Research Interests: Conservation genetics for understanding population distributions of wild species, Landscape ecology, metagenomics, understanding techniques and characteristics of whole genome sequencing, studying microbiome diversity in endemic species of wildlife

Advisor: Charles Baer

Pronouns: He/Him

Degree: Ph.D.

Research Interests: Macroinvertebrates taxonomy and ecology, Fish ecology, heavy metal concentration, aquatic Food web ecology, Climate Change, Biodiversity Conservation and Community ecology.

Advisor: Amanda Subalusky

Degree: Ph.D.

Research Interests: Regeneration, Genomics, and Developmental Biology

Advisor: Elaine Seaver

Degree: Ph.D.

Research Interests: Evolution, sexual and natural selection

Advisor: Colette St. Mary

Degree: Ph.D.

Research Interests: Sea turtle ecology and physiology and conservation biology

Advisor: Karen Bjorndal & Alan Bruce Bolten

Degree: Ph.D.

Research Interests: behavioral ecology, conservation behavior, evolution of behavior and coloration, phylogenetics, conservation genetics, wildlife biology and management, ornithology

Advisor: Rebecca Kimball

Degree: Ph.D.

Research Interests: Chondrichthyan evolutionary developmental biology and paleontology

Advisor: Gavin Naylor

Degree: Ph.D.

Research Interests: Behavioral Ecology, Disease Ecology, and Community Ecology

Advisor: Nick Keiser

Degree: Ph.D.

Research Interests: Predator-prey ecology, stress neurophysiology, insect behavior, sensory ecology - hearing, bat-moth interactions

Advisor: Akito Kawahara

Pronouns: he/him

Degree: Ph.D.

Research Interests: microbial physiology, symbiosis, cross-kingdom interaction, molecular genetics, science identity, science education

Advisor: Bryndan Durham

Pronouns: she/they

Degree: Ph.D.

Research Interests: Ecology, Developmental biology, Disease ecology, Herpetology

Advisor: Ana Longo

Pronouns: she/her/hers

Degree: Ph.D.

Research Interests: Marine ecology, sea turtle biology and conservation, habitat use and foraging ecology of sea turtles, dynamics and sustainability of green turtle grazing in seagrass ecosystems, geospatial analysis, ecosystem-based management

Advisor: Karen Bjorndal

Pronouns: she/her/hers

Degree: Ph.D.

Research Interests: _

Advisor: Gustav Paulay

Degree: Ph.D.

Research Interests: Kate is interested in shifts in ecological ripple effects due to human impact with a special interest in selection pressure caused by invasive species.

Advisor: Hannah Vander Zanden

Pronouns: she/her

Degree: Ph.D.

Research Interests: Plant anatomy, functional ecology, tropical ecosystems, serpentine soil

Advisor: Grace John

Degree: Ph.D.

Research Interests: Evolution, Genetics, Vertebrate Morphology

Advisor: Gareth Fraser

Degree: Ph.D.

Research Interests: Systematics, Biogeography, Phylogenetics, Evolution, Vertebrate Paleontology

Advisor: Robert Guralnick

Degree: Ph.D.

Research Interests: Bioinformatics and Genetics

Advisor: William (Brad) Barbazuk

Pronouns: she/her

Degree: Ph.D.

Research Interests: Bryophyte Ecology

Advisor: Stuart McDaniel

Degree: Ph.D.

Research Interests: Ornithology, behavioral ecology, acoustic monitoring

Advisor: Scott Robinson & Robert Guralnick

Degree: Ph.D.

Research Interests: Botany, evolutionary biology, and polyploidy

Advisor: Pam Soltis

Pronouns: she/her

Degree: Ph.D.

Research Interests: Sea turtle foraging ecology, reproductive biology and population dynamics

Advisor: Karen Bjorndal

Degree: Ph.D.

Research Interests: Gut Microbial Community Structure in Captive Giraffe Populations

Advisor: Christopher Dutton

Pronouns: He/Him

Degree: M.S.

Research Interests: Botany, Phenology, Urban Ecology, Community (Citizen) Science, Science Education.

Advisor: Robert Guralnick

Pronouns: she/her/hers

Degree: M.S.

Research Interests: Marine biology, Embryology, evolutionary biology

Advisor: Mark Martindale

Degree: Ph.D.

Research Interests: Paleobotany, ecology, ethnobotany

Advisor: Steven Manchester

Degree: Ph.D.

Research Interests: Lepidopteran evolution and conservation

Advisor: Akito Kawahara

Pronouns: she/her/hers

Degree: Ph.D.

Research Interests: Lepidopteran evolution and conservation

Advisor: Chris Dutton

Pronouns: He/Him

Degree: Ph.D.

Research Interests: Plant evolution, conservation genetics

Advisor: Pamela Soltis & Doug Soltis

Degree: Ph.D.

Research Interests: Biochemical genetics, microbial ecology, phycology, bryology

Advisor: Bryndan Durham & Stuart McDaniel

Pronouns: she/her

Degree: Ph.D.

Research Interests: Phylogenomics, Biodiversity, Evolutionary Biology, Bioinformatics

Advisor: Nico Cellinese

Pronouns: He/Him

Degree: Ph.D.

Research Interests: Community ecology, ecosystem ecology, ecological forecasting

Advisor: Robert Holt

Degree: Ph.D.

Research Interests: Behavioral Ecology, Evolution, and the influence of Predator-Prey Interactions in fishes

Advisor: Colette St. Mary

Pronouns: he/him

Degree: Ph.D.

Research Interests: Neurobiology, Developmental Biology, Regeneration, and Marine Biology

Advisor: Elaine Seaver

Degree: Ph.D.

Research Interests: Foraging ecology of sea turtles, landscape ecology, and coastal ecosystems

Advisor: Karen Bjorndal

Pronouns: she/her/hers

Degree: Ph.D.

Research Interests: Sea turtle movement ecology and conservation management, statistical and geospatial modeling

Advisor: Hannah Vander Zanden

Pronouns: she/her

Degree: Ph.D.

Research Interests: Evolutionary Biology, systematics, population genetics, sex determination and reproductive modes of sharks

Advisor: Gavin Naylor

Degree: M.Sc.

Research Interests: Alternative splicing, comparative genomics, phylogenomics

Advisor: William (Brad) Barbazuk

Degree: Ph.D.

Research Interests: Invertebrate paleontology, Conservation Paleobiology, Paleoecology, Ecology

Advisor: Michal Kowalewski

Degree: Ph.D.

Research Interests: Theoretical Ecology, Invasive Species

Advisor: Robert D. Holt

Pronouns: she/her/hers

Degree: Ph.D.

Research Interests: Metabolomics, Phycology, Bacteriology, Marine Microbiology/Ecology, Marine Microbial Metabolic Pathways, Marine Microbial Interactions through Secondary Metabolites.

Advisor: Bryndan Durham

Pronouns: she/her/hers or they/them/theirs

Degree: Ph.D.

Research Interests: Archosaurian evolution, functional morphology, paleobiology, and paleobiogeography

Advisor: Jonathan I. Bloch

Degree: M.S.

Research Interests: marine mammals, marine mammal strandings, microbiomes, infectious diseases, OneHealth

Advisor: Christopher Dutton

Pronouns: She/Her

Degree: M.S.

Research Interests: Genetics, phylogenetics, animal behavior, and evolution (behavioral genetics, evolutionary genetics)

Advisor: Edward Braun

Degree: M.S.

Research Interests: Plant systematics, species delimitation, hybridization, and biogeography

Advisor: Lucas Majure

Degree: Ph.D.

Research Interests: Evolution, ecology, and functional morphology of armadillos and their closest relatives, with an emphasis on fossil taxa

Advisor: Jonathan Bloch

Degree: Ph.D.

Research Interests: Paleobotany, paleoclimate, and paleoecology of the Pacific Northwest

Advisor: Steven Manchester

Pronouns: he/him

Degree: Ph.D.

Advisor: Steven Manchester

Degree: Ph.D.

Research Interests: Evolution, genetics, behavior and aging in social insects

Advisor: Hua Yan

Degree: M.S.

Degree: Ph.D.

Research Interests: Conservation biology, stable isotope ecology, and epibiont communities of sea turtles

Advisor: Hannah Vander Zanden

Degree: Ph.D.

Research Interests: Vertebrate Paleontology, Functional Morphology, Mammal Evolution

Advisor: Jonathan Bloch

Pronouns: she/her

Degree: Ph.D.

Research Interests: evolutionary biology, phylogeography, genetic diversity, polyploidy

Advisor: Nico Cellinese

Pronouns: she/her

Degree: Ph.D.

Research Interests: Evo-Devo; Systematics; Phylogenomics & Phylogenetics; Evolutionary Biology/Trait Evolution

Advisor: Doug Soltis

Pronouns: she/her

Degree: Ph.D.

Research Interests: Evolutionary biology, Pleistocene megafauna, vertebrate paleontology

Advisor: Robert Guralnick

Pronouns: He/Him

Degree: Ph.D.

Research Interests: Plant Systematics, Molecular Phylogenetics, Evolutionary Biology, Population Genetics

Advisor: Liming Cai

Pronouns: He/His/Him

Degree: Ph.D.

Research Interests: Evolutionary Biology, Population Genetics, Bioinformatics, Next Generation Sequencing, Model Organisms

Advisor: Charles Baer

Pronouns: He/Him

Degree: Ph.D.

Research Interests: Tecophilaeaceae family, evolutionary biology, systematics, taxonomy, biogeography, phylogenetics, morphology, and plant conservation

Advisor: John (Gordon) Burleigh

Pronouns: she/her

Degree: Ph.D.

Research Interests: Taxonomy, Biogeography, Phylogenetics, Plant Systematics, Evolutionary biology, Ecological Conservation and Restoration on riparian zones

Advisor: Pamela Soltis

Degree: Ph.D.

Research Interests: Neural circuits, Feeding regulation

Advisor: Zepeng Yao

Degree: Ph.D.

Research Interests: Systems & synthetic biology, machine learning-based approaches for synthetic gene circuits, evolution of gene regulatory networks and population genetics

Advisor: Juannan Zhou

Pronouns: he/him/his

Degree: Ph.D.

Research Interests: Developmental and genomic evolution of digit loss in horses, evolution of cephalapod limb development

Advisor: Martin Cohn

Pronouns: he/him

Degree: Ph.D.

Research Interests: Genotype-phenotype maps; Machine learning; Large Language Models

Advisor: Juannan Zhou

Degree: Ph.D.

Research Interests: Bioinformatics, Genomics, Phylogenetics

Advisor: Robert Guralnick

Degree: M.S.

Research Interests: Olfactory development and plasticity in eusocial insects and the impacts of aberrant chemosensory development on social behavior

Advisor: Hua Yan

Pronouns: she/her/hers

Degree: Ph.D.

Research Interests: Sea turtle health and disease, environmental DNA monitoring

Advisor: David Duffy

Degree: Ph.D.

Research Interests: Floral evolution

Advisor: Pamela Soltis, Doug Soltis

Degree: Ph.D.

Research Interests: Polyploidy, plant evolution, phylogenetics

Advisor: Pam and Doug Soltis

Pronouns: She/Her

Degree: Ph.D.

Research Interests: Microbiomes (host-associated and free-living), microbial metacommunities, community ecology, and macroecology

Advisor: Mathew Leibold

Degree: Ph.D.

Research Interests: Biogeography and diversity of marine invertebrates

Advisor: Gustav Paulay

Degree: Ph.D.

Research Interests: Amphibian Disease Ecology

Advisor: Ana Longo

Degree: M.S.

Degree: Ph.D.

Research Interests: Behavioral ecology, conservation biology, and ornithology

Advisor: Scott Robinson

Degree: Ph.D.

Research Interests: Evolutionary biology and computational phylogenomics of biological communities

Advisor: John (Gordon) Burleigh

Degree: Ph.D.

Research Interests: _

Advisor: Doug Soltis

Degree: Ph.D.

Research Interests: Marine ecology (sharks/rays), population ecology, life history analysis, science education

Advisor: Jamie Gillooly

Pronouns: she/her

Degree: M.S.

Research Interests: Evolutionary developmental biology, stem cell and regeneration

Advisor: Christine Schnitzler

Degree: Ph.D.

Research Interests: Avian mixed-species flocks, tropical ecology, and ornithology.

Advisor: Scott Robinson

Degree: Ph.D.

Research Interests: Plant systematics, phylogenomics, population genetics and conservation

Advisor: Lucas Majure

Pronouns: she/her

Degree: Ph.D.