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 The below listing will always, necessarily, be slightly out of date.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.edu

Emma (#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.edu

  Elise 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.edu

  Ben 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.edu

webpage

  Casey 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.

 
Jamie Kneitel
Cal. State. Sacramento
 

Justina Dacey

 

Nicholas Mouquet

University of Montpellier

 

Sara Davis

 
Pablo Munguia
Smithsonian Research Center, Merida, and the U. Texas Marine Program (can't figure out where he is!)
 

Sarah Gray

Ecology and Evolution, Stony Brook

 
Christina Stokes

Michael Plastini

Medical School, University of Miami

 

Chris Saliba

Pharmacy School

College of Charleston

 

Kim Pachura

Zoo Atlanta!

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