| BEES Advisor |
BEES Graduate Student(s) |
Student Research Interests |
| Dr. Jonathan Ballou
NZP |
Brandie
Smith |
genetic management of small populations, including reintroduction
programs; pedigree analysis; fitness effects of inbreeding and outbreeding |
Dr. Pedro Barbosa
Entomology
|
Eric Lind
Megan Paustian
Gwen Shlichta |
terrestrial insect community ecology; feeding regimes
in terrestrial slugs; local adaptation/host-associated differentiation |
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evolution, reproduction, and survival
strategies of invertebrate animals; evolution of regeneration,
asexual reproduction, and symbiosis |
Dr. Gerald Borgia
Biology
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relationship between sexual selection
and cognition; complex male display traits; effect of relatedness
on mating behavior |
| Dr. Michael Braun
NMNH
|
Brian Davidson
Sarah Kingston
Sheila Reynolds |
extent of genetic introgression
across avian hybrid zones; effect of relatedness on mating
behavior |
Dr. Karen Carleton
Biology |
Kelly O'Quin |
evolution of the cichlid visual system in the context of cichlid speciation |
Dr. Ruth DeFries
Geography
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effect of land conversion on species diversity and
persistence |
Dr. Robert Denno
Entomology
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the effect of area and connectivity
of habitat patches on key ecological traits, such as trophic
position, diet breadth, and dispersal ability |
| Dr. James Dietz
Biology |
Sarah Hankerson
MaLinda Henry
Jennifer Siani
Brandie Smith |
spatial movement through complex landscapes; effect of
plant and insect resource on changes in reproductive cyclicity
and conception; parental investment, allocaregiving, animal
communication and sibling rivalry |
Dr. Michele Dudash |
Abby Kula |
plant-pollinator interactions |
Dr. William Fagan
Biology |
Christian
Che-Castaldo
Christina Kennedy
Holly Martinson
Thomas Mueller
Katie Schneider |
relationship between insect herbivory
and primary succession; effect of land conversion on species
diversity and persistence; the effect of area and connectivity
of habitat patches on key ecological traits, such as trophic
position, diet breadth, and dispersal ability; development
of computer models to simulate and link behavioral movement
mechanisms; effect of availability of nutrients and energy
on the biodiversity of cave ecosystems |
Dr. Charles Fenster
Biology
|
Abby Kula |
role of pollinator specialization on the evolution
of floral traits and breeding systems; plant-pollinator interactions |
Dr. Robert Fleischer
Smithsonian
|
Andreanna
Welch |
application of evolutionary and
population genetics to conservation issues |
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evolution of germline sex determination |
| Dr. Matthew Hare
Biology |
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impacts of invasive species in marine
fouling communities; population genetics and phylogentics
of marine animals; the extent of genetic introgression across
avian hybrid zones; organismal interactions in benthic communities;
changes in gene frequencies in relation to local and population-wide
environmental variance; application of evolutionary and
population genetics to conservation issues |
Dr. David Hawthorne
Entomology
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plant-insect interactions; path between plant-insect
interactions and specialization and speciation; parasitoid
assemblages; how adaptation to different environments or
resources leads to speciation |
| Dr. Anson Hines
SERC |
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impacts of invasive species in marine
fouling communities |
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human impacts on ecological functions; influence of
heavy metal tolerance on plant population dynamics; effect
of insect pulses and cycles on avian community abundance
and diversity; how habitat occupancy shapes overwinter physical
condition, migratory preparedness, and population limitation
throughout the annual cycle |
| Dr. Peter Marra
SERC |
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how habitat occupancy shapes overwinter
physical condition, migratory preparedness, and population
limitation throughout the annual cycle |
Dr. Malie Neel
Plant Science & Landscape Architecture and Entomology
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effect of land conversion on species
diversity and persistence; the phylogenetic
relationships among a number of closely related Agalinis species, species concepts |
Mary Ann
Ottinger
Animal and Avian
Sciences |
Leah Carpenter |
behavioral aspects
of reproduction |
| Dr. Margaret Palmer
Entomology
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in-stream nutrient processing in rapidly urbanizing
watersheds; stream restoration and watershed management techniques which limit nitrogen loading in the Chesapeake Bay |
Dr. Marjorie Reaka
Biology |
Safra Altman |
dynamics of coral reef communities |
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adaptive significance of courtship
feeding behavior; role of spermless spermatophores as nuptial
gifts; genetic and neurological bases of behavior; how high
male mating costs may have affected reinforcement and speciation; the role of sexual selection
in conferring reproductive isolation between incipient species |
Dr. Kaci Thompson
CRC |
Leah Carpenter |
mammalian reproductive behavior |
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divergence of reproductive traits
across populations and the impact of divergence in these
traits on reproductive isolation among incipient species;
social communication in bats; genetics of speciation |
