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Jason Brant

408 Cancer & Genetics Research Complex

Research Interests: Molecular biology, regeneration and epigenetics

Advisor: Malcolm Maden

LinkedIn: Jason Brant

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Karly Cohen

Research Interests: Using conserved genetic networks to derive target biomechanical experiments investigating the evolution of teeth in vertebrates.

Advisor: Gareth Fraser

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Emily Durkin

619 Carr Hall

Research Interests: Evolutionary ecology of host-parasite interactions, behavioral ecology, disease ecology, invertebrate biology.

Advisor: Nick Keiser

Website: Emily Durkin

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Lorena Endara

218 Carr Hall

Research Interests: Diversification of Andean Orchids, Character evolution and morphological datasets

Advisor: John Burleigh

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Friederike G. Engel

620 Bartram Hall

Research Interests: Metacommunity ecology, climate change ecology, aquatic ecology

Advisor: Matthew Leibold

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Claire Godineau

110 Bartram Hall

Research Interests: Eco-evolutionary change, such as genetic variation, mating patterns, inbreeding depression, competition, and age structure.

Advisor: Robert Holt

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Andrea Gonzalez

417 Bartram Hall

Research Interests: insect-parasite interactions, disease ecology, experimental evolution and population genetics

Advisor: Marta L. Wayne

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David Kikuchi

110c Bartram Hall

Research Interests: Behavioral and evolutionary ecology, mechanisms that maintain behavioral variability within populations (e.g. competition, social learning), the structure of Neotropical bird communities, and the diversity of antipredator defenses.

Advisor: Robert Holt

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Nicholas Kortessis

110 Bartram Hall

Research Interests: Evolutionary ecology, list-history evolution, host-pathogen interactions, ecology of spatially and temporally variable environments, species coexistence mechanisms

Advisor: Robert Holt

Website: Nicholas Kortessis

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Bethan Linscott

Research Interests: Palaeoecology, conservation, human evolution, radiometric dating, life history reconstruction through isotopic analysis

Pronouns: she/her

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Daniel Paluh

Carr 509 / Fraser Lab

Research Interests: Evolution, development, morphology, amphibians

Advisor: Gareth Fraser

Pronouns: he/him

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Alejandro Pietrek

Carr Hall

Research Interests: Invasion biology, ecology, spatial modeling

Advisor: Todd Palmer

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Chathurani Ranathunge

220 Carr Hall

Research Interests: Rapid adaptation, population genetics, plant evolutionary biology, genomics

Advisor: Stuart McDaniel

LinkedIn: Chathurani Ranathunge

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Miao Sun

(352) 284-0928

Florida Museum of Natural History

Research Interests: Tree of Life - Open project

Advisor: Pam Soltis, Doug Soltis

ResearchGate: Miao Sun

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Weston Testo

521 Bartram Hall

Research Interests: Macroevolution, biogeography, evolution of ferns and lycophytes, Neotropics.

Advisor: Emily Sessa

Website: Weston Testo

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Maria Torres-Sanchez

421 Carr Hall

Research Interests: Conservation, ecology and evolution, genomics, herpetology, transcriptomics.

Advisor: Ana Longo

Website: Maria Torres-Sanchez

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Luke Trimmer-Smith

Research Interests: Infectious disease research and population biology

Advisor: Marta Wayne, Derek Cummings

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Michaela Woods

Research Interests: Ecosystem ecology, community ecology, nutrient cycling, forest dynamics

Advisor: Jeremy Lichstein

Google Scholar: Michaela Woods

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Cheng-Wei “Mike” Wu

320 Bartram Hall

Research Interests: Oxidative stress and aging

Advisor: Keith Choe

Google Scholar: Cheng-Wei Wu

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Tong Zhang

Cancer & Genetics Research Complex

Advisor: Sixue Chen