| 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 |
Megan Paustian
Gwen Shlichta |
terrestrial insect community ecology; feeding regimes
in terrestrial slugs; local adaptation/host-associated differentiation |
Dr. Alexa Bely
Biology |
Eduardo Zattara
|
evolution, reproduction, and survival
strategies of invertebrate animals; evolution of regeneration,
asexual reproduction, and symbiosis |
Dr. Gerald Borgia
Biology |
Jason Keagy
Sheila Reynolds
|
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. James Dietz
Biology |
MaLinda Henry
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
Clark Rushing |
plant-pollinator interactions |
Dr. William Fagan
Biology |
Christian
Che-Castaldo
Christina Kennedy
Sarah Kingston
Holly Martinson |
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
Andy Simpson |
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 |
| Dr. Dan Gruner |
Alex Forde |
biodiversity; community ecology; food webs and trophic interactions; invasion ecology |
Dr. Eric Haag
Biology |
Alana Doty |
evolution of germline sex determination |
Dr. David Hawthorne
Entomology |
Julie Byrd
Andreanna Welch |
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 |
Safra Altman |
impacts of invasive species in marine
fouling communities |
Dr. David Inouye
Biology
|
Judy Che-Castaldo
|
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. Karen Lips |
Ernie Osburn |
conservation and ecology of amphibians and reptiles; emerging infectious disease and global change |
| Dr. Peter Marra
Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center |
Clark Rushing |
how habitat occupancy shapes overwinter
physical condition, migratory preparedness, and population
limitation throughout the annual cycle |
Dr. Charlie Mitter
Entomology |
Nathan Jud |
phylogenetic approach to understanding the extraordinary diversity
of insect-plant interactions |
Dr. Cynthia Moss
Psychology |
Bea Mao |
understanding auditory information processing
and sensorimotor integration in vertebrates |
Dr. Malie Neel
Plant Science & Landscape Architecture and Entomology |
Christina Kennedy
James Pettengill |
effect of land conversion on species
diversity and persistence; the phylogenetic
relationships among a number of closely related Agalinis species, species concepts |
| Dr. Stephen O'Brien |
Andrea Coots |
molecular genetics, population genetics, developmental and cell biology, immunology and reproductive physiology |
Dr. Mary Ann
Ottinger
Animal and Avian
Sciences |
Leah Carpenter |
behavioral aspects
of reproduction |
| Dr. Margaret Palmer
Entomology
|
Laura Craig
Jake Hosen
Owen McDonough |
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 |
| Dr. Jeffrey Shultz |
Mercedes Burns |
evolutionary morphology and phylogeny of arthropods, especially arachnids; mating systems in harvestmen |
Dr. Kaci Thompson
CRC |
Leah Carpenter
Julie Samy |
mammalian reproductive behavior |
Dr. Sarah Via
Biology |
Brian Davidson |
evolutionary biology, evolutionary and ecological
genetics, coevolution, population biology |
Dr. Gerald Wilkinson
Biology |
Emily Amitin
Bryan Arnold
Andrea Coots
Bea Mao
Julie Samy |
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 |
