Thomas Kysela

Turner

Bacteriophage Response to the Dynamic Host Environment:  Resistance, Aging and Quorum Sensing

May 2008

Post Doc Fellow, Indiana University

 

Eric Hubert Lee

Skelly

Predicting Wood Frog Population Dynamics

May 2008

 

 

Vincent Joseph Lynch

Wagner

Proteins as a Source for Innovation:  A Case for Trans-regulatory Evolution of Development

May 2008

Postdoc Fellow, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Yale University

 

Jason Grant Mezey

Wagner

Pattern and evolution of pleiotropic effects: analysis of QTL data and an epistatic model

May 2000

Assistant Professor, Dept. of Bio Stats & Computational Biology Cornell University

 E-mail

Brian Ross Moore

Donoghue

Inferring Differential Rates of Diversification from Phylogenies

December 2007

PostDoc Fellow, University of Berkeley

 

Matthew Louis Nicotra

Buss

Positional Cloning of a Cnidarian Allorecognition Locus

December 2006

Postdoctoral Fellow, MCB, Harvard University

 

Rachel Sue Novick

Donoghue

Phylogency, taxonomy, and Life Cycle Evolution in the Cedar Rust Fungi (Gymnosporangium)

May 2008

Education and Outreach Coordinator, Office of Sustainability, University of Notre Dame

 

Caroline Frei Obert

Riley

Molecular Evolution of Beta-Lactamase Genes in Australian Enterobactaeriaceae

December 2004

Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Infectious Disease, St. Jude’s Children Research Hospital

 

Eric Palkovacs

Post

Feedbacks Between Ecology and Evolution: Linking the Causes and Consequences of Functional Biodiversity

May 2007

Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Maine

E-mail

Christian Pázmándi

Wagner

Blenniid phylogeny and the evolution of fin hook characters

May 2000

Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Osteology
Hanusch Hospital
Vienna, Austria

 

E-mail

Susan Lynn Richardson

Wagner

The phylogeny of recent and fossil Soritacea (Foraminifera): the evolutionary significance of photosymbiosis; and a revision of the foraminiferal life cycle

December 2000

 

 

Melissa Garcia Rice

Buss

The Asexual Life History of the Colonial Rotifer, Sinantherina Socialis (Linnaeus)

May 2004

 

 

Scott Alan Rifkin

Kim

Genome-wide Gene Expression and the Epigenetic Landscape:  An Exploration in Four Parts

Dec 2004

PostDoc, Alexander van Oudenaarden's Biophysics Lab, MIT

 

Howard Rosenbaum

Powell

Integrating genetic, demographic and historical information to study large cetaceans

May 1999

Research Assistant, American Museum of Natural History, New York Wildlife Conservation Society

E-mail

Kristin Saltonstall

Powell

Phylogeography of Phragmites australis in North America: an historical perspective on a cryptic invasion.

December 2002

The Horn Point Laboratory, Environmental Research Facility University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science

E-mail

Maxim Shpak

Wagner

The Dynamics of Evolutionary State Space: Case Studies from Gene Duplication Models and Fitness Landscape Theory

May 2004

Assistant Professor, Department of  Biological Sciences, University of Texas El Paso

E-mail

Ana Y. Tanakawa Signorovitch

Buss

The Life Cycle, Phylogeography, and Comparative Mitochondrial Genomics of Members of the Phylum Placozoa
 [Grell, 1971]

December 2006

Postdoctoral Fellow, Molecular & Developmental Biology, Meselson Lab, Harvard University

E-mail

Una R. Smith

Hickey

Paleoaster (Papaveraceae), the cretaceous poppy

May 2000

Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico

E-mail

Geffrey Foresman Stopper

Wagner

Transitions of Developmental Mechanisms in the Evolution of Tetrapod Limb Pattern

May 2007

 

E-mail

Elizabeth Mary Suatoni

Rice

Patterns of speciation in the rotifer species complex, Brachionus plicatilis

December 2003

 

E-mail

Michel Andre Slotman

Powell

The genetics of speciation and the nature of introgression between Anopheles gambiae and Anopheles arabiensis

December 2003

Postgraduate Fellow, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Yale University

E-mail

Saverio Vicario

Powell

Expressing genes in a complex world:  An analysis of codons, growth, and chromosomes in Drosophila

December 2006

Postgraduate Fellow, Bari University, Italy

E-mail

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