Students
Nicholas Block
Research: Avian systematics, phylogeography, conservation, speciation, and evolution; comparative phylogeography.
Office: FM - Zoology Birds
Advisor: Shannon Hackett
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
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
Katherine Craig
Research: I am interested in animal behavior, specifically the evolution of social structure. I hope to study how stress and cooperation influence social structure.
Office: Culver 402
Advisor: TBA
Email: kcraig@uchicago.edu
Edna Davion
Research: Primate Evolution
Office: FM - Anthropology
Advisor: Robert D. Martin
Email: edavion@uchicago.edu
Rebecca Dikow
Research: Systematics methods and theory; genomics
Office: FM - Zoology Fishes
Advisor: Wm. Leo Smith
Email: rbudinoff@uchicago.edu
Website: http://www.rebeccabudinoff.info/
Andrew Dosmann
Research: Evolutionary dynamics of behavior and the genetic and physiological underpinnings of behavioral traits; endocrinology; conservation.
Office: Culver 402, Institute for Mind and Body
Advisor: Jill Mateo
Email: dosmann1@uchicago.edu
Deren Eaton
Research: Plant diversity, evolution and biogeography; phyloecology and systematics; floral and reproductive evolution; diversification rates.
Office: Culver 402
Advisor: TBA
Email: daeaton@uchicago.edu
Annat Haber
Research: Morphological integration in artiodactyls
Office: Hinds 289
AdvisorS: Mark Webster and Peter Wagner
Email: annat@uchicago.edu
Website: http://home.uchicago.edu/~annat/
Matthew Heintz
Research: Primate social behavior and endocrinology, specifically the benefits of play behavior.
Office: Lincoln Park Zoo
Advisor: Elizabeth Lonsdorf
Email: mheintz@uchicago.edu
Christian F. Kammerer
Research: Synapsid evolution, vertebrate cranial function and development.
Office: FM Geology
Advisor: Neil Shubin
Email: cfkammer@uchicago.edu
Brandon Kilbourne
Research: Biomechanics in a phylogenetic context with particular interest in biomechanical transitions in locomotion and skeletal allometry.
Office: FM - Geology
Advisor: Peter Makovicky and Michael LaBarbera
Email: bmkilbou@uchicago.edu
Benjamin Krinsky
Research: Evolutionary genetics of invertebrates; evolutionary developmental biology
Office: Cullver 402, Institute for Mind and Body
Advisor: Manyuan Long
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
Website: http://home.uchicago.edu/~llawson
Joshua Miller
Research: Vertebrate Taphonomy, Large-Mammal Paleoecology, Conservation Biology
Office: Hinds 281
Advisor: Sue Kidwell
Email: millerjh@uchicago.edu
Website: home.uchicago.edu/~millerjh
Matthew Nelsen
Research: I am interested in the evolution and ecology of symbiotic organisms. I study lichen-forming fungi and algae, and hope to bridge community ecology and phylogenetics.
Office: Culver 402
Advisor: TBA
Email: mpnelsen@uchicago.edu
Website: http://mpnelsen.googlepages.com/
Ariel Pani
Research: Changes in gene regulatory networks and evolution of development. Molecular correlates of evolutionary novelties.
Office: Culver 402, Institute for Mind and Body
Advisor: Christopher Lowe
Email: aripani@uchicago.edu
Michelle Rafacz
Research: Behavior, evolution of reproductive and parental care behaviors, endocrinology, conservation, cognition, and population biology with regard to zoo-housed primate populations.
Office: Lincoln Park Zoo
Advisor: Sue Margulis
Email: mrafacz@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, Field Museum Birds
Advisor: John Bates
Email: savit@uchicago.edu
Elizabeth Scordato
Research: Speciation; sexual selection; evolutionary dynamics of socially selected traits
Office: Zoology 305
Advisor: Trevor Price
Email: escordato@uchicago.edu
Website: http://home.uchicago.edu/~escordato/
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
Nathan Upham
Research: Mammal systematics and evolution; phylogeography and paleobiogeography; the influence of past climatic changes on diversification and speciation.
Office: Culver 402
Advisor: TBA
Email: nsupham@uchicago.edu
Traci Viinanen
Research: I am interested in how my research in prairie restoration genetics could be used in the development of biofuels and more sustainable agriculture.
Office: Culver 402
Advisor: TBA
Email: tviinanen@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: Zoology 305
Advisor: Trevor Price
Email: djwheatc@uchicago.edu
Revised: September 17, 2009