Yale Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

Second Year Graduate Students

Jeremy Beaulieu
Email:	jeremy.beaulieu@yale.edu
Advisor:	Michael Donoghue
Committee:
Research Interests:	Broad comparative analyses for detecting correlated evolution between plant functional/ecological traits; understanding the evolutionary role plant genome size plays in shaping the phenotype.
Selected Publications:	Beaulieu, J.M., A.T. Moles, I.J. Leitch, M.D. Bennett, J.B. Dickie, and C.A. Knight. (2007). Correlated evolution of genome size and seed mass. New Phytologist. 173: 422-437. Beaulieu, J.M., I.J. Leitch, C.A. Knight. (2007). Genome size evolution in relation to leaf strategy and metabolic rates revisited. Annals of Botany 99: 495-505.


Julia Brown
Email:	julia.brown@yale.edu
Advisor:	Jeffrey Powell
Committee:
Research Interests:	Population genetics of arthropod disease vectors; vector competence for pathogens and innate immunity; environmental effects on the spatial distribution of vector and pathogen populations; mixed infections
Awards:	NSF GRFP Honorable Mention 2008

Anne Greenberg
Email:	anne.greenberg@yale.edu
Advisor:	Michael Donoghue
Committee:
Research Interests:	Plant phylogenetics, biogeography, polyploidy, invasion


Andrea Hodgins-Davis
Email:	andrea.hodgins-davis@yale.edu
Advisor:	Jeffrey Townsend
Committee:
Research Interests:	Phenotypic plasticity and gene expression. Environmental and social influences, on behavior.
Publications:	Gerlach, G.; Hodgins-Davis, A.; MacDonald, B.; Hannah, R. C. In press. Benefits of kin association: related larval zebrafish (Danio rerio) grow better. Weiss, E.; Bennie, M.; Hodgins-Davis, A.; Roberts, S.; Gerlach, G. Characterization of new SSR-EST markers in cod, Gadus morhua. Online early: doi:10.1111/j.1471-8286.2007.01731.x Hodgins-Davis, A; Roberts, S.; Cowan, D.; Atema, J.; Avolio, C.; DeFaveri, J.; Bennie, M.; Gerlach, G. 2007. Characterization of SSRs from the American lobster, Homarus americanus. Molecular Ecology Notes 7 (2): 330-332. Brown, J. C; Hodgins-Davis, A.; Miller, P. J. O. 2006. Classification of vocalizations of killer whales using dynamic time warping. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 119: 34-40.


Kimberly Komatsu
Email:	kimberly.komatsu@yale.edu
Advisor:	Melinda Smith
Committee:
Research Interests:	community ecology, plant invasion, restoration


Erica Westerman
Email:	erica.westerman@yale.edu
Advisor:	Leo Buss
Committee:
Research Interests:	Research interests: Cooporative interactions, resource sharing and circulatory systems in colonial invertebrates with a focus on ascidians. Ascidian ecology.


Regina Wilpiszeski
Email:	regina.wilpiszeski@yale.edu
Advisor:	Paul Turner
Committee:
Research Interests:	Molecular evolution in microbial species.

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