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 Joint-Doctoral Students 2024-2025 Academic Year

Karina Cerda
PhD candidate
Lab: Flores-Rentería
Research interests: Plant molecular evolution
Tamsen Dunn
PhD candidate
Lab: Waters
Research interests: Plant evolution
Raya Esplin
PhD candidate
Lab: Sethuraman
Research interests: Population genetics, linked selection
Ryan Hanscom
PhD candidate
ab: Clark
Research interests: Animal Behavior
Tucker Heptinstall
PhD candidate
Lab: Brock
Research interests: Herpetology and urban evolution
Alex McElwee-Adame
PhD candidate
Lab: Sethuraman & Flores-Rentería
Research Interests: Population genetics
Adrian Ortiz Velez
PhD candidate
Lab: Bohonak
Research Interests: Population genetics

Michael Remington
PhD candidate
Lab: Sukumaran
Research interests: Computational methods, Predator Prey Dynamics, Conservation
Amber Singh
PhD candidate
Lab: Brock
Research interests: Herpetology, cognition, and urban evolution
Michael Tofflemire
PhD candidate
Lab: Burns
Research interests: Avian evolution and systematics, phylogenetics
Margaret Wanjiku
PhD candidate
Lab: Sethuraman
Research Interests: Population genetics



PhD Graduates in Evolutionary Biology

2015
Dr. Andrew Gottscho
PhD, 2015
Lab: Reeder
Research interests: Herpetology, systematics, speciation, population genetics

2017
Shahan Derkarabetian
PhD, 2017
Lab: Hedin
Research interests: Opilionid systematics
Sean Harrington
PhD, 2017
Lab: Reeder
Research interests: Snake evolution and morphology

Stephen Rice
PhD, 2017
ab: Clark
 Research interests: Landscape ecology

2018

Paul Maier
PhD, 2018
Lab: Bohonak
Research interests: Herpetology, landscape genetics/genomics
Ketan Patel
PhD, 2018
Lab: Bohonak
Research interests: Population Genetics
Casey Richart

Casey Richart
PhD, 2018
Lab: Hedin
Research interests: Opilionid systematics

2019
Agnese Lanzetti
PhD, 2019
Lab: Berta
Research interests: Whale anatomy, evolution, and systematics

2020
Brian Myers
PhD, 2020
Lab: Burns
Research interests: Bird systematics and evolution

2021
Grace Freymiller
PhD, 2021
ab: Clark
 Research interests: Behavioral ecology, predator-prey interactions, and biomechanics

2022
Tierney Bougie
PhD, 2022
Lab: Hedin
Research interests: Hybridization zones
Ryan Buck
PhD, 2022
Lab: Flores-Rentería
Research Interests: Plant Evolutionary Biology

2023
Dylan Maag
PhD, 2023
Lab: Clark
 Research interests: Behavioral ecology, herpetology, and predator-prey ecology/coevolution
Juan Pablo Ramirez
PhD, 2023
Lab: Reeder
Research Interests: Herpetology

2024

Talieh Ostovar
PhD, 2024
Lab: Waters
Research interests: Plant genome evolution
Niveditha Ramadoss
PhD, 2024
Lab: Flores-Rentería
Research Interests: Plant genetics and molecular evolution