Students
Roman Arguello
Research: Molecular evolution and population genetics.
recently duplicated genes in Drosophila, particular focus on chemoreceptors.
population dynamics along D. sim, D. mel, and D. yak's fourth chromosome.
Office: Zoology 301
Advisor: Manyuan Long
Email: arguello@uchicago.edu
Nicholas Block
Research: Avian systematics, phylogeography, conservation, speciation, and evolution; comparative phylogeography.
Office: CH 402
Advisor: N/A
Email: nlblock@uchicago.edu
Sara Branco
Research: Evolution in extreme environments; Local adaptation to serpentine soils.
Office: FM Botany
Advisor: Gregory M. Mueller
Email: sbranco@uchicago.edu
Rebecca Budinoff
Research: Systematics methods and theory; genomics
Office: Culver 402
Advisor: TBA
Email: rbudinoff@uchicago.edu
Website: http://www.rebeccabudinoff.info/
Cindy Carlson
Research: Primate social behavior, specifically the mating system of the pigtail macaque.
Office: Institute for Mind and Body
Advisor: Dario Mastripieri
Email: carlsonc@uchicago.edu
Edna Davion
Research: Primate Evolution
Office: Culver 402
Advisor: N/A
Email: edavion@uchicago.edu
Andrew Dosmann
Research: Evolutionary dynamics of behavior and the genetic and physiological underpinnings of behavioral traits; endocrinology; conservation.
Office: Culver 402
Advisor: TBA
Email: dosmann1@uchicago.edu
Matt Friedman
Research: Evolutionary radiation of spiny-finned teleosts (acanthomorphs); early vertebrate interrelationships.
Office: Culver 301
Advisor: Michael Coates
Email: mattf@uchicago.edu
Website: http://home.uchicago.edu/~mattf/
Jacquelyn Kelly Gravier
Research: Patterns and process of diversity in plants and
symbiotic arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (Glomeromycota).
Office: FM Botany
AdvisorS: Mike Miller and Greg Mueller
Email: gravier@uchicago.edu
Annat Haber
Research: Morphological integration in artiodactyls
Office: Hinds 289
AdvisorS: Mark Webster and Peter Wagner
Email: annat@uchicago.edu
Paul Harnik
Research: Evolutionary paleoecology of marine invertebrates, extinction selectivity, rarity
Office: Hinds 229
Advisor: David Jablonski
Email: pharnik@uchicago.edu
Matthew Heintz
Research: Primate social behavior and endocrinology, specifically the benefits of play behavior.
Office: Culver 402
Advisor: TBA
Email: mheintz@uchicago.edu
Nicholas Johnson
Research: Exploring the relationship between morphological disparity and community diversity of Neogastropods in the western North Atlantic.
Office: Hinds 229
Advisor: David Jablonski
Email: naj@uchicago.edu
Christian F. Kammerer
Research: Synapsid evolution, vertebrate cranial function and development.
Office: FM Geology
Advisor: Neil Shubin
Email: cfkammer@uchicago.edu
Matthew Keirle
Research: Fungal Speciation Mechanisms
Office: FM, Botany
Advisor: Gregory Mueller
Email: mkeirle@uchicago.edu
Brandon Kilbourne
Research: Biomechanics in a phylogenetic context with particular interest in biomechanical transitions in locomotion and skeletal allometry.
Office: Culver 402
Advisor: Peter Makovicky and Michael LaBarbera
Email: bmkilbou@uchicago.edu
Benjamin Krinsky
Research: Evolutionary genetics of invertebrates; evolutionary developmental biology
Office: Cullver 402
Advisor: TBA
Email: krinsky@uchicago.edu
Lucinda Lawson
Research: Phylogeography of anurans; causes of diversification on isolated mountain peaks in Tanzania.
Office: FM Zoology
Advisor: John Bates
Email: llawson@uchicago.edu
Susan Longest
Research: Social behavior of animals, Dominance, Development, Socioendocrinology.
Office: BPSB 126
Advisor: Jill Mateo
Email: slongest@uchicago.edu
Joshua Miller
Research: Vertebrate Taphonomy, Large Mammal
Paleoecology
Office: Geosciences
Advisor: Sue Kidwell
Email: millerjh@uchicago.edu
Website: home.uchicago.edu/~millerjh
Lis Castillo Nelis
Research: Dispersal, Competition, and the synergistic
interactions of multiple species invasions.
Office: Zoology 411
Advisor: Timothy Wootton
Email: lnelis@uchicago.edu
Kara Nuss
Research: Behavior, endocrinology, and population
genetics of zoo-housed primates.
Office: Brookfield Zoo
Advisor: Sue Margulis
Email: knuss@uchicago.edu
Ariel Pani
Research: Changes in gene regulatory networks and evolution of development. Molecular correlates of evolutionary novelties.
Office: Culver 402
Advisor: TBA
Email: aripani@uchicago.edu
Trevor Pearce
Research: Biomechanics of bivalve byssal threads; history and philosophy of biology; biomaterials and biomimetics.
Office: Culver 402
Advisor: Michael LaBarbera
Email: trpearce@uchicago.edu
Website: http:// home.uchicago.edu/~trpearce
Michelle Rafacz
Research: Animal behavior, endocrinology, evolution of parental care, parent-offspring interactions, cognition, primates in captivity
Office: Culver 402
Advisor: Sue Margulis
Email: mrafacz@uchicago.edu
Rebecca Rundell
Research: Molecular systematics, biogeography and
conservation of Pacific island land snails.
Office: Hinds 269
Advisor:Rudiger Bieler
Email: rundell@midway.uchicago.edu
Rudyard Sadleir
Research: Systematics and the evolution of morphological diversity, plasticity and ontogeny in crocodiles.
Office: FM Geology
Advisor: Peter Makovicky
Email: rsadleir@uchicago.edu
Aaron Savit
Research: Factors influencing speciation dynamics, community assemblages, and the evolution of diversity, with a focus on the tropics.
Office: Culver 402
Advisor: TBA
Email: savit@uchicago.edu
Elizabeth Scordato
Research: Evolution of communication systems in social mammals, with particular respect to mate choice.
Office: Culver 402
Advisor: Trevor Price
Email: escordato@uchicago.edu
Nathan Smith
Research: Morphological and molecular systematics; phylogenetic methods utilizing continuous characters; tree-based approaches to investigating sampling issues in biogeography; vertebrate paleontology of the Triassic-Jurassic of Antarctica and NE Arizona.
Office: FM Geology
Advisor: Peter Makovicky
Email: smithnd@uchicago.edu
Sarah Weyandt
Research: Evolution of Philippine rhinolophid bats. Systematics, biogeography and conservation.
Office: FM Mammals
Advisor: Larry Heaney and John Bates
Email: weyandt@uchicago.edu
David Wheatcroft
Research: Evolution of cooperative behaviors; anti-predator behaviors; animal communication.
Office: Culver 402
Advisor: TBA
Email: djwheatc@uchicago.edu
Revised: May 6, 2008