Postdoctoral researchers

Chase Smith

Stengl Wyer Postdoctoral Scholar

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Research interests: mussles, doubly uniparental inheritance, systematics/taxonomy, conservation

Liming Cai

Stengl Wyer Postdoctoral Scholar

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Research interests: Plant biodiversity, phylogenomics, evolutionary genomics, plant-insect interaction, parasitic plants, natural history collections

Ummat Somjee

Stengl Wyer Postdoctoral Scholar

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=JAuDGLIAAAAJ&hl=en

Personal website:  https://www.ummatsomjee.com/

Research interests: Sexual Selection, Behavior, Exaggerated Morphology, Entomology

Joseph Dubie

Postdoctoral Researcher

Research interests: Selfish mitochondria, mitochondrial mutations, nematodes

Graduate students

Kendra Zwonitzer

Ph. D. student, CMB graduate program

B.S., University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 2019

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Research Interests: Mitochondrial mutations, bioinformatics, genomics

Jess Sterling 

Ph. D. student, CMB graduate program

B.S., University of Miami, 2020

Research Interests: Microbial ecology, aging, marine biology

Britt White 

PhD student, EEB graduate program (co-advised with Kelly Zamudio)

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B.S., Ecology, Evolutionary, and Organismal Biology -- University of New Mexico, 2016

A.S., Biology -- Central New Mexico Community College, 2014

Research Interests: Conservation genomics, Landscape genetics, Diversification, Herpetology

Cecilia Fitzgerald-Cook

Graduate Student, CMB Graduate Program

B.S., Cell and Molecular Biology -- University of California Santa Cruz 2016

Research Interests: Bioinformatics, Conservation, Molecular Evolution

Mariangel Correa Orellana

Graduate Student, EEB Graduate Program

B.S. -- Western Carolina University 2023

Research Interests: Microbial ecology, fucntional genomics, anchialine organisms