The Graduate Program in

Students

Name Advisor Research Interests

Bolus, Rachel T. (Bru)

OEB Ph.D. Candidate

Bruce Byers

Associate Professor of Biology

Social information use by migratory birds

Boyer, Matt D.

PhD Student

Lynn Adler

Associate Professor of Biology

Plant-animal interactions

Brown, Alexandria (Lexi)

PhD candidate

Ethan Clotfelter

Associate Professor of Biology, Amherst College

Evolution of disease; the molecular basis of sensory perception and learning; and the role of oxidation in the evolution of life history traits

Concannon, Moira R.

PhD Student

R. Craig Albertson

Assistant Professor of Biology

Evolution of a morphological novelty in Cichlids

Cox, Suzanne

OEB PhD Student

Sheila Patek

Associate Professor of Biology

1st year student

Curtis, Caroline

OEB PhD Student

Bethany Bradley

Assistant Professor of Environmental Conservation

1st year student

Dalton, Evan

MS Student

Paige Warren

Associate Professor of Environmental Conservation

Urban ecology

Del Toro, Israel

PhD Candidate

Aaron Ellison

Senior Researcher, Harvard Forest, Harvard University

Biogeographical patterns of ant communities in forested ecosystems

Dietz, Dennis J.

MS Student

Jesse Bellemare

Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, Smith College

Plant ecology

Doubleday, Laura

OEB PhD Student

Lynn Adler

Associate Professor of Biology

1st year student

Eiting, Thomas P.

PhD Candidate

Elizabeth Dumont

OEB Director

Functional morphology and evolution of the nose of bats

Gilman, Casey

PhD Candidate

Duncan Irschick

Professor of Biology

Evolution and adaptation of lizards

Goodwin, Sarah

PhD Candidate

Jeffrey Podos

OEB Graduate Program Director

Song Plasticity in Black-capped Chickadees

Green, Patrick

PhD Student

Sheila Patek

Associate Professor of Biology

Signaling and biomechanics of stomatopod aggressive behavior

Ha, Melissa

OEB PhD Student

Lynn Adler

Associate Professor of Biology

Pollinator sharing among plant species

Henningsen, Justin P.

PhD Candidate

Duncan Irschick

Professor of Biology

Sexual selection and sexual signaling in Anolis lizards

Hof, David

PhD Candidate

Jeffrey Podos

OEB Graduate Program Director

Vocal communication in songbirds

Hu, Yinan

PhD Candidate

R. Craig Albertson

Assistant Professor of Biology

Evolutionary mechanisms of craniofacial variation in cichlids

Kuo, Chi-Yun

PhD Candidate

Duncan Irschick

Professor of Biology

Functional morphology

Lin, Yi-Fen

PhD Student

Elizabeth Dumont

OEB Director

Functional morphology and biomechanics

Long, Skye M.

PhD Candidate

Elizabeth Jakob

Professor of Psychology

Functional neurobiology of spider brains

Maurer-Alcala, Xyrus

OEB PhD Student

Laura Katz

Elsie Damon Simonds Professor of Biological Sciences, Smith College

1st year student

McKenzie, Alexa

OEB 5-year MS student

Joseph Elkinton

Professor of Environmental Conservation

1st year student

Moseley, Dana L.

OEB PhD Candidate

Jeffrey Podos

OEB Graduate Program Director

Signal function and sexual selection in swamp sparrow song

Palmer Young, Evan Charles

PhD Student

Lynn Adler

Associate Professor of Biology

Systemic acquired resistance in plant-insect interactions

Peterson, Daniel

OEB PhD Student

Benjamin Normark

Associate Professor of Biology

The evolution of unusual genetic systems in insects

Rosario, Michael V.

OEB PhD Candidate

Sheila Patek

Associate Professor of Biology

Trade offs in the functional morphology of elastic structures

Roy, Christopher

OEB PhD Student

Margaret (Peg) Riley

Professor of Biology

1st year student

Sakrejda, Krzysztof

PhD Candidate

Benjamin Letcher

Adjunct Associate Professor of Environmental Conservation

Movement, infectious disease, territorial behavior and modeling

Schneider, Scott

Joint OEB/Entomology PhD Candidate

Benjamin Normark

Associate Professor of Biology

Scale insect systematics, trophobiotic associations with ants

Schueller, Paul

PhD Candidate

Benjamin Letcher

Adjunct Associate Professor of Environmental Conservation

Population genetics, movement patterns, and population persistence of brook trout in the Connecticut River basin

Smith, Andrew J.

OEB PhD Student

Elizabeth Dumont

OEB Director

Biomechanics

Stengle, Anne G.

OEB PhD Student

Paul Sievert

Associate Director of OEB and Chair of Admissions

Habitat selection, connectivity, and viability of a timber rattlesnake (Crotalus horridus) metapopulation in southwestern Massachusetts

Tulchinsky, Alexander (Sasha)

OEB PhD Candidate

Adam Porter

Associate Professor of Biology

Evolutionary genetics of speciation

Vitale, Kim O.

OEB MS Student

Paul Sievert

Associate Director of OEB and Chair of Admissions

Habitat use and seasonal movement patterns of four-toed salamanders in Massachusetts

Weinstock, Andrew

OEB PhD Student

Stephen McCormick

Adjunct Professor of Biology

1st year student