School of
Integrative Biology
SIB Directory
Graduate Students
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Anderson, Nicholas |
Graduate Student Entomology Insect community responses to conservation and restoration and native bee ecology (advisor: Alex Harmon-Threatt) |
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Antonson, Nicholas |
Graduate Student Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior Behavioral ecology, avian brood parasitism, coevolution, and the effect of parental care on brood parasites (advisor: Mark Hauber) |
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Banan, Darshi
banan2@illinois.edu |
Graduate Student Plant Biology (advisor: Andrew Leakey) |
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Behrens, Colby |
Graduate Student Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior Examining genetic mechanisms influencing behavior in three-spined stickleback fish (Advisor: Alison Bell) |
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Beuchat, Gabriel |
Graduate Student Plant Biology (Li-Qing Chen, Advisor) |
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Burroughs, Charles |
Graduate Student Plant Biology (advisor: Elizabeth Ainsworth) |
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Bush, Daniel |
Graduate Student Entomology Navel orangeworm's relationship with Aspergillus mold (advisor: May Berenbaum) |
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Capel, Samantha |
Graduate Student Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior (Advisor: Ken Paige) |
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Chabain, Jules |
Graduate Students 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: Phil Anderson) |
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Chakraborty, Sulagna |
Graduate Student PEEC Vector-borne diseases and epidemiology of infectious diseases, focusing on the eco-epidemiology of a tick-borne disease in India called Kyasanur Forest Disease. I want to combine my interest in infectious disease with my background in public health and microbiology as well as use One Health approaches towards disease control and prevention. (advisor: Brian Allan) |
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Chen, Yaping
ychen410@illinois.edu |
Graduate Student Plant Biology (advisor: Feng Sheng Hu) |
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Choquette, Nicole |
Graduate Student Plant Biology (advisor: Elizabeth Ainsworth and Lane Rayburn) |
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Clem, C. Scott |
Graduate Student Entomology Tracing native pollinator communities through time using museum specimens and historical data (advisor: Alex Harmon-Threatt) |
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Cox, Maria |
Graduate Student PEEC Paleogenomic analysis of immune change and function, as well as molecular identification of pathogens; particularly, how genes associated with immune function change through time, especially in populations undergoing long term stress (advisor: Ripan Malhi) |
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Curtis, Amanda
amandac3@illinois.edu |
Graduate Student PEEC Use environmental DNA (eDNA) as a tool for aquatic conservation (advisor: Eric Larson) |
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Dai, Qihong |
Graduate Student PEEC Fish ecology and biology; modeling (advisor: Cory Suski) |
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Dana, Catherine |
Graduate Student Entomology Cicada conservation and natural history (advisor: Sam Heads) |
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Darcy, Hannah |
Graduate Student Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior Morphology of the salamander skull, comparative biomechanics of feePding in land-to-water transitions, and biological material properties (advisor: Phil Anderson) |
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De Becker, Elsa |
Graduate Student Plant Biology |
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de Flamingh, Alida
deflami2@illinois.edu |
Graduate Student PEEC I use an integrative approach that combines spatial and genetic data through landscape genetics to study African elephant populations throughout southern Africa. My main research focus is conservation genetics, and in studies that employ ancient DNA analysis (advisor: Alfred Roca) |
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De Moya, Robert |
Graduate Student Entomology, INHS Examining the coevolution patterns between parasitic bird lice and their hosts (advisor: Kevin Johnson) |
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Dean, Charles |
Graduate Student Entomology Resolving the developmental physiology and genetics underlying bumble bee color patterns (advisor: May Berenbaum) |
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DeLucia, Nicholas |
Graduate Student Plant Biology (advisor: Carl Bernacchi) |
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Doucet Beaupré, Alice |
Graduate Student PEEC Computational phylogenetics and the development of novel stochastic phylodynamics models and tools for the study of microbial innovations, diversification, cladogenesis, and ecology (advisor: James O'Dwyer) |
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Drager, Kim |
Graduate Student Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior Nest architecture of soil dwelling ants (both ancient and modern) and how nest structure varies between ant species and geological environments (advisor: Andrew Suarez) |
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Edwards, Joseph |
Graduate Student PEEC Perturbations of a forest nitrogen economy and its associated microbial community by invasive Alliaria petiolata (garlic mustard) (advisors: Anthony Yannarell and Wendy Yang) |
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Egenriether, Sada |
Graduate Student PEEC Microbial nitrogen transformations in agricultural soils (advisors: Angela Kent and Wendy Yang) |
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Favela, Alonso
favela3@illinois.edu |
Graduate student PEEC Microbial community composition and ecosystem function selected by plant host in the rhizosphere. (advisor: Angela Kent) |
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Flenniken, Matt |
Graduate Student Entomology Effects of environmental change on vector ecology (advisor: Brian Allan) |
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Gibson, Joshua |
Graduate Student Entomology Evolution of trap-jaw mechanism in ants (advisor: Andy Suarez) |
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Giers, Corbyn |
Graduate Student Entomology Evolution and olfaction in Rhagoletis pomonella (advisor: Stewart Berlocher) |
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Grispo, Michael |
Graduate Student Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior Fitness of organisms from aquatic to terrestrial (fish lenses) (advisor: Chris Cheng) |
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Haynes, Ellen |
Graduate Student PEEC Wildlife epidemiology; emerging fungal disease in snakes; investigating how host immune function is related to disease severity, and analyzing fungal genomic variation (advisor: Matt Allender) |
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Heerah, Sachin |
Graduate Student Plant Biology (advisor: Amy Marshall-Colon) |
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Hernandez, Erica |
Graduate Student Entomology Ecology and management of ticks and of tick-borne diseases in residential and recreational areas near natural spaces (advisor: Chris Stone) |
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Hsieh, Edward |
Graduate Student Entomology The properties of phytochemicals in honeybee honey and general honeybee behavior (advisor: May Berenbaum) |
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Hutchinson, Sarah |
Grad Student Plant Biology (advisor: Stephen Long) |
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Hyde, Charles |
Graduate Student PEEC Plant-soil microbial interactions: the effects of bioenergy crop root exudation on microbial communities in agricultural soils (advisor: Wendy Yang) |
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Jones, Cody |
Graduate Student Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior Looking at the interplay between overcompensation and endoreduplication, specifically in the model system, soybean (advisor: Ken Paige) |
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Juma, Elijah |
Graduate Student Entomology Understanding the ecology and behaviour of malaria and arboviral mosquitoes (advisor: Juma Muturi and Brian Allan) |
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Kannan, Kavya |
Graduate Student Plant Biology (advisor: Amy Marshall-Colon) |
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Karatgi, Ratna |
Graduate Student PEEC Sexual selection: Intrasexual competition, mate choice, signalling and signal evolution (advisor: Becky Fuller) |
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Laserna Cowal, Alessa |
Graduate Student Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior Wildlife responses to anthropogenic changes, animal behavior, wildlife conservation (advisor: Ken Paige) |
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Lawson, Shelby |
Graduate Student Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior Behavioral ecology, breeding strategies, mate choice, vocal communication/perception in birds (advisor: Mark Hauber) |
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Lira Viana, Jessica |
Graduate Student Plant Biology (advisor: James Dalling) |
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Long, Kira
kira2@illinois.edu |
Graduate Student PEEC Investigating the supposedly stable hybrid zone of two manakin species in Panama; examining the effects of sexual and natural selection on hybrids and parental species (advisor: Jeff Brawn) |
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Low, Kelsey
kmlow2@illinois.edu |
Graduate student PEEC Emergence of Ranavirus in endangered populations of amphibians and reptile (advisors: Chris Phillips and Matthew Allender) |
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Luro, Alec |
Graduate Student Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior Behavioral & cognitive ecology, evolution, avian brood parasitism and species recognition in birds (advisor: Mark Hauber) |
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Mayfield-Jones, Dustin |
Graduate Student Plant Biology (advisor: Andrew Leakey) |
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McDaniel, Lauren |
Graduate Student Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior Behavior, sexual selection, and speciation in killifish (advisor Becky Fuller) |
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McLean, Shay Akil |
Graduate Student PEEC Evolutionary anthropological genetics (advisor: Charles Roseman) |
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Montag, William |
Graduate Student Entomology Conservation of soil and litter dwelling insects, especially beetles (advisor: May Berenbaum) |
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Montes, Christopher M |
Graduate Student Plant Biology Examining Soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merr.] and Maize (Zea mays L.) physiological responses to elevated ozone concentrations and genetically mapping ozone response (advisor: Elizabeth Ainsworth)) |
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Morris, Brendan |
Graduate Student Entomology Historical biogeography and systematics of Carribean treehoppers (Hemiptera: Membracidae) (advisor: Chris Dietrich) |
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Murphree, Maggie |
Graduate Student Entomology Emergent behavior, division of labor, and social networks of honey bee colonies (advisor: Gene Robinson) |
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Napier, Joseph
jnapier2@illinois.edu |
Graduate Student Plant Biology (advisor: Feng Sheng Hu) |
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Newman, Evan |
Graduate Student Entomology Distribution patterns of Plecoptera (Stoneflies) of the midwest (advisor: Ed DeWalt) |
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Nguyen, Julie |
Graduate Student Plant Biology (advisor: Ray Ming) |
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Njoroge, Teresia |
Graduate Student Entomology Role of insects P450s in insecticides resistance (advisors: May Berenbaum and Chris Stone) |
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Noel, Kylee |
Graduate Student Entomology Genetic and physiological effects of insecticide resistance in mosquitoes; scientific outreach to the community to encourage citizen science (advisor: Chris Stone) |
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Ooi, Sean |
Graduate Student PEEC Biogeochemistry and microbial ecology of nitrous oxide production and consumption in soils (advisor: Wendy Yang) |
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Paul, Rachel |
Graduate Student Plant Biology (advisor: Andrew Leakey) |
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Paul, Robert |
Graduate Student Plant Biology Modeling terrestrial biogeochemistry of different land uses in the Midwest; quantifying ecosystem services of multi-use landscapes; resolving environmental impacts of second-generation bioenergy agriculture (advisor: Evan DeLucia) |
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Pearlstein, Daniel |
Graduate Student Entomology Chemical ecology of eusocial insects, especially honeybees (advisor: May Berenbaum) |
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Pelech, Elena |
Graduate Student Plant Biology (advisor: Carl Bernacchi) |
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Perez, Sierra |
Graduate Student PEEC Plant-soil feedbacks in montane neotropical forests (advisor: James Dalling) |
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Perrin-Stowe, Tolulope
tperri2@illinois.edu |
Graduate Student PEEC African Elephant mitogenomes and phylogeography (advisor: Al Roca) |
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Prada Cordero, Cecilia |
Grad Student Plant Biology (advisor: James Dalling) |
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Price, Gabriel
gjprice2@illinois.edu |
Graduate Student PEEC Implications of plant-soil feedback on community composition and how species invasion can shape these interactions (advisor: Anthony Yannarell) |
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Quebedeaux, Jennifer |
Grad Student Plant Biology (advisor: Andrew Leakey) |
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Raudabaugh, Daniel
raudaba2@illinois.edu |
Graduate Student Plant Biology (advisor: Andrew Miller) |
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Rayamajhi, Niraj |
Graduate Student Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior Population genomics of natural populations and computational biology (advisor: Julian Catchen) |
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Ricks, Kevin |
Graduate Student PEEC Microbial community and evolutionary ecology, evolution of symbiosis (advisor: Anthony Yannarell) |
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Riley, Alex |
Graduate Student Plant Biology |
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Rios Acosta, Lorena |
Grad Student Plant Biology (advisor: Andrew Leakey) |
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Rivera, Michael |
Graduate Student PEEC Ecological and evolutionary drivers of morphological variation in social insect workers (advisor: Andy Suarez) |
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Rivera-Colón, Angel |
Graduate Student Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior Genomics, genome evolution (advisor: Julian Catchen) |
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Romero Valero, Ingrid
romerov2@illinois.edu |
Grad Student Plant Biology (advisor: Surangi Punyasena) |
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Saboowala, Sana |
Graduate Student PEEC Using a multidisciplinary approach to study the ways in which trauma is physically embodied and inherited, focusing on potential epigenetic effects of border creation during the 1947 Partition of South Asia using molecular methods and oral histories (advisor: Ripan Malhi) |
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Scharf, Hannah |
Graduate Student Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior Behavioral ecology, social and mating systems, avian brood parasitism (advisor: Mark Hauber) |
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Schwing, Cameron |
Graduate Student Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior Effects of manipulating larval mosquito habitat on development and fitness (advisor: Carla Cáceres) |
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Scott, Bradley |
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: Phil Anderson) |
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Seyfried, Georgia |
Graduate Student Plant Biology (advisor: Wendy Yang) |
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Shrivastava, Stuti |
Graduate Student Plant Biology (advisor: Amy Marshall-Colon) |
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Skinner, Rachel |
Graduate Student Entomology Taxonomy, phylogenetics, and biogeography of treehoppers in Membracidae (advisor: Chris Dietrich) |
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South, Eric |
Graduate Student Entomology Stonefly taxonomy and systematics (advisor: Ed DeWalt) |
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Strailey, Katherine |
Graduate Student PEEC Ecology, physiology, and conservation of freshwater fishes (advisors: Cory Suski and Piotr Cienciala) |
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Strickland, Lynette |
Graduate Student Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior Genetic and developmental mechanisms of color variation in Cassidine beetles, it's ecological significance and how color polymorphisms are maintained in populations (advisor: Carla Caceres) |
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Stuart, Sarai |
Graduate Student PEEC Evolution of social life and mechanisms that underpin behaviors in the colony environment (advisor: Gene Robinson) |
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Sutton, Nicholas |
Graduate student PEEC Modeling decision-making processes during predator-prey encounters, with a focus on optimal escape strategies in ungulates (advisor: James O'Dwyer) |
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Swanson, Daniel |
Graduate Student Entomology Systematics of assassin bugs (advisors: Sam Heads) |
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Tetlie, Jonathan |
Graduate Student Entomology The lingering impact of agricultural practices on habitat restoration efforts of prairies and their effect on native bee communities (advisor: Alex Harmon-Threatt) |
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Thomas, M. Jared |
Graduate Student Entomology Paleoentomology with emphasis on Tetrigidae (pygmy grasshoppers) (advisor: Sam Heads) |
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Torres, Jacob |
Graduate Student Entomology Native bee ecology, urban ecology, bee/pollinator health, and insect microbiomes (advisor: Adam Dolezal) |
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Virrueta Herrera, Stephany |
Graduate Student PEEC Ornithology and phylogentics, specifically the evolutionary patterns between birds and their parasitic feather lice (advisor: Kevin Johnson). |
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Wedow, Jessica |
Grad Student Plant Biology (advisor: Elizabeth Ainsworth) |
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Williams, Cariad |
Graduate Student Entomology Wide range of research interests within palaeontology including biomechanics of vertebrates, exceptional preservation of arthropods and taphonomic processes within the fossil record (advisor: Sam Heads) |
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Wilson, Loralee |
Graduate Student Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior (advisor: Chris Cheng) |
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Winnicki, Sarah |
Graduate Student PEEC Avian growth and development, parental care behavior, and brood parasitism (advisors: TJ Benson and Mark Hauber) |
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Wszalek, Andrew |
Graduate Student Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior Physical and chemical compensatory responses of soybeans following damage (advisor: Ken Paige) |
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Xin, Yinghui |
Graduate Student Plant Biology (advisor: Ray Ming) |
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Yu, Li'Ang |
Graduate Student Plant Biology (advisor: Ray Ming) |
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Zerpa Catanho, Dessiree |
Graduate Student Plant Biology (advisor: Ray Ming) |
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Zhang, Chen |
Graduate Student Plant Biology |
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Zhang, Xiaodan |
Graduate Student Plant Biology |
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Zhu, Fan |
Graduate Student Plant Biology (advisor: Ray Ming) |