An ever-changing variety of folks contribute to the Miller Lab. We strongly encourage both prospective graduate students and interested graduate students to contact. T. Miller directly. The below listing will always, necessarily, be slightly out of date.
Tom Miller Dept. of Biological Science
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL 32306
850-644-9823
miller@bio.fsu.eduEmma (#1) Moran
Head Tech
Young Scholars Program, Summer 2008 Emma (#2) Babb
Cypress Bay High School
Wendy Yinn
St. Petersburg High School
Undergraduate Students - Summer 2008 Fani Gruber
REU Scholar
Heather Wells
premed
Amber Roman
Jack Miller
prelife
Jessica Eich
preveterinary
Graduate Students Elise Gornish
egornish@bio.fsu.eduElise is interested in looking at how global climate change and its effects on habitats (e.g., soil chemistry, temperature, precipitation) affect the invasibility of that habitat. Through both field and lab experiments, she hopes to create a model to predict long term changes in the dynamics of invasive species as a result of climate change.
In addition to a project on dune vegetation responses to increased storm intensity and frequency on St. George Island on the Gulf of Mexico, Elise spends her summers working on a remote field camp in the Canadian Arctic, being involved in a suite of research projects. She drinks entirely too much coffee and is learning how to play every Journey song on her electric guitar.Ben Nomann
bnomann@bio.fsu.eduBen is shared by the Inouye and Miller labs, and has started a large project on plant demography in fragmented landscapes in Brazil. He is using a ginger species to understand how populations in undistured forest and secondary growth areas may affect one another. He also occasionally considers completely different ideas on the evolution of specialists and generalists. Casey terHorst
terHorst@bio.fsu.eduCasey balances himself between the Levitan and Miller labs. His historical interests lie in detecting alternate stable states in marine fouling communities. Now, he is interested in how species evolve in a community context. He focuses on how multiple species (predators, prey, and competitors) evolve in response to direct and indirect ecological effects. He is testing these ideas using protozoa, rotifers, and mosquito larvae that constitute the inquiline community of carnivorous pitcher plants. He is also interested in how considering evolutionary changes affects our view of how communities are organized, particularly in regard to differentiating between niche and neutral ecological processes. Casey pretends to still be a marine biologist and continues to work on a number of marine projects, just to keep his feet wet. Recent Lab Members Jean Burns
Washington Univ.
Cal. State. SacramentoJustina Dacey
University of Montpellier
Smithsonian Research Center, Merida, and the U. Texas Marine Program (can't figure out where he is!)Ecology and Evolution, Stony Brook
Michael Plastini
Medical School, University of Miami
Chris Saliba
Pharmacy School
College of Charleston
Zoo Atlanta!
