Graduate Student Research

 

Ruric Bowman

Research interest: Climate change, range shifts, species Interactions

Lab: Dr. Joe LaManna's Lab

Undergraduate School: Lycoming College

Chimobi Chikwendu

Research interest: Plant genetics, transgenic plants, abiotic stress, cold-tolerance

Lab: Dr. Michael Schläppi's lab 

Undergraduate School: Federal University of Technology Minna

Sumaiya Chowdhury 

Research Interest: Gene-environment interaction

Lab: Dr. Lisa Petrella's Lab

Undergraduate School: University of Dhaka, Bangladesh

Orlando Escobar-Hadechini

Research interest: Seedlings, Plant dynamics, plant ecology, tropical forest restoration, plant diversity patterns

Lab: Dr. Stefan Schnitzer's lab

Undergraduate School: University of Los Andes, Colombia

Sarah Gobris

Research interest: Genomics, evolutionary ecology, herpetology

Lab: Dr. Tony Gamble's lab

Undergraduate School: Penn State University

Anika Jabin

Research Interest: Drug design, proteomics, genomics, immunology, antibiotic resistance

Lab: Dr. Martin St. Maurice's lab

Undergraduate School: Independent University of Bangladesh

Autumn Stronach

Research interest: Microbiology and developmental genetics

Lab: Dr. Lisa Petrella's lab

Undergraduate School: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 

Josephine Selvik

Research interest: Environmental microbiology

Lab: Dr. Chris Marshall's lab

Undergraduate School: Milwaukee School of Engineering 

Kerrigan Tobin

Research Interest: Thermal, behavioral, & evolutionary ecology, molecular biology, hymenoptera, social insects, pollinator health and conservation

Lab: Dr. Chelsea Cook's lab

Undergraduate School: Roosevelt University, Illinois State University

Ashmika Behere

Research interest: Macroevolution,genomics, herpetology, and genotype to
phenotype questions

Lab: Dr. Tony Gamble's lab

Undergrad School: University of Kansas

Casey Lambert

Research interest: The microbiome and viral invasion

Lab: Dr. Chelsea Cook's lab

Undergrad School: University of Connecticut, University of
Alabama

Chloe Langride

Research interest: Biochemistry

Lab: Dr. Emily Sontag's lab

Undergrad School: Marquette University

Jacqueline Kivila

Research interest: Association between disease and changes in nucleic acids and epigenetic processes

Lab: Dr. Anita Manogaran's lab

Undergrad School: Immaculata University, University of Nairobi

Juan Pablo Narvaez Repizo

Research interest: Tree-liana interactions, liana mortality; recruitment
processes of lianas in tropical forests

Lab: Dr. Stefan Schnitzer's lab 

Undergrad School: Universidad Nacional de Colombia

Marissa Allen

Research interest: Prions and microbiology

Lab: Dr. Chris Marshall's lab

Undergrad School: Metropolitan State University of Denver

Nneamaka Uba

Research interest: Gene expression and bioinformatics

Lab: Dr. Martin St. Maurice's lab

Undergrad School: University of Port Harcourt, University of Lagos

Rachael Halby

Research interest: Animal behavior, social support mediation of effects of stress in social insects

Lab: Dr. Chelsea Cook's lab

Undergrad School: Arizona State University

Rita Okeke

Research interest: Antibiotics resistance, bacterial molecular pathogenesis

Lab: Dr. Allison Abbott's lab

Undergrad School: Nnamdi Azikiwe University

Ryan Cook

Research interest: Evolutionary biology and herpetology, phylogenetics, and
morphological diversity

Lab: Dr. Tony Gamble's lab

Undergrad School: Auburn University, Villanova University

Ellie Marino

Research interest: The influence of molecular clocks on metabolism and hormonal action

Lab: Dr. Deanna Arble's lab

Undergrad School: Marquette University

grad-riveraAthena Rivera

Research interest: The microbiome and viral invasion

Lab: Dr. Deanna Arble's lab

Undergrad School: Loyola University at New Orleans

coleCole Doolittle

Research interest: Influence of ecological disturbances on local biodiversity and species interactions

Lab: Dr. Joe LaManna's lab

Undergrad School: Olivet Nazarene University

Richard Melton

Research interest: Understanding the mechanism of tolerance and resistance to chemical disinfectants in pathogenic bacteria.

Lab: Dr. Krassimira Hristova's lab

Undergrad School: Clemson University

Justine Nguyen

Research interest: How gut bacteria influence social behavior using the
Western honeybee

Lab: Dr. Chelsea Cook's lab

Undergrad School: Loyola University Chicago

Kristen Quaglia

Research interest: The role of programmed cell death in maintaining fertility in C. elegans at elevated temperatures

Lab: Dr. Lisa Petrella's lab 

Undergrad School: University of Minnesota

Claire Radtke

Research interest: How protein misfolding leads to disease

Lab: Dr. Anita Manogaran's lab 

Undergrad School: Lake Superior Univ. at Saulte Ste. Marie

Sarah Rolli

Research interest: Protein misfolding and neurodegenerative disease

Lab:  Dr. Emily Sontag's lab

Undergrad School: UW-Madison

Kathryn Sullivan

Research interest: Community Based Approaches to Characterizing Biodiversity for Conservation Action

Lab: Dr. Tony Gamble's lab 

Undergrad School: University of Maryland

Sophia Bridwell

Research interest: The evolution of antibiotic resistance in bacteria

Lab: Dr. Chris Marshall's lab

Undergrad School: UW-Oshkosh

Hannah Buchholz

Research interest: Characterizing cellular factors that influence prion formation and propagation

Lab: Dr. Anita Manogaran's lab 

Undergrad School: UW-LaCrosse

Nicholas Schneider

Research interest: Drug-like molecule development to help study pyruvate carboxylase and treatment of associated diseases

Lab: Dr. Martin St. Maurice's lab 

Undergrad School: Marquette University

Madison Sutton

Research interest: The influence of climate on songbird survival, distributions, and behavior

Lab: Dr. Joe LaManna's lab

Undergrad School: Hobart and William Smith Colleges