The DuVal Lab

Postdoctoral Researchers
Dr. Blake C. Jones - assistant professor, Bennington College, starting fall 2020
Dr. Rebecca Sardell - continued with postdoctoral research in human retinal genomics with Dr. William Scott, U. of Miami
Dr. J. Patrick Kelley - continued as postdoctoral resesrcher with Dr. Jill Jankowski, Univ. of British Columbia; currently Research Scientist at University of Wyoming.

Doctoral Students
Dr. Jessica Cusick - postdoctoral fellow, NIH training program, Indiana University
Dr. Carla Vanderbilt - assistant professor, University of Pikeville, Pikeville KY
Dr. Megan A. Jones - Research Associate and Education Specilaist, National Ecological Observatory Network, Boulder CO. Graduated summer 2017.
Dr. Caroline Stahala - Audubon, Florida Panhandle Program Manager for the shorebird monitoring and conservation program. Graduated summer 2016.

Undergraduate researchers
Leslie Nguyen, undergraduate researcher, 2018-2019
George Torres, undergraduate volunteer, 2018-2019
Ivonne Mendietta, REU student, summer 2018
Kylie Wilson, REU student, summer 2016
Fernando Freitas, undergraduate volunteer, summer 2015
Hannah Wilson, undergraduate honors thesis student, 2014-2015
Miguel De Villa, undergraduate researcher and DIS student, 2014
Jasity Rush, undergraduate volunteer, 2014
Jordan McKean, undergraduate directed independent study, Spring 2014
Nicholas Hanley, undergraduate researcher
Carolin Hoeflich, undergraduate volunteer - UROP program
Jose Moscoso, undergraduate research technician, Fall 2012
Alan Moss, undergraduate directed independent study, Spring 2012
Megan Mayo, undergraduate honors student 2010-11, now a grad student at UC Davis
Nadia Moline, undergraduate directed independent study, 2010
Aubrey Sirman, undergraduate directed independent study, 2008, MA at Auburn U

Technicians and generally awesome people
Samantha Lantz, lab and field crew manager 2010-2011, now a grad student at Tulane Univ.
Maria Wieselmann, lab manager, now having amazing adventures on the west coast
Emily Hutchinson, lab manager, now a grad student at U. Alaska Fairbanks

Blake C. Jones Postdoctoral Researcher FSU Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow 2017-2018 bjones@bio.fsu.edu, jonesbc@gmail.com Ph.D., Biological Sciences University of Memphis B.S. Biology, James Madison University

 

Rebecca J. Sardell Postdoctoral Researcher 2011- 2013 rsardell@gmail.com, Ph.D. – Univ. of Aberdeen, UK M.Res. - University of York, UK B.A. - University of Oxford, UK

J. Patrick Kelley Postdoctoral Researcher Jan-Jul 2013 kelley [at] post.harvard.edu Ph.D. – UC Davis B.A. - Harvard College http://www.jpatrickkelley.org/

Caroline Stahala Social nesting behavior of the Bahama Parrot on Abaco Island and its conservation implications Ph.D. awarded summer 2016 cstahala@gmail.com, B.S. Biology - Univ. of North Carolina M.S. Zoology - North Carolina State University

Megan Jones Why Dominant Individuals Cooperate — Fitness Consequences of Cooperative Courtship in a System with Variable Cooperative Display Coalitions Ph.D. awarded summer 2017 mjones01@battelleecology.org N.E.O.N research associate and science education specialist B.S. Wildlife Biology Humboldt State University

Carla Vanderbilt Ph.D. awarded spring 2019 B.S. Biology - Stetson University

Jessica Cusick Ph.D. awarded Spring 2019 B.A. Biological Sciences - SUNY Binghamton University B.A. Psychology - SUNY Binghamton University M.S. Biological Sciences - Florida Atlantic University

Samantha Dietz M.S. awarded summer 2019 B.S. Biological Sciences, North Carolina State University focus: Ecology, Evolution and Conservation

 

Jordan McKean Undergraduate researcher Directed independent study, spring 2014 Variation in responses to novelty by nesting Carolina Chickadees