Biology

• Major Advisor: Pam Soltis
• Research Interests: Plant systematics and phylogenomics with a focus on the mint family (Lamiaceae)

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• Major Advisor: Steven Manchester
• Research Interests: Paleobotany
• Link: Blue Rim Paleobotany

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• Major Advisor: Nico Cellinese
• Research Interests: Systematics, biogeography and plant evolution
• Link: Prabha Amarasinghe

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• Major Advisor: Jamie Gillooly
• Research Interests: Physiology, climate change, theoretical ecology

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• Major Advisor: Hannah Vander Zanden
• Interests: Conservation Biology, Stable Isotope Ecology, and Niche Partitioning of Sea Turtles in St. Joe Bay, FL

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• Major Advisor: Scott Robinson
• Interests: Avian ecology, tropical biology, landscape ecology, conservation biology

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• Major Advisors: David H. Evans, Martin J. Cohn
• Current Position: Postdoctoral Associate, Whitney Lab for Marine Bioscience
• Research Interests: Evolution, development, and the origin of novelty
• Contact: babonis@whitney.ufl.edu
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• Major Advisor: Lou Guillette
• Current Position: Professor of Biology, Monmouth College
• Research Interests: I am primarily interested in how parasites affect the physiology and behavior of their hosts. I am also interested in how psychotropic pharmaceuticals (e.g., SSRI’s) affect the behavior of aquatic organisms. Teaching duties include Human Anatomy and Physiology, Comparative Anatomy and Physiology, Parasitology, and non-majors Biology (among others). I have also taught Honors courses on Corn and the Mississippi River.
• Link: Monmouth College  •  Haldeman-Thiessen Science Center
• Contact: kbaldwin@monmouthcollege.edu

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Received Ph.D. (Summer 2023)

• Email: mbelitz@ufl.edu
• Interests: Butterfly conservation, biogeography, and spatiotemporal modeling.
• Advisor: Robert Guralnick
  

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• Major Advisor: Marta Wayne
• Research Interests: Host-parasite interactons, disease ecology, microbiology
• Link: Bentz Research

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• Major Advisor: José Miguel Ponciano
• Research Interests: Ecology and Evolution of Virulence

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• Major Advisors: Steve Phelps, Colette St. Mary, H. Jane Brockmann
• Current Position: Postdoctoral Associate, Duke University
• Research Interests: Behavioral ecology, mechanisms of social behavior, behavioral endocrinology, science education, conservation biology. Study systems: prairie voles, meerkats.
• Contact: Dimitri.Blondel AT Duke period edu

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• Major Advisor: William Barbazuk
• Research Interests: Non-model transcriptome assembly, differential expression and functional annotation

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• Major Advisor: Louis Guillette
• Research Interests: Developmental and reproductive physiology

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• Major Advisor: Marta Wayne
• Current Position: National Ecological Observatory Network Tower Technician at Battelle Ecology
• Research Interests: Conservation biology, remote sensing, long-term data, environmental change, biogeochemistry, carbon cycling
• Contact: fabouchard@gmail.com

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• Major Advisor: Larry Page
• Interests: Systematics and biogeography of Southeast Asian freshwater fishes

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• Major Advisor: Robert Guralnick
• Research Interests: Biodiversity informatics and scientific data management

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• Email: caitlincampbell@ufl.edu
• Interests: Animal migration and aeroecology, quantitative modeling, bat conservation, stable isotope ecology
• Advisor: Hannah Vander Zanden
• Link: Caitlin Campbell

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• Major Advisor: Colette St. Mary
• Research Interests: Evolution, Multicellularity, and Cancer
• Link: Vincent Cannataro – Scientist. Fun Fact Enthusiast.

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• Major Advisor: Stuart McDaniel
• Research Interests: Evolutionary genetics
• Link: Sarah B. Carey

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• Major Advisor: William Barbazuk
• Research Interests: Comparative genomics, phylogenomics, polyploidy

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• Major Advisor: Marta Wayne
• Current Position: Biology 101 Coordinator & Full-time Lecturer, California State University Fullerton
• Research Interests: Population genetics, especially the effects of reproductive mode on gene flow; biology education & student learning
• Contact: cchaffee@fullerton.edu

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• Major Advisor: Rebecca Kimball
• Research Interests: Population genetics and adaptive variation in Mangrove Warblers in Costa Rica

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• Major Advisor: Sixue Chen
• Research Interests: Glucosinolate metabolism, stomatal defense, guard cell signalling, plant pathogen interaction proteomics, metabolomics and plant molecular biology

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• Major Advisors: Juliet Pulliam, Derek Cummings
• Research Interests: Vector-borne and zoonotic diseases

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• Major Advisor: Walter Judd
• Research Interests: Systematics of vascular plants; biology of the genus Sideroxylon in North America

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• Major Advisor: Steve Phelps
• Current Position: Postdoctoral Research Associate at Deakin University
• Research Interests: Stress physiology, animal behaviour, avian ecology, endocrinology, Australian ecology, surfing, and the lindy hop
• Link: Ondi Crino, PhD
• Contact: ondicrino@gmail.com

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• Major Advisor: David Julian
• Current Position: Postdoctoral Associate, UF Department of Biology
• Research Interests: Stress physiology, evolution and phenotypic variation

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• Major Advisor: Nicoletta Cellinese
• Research Interests: Plant phylogenetics and Mediterranean biogeography

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• Major Advisor: Louis J. Guillette, Jr.
• Current Position: Assistant Professor, Wofford College
• Research Interests: Evolution, development, and reproductive physiology
• Contact: cruzel@wofford.edu

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• Major Advisor: David Oppenheimer
• Research Interests: Cell biology, molecular biology, genetics, actin dynamics, membrane trafficking, protein-protein interactions

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• Major Advisor: Sixue Chen
• Research Interests: Plant molecular biology, guard cell signaling networks, plant pathogen interactions, proteomics, and metabolomics

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• Major Advisor: Colette St. Mary
• Research Interests: Conflict between natural and sexual selection, mate choice, and male-male competition.

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• Major Advisor: Gustav Paulay
• Research Interests: Evolutionary history of marine invertebrates, especially crustaceans. Systematics, biogeography, speciation and morphological evolution
• Link: Nathaniel Evans

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• Office: Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience · St. Augustine, FL
• Major Advisor: David J Duffy
• Interests:Sea turtle fibropapillomatosis and eDNA detection of endangered species and their wildlife pathogens. Immunohistochemical and molecular analysis of oncological tumours and wildlife infectious diseases. Population genetics for marine wildlife conservation.

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• Major Advisor: H.J. Brockmann
• Current Position: Duberg Professor of Ecology, Sweet Briar College
• Research Interests: Ecology, insect biology, conservation biology
• Link: Sweet Briar College

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• Major Advisor: Larry Page
• Research Interests: Systematics, biogeography, speciation, and biology of fishes & invertebrates

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• Major Advisor: Keith Choe
• Current Position: Post-Doc at University of Florida, Department of Biology
• Research Interests: Animal Biology
• Contact: pfontaine@ufl.edu

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• Major Advisor: Pamela Soltis

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• Major Advisor: Craig Osenberg
• Current Position: NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellow
• Research Interests: Community and behavioral ecology, conservation, and mass science communication
• Link 1: Mike Gil, Ph.D.
• Link 2: SCI ALL
• Contact: mikegil@sciall.org

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• Major Advisor: Colin Chapman
• Current Position: Professor & Chair, Emory University
• Research Interests: Disease Ecology, Conservation Biology, Tropical Biology
• Link: Gillespie Lab | Home
• Contact: thomas.gillespie@emory.edu

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• Major Advisor: Pamela Soltis
• Current Position: Visiting Research Associate, Michigan State University
• Research Interests: Plant Genomics
• Contact Information: goddengr@msu.edu

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• Major Advisor: Scott Robinson
• Research Interests: The ecology and evolution of Neotropical Birds
• Web: Juan Pablo Gomez-Echeverri
• Contact: jugomez@ufl.edu

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• Major Advisor: David Julian
• Research Interests: Human physiology, fetal microbiome

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• Major Advisor: Akito Y. Kawahara
• Research Interests: Evolutionary biology and population genetics

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• Major Advisor: Martin Cohn
• Research Interests: Developmental genetics and morphogenesis

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• Major Advisor: Lucas Majure
• Research Interests: Sabal palms, monocot systematics, speciation, tropical conservation

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• Major Advisor: Todd Palmer
• Research Interests: Community ecology, anthropogenic effects on ecosystems, and conservation management

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• Major Advisors: Colette St. Mary and Craig Osenberg
• Current Position: Associate Professor, University of North Carolina Asheville
• Research Interests: Life history evolution, parental care evolution, maintenance of polymorphisms.
• Link: rebecca.e.hale
• Contact: rhale@unca.edu

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• Major Advisor: Rebecca Kimball
• Research Interests: Avian phylogenetics, evolution, conservation
• Web: Kin-Lan Han

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• Major Advisor: John (Gordon) Burleigh
• Interests: Computational Biology, Macroevolutionary modeling, Phylogenetics and Genomics

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• Major Advisor: Jonathan Bloch
• Research Interests: Paleontology, comparative anatomy, evolutionary morphology

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• Major Advisor: David Evans
• Current Position: NIH Postdoctoral Fellow, Colorado State University
• Research Interests: Evolution, genomics, physiology
• Link: Justin C. Havird – EVOLUTION, GENOMICS, & PHYSIOLOGY
• Contact: justin.havird@colostate.edu

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• Major Advisor: Martin Cohn
• Research Interests: Developmental biology

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• Major Advisor: Steven R. Manchester
• Current Position: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Chicago Botanic Garden
• Research Interests: The evolutionary origin of the tropical rainforests and angiosperm plant lineages. Paleobiogeographic and paleoclimatic history of the Cenozoic, especially in the Neotropics and North America. Integrated paleobotanical and neobotanical studies of plant diversity and evolution. The study of mesofossils from the early Cretaceous of Asia to improve understanding of the timing of events in seed plant evolution.
• Contact: fherrera@chicagobotanic.org

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• Major Advisor: Larry McEdward
• Current Position: Instructor of Biological Sciences University of South Florida St. Petersburg
• Research Interests: Larval ecology and life history evolution, systematics of echinoderms, and natural history collections
• Contact: jcherrera@mail.usf.edu

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• Major Advisor: Douglas Soltis
• Current Position: Postdoc in the Knowles Lab | Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan
• Research Interests: Phylogeography, population genetics and conservation genetics of neotropical mangroves (Avicennia germinans, Laguncularia racemosa, Rhizophora mangle)
• Link: Richard Hodel
• Contact: hodelr@umich.edu

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• Major Advisor: Jamie Gillooly
• Research Interests: _

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• Major Advisor: David Steadman
• Research Interests: Paleontology
• Link: Fascinated by paleontology, by Sharon Holte

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• Major Advisor: Akito Kawahara
• Research Interests: Behavioral ecology, Evolutionary processes, Biogeography, Tropical ecosystems and conservation
• Link: Peter R. Houlihan

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• Major Advisor: Nicoletta Cellinese
• Research Interests: Plant Phylogenetics
• Contact: cchoward@ufl.edu

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• Major Advisor: Derek Cummings
• Research Interests: Evolutionary dynamics of infectious diseases in relation to human interventions

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• Major Advisors: Colette St. Mary, Rebecca Kimball
• Research Interests: Personality syndromes focusing on Northern Cardinals

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• Major Advisor: Jeremy Lichstein
• Research Interests: Terrestrial ecosystem dynamics

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• Email: indah.huegele@ufl.edu
• Interests: _
• Advisor: Steven Manchester

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• Email: ehumbel@ufl.edu
• Interests: Courtship behavior, signal complexity, and the evolution of coloration and vision in jumping spiders
• Advisors: Rebecca Kimball, Lisa Taylor

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• Major Advisor: Craig Osenberg
• Research Interests: The evolution of coloniality and the growth dynamics of corals

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• Major Advisors: Pam Soltis, Doug Soltis
• Research Interests: Plant systematics and biogeography

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• Major Advisor: Craig Osenberg
• Research Interests: Spatial and Theoretical Ecology

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• Major Advisor: Akito Kawahara
• Research Interests: Phylogenomics, plant-insect interactions, insular biogeography, tropical biodiversity conservation
• Link: Chris A. Johns
• Contact: johns.chris.a@gmail.com

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• Major Advisor: Charles Baer
• Research Interests: Evolutionary and Population Genetics

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• Major Advisor: Karen Bjorndal
• Research Interests: Ecology of sea turtles, role of sea turtles in new habitats

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• Major Advisors: Todd Palmer, Scott Robinson
• Research Interests: Avian mixed-species foraging flocks in fragmented landscapes, behavioral ecology, conservation behavior, ornithology, and tropical ecology

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• Interests: African amphibian phylogenetics and biogeography
• Major Advisor: David Blackburn
• Link: Greg Jongsma

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• Major Advisor: David Julian
• Current Position: Associate Professor of Biology, Eastern Washington University
• Research Interests: Ecophysiology and stress physiology
• Link: Joanna Joyner-Matos

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• Major Advisors: Michelle Mack, Stuart McDaniel
• Research Interests: Ecosystem function, ecological genetics, lichens

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• Interests: Morphology, evolution, systematics, amphibians
• Major Advisor: David Blackburn

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• Major Advisor: David Steadman

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• Email: tkinser@ufl.edu
• Interests: Phylogenetic diversity, climate change impacts on plant biodiversity patterns, conservation
• Advisor: Doug Soltis

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• Major Advisor: Martin Cohn
• Research Interests: Evolutionary Developmental Biology

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• Major Advisor: Steven Manchester
• Research Interests: Palynology and paleobotany
• Link: Paleobotany & Palynology Group Photos

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• Major Advisor: Stuart McDaniel
• Research Interests: Evolutionary genetics
• Link: Leslie Kollar

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• Major Advisor: H. Jane Brockmann
• Current Position: UC Foundation Assistant Professor, University of Tennessee — Chattanooga
• Research Interests: Evolutionary and Behavioral Ecology, Parental Care, Mating Dynamics, Evolutionary Traps
• Web: Klug Lab
• Contact: hope-klug@utc.edu

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• Major Advisor: Emily Sessa
• Research Interests: Plant physiological ecology, evolution, and genetics
• Link: People » Christopher Krieg

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• Major Advisor: Rebecca Kimball
• Research Interests: Molecular Dynamics and Evolution

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• Major Advisor: Pamela Soltis
• Current Position: NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California Riverside | Department of Botany and Plant Sciences
• Research Interests: Evolutionary Genomics of barley
• Link: Jacob B. Landis
• Contact: jlandis@ucr.edu

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• Major Advisor: Elaine Seaver
• Research Interests: Larval development in marine invertebrates; environmental effects on development

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• Email: fleal@ufl.edu
• Interests: Evolutionary developmental biology
• Advisor: Martin Cohn

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• Major Advisor: Martin Cohn
• Research Interests: Evolutionary developmental biology, developmental biology

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• Interests: Proteins involved in stomata movement during stresses
• Major Advisor: Alice Harmon

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• Major Advisor: Douglas Soltis
• Research Interests: Plant evolution, polyploidy, and alternative splicing

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• Major Advisor: Karen A. Bjorndal
• Current Position: Coordinator of the Sea Turtle Conservation Program. Pronatura Peninsula de Yucatan, A.C.
• Research Interests: Sea turtle biology and conservation.
• Contact: melanialopez0980@gmail.com

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• Interests: Navigation behavior of fishes, sensory biology, and neuroethology
• Major Advisor: James Liao

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• Major Advisors: Douglas E. Soltis, Walter S. Judd
• Current Position: Biologist of New World Succulents, Desert Botanical Garden
• Research Interests: Biogeography, floristics, morphological plasticity in plants, polyploidy, reticulate evolution, systematics, with special interests in Cactaceae, Melastomataceae, and the Caribbean Flora.
• Link: Majure Lab
• Contact: lmajure@dbg.org

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• Major Advisor: Douglas Soltis, Pamela Soltis
• Research Interests: Plant evolution, polyploidy
• Link: Blaine Marchant

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• Major Advisor: Carmine Lanciani
• Current Position: Professor, Biology Dept., Stetson University
• Research Interests: Vertebrate natural history, insect ecology
• Link: Volusia Naturalist
• Contact: pmay@stetson.edu

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• Major Advisor: Karen Bjorndal
• Current Position: Assistant Professor, University of Toronto Mississauga
• Research Interests: Freshwater community ecology
• Link: McCauley Lab
• Contact: shannon.mccauley@utoronto.ca

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• Major Advisor: Michelle Mack
• Research Interests: Forest Ecosystem Ecology

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• Email: sarah.mcgrath@ufl.edu
• Interests: Herpetology, Microbial Ecology, Disease Ecology
• Advisor: Ana Longo

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• Major Advisor: Rob Ferl
• Current Position: Program Manager, USAF
• Research Interests: Application of biological molecules, organisms, and systems to the detection of materials.
• Contact: william.mckendree@us.af.mil

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• Major Advisor: William Barbazuk
• Research Interests: Comparative genomics, alternative splicing, phylogenomics

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• Major Advisor: Steven Manchester
• Research Interests: Paleobotany and paleopalynology

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• Major Advisors: Pam Soltis, Doug Soltis
• Research Interests: Phylogenetics and Plant Systematics

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• Major Advisor: Gustav Paulay
• Current Position: Postdoctoral researcher at the Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience at the University of Florida
• Research Interests: Systematics, evolution and ecology of marine invertebrates
• Link: François Michonneau

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• Major Advisor: Todd Palmer
• Research Interests: Carbon dynamics and plant physiology in East African savannas
• Link: Savanna Ecology

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• Major Advisor: Michael Miyamoto
• Research Interests: Molecular Systematics, Phylogenetics and Bioinformatics

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• Major Advisors: Pamela Soltis, Douglas Soltis
• Research Interests: Systematics of Vascular plants and polyploidy in the Callisia graminea complex

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• Office: FMNH · Dickinson Hall
• Email: ldmontalvo@ufl.edu
• Interests: Community ecology, avian ecology, landscape ecology
• Advisor: Scott Robinson

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• Major Advisor: Gustav Paulay
• Research Interests: Polychaete phylogenetics, biodiversity, & systematics
• Link: Jenna Moore, PhD student

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• Interests: Cell & molecular biology. Cell & molecular adaptations of different organism, such as C. teleta and C. elegans , to environmental stressors; and its effect on physiological activities.
• Major Advisor: David Julian

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• Major Advisor: Pamela Soltis
• Research Interests: Comparative Phylogeography, Conservation and Population Genetics

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• Major Advisor: Scott Robinson
• Research Interests: Avian ecology, tropical ecology, forest ecology

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• Major Advisor: Gustav Paulay
• Research Interests: The evolution of marine invertebrate biodiversity
• Link: Patrick Norby

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• Major Advisor: David Steadman
• Current Position: Postdoctoral Associate, University of Florida
• Research Interests: Ornithology, historical diversity and distributions, paleontology, phylogenetics, hybridization
• Link: http://jessicaoswald.weebly.com/
• Contact: oswaldj3@gmail.com

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• Major Advisor: Kaoru Kitajima

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• Major Advisor: Edward Braun
• Research Interests: Phylogenetics

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• Major Advisor: Jeremy Lichstein
• Research Interests: Terrestrial ecosystem, forest ecosystem, global climate change, phenology, near-surface remote sensing, plant functional traits, image processing, pattern recognition

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• Major Advisor: Robert Holt
• Research Interests: Evolutionary and ecological theory, more specifically the origin and maintenance of biodiversity over long time scales

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• Major Advisor: Karen Bjorndal
• Research Interests: Ecology and evolution of rafting crabs; biology and conservation of sea turtles; epibiosis of marine vertebrates
• Contact: jpfaller@ufl.edu

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• Major Advisor: Larry Page
• Research Interests: Evolution, Biogeography, Freshwater Bivalves
• Contact: jpfeiffer@ufl.edu

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• Major Advisor: Bruce MacFadden
• Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Zürich
• Research Interests: Macroecologist. Interested in the ecology of sharks in deep time. Particularly nursery habitats, long-term diversity dynamics, environmental constraints, biogeography, body size, extinction and conservation. Also interested in formal and informal science education, educational technology, blended teaching and learning, and public outreach.
• Link: Dr. Catalina Pimiento Hernandez

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• Interests: Evolution, Phylogenetic and Systematics of ophiuroids (brittle stars)
• Major Advisor: Gustav Paulay

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• Major Advisor: Steven Phelps
• Current position: Professor at Universidad Autonoma de Chiriqui
• Research Interests: Tropical ecology, neotropical mammalogy and phylogeography
• Contact: jorge.pino@unachi.ac.pa
• Link: Jorge Pino

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• Major Advisor: Emily Sessa
• Research Interests: Fern phylogenetics and systematics
• Profile: People » Jerald Pinson
• Blog: All Is Leaf

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• Research Interests: Proboscidean evolution and paleoecology, paleoecology reconstruction, broadening representation in natural history careers
• Major Advisor: Bruce MacFadden

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• Major Advisor: Malcolm Maden
• Research Interests: Vertebrate wound healing and regeneration

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• Major Advisor: Michael Miyamoto

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• Research Interests: Genomics and Bioinformatics
• Major Advisor: Charles Baer

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• Major Advisor: Karen Bjorndal
• Current Position: Assistant Professor Palm Beach Atlantic University
• Research Interests: Stable isotope, sea turtle, manatee, and coastal ecosystem ecology.
• Contact: Kim_reich@pba.edu

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• Major Advisor: Doug Levey
• Current Position: NSF Postdoctoral Fellow University of Colorado
• Research Interests: Corridors, habitat fragmentation, community ecology, conservation biology
• Link: Julian Resasco
• Contact: jresasco@colorado.edu

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• Major Advisor: Nick Keiser
• Research Interests: Behavioral disease ecology, entomology, wildlife ecology, conservation biology, vector borne diseases

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• Major Advisor: Emily Sessa
• Research Interests: Systematics, biogeography and plant conservation

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• Major Advisor: Francis Putz
• Research Interests: Tropical Forest Management and Conservation

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• Major Advisor: David Reed
• Research Interests: Evolution, biogeography, and conservation

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• Email: julietterubin@ufl.edu
• Interests: Evolutionary biology, behavioral ecology
  
• Advisor: Akito Kawahara
• Link: Juliette Rubin

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