November 2020
Lynette Renae Strickland
Dr. Lynette Renae Strickland is an ecologist and evolutionary biologist broadly interested in the mechanisms maintaining variation within and between populations. Her work focuses on understanding the maintenance of color variation in the Neotropical tortoise beetle, Chelymorpha alternans. Using a combination of genomics technologies (Illumina 10X, Oxford Nanopore long reads, and RAD sequencing) as well as ecological bioassays (predator studies, mate choice and chemical assays), she takes a holistic and highly integrative approach for understanding the benefits and maintenance of variation.
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September 2020Margarita M. Lopéz-uribe |
October 2020Alexandra Harmon-Threatt |
Dr. Margarita M. López-Uribe is an entomologist, evolutionary ecologist, and extension specialist in pollinator health. Her research focuses on understanding how environmental change and human management shapes bee health and long-term persistence of their populations in agricultural areas.
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Dr. Alexandra Harmon-Threatt is a pollination ecologist with broad interests in understanding the patterns and processes that govern plant-pollinator interactions for conservation. Pollinators play a vital role in plant reproduction, food production and ecosystem stability but are believed to be declining globally. Her work focuses on identifying and understanding patterns in natural environments to help conserve and restore pollinator diversity. With a particular focus on bees, she investigates how a number of factors at both the local and landscape scale, including plant diversity, isolation and bee characteristics, effect bee diversity in local communities.
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August 2020 |
Natasha Young |
anDrea Darby |
Natasha Young is a Graduate Student Researcher in the Maddison Lab at Oregon State University. She is interested in weevil taxonomy and systematics, particularly as it relates to questions of morphological adaptations in genera of weevils that include pest species and how these changes relate to diversity.
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Drea Darby is a 2nd year Entomology PhD student in the Lazzaro lab at Cornell University. She studies the impact of nutrition on infection dynamics and host physiology in the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster.
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June 2020
Delbert André Green II
Dr. Delbert André Green II, is an Assistant Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan. He studies molecular/genetic mechanisms that influence the generation of biodiversity using monarch butterflies as a model system.
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