Alumni

Satie Airame

Population structure and viability of stream-dwelling frogs from Borneo, 1999
Advisor: Mathew Leibold
Advisor: Catherine Pfister
Bren School of Environmental Science & Management
Assistant Dean for Academic Programs
University of California, Santa Barbara
Email: airame@msi.ucsb.edu
Website: http://www.bren.ucsb.edu/people/satie_airame.htm

Michael Alfaro

Systematics and the evolution of aquatic prey capture in Thamnophiine snakes., 2000
Advisor: Mark Westneat
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Associate Professor
University of California Los Angeles
Email: michaelalfaro@ucla.edu
Website: http://www.eeb.ucla.edu/indivfaculty.php?FacultyKey=10361

Julie Alipaz

The Nature of Incipient Speciation in Drosophila, 2001
Advisor: Chung-I Wu
Fluidigm Corporation
Associate Director of Consumables Production

John Alroy

Quantitative mammalian biochronology and biogeography of North America, 1994
Advisor: David M. Raup
Advisor: David Jablonski
Macquarie University
ARC Future Fellow
Biological Sciences, Macquarie University
Email: john.alroy@mq.edu.au
Website: http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/~alroy

Jacob Roman Arguello

Evolutionary Dynamics of Gene Families and the Fourth Chromosome in Drosophila, 2008
Advisor: Manyuan Long
Cornell University
Postdoctoral Fellow
Email: jra89@cornell.edu
Website: http://mbg.cornell.edu/cals/mbg/research/clark-lab/current_members.cfm

Courtney Babbitt

Developmental Systematics: Synthesizing Ontogeny and Phylogeny in the Malacostraca (Crustacea), 2003
Advisor: Nipam Patel
Advisor: Neil Shubin
Duke University
Postdoctoral Fellow
Email: courtney.babbitt@duke.edu
Website: http://www.biology.duke.edu/wraylab/wraylab/People_current_CCB.html

F. Keith Barker

The evolution of cooperative breeding in Campylorhynchus wrens: A comparative approach, 1999
Advisor: Barry Chernoff
Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior
Assistant Professor
University of Minnesota
Email: barke042@umn.edu
Website: http://www.tc.umn.edu/~barke042/

Allison Beck

The Locomotor Evolution of the Non-Mammalian Synapsids, 2004
Advisor: Michael LaBarbera
Advisor: James Hopson
Black Hawk College
Assistant Professor of Biology
Moline, IL
Email: AllisonBeck@augustana.edu

Peter Bergstrom

Ecology of incubation in Wilson’s plover, 1982
Advisor: A. Ross Kiester
NOAA Chesapeak Bay Office
Habitat Specialist
Email: Peter.Bergstrom@noaa.gov

Richard Blob

Mechanics of non-parasagittal locomotion in Alligator and Iguana, 1998
Advisor: Andrew Biewener
Advisor: James Hopson
Department Biological Sciences
Associate Professor
Clemson University
Email: rblob@clemson.edu
Website: http://www.clemson.edu/cafls/departments/biosci/faculty_staff/blob_r.html

Nicholas Block

Cryptic Diversity and Phylogeography in the Bernieridae, an Endemic Malagasy Passerine Radiation, 2012
Advisor: Shannon Hackett
The Field Museum and School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Postdoctoral Researcher, Zoology Department, The Field Museum; Instructor, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, IL
Email: nblock@fieldmuseum.org

John Bolt

The osteology and relationships of Doleserpteon annectens, a new rhachitomous amphibian from the lower Permian of Oklahoma, 1968
The Field Museum
Curator Emeritus, Geology
Email: bolt@fmnh.org
Website: http://fm1.fieldmuseum.org/aa/staff_page.cgi?staff=bolt

Melinda Brady

Patterns of morphogenesis in Angiosperm flowers, 2000
Advisor: Michael Foote
Email: m-brady-11@alumni.uchicago.edu

Sara Branco

Serpentine Soils and the Ecology and Evolution of Fungal-Plant Symbioses, 2010
Advisor: Gregory Mueller
University of California at Berkeley
Postdoctoral Fellow
Email: sara.mayer.branco@gmail.com

Anne Bronikowski

The sources and consequences of individual growth rate variation in the western terrestrial garter snake, 1997
Advisor: Stevan J. Arnold
Advisor: Brian Charlesworth
Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology
Associate Professor
Iowa State University
Email: abroniko@iastate.edu
Website: http://www.eeob.iastate.edu/faculty/BronikoA/homepage.html

Jutta Buschbom

Evolutionary history and processes underlying contrasting reproductive modes in the lichen-forming genus porpidia (ascomycota), 2003
Advisor: Gregory Mueller
Institute for Forest Genetics and Forest Plant Breeding
Federal Research Center for Forestry and Forest Products
Working Group Ecological Genetics,Großhansdorf
Email: j.buschbom@holz.uni-hamburg.de

Cindy Lee Carlson

Behavioral Mechanisms of Postcopulatory Sexual Selection in Wild Pigtailed Macaques (Macaca leonina), 2011
Advisor: Dario Maestripieri
South Suburban College
Instructor
Email: carlsonc@uchicago.edu

Ana Carnaval

Amphibian Phylogeography and Conservation in Fragmented Forests of Northeastern Brazil, 2004
Advisor: John Bates
CUNY New York, Biology
Assistant Professor
Email: acarnava@ccny.cuny.edu
Website: http://www.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/biology/Carnaval/Carnaval_Lab/Welcome.html

Roberto Cipriani

Construction, Function, and Evolution of Accretionary Morphologies with Examples of Larval and Postlarval Coiling in Heterobranch Gastropods, 1999
Advisor: Rudiger Bieler
Email: rcipri2@gmail.com

Wentworth Clapham Jr.

Distribution of pollen and spores in the upper flowerpot formation (Permian) of Oklahoma, 1968
Biology, Geology, Environmental Science
Professor
Cleveland State University
Email: pclapham@mail.bges.csuohio.edu
Website: http://facultyprofile.csuohio.edu/csufacultyprofile/detail.cfm?FacultyID=W_CLAPHAM

Anne Clark

Olfactory communication by scent marking in a prosimian primate, Galago crassicaudatus, 1975
Advisor: George Rabb
Advisor: Monte Lloyd
Department Biological Sciences
Associate Professor
Binghamton University
Email: aclark@binghamton.edu
Website: http://www2.binghamton.edu/biology/faculty/clark.html

Dale Clayton

Coevolutionary ecology of the rock dove and its chewing lice, 1989
Advisor: Doug Schemske
Advisor: John Fitzkpatrick
Department Biology
Professor
University of Utah
Email: clayton@biology.utah.edu
Website: http://darwin.biology.utah.edu/Peoplehtml/Clayton.html

Melissa Cogan

Interspecific and ontogenetic analysis of feeding morphology in the Old World fruit bats (Pteropodidae), 2001
Advisor: Lawrence Heaney

Phyllis Coley

Ecological and evolutionary responses of tropical trees to herbivore pressure, 1981
Advisor: Douglas Schemske
Department Biology
Distinguished Professor
University of Utah
Email: coley@biology.utah.edu
Website: http://www.biology.utah.edu/people/details.php?id=73

Rachel Collin

Evolution of mode of development in Crepidula (Gastropoda: Calyptraeidae): Causes and consequences, 2002
Advisor: Barry Chernoff
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Panama
Staff Scientist
Email: collinr@naos.si.edu
Website: http://www.stri.org/english/scientific_staff/staff_scientist/scientist.php?id=4

Andrew Crawford

The Evolution and Maintenance of a Color Pattern Polymorphism in Neotropical Frogs, 2000
Advisor: Martin Kreitman
Department Biological Sciences
Assistant Professor
Universidad de los Andes
Email: crawforaj@si.edu
Website: http://www.dna.ac/

John Damuth

The Evaluation of the Degree of Community Structure Preserved in Assemblages of Fossil Mammals, 1982
Advisor: Leigh Van Valen
Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology
Research Biologist
University of California, Santa Barbara
Email: damuth@lifesci.ucsb.edu
Website: http://www.pantherion.com/damuth.html

Daniel Davison

Inferences about the evolutionary history of geographically structured populations; the intersection of population genetics, biogeography and systematics, 2006
Advisor: Shannon Hackett
Bay Area medical genomics startup
Senior Scientist
Email: dandavison7@gmail.com
Website: http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~davison/

Alexander Dehgan

The behavior of extinction : predicting the incidence and local extinction of lemurs in fragmented habitats of southeastern Madagascar, 2003
Advisor: Bruce Patterson
U.S. Agency for International Development
Science and Technology Adviser to the Administrator
Email: alexdehgan@gmail.com

Rebecca Dikow

Genome-level homology and phylogeny: case studies using Vibrionaceae and Shewanellaceae (Gammaproteobacteria), 2012
Advisor: Leo Smith
Center for Conservation & Evolutionary Genetics and National Museum of Natural History
Biodiversity Genomics Postdoctoral Fellow
Smithsonian Institution
Email: dikowR@si.edu
Website: http://www.rebeccadikow.info

Amy Driskell

Molecular Systematics, Biogeography, and Evolution of the Meliphagidae (Passeriformes), 2001
Advisor: Barry Chernoff
Advisor: Stephen Pruett-Jones
National Museum of Natural History
Barcode Project Manager
Smithsonian Institution
Email: driskella@si.edu

Gunther Eble

The macroevolutionary history of diversity and disparity in disasteroid, holasteroid and spatangoid heart urchins, 1997
Advisor: David Jablonski
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Chargé de Recherche de 1ère Classe
Université de Bourgogne
Email: Gunther.Eble@u-bourgogne.fr

Kenneth Emberton

The evolution of multiple sympatric homeomorphy among three genera of land snails, 1986
Advisor: Michael Wade
Advisor: Alan Solem
Email: kemberton@flmnh.ufl.edu

Nora Espinoza

Scaling of the Appendicular Musculo-Skeletal System of Frogs (Order Anura): Effects on Jumping Performance, 2000
Advisor: Michael LaBarbera
Biological Sciences
Assistant Professor
Clemson University
Email: nespino@clemson.edu
Website: http://www.clemson.edu/cafls/departments/biosci/faculty_staff/espinoza_n.html

Juliana Feder

Experimental analysis of second chromosome lethals in natural populations of Drosophila americana, 1984
Advisor: Lynn Throckmorton
Institute for Biophysical Dynamics
Executive Administrator
The University of Chicago
Email: jfeder@uchicago.edu

John Finarelli

Macroevolutionary Trends in Brain and Body Size of Terrestrial Caniforms (Carnivora, Mammalia), 2007
Advisor: Peter Wagner
Advisor: John Flynn
School of Biology & Environmental Science
Lecturer in Vertebrate Biology
University College Dublin
Email: john.finarelli@ucd.ie

Michael Foote

Morphological evolution of Cambrian and Ordovician trilobites, 1989
Advisor: David Raup
Department of Geophysical Sciences
Professor and Chair
The University of Chicago
Email: mfoote@uchicago.edu
Website: http://geosci.uchicago.edu/people/foote.shtml

Raymond Franson

Belowground interactions between plants, 1989
Advisor: Douglas Schemske
Viceroy Gold Corp.
Castle Mountain Mine
Searchlight, NV

Matthew Friedman

The diversification of the acanthomorph fishes: ecomorphological perspectives on an evolutionary radiation, 2009
Advisor: Michael Coates
University of Oxford
Lecturer in Palaeobiology
Email: mattf@earth.ox.ac.uk
Website: http://www.earth.ox.ac.uk/people/profiles/academic/mattf

Gary Galbreath

Aspects of natural selection in Dasypus novemcinctus, 1980
Advisor: Leigh Van Valen
Program in Biological Sciences
Distinguished Senior Lecturer
Northwestern University
Email: gig853@northwestern.edu

Anjali Goswami

The Evolution of Morphological Integration in the Mammalian Skull, 2005
Advisor: John Flynn
Department of Genetics, Evolution, and Environment
Lecturer
University College London
Email: a.goswami@ucl.ac.uk
Website: http://anjgoswami.googlepages.com/

Walter Greaves

Functional anatomy of the mercoidodont head (Mammalia: Artiodactyla), 1971
Department Oral Biology
Associate Professor
University of Illinois at Chicago
Email: wgreaves@tigger.cc.uic.edu

Emily Greenfest-Allen

New Perspectives on a Classic Macroevolutionary Trend: Complexity, Extinction Selectivity, and the Evolution of Paleozoic Ammono, 2005
Advisor: David Jablonski
Penn Center for Bioinformatics
Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Pennsylvania
Email: allenem@pcbi.upenn.edu
Website: http://www.betacell.org/people/profile/id/12706

Carrie Grimsley

The nature of selection acting on the class Ib HLA genes: HLA-E, HLA-F, and HLA-G, 1997
Advisor: Carole Ober
Kankakee Community College
Assistant Professor
Email: grim_one@earthlink.net

Annat Haber

Morphological Integration in the Ruminant Skull: Macroevolutionary Aspects, 2010
Advisor: Mark Webster
Tel Aviv University
Postdoctoral Fellow
Email: annat22@gmail.com

Paul Harnik

Macroecological drivers of extinction risk in early Cenozoic mollusks, 2009
Advisor: David Jablonski
National Evolutionary Synthesis Center
Postdoctoral Fellow
Email: paulharnik@gmail.com
Website: http://www.duke.edu/~pgh6/index.html

John Harshman

Phylogeny, evolutionary rates, and ducks, 1996
Advisor: Barry Chernoff
California Academy of Sciences
Researcher
Email: jharshman@pacbell.net

Glenn Hausfater

Dominance and reproduction in baboons (Papio cynocephalus): a quantitative analysis, 1974
Advisor: Stuart Altmann

Lorraine Heisler

Genetical Studies of Mating Preference, 1982
Advisor: Michael J. Wade
Email: lorraineheisler@gmail.com

Leslie Hornig

Mechanism and evolution of facultative sex-ratio biasing in Norway rats , 1995
Advisor: Martha McClintock
Website: http://www.ucls.uchicago.edu/directory/profilefull.aspx?pageaction=VPSFaculty&LinkID=2379&DirectoryModuleID=32

Richard Horwitz

The distribution of fishes in streams, 1976
Advisor: Montgomery Slatkin
Advisor: James Teeri
Academy of Natural Sciences
Senior Biologist
Philadelphia
Email: horwitz@ansp.org
Website: http://www.ansp.org/research/pcer/scientists.php

Kimberly A. Hughes

Evolutionary genetics of female life-history traits in Drosophila melanogaster, 1993
Advisor: Brian Charlesworth
Department of Biological Science
Professor
Florida State University
Email: kahughes@bio.fsu.edu
Website: http://www.bio.fsu.edu/faculty-hughes.php

Gene Hunt

Phenotypic covariance through geologic time: micro- and macroevolution in the deep-sea Ostracode genus Poseidonamicus, 2003
Advisor: Michael Foote
Department of Paleobiology
Curator
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution
Email: hunte@si.edu
Website: http://paleobiology.si.edu/staff/individuals/hunt.cfm

Jeffrey Ihara

On the interaction between the evolution of social behavior through group selection and the evolution of interspecific competitive interference, 1990
Advisor: Michael Wade
MiraCosta College, Biology Department
Professor
Oceanside, CA
Email: jihara@miracosta.edu
Website: http://www.miracosta.edu/home/jihara/

Steven Irvine

Ontogeny and developmental gene expression in the polychaete Chaetopterus: The evolution of developmental patterning, 1998
Advisor: Mark Martindale
Department of Biological Sciences
Associate Professor
University of Rhode Island
Email: sir1720u@postoffice.uri.edu
Website: http://www.uri.edu/cels/bio/irvine/research.html

Mark Johnston

Natural selection, inbreeding depression and self-fertilization in two Lobelia species with different pollinators, 1990
Advisor: Michael Wade
Department Biology, Life Sciences Center
Professor
Dalhousie University
Email: mojohnst@is.dal.ca
Website: http://biology.dal.ca/People/faculty/johnson/johnson.htm

John A. Juskevice

Interspecific correlation and association in benthic marine communities, 1969

Christian Kammerer

Cranial Disparity in the Non-mammalian Synapsida, 2009
Advisor: Neil Shubin
Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow
Berlin
Email: jonkeria@gmail.com

Keith Karoly

The causes and consequences of interpopulational mating system variations in Lupinus nanus (Leguminosae), 1991
Advisor: Deborah Charlesworth
Advisor: Doug Schemske
Department of Biology
Professor
Reed College
Email: kkaroly@reed.edu
Website: http://academic.reed.edu/biology/professors/kkaroly/

Matthew Keirle

Population Biology of the Hawaiian Mushroom Rhodocollybia Laulaha, 2008
Advisor: Gregory Mueller
State College of Florida, Manatee-Sarasota
Assistant Professor
Email: keirle@scf.edu
Website: http://www.scf.edu/FacultyStaff/FacultyDirectory/default.asp?item=4342

Katherine Kelley

Coupled evolution in a phylogenetic context: covariation of coloration and chemical defense of tiger beetles, 1997
Advisor: Barry Chernoff
Advisor: Stevan J. Arnold

Brandon Kilbourne

Limb Rotational Inertia in Quadrupedal Mammals, 2011
Advisor: Peter Makovicky
Jena University
Postdoctoral Fellow
Email: bmkilbou@uchicago.edu

Lucinda Lawson

Patterns and Processes of Diversification in Hyperolius Frogs throughout the Eastern Afromontane Biodiversity Hotspot, 2010
Advisor: John Bates
University of Florida
Postdoctoral Fellow
Email: lucinda.lawson@gmail.com

Elizabeth LeClair

Invertebrate vertebrae: evolutionary morphology and experimental biomechanics of the Ophiuroidea (echinodermata), 1995
Advisor: Michael LaBarbera
Department Biological Sciences
Associate Professor
DePaul University
Email: eleclair@depaul.edu
Website: http://condor.depaul.edu/eleclair

Daniel Lerman

Regulatory evolution of Hsp70 in Drosophila melanogaster, 2003
Advisor: Martin Feder
Robbins, Russell, Englert, Orseck, Untereiner & Sauber LLP
Associate
Washington, D.C.
Email: danlerman@gmail.com
Website: http://www.robbinsrussell.com/attorneys/daniel-n-lerman

Lee Hsiang Liow

Oddities, Wonders and Other Tall Tales of “Living Fossils", 2006
Advisor: Scott Lidgard
Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis
Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Oslo
Email: l.h.liow@bio.uio.no
Website: http://folk.uio.no/leehl/index.html

Rowan Lockwood

Extinction and Rebound: Evolutionary Patterns in Late-Cretaceous and Cenozoic Bivalves, 2001
Advisor: David Jablonski
Deptartment of Geology
Associate Professor
College of William & Mary
Email: rxlocke@wm.edu
Website: http://www.wm.edu/as/geology/people/faculty/lockwood_r.php

Katharine Lofdahl

The genetic basis of habitat selection in the cactiphilic species Drosophila mojavensis, 1985
Advisor: Stevan Arnold
University of Guam
Associate Professor of Biology
Email: klofdahl@uguam.uog.edu

David Lofsvold

Quantitative genetic studies of morphological divergence in Peromyscus and Drosophila populations, 1986
Advisor: Russell Lande

Susan Longest

Dominance in Ring-Tailed Lemurs: Development, Acquisition, and Maintenance, 2009
Advisor: Jill Mateo
Biological Sciences Department
Assistant Professor
Colorado Mesa University
Email: susan.m.longest@gmail.com
Website: http://www.coloradomesa.edu/biology/faculty.html

Richard Lupia II

Palynological record of the Cretaceous angiosperm radiation: diversity, abundance and morphological patterns, 1997
Advisor: Peter Crane
Advisor: Susan Kidwell
University of Oklahoma
Associate Professor
Email: rlupia@ou.edu
Website: http://www.ou.edu/cas/botany-micro/faculty/lupia.html

S. Kathleen Lyons

A Quantitative Assessment of the Community Structure and Dynamics of Pleistocene Mammals, 2001
Deptartment of Paleobiology
Research Scientist
The National Museum of Natural History, Evolution of Terrestrial Ecosystems Program
Email: lyonss2@si.edu
Website: http://www.mnh.si.edu/ete/ETE_People_Lyons_CV.html

Paul Magwene

Studies of Phenotypic Covariance with Examples from Turtles, 1999
Advisor: Michael LaBarbera
Department of Biological Sciences
Associate Professor
Duke University
Email: paul.magwene@duke.edu
Website: http://www.biology.duke.edu/magwenelab/members.html

Jonathan Marcot

Evolutionary radiations of Ruminantia (Mammalia: Artiodactyla), 2004
Advisor: Peter Wagner
Animal Biology
Assistant Research Professor
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Email: jmarcot@life.uiuc.edu
Website: http://www.life.illinois.edu/marcot

Susan Margulis

The effects of inbreeding on parental behavior and reproductive success in two subspecies of the Oldfield mouse (Peromyscus Polionotus), 1996
Advisor: Jeanne Altmann
Canisius College
Assistant Professor
Email: margulis@canisius.edu
Website: http://www3.canisius.edu/~margulis/

Charles Marshall

DNA-DNA hybridization, morphology, and the fossil record of sand dollars: phylogeny and rates of single copy DNA evolution, 1989
Advisor: David Raup
Advisor: Hewson Swift
Department of Integrative Biology
Professor
University of California at Berkeley
Email: crmarshall@berkeley.edu
Website: http://ib.berkeley.edu/people/faculty/marshallc

Jane Masterson

The evolutionary history and significance of polypliody in angiosperms, 1995
Advisor: Peter Crane
Advisor: David Jablonski
Canis Sapiens
Certified Pet Dog Trainer
Email: jane@canissapiens.com
Website: http://www.canissapiens.com/aboutus.html

Daniel McShea

Complexity and Evolution, 1990
Advisor: David Raup
Department of Zoology
Professor
Duke University
Email: dcmshea@duke.edu
Website: http://www.biology.duke.edu/mcshealab/

James Mead

Anatomy of the external nasal passages and facial complex in the Delphinidae (Mammalia: Cetacae), 1972
National Museum of Natural History
Curator Emeritus, Mammals
Email: mead.james@nmnh.si.edu
Website: http://vertebrates.si.edu/mammals/mammals_staff_pages/mead_james.cfm

Joshua Miller

The large-mammal death assemblage of Yellowstone National Park: historical ecology, conservation biology, paleoecology, 2009
Advisor: Susan Kidwell
Deptartment of Geology
Fenneman Assistant Research Professor
University of Cincinnati
Email: josh.miller@wright.edu
Website: http://www.uc.edu/orgs/qarg/members/faculty/josh-miller.html

Shaibal Mitra

Sexual dimorphism and plumage elaboration in socially-monogamous birds, 1996
Advisor: Stephen Pruett-Jones
CUNY College of Staten Island
Assistant Professor
Email: mitra@mail.csi.cuny.edu
Website: http://biology.gc.cuny.edu/node/961

Lisa Castillo Nelis

An Investigation of Synergistic Interactions Among Invasive Species, 2008
Advisor: J. Timothy Wootton
Stanford University
NSF Minority Postdoctoral Fellow
Email: lnelis@stanford.edu
Website: http://www.stanford.edu/~lnelis/

Kara Nuss

Determinants of reproductive success in zoo-housed Goeldi’s Monkeys, 2009
Advisor: Sue Margulis
Biological Sciences
Northeastern Illinois University
Email: K-Nuss@neiu.edu

F. Robin O'Keefe

Phylogeny and Convergence in the Plesiosauria (Reptilia: Sauropterygia), 2000
Advisor: James Hopson
Advisor: Olivier Rieppel
Marshall University
Associate Professor
Email: okeefef@marshall.edu
Website: http://www.science.marshall.edu/okeefef/

Link Olson

Systematics, evolution, and biogeography of Madagascar’s tenrecs (Mammalia: Tenrecidae), 1999
Advisor: Bruce Patterson
University of Alaska Fairbanks
Associate Professor
Email: link.olson@uaf.edu
Website: http://linkolson.org/

Craig Pease

Models of coevolution and evolutionary epidemiology, 1985
Advisor: Russell Lande
Environmental Law Center
Environmental Law Center
Vermont Law School
Email: cpease@vermontlaw.edu
Website: http://www.vermontlaw.edu/x6716.xml

A. Townsend Peterson

Evolutionary relationships of the Aphelocoma Jays, 1990
Advisor: Stuart Altmann
Advisor: Scott Lanyon
Department Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Distinguished Professor
University of Kansas
Email: town@ku.edu
Website: http://distinguishedprofessors.ku.edu/professor/peterson-t/peterson-t.shtml

Patrick Phillips

Functional and developmental constraints on morphological evolution in the tree frog, 1991
Advisor: Stevan J. Arnold
Biology Department
Professor
University of Oregon
Email: pphil@uoregon.edu
Website: http://pages.uoregon.edu/pphil/index.html

Rosamund Potter

Alcohol dehydrogenase in the virilis group of Drosophilia, 1983
Advisor: Hewson Swift
Biological Sciences Collegiate Division
Retired College Senior Lecturer
The University of Chicago
Email: rsvp@midway.uchicago.edu

Molly Przeworski

Natural selection and patterns of genetic variability in Drosophila and humans, 2000
Advisor: Richard Hudson
Department of Human Genetics
Professor
The University of Chicago
Email: mfp@uchicago.edu
Website: http://www.genes.uchicago.edu/przeworski.html

Surangi Punyasena

The Relationship of Neotropical Forests to Climate: Late Quaternary and Modern Biogeographic Gradients, 2007
Advisor: Jennifer McElwain
Department of Plant Biology
Assistant Professor
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Email: punyasena@life.illinois.edu
Website: http://www.life.uiuc.edu/punyasena

Michelle Rafacz

Hormonal and Behavioral Patterns of Reproduction and Parental Care in the Hylobatidae, 2010
Advisor: Susan Margulis
Department of Science & Mathematics
Assistant Professor of Biology
Columbia College Chicago
Email: mrafacz@colum.edu
Website: http://www.colum.edu/academics/science_and_mathematics/Faculty/Rafacz.php

Trina Roberts

Divergence, diversity, distance, and disequilibrium: Comparative phylogeography of six Philippine fruit bats (Chiroptera; Pteropodidae), 2005
Advisor: Lawrence Heaney
Advisor: John Bates
University of Iowa Museum of Natural History
Associate Director
Iowa City, IA
Email: Trina-Roberts@uiowa.edu
Website: http://myweb.uiowa.edu/teroberts/

Rebecca Rowe

Spatial and temporal dynamics of small mammal diversity in the mountain ranges of central Utah, 2006
Advisor: Lawrence Heaney
Dept. of Natural Resources & the Environment
Assistant Professor
University of New Hampshire
Email: rebecca.rowe@unh.edu
Website: http://www.nre.unh.edu/rebecca-j-rowe

Rebecca Rundell

Diversification of the Rock and Leaf Litter Dwelling Land Snails of Belau (Republic of Palau, Oceania), 2008
Advisor: Rudiger Bieler
Department of Environmental and Forest Biology
Assistant Professor
State University of New York, Syracuse, NY
Email: rundell@esf.edu
Website: http://www.snailevolution.org/rebecca-rundell.html

Karen Ryan

Consequences and causes of mate choice by monogamous female Oldfield mice, Peromyscus polionotus, 2000
Advisor: Jeanne Altmann
Advisor: Carole Ober
Obesity Research Center
Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Cincinnati
Email: karenkryan@hotmail.com

Rudyard Sadleir

A Morphometric Study of Crocodylian Ecomorphology through Ontogeny and Phylogeny, 2009
Advisor: Peter Makovicky
Children's Hospital of Chicago Research Center
Postdoctoral Fellow
Email: rsadleir@luriechildrens.org
Website: http://www.chicagochildrensresearch.org/simon/contact/

Scott Schaefer

Historical biology of the loricariid catfishes: phylogenetics and functional morphology, 1986
Advisor: George V. Lauder
Division of Vertebrate Zoology
Curator of Ichthyology
American Museum of Natural History
Email: schaefer@amnh.org
Website: http://research.amnh.org/vz/ichthyology/staff/scott-schaefer-phd

John Paul Schmit

Competition and Species Diversity of Unit Restricted Decomposer Fungi, 1999
Advisor: Gregory Mueller
Advisor: Mathew Leibold
Center for Urban Ecology
Quantitative Ecologist
National Park Service
Email: johnpauls@operamail.com
Website: http://science.nature.nps.gov/im/units/ncrn/whoweare.cfm

Frederick Schram

Studies in paleozoic Eumalacostraca, 1968
University of Amsterdam
Professor Emeritus of Systematics and Zoogeography
Email: fschram@whidbey.com

Thomas Schulenberg

Evolutionary history of the Vangidae of Madagascar, 1995
Advisor: Scott Lanyon
Cornell Museum of Vertebrates
Curatorial Affiliate
Cornell University
Email: tss62@cornell.edu

Patricia Schwalm

Ultrastructural correlates to infrared reflectance in New World treefrogs, 1981
Advisor: Hewson Swift

Elizabeth Scordato

Geographical and temporal variation in sexually selected traits: environmental variation, multiple signals, and consequences for population divergence, 2012
Advisor: Trevor Price
University of Colorado Boulder
Research Associate
Email: elizabeth.scordato@colorado.edu
Website: http://home.uchicago.edu/~escordato/Home.html

Karen Sears

The integration of developmental genetics, ontogenetic variation and patterns of morphological divergence in Mammalia; Marsupial evolution, 2003
Advisor: John Flynn
Animal Biology
Assistant Professor
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Email: ksears@life.uiuc.edu
Website: http://www.life.uiuc.edu/sears/Home.html

Charles Shabica

Depositional Environments in the Francis Creek shale and associated strata, 1971
Charles Shabica & Associates, Inc.
President
Email: charles@shabica.com

H. Bradley Shaffer

Evolution in a highly paedomorphic lineage: a case study of the Mexican ambystomatid salamanders, 1982
Advisor: Stevan Arnold
University of California at Los Angeles
Distinguished Professor of Biology
Email: brad.shaffer@ucla.edu
Website: https://www.eeb.ucla.edu/indivfaculty.php?FacultyKey=11460

Jacquelyn Kelly Gravier Sheridan

The influence of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal symbiosis on the structure, composition and diversity of an experimental prairie plant community, 2009
Advisor: R. Michael Miller
Advisor: Gregory Mueller
Department of Botany
Research Associate
The Field Museum
Email: Gravier@uchicago.edu
Website: http://sites.google.com/site/jkgraviersheridanphd/home

Janet Sherman

Functional morphology of the forelimb in Nothrotheriine sloths (Mammalia: Edentata), 1984
Advisor: Leigh Van Valen
Biology Department
Associate Professor
Pennsylvania College of Technology
Email: jsherman@pct.edu

Kristin Sherrard

A comparative study of early juvenile feeding performance in ascidians, 2003
Advisor: Michael LaBarbera
University of Chicago
Postdoctoral Fellow
Email: kmsherra@uchicago.edu
Website: http://f1000.com/thefaculty/member/5777926742472774

Brian Sidlauskas

Hyperdisparate Headstanders and Static Slime-Suckers: Evolution of Unequal Morphological Diversity in Brother Clades of Characiform Fishes, 2006
Advisor: Barry Chernoff
Oregon State University
Assistant Professor of Biology
Email: brian.sidlauskas@oregonstate.edu
Website: http://people.oregonstate.edu/~sidlausb/

Nathan Smith

Phylogeny and Patterns of Diversification and Character Evolution within the Pelecaniformes: Insight from Molecular, Morphological, and Paleontological Data, 2011
Advisor: Peter Makovicky
Department of Biology
Associate Professor
Howard University, Washington D.C.
Email: nathan.smith@howard.edu
Website: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/86743464/web/smithnd/Home.html

Paul Sniegowski

Transposable elements and polymorphic inversions in Drosophila melanogaster, 1993
Advisor: Brian Charlesworth
Department of Biology
Associate Professor
University of Pennsylvania
Email: paulsnie@sas.upenn.edu
Website: http://www.bio.upenn.edu/faculty/sniegowski/

Gregory Spicer

The Drosophila virilis species group: molecular evolution, phylogeny, morphological evolution, and evolutionary genetics, 1990
Advisor: Brian Charlesworth
Department of Biology
Professor
San Francisco State University
Email: gs@sfu.edu
Website: http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~gs/spicer/pages/spicer.html

C. Tristan Stayton

Morphological and Functional Convergence Among Herbivorous Lizards: A Comparative Study, 2005
Advisor: Mark Westneat
Biology Department
Assistant Professor
Bucknell University
Email: tstayton@bucknell.edu
Website: http://www.bucknell.edu/x17987.xml

Scott Steppan

Phylogenetic relationships of the phyllotines (Rodentia: Sigmodontinae) and the evolution of phenotypic patterns of covariation in Phyllotis, 1995
Advisor: Bruce Patterson
Department of Biological Science
Professor
Florida State University
Email: steppan@bio.fsu.edu
Website: http://www.bio.fsu.edu/faculty-steppan.php

William Stevens

Morphometric analysis of skull shape in living and fossil carnivora (Mammalia: Eutheria), 1994
Advisor: James Hopson
Department of Biological Sciences
Associate Professor & Chair
Georgetown College
Email: wsteven0@georgetowncollege.edu
Website: http://www.georgetowncollege.edu/bio/employees/dr-william-p-stevens/

Douglas Stotz

Foraging behavior and morphology in the avian genus Myrmotherula, 1990
Advisor: Scott Lanyon
Environmental and Conservation Programs
Conservation Ornithologist
The Field Museum
Email: dstotz@fieldmuseum.org
Website: http://fm1.fieldmuseum.org/aa/staff_page.cgi?staff=stotz

Sherman Suter

Phylogenetic analyses of cassiduloid echinoids (Echinodermata: Neognathostomata): morphology, homoplasy, and stratigraphic data, 1994
Advisor: David Jablonski
Science
Book Review Editor
Email: ssuter@aaas.org

Sharon Swartz

The biomechanics and structural design of the forelimb of brachiating primates, 1988
Advisor: Andrew Biewener
Department Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Associate Professor
Brown University
Email: sharon_swartz@brown.edu
Website: http://www.brown.edu/Departments/EEB/EML/people/sharon.htm

Rebecca Thomas

The evolution of cranial ossification sequences in ostariophysan fishes, 2003
Advisor: Barry Chernoff
Department of Biology
Assistant Professor
Montgomery College
Email: rebecca.thomas@montgomerycollege.edu
Website: http://www.montgomerycollege.edu/Departments/biorv/facstaff.htm

Vinton Thompson

Recombination and response to selection for positive phototaxis in Drosophila melanogaster: does sex accelerate evolution?, 1974
Advisor: Leigh Van Valen
Metropolitan College of New York
President
Website: http://www.metropolitan.edu/about/pres1.php

Gaylord Throckmorton

Oral food processing and digestive efficiency in herbivorous iguanid and agamid lizards, 1974
Advisor: James Hopson
Southwestern Medical School
Professor Emeritus
University of Texas at Dallas
Email: Gaylord.Throckmorton@utsouthwestern.edu
Website: http://www.utsouthwestern.edu/findfac/professional/0,,17313,00.html

David Townsend

The genetic basis of a complex phenotype, 1990
Advisor: Russell Lande
Private Pharmacutical Company

Joseph Walsh, Jr.

Geographic variation in Philippine fruit bats (Mammalia: Pteropodidae) and systematics of the Cynopterine Section, 1998
Advisor: Lawrence Heaney
Advisor: Barry Chernoff
Biological Sciences
Lecturer
Northwestern University
Email: j-walsh1@nwu.edu

B. Michael Walton

The adaptive significance of activity metabolism among anuran amphibians, 1988
Advisor: Martin Feder
Biological, Geological & Environmental Sciences
Associate Professor
Cleveland State University
Email: b.walton@csuohio.edu
Website: http://facultyprofile.csuohio.edu/csufacultyprofile/detail.cfm?FacultyID=B_WALTON

Glenda Wardle

An evolutionary and demographic analysis of life history variation in Campanula americana (Campanulaceae), 1995
Advisor: Michael Wade
School of Biological Sciences
Associate Professor
University of Sydney
Email: glenda.wardle@sydney.edu.au
Website: http://www.bio.usyd.edu.au/about_us/academic_staff/wardle_glenda/

Richard Wassersug

Internal oral features of anuran larvae and the significance of the tadpole feeding mechanism to anuran evolution, 1973
Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology
Professor
Dalhousie University
Email: tadpole@is.dal.ca
Website: http://www.anatomy.dal.ca/Wassersug/

Virginia Wesley

The evolution of Carnivoramorpha: Phylogenetic and morphological diversification, 2003
Advisor: John Flynn
Department of Biology
Assistant Professor
Montgomery College
Email: gina.wesley@montgomerycollege.edu
Website: http://www.montgomerycollege.edu/Departments/biorv/facstaff.htm

Robert West

Geology and paleontology of a portion of the Northern Green River Basin, Wyoming, 1968
Informal Learning Experiences, Inc.
Principal
Email: ile@informallearning.com
Website: http://www.informallearning.com/

Sarah Weyandt

Molecular insight on the diversification of Philippine horseshoe bats, 2010
Advisor: John Bates
Advisor: Lawrence Heaney
Email: weyandt@uchicago.edu

David Wheatcroft

The evolution of cooperation in avian mobbing, 2012
Advisor: Trevor Price
Department of Animal Ecology
Postdoctoral Researcher
Uppsala University, Sweden
Email: david.wheatcroft@ebc.uu.se
Website: https://sites.google.com/site/davidjwheatcroft/

Robert Whitlatch

Seasonality, species diversity and patterns of resource utilization in a marine deposit-feeding community, 1976
Advisor: Ralph Johnson
Department of Marine Science
Professor
University of Connecticut
Email: whitlatc@uconnvw.uconn.edu
Website: http://www.marinesciences.uconn.edu/faculty/whitlatch.html

John Wilson

Analytical Zoogeography of North American Mammals, 1972
Advisor: Leigh Van Valen