Department of
Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior

Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior Students and Postdocs

Students

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colbybb2@illinois.edu

Graduate Student - Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior
Examining genetic mechanisms influencing behavior in three-spined stickleback fish

Advisor: Alison Bell
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sb65@illinois.edu

Graduate Student - Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior
Analysis of genomics and evolution of antifreeze proteins in various species using computational methods

Advisor: C.-H. Christina Cheng
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kaseydb2@illinois.edu

Graduate Student - Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior
Speciation dynamics and evolutionary morphology; sexual dimorphism in unpaired fins in fish

Advisor: Becky Fuller
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rlc6@illinois.edu

Graduate Student - Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior
Examining interspecies competition, behavioral ecology, and mutualisms of invasive ant species.

Advisor: Andrew V. Suarez
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chabain2@illinois.edu

Graduate Student - Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior
Former paleontologist puzzled by animal weaponery and the linkage between shape, function and performance; using biomechanics, ct-scanned data, and comparative anatomy

Advisor: Philip S L Anderson
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maclc2@illinois.edu

Graduate Student - Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior
Behavioral ecology, species recognition, and avian brood parasitism

Advisor: Mark E Hauber
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siqihan2@illinois.edu

Graduate Student - Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior
Using computational neuroscience methods to understand the plasticity, columnar structures, and evolution of the mammalian brains

Advisor: Daniel J Miller
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fhardin2@illinois.edu

Graduate Student - Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior
The neurological, hormonal, and evolutionary mechanisms behind parental care in the coqui frog

Advisor: Eva K. Fischer
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jehn2@illinois.edu

Graduate Student - Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior
Plant ecology and physiology

Advisor: Ken N. Paige
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cpjones2@illinois.edu

Graduate Student - Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior
Looking at the interplay between overcompensation and endoreduplication, specifically in the model system, soybean

Advisor: Ken N. Paige
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mfm8@illinois.edu

Graduate Student - Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior
Behavioral ecology, parental care, social evolution

Advisor: Alison Bell
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gm33@illinois.edu

Graduate Student - Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior
Evolutionary genetics/genomics and bioinformatics

Advisor: Julian Catchen
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nirajr2@illinois.edu

Graduate Student - Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior
Population genomics of natural populations and computational biology

Advisor: Julian Catchen
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brscott2@illinois.edu

Graduate Student - Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior
Early evolution of vertebrates, specifically the changes in feeding and locomotion associated with the transition from jawless to jawed vertebrates. I seek to understand these changes using paleontology, functional morphology, and biomechanics

Advisor: Philip S L Anderson
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simrans8@illinois.edu

Graduate Student - Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior
Focused on using deep learning algorithms to discover biomarkers of auditory cortex by integrating histology and ultra-high field imaging

Advisor: Daniel J Miller
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lsurber2@illinois.edu

Graduate Student - Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior
Behavioral ecology, evolution, and phenotypic plasticity in Neotropical poison frogs

Advisor: Eva K. Fischer
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kitlamt2@illinois.edu

Graduate Student - Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior
Biomechanics, systematics and evolution of ants, with a particular interest in the genus Strumigenys

Advisor: Andrew V. Suarez
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eet2@illinois.edu

Graduate Student - Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior
Physiological and genomic mechanisms that underpin behavior in neotropical poison frogs

Advisor: Eva K. Fischer
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aturner5@illinois.edu

Graduate Student - Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior
Evolution, mate choice, parental care, brood parasitism, and birds

Advisor: Mark E Hauber
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aweber8@illinois.edu

Graduate Student - Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior
Puncture tool biomechanics

Advisor: Philip S L Anderson
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pwilson5@illinois.edu

Graduate Student - Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior
Disease ecology and host-parasite coevolution in Daphnia

Advisor: Carla Cáceres

Postdoctoral Researchers

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Postdoc Research Associate
barbasch@illinois.edu
MC-122

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Postdoc Research Associate
sbukhar@illinois.edu
MC-122

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Postdoc Research Associate
jbmoss@illinois.edu
MC-122

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Postdoc Research Associate
mdriver3@illinois.edu
MC-122

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Postdoc Research Associate
angelgr2@illinois.edu
MC-122

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Postdoc Research Associate
westse@illinois.edu
MC-122

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Postdoc Research Associate
bzhang53@illinois.edu
MC-122

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