Current BEES Students
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Alex Forde
Gruner Lab
community ecology, mangroves
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Zeke Gonzalez
Shultz Lab
Chace Holzheuser
Lips Lab
amphibian disease ecology
Danielle Adams
Wilkinson Lab
behavioral ecology, olfactory communication, bats
Kevin Bennett
Braun Lab at the Smithsonian
Leann Biancani
Cummings Lab
Co-advised by Karen Osborn (Smithsonian NMNH)
phylogenetics and evolution of pelagic invertebrates
Jason Berg*
Swenson Lab
Shauna Rasband*
Mengyu Liu*
Wilkinson LabWilkinson Lab
Nora Hamovit*
Palmer Lab
Damani Eubanks*
Swenson Lab
Grace Capshaw
Carr Lab
auditory evolution, salamander sensory ecology, neuroethology
Javier Carpinteyro
Machado Lab
genomics of species divergence in Drosophila
Betsy Clark
Kocher Lab
Sex determination in cichlid fishes
Ronald Clark
Machado Lab
studies Drosophila molecular evolution
Brock Couch
Lamp Lab
herpetology
Daniel Escobar-Camacho
Carleton Lab
evolutionary biology, ichthyology,
fish vision, fish diversity, animal behavior
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John Ficklin
Haag Lab
reproductive mode evolution, kilifish
Edward Hurme
Wilkinson Lab
movement ecology of fishing bats
Julie Mallon
Fagan Lab
Movement Ecology, Migration, Flight Behavior, Energetics, Avian
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Krittika Petprakob
Swenson Lab
tropical forest ecology
Corey Rennolds
Bely Lab
physiological ecology, regeneration
Vanessa Rubio Ramos
Swenson Lab
Lauren Ryan
Haag Lab
Evolution of sex determination
Kiri Staiger
Swenson Lab
Calandra Stanley
Dudash/Marra Labs
migration, behavioural ecology, ornithology
Anshuman Swain
Fagan Lab
Elske Tielens
Gruner Lab
community ecology, assembly, plant-insect interactions,
spatial landscape structure
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Madhvi Venkatraman
Gruner/Fleischer Labs
Dave Weber
Fisher Lab
Studying how female mating strategy has shaped reproductive physiology in Peromyscus rodents
Jake Weissman
Johnson Lab & Fagan Lab
theoretical microbial ecology/evolution
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Sam Worthy
Swenson Lab
Da Yin
Haag Lab
Caenorhabditis mating system evolution
Hao Yiu
Johnson Lab
Using empirical and theoretical methods to understand adaptive immune systems in the context of evolution
Miranda Yourick
Carleton Lab
evolution of color vision, genetics, African cichlids
* Indicates new student.
Recent Publications by BEES Students
Please see this Google scholar page for a comprehensive list of publications by BEES students.
Goodheart JA, Bazinet AL, Valdés Á, Collins AG, Cummings MP. Prey preference follows phylogeny: evolutionary dietary patterns within the marine gastropod group Cladobranchia (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia: Nudibranchia). BMC Evol. Biol. [Internet]. 2017;17:221. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-017-1066-0
Nandamuri, S. P., Yourick, M. R., & Carleton, K. L. (2017). Adult plasticity in African Cichlids: Rapid changes in opsin expression in response to environmental light differences. Molecular Ecology.
Jessica A. Goodheart Insights into the Systematics, Phylogeny, and Evolution of Cladobranchia (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia). American Malacological Bulletin 2017 35 (1), 73-81
Escobar-Camacho D, Marshall NJ, and Carleton KL. Behavioral color vision in a cichlid fish: Metriaclima benetos. J Exp Biology (in press).
Escobar-Camacho D, Ramos, E, Martins C and Carleton KL. The opsin genes of Amazonian cichlids. Molecular Ecology 26: 1343-56
Muletz-Wolz, C. R., DiRenzo, G. V., Yarwood, S. A., Grant, E. H. C., Fleischer, R. C., & Lips, K. R. (2017). Antifungal bacteria on woodland salamander skin exhibit high taxonomic diversity and geographic variability. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 83(9), e00186-17.
Umaña, M. N., Zhang, C., Cao, M., Lin, L., & Swenson, N. G. (2017). A core‐transient framework for trait‐based community ecology: an example from a tropical tree seedling community. Ecology Letters, 20(5), 619-628.
White, N. D., Mitter, C. and Braun, M. J. (2017), Ultraconserved elements resolve the phylogeny of potoos (Aves: Nyctibiidae). J Avian Biol. doi:10.1111/jav.01313
DiRenzo, G. V., Che-Castaldo, C., Rugenski, A., Brenes, R., Whiles, M. R., Pringle, C. M., Kilham, S. S. and Lips, K. R. (2017), Disassembly of a tadpole community by a multi-host fungal pathogen with limited evidence of recovery. Ecol Appl, 27: 309–320. doi:10.1002/eap.1443
Goodheart, J. A. and Bely, A. E. (2017), Sequestration of nematocysts by divergent cnidarian predators: mechanism, function, and evolution. Invertebr Biol, 136: 75–91. doi:10.1111/ivb.12154
Frances E. Clark, Matthew A. Conte, Irani A. Ferreira-Bravo, Andreia B. Poletto, Cesar Martins, Thomas D. Kocher; Dynamic Sequence Evolution of a Sex-Associated B Chromosome in Lake Malawi Cichlid Fish. J Hered 2017; 108 (1): 53-62. doi: 10.1093/jhered/esw059
Foss-Grant, A. P., Zipkin, E. F., Thorson, J. T., Jensen, O. P. and Fagan, W. F. (2016), Hierarchical analysis of taxonomic variation in intraspecific competition across fish species. Ecology, 97: 1724–1734. doi:10.1890/15-0733.1
Stanley, C. Q., Walter, M. H., Venkatraman, M. X., & Wilkinson, G. S. (2016). Insect noise avoidance in the dawn chorus of Neotropical birds. Animal Behaviour, 112, 255-265.