Undergraduates

There are several undergraduates working in the lab, as independent study students or as paid research assistants. There are new openings most semesters.

Technicians

Nobody right now...

Current Graduate Students

Amanda Buchanan. Amanda is co-advised with Nora Underwood and is working on putting pollination biology into a community context. She does field work with bees and plants at the Rocky Mountain Biology Lab in Colorado (RMBL), and on water hyacinth in Florida.

Heather Gamper has worked on interactions among oaks, scale insects, and birds in southern Mexico, and is now following her interests in community mapping, conservation, and biogeography via the Geography department. She has her own webpage here.

Josh Grinath is co-advised with Nora Underwood. Josh is working on an ant-membracid mutualism and its effects on the host plant and an herbivorous beetle. His field work is near RMBL. More about Josh 's work is here and here.

Ben Nomann is co-advised with Tom Miller, and works on source-sink demogrpahy of a tropical plant and the conservation value of different habitat types, with fieldwork in Brazil. He is now on leave....

Brian Spiesman works on community and landscape ecology. He is interested in the structure of plant-pollinator networks, models of indirect effects in communities, and effects of regional landscape configuration on local ecosystem functions.

Pete Tackas is working on operationalizing fitness definitions. Pete is finishing a PhD in Philosophy, and working on a concurrent MS in biology.

Henrique Valadão de Oliveira is a visiting student (2012) from Universidade de Brasília , working on aggregation and coexistence in Drosophila communities for a "sandwich" project.

If you are potential graduate student and want to see your name up here too, please read my letter to prospective students, check out the E&E goup here, and then send me an email if you're still interested in working with me at FSU.

Post-docs

Nobody right now...

Some Lab Alumnae

Komei Kadowaki (2010-2011) worked on insect communities associated with mushrooms, community assembly with protozoa, and predator functional responses. He is now at Kyoto University, Japan.

Tom E.X. Miller (2007-2009) was a USDA post-doctoral research fellow, co-sponsored by Nora Underwood. Tom does a mix of theory and field work on insect invasions and plant-insect interactions. He is now at Rice University.

Kurt Anderson (2005-2007) was a USDA post-doctoral research fellow working on spatial models of herbivores and plants, and collaborated with Nora Underwood's lab to get data on plants with induced resistance. He is now faculty at the University of California, Riverside.

Brian Seitzman did an undergraduate Honors project (2006-2007) on the forked fungus beetle and its interactions with Ganoderma fungi and their host trees. He is now working on a PhD at Clark University, on fungal systematics and insect-fungus associations.

Lauren Brothers (2005-2006) worked with the C. maculatus and the wasps as an undergraduate independent study project. She is now in law school, planning to work on environmental issues.

Hege Vårdal was a US-Norway postdoctoral fellow (2005-2006) working on the evolution of cynipid gall wasps and their venom glands. She got a job as a curator of entomology in Stockholm!

Katie McAlister (2005-2006) was a technician for Nora Underwood and me. Now she is teaching environmental education in California.

Robin Hopkins (2004-2005)was a technician for me and Nora Underwood. Now she is in grad school at Duke.

Maggie Simon (2009) was a technician here for a year, and she is now a grad student at UCLA.

Travis McDevitt-Galles (2009 - 2011) was an undergraduate independent study student and then a lab technician, and is now working as a research assistant for a field project out in California.