Below is the list of past Donnelley Fellows. To learn more about postdoctoral opportunities with YIBS, visit our Postdoctoral Fellowships page.
Past Donnelley Postdoctoral Associates |
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Jessica Kenigson, Ph.D. |
September 2018 - August 2020 |
Sponsor: Mary-Louise Timmermans, Professor, Earth & Planetary Sciences Research: Jessica completed her Ph.D. on causes of sea level variability in the North Atlantic Ocean in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder in 2018. She also completed an M.S. in Applied Mathematics at the University of Colorado Boulder. Jessica’s research at Yale focuses on how changes in the Arctic Ocean circulation influence the global ocean circulation and Earth’s climate. She analyzes ocean and atmospheric measurements spanning decades to understand the far-reaching consequences of Arctic Ocean change, including influencing sea level rise in the North Atlantic Ocean. |
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Mahlet Garedew, Ph.D. |
July 2018 - June 2020 |
Sponsor: Paul Anastas, Professor, School of Forestry & Environmental Studies Research: Prior to joining the Center for Green Chemistry and Engineering at Yale, Mahlet worked with Prof. Saffron and Prof. Jackson at Michigan State University where she received her Ph.D. in Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering with a research focus on conversion of biomass to value-added intermediates using pyrolysis and electrocatalysis. More specifically, she investigated the effectiveness of a ruthenium catalyst for improving energy content and stability of phenolic compounds derived from the thermochemical degradation of lignin. Additionally, Mahlet was also part of the Environmental Science and Policy Program (ESPP) and a recipient the ESPP climate, food, energy and water (C-FEW) summer fellowship. Through her involvement in the ESPP program, Mahlet had the opportunity to explore the interdisciplinary aspect of her research. Outside of her research work, Mahlet enjoys working with students and is passionate about mentoring students from underrepresented backgrounds to pursue careers in STEM fields. While in her graduate program, Mahlet volunteered her time working as a tutor and mentor with programs such as Engineering and Science Success Academy, Summer Research Opportunities Program, and College Assistance Migrant Program at Michigan State University. |
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Leslie James Robbins, Ph.D. |
September 2018 - June 2020 |
Sponsor: Noah Planavsky, Assistant Professor, Department of Geology & Geophysics Research: Leslie completed his PhD in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Alberta, before coming to Yale in the fall of 2018 to conduct his postdoctoral research. He is a geochemist and geobiologist, whose doctoral research focused on using banded iron formations to examine the trace element chemistry of Earth’s early oceans and how changes in trace element abundances may be linked to the evolution of Earth’s biosphere. Here at Yale, Leslie’s research is focused on developing new methods for assessing marine pH conditions in the geological past. The aim is to provide additional constraints marine pH, and by extension atmospheric CO2 levels, during Cenozoic climate events such as the Middle Eocene Climate Optimum. This research utilizes novel isotopic measurements and surface complexation modeling of iron oxides. Leslie is working with Dr. Noah Planavsky in the Department of Geology and Geophysics. |
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Karolina Heyduk, Ph.D. |
July 2018 - December 2019 |
Sponsor: Erika Edwards, Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Research: Originally from the Midwest, Karolina completed a bachelors of science in Economics and the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2011. From there she went to the University of Georgia, where she graduated with a PhD in Plant Sciences in 2015. Karolina worked as a post-doc for two years at UGA before coming to Yale. Her research is on the evolution of specialized photosynthetic pathways in plants. She integrates plant physiology, genomics, and phylogenetics to understand how modifications to plant photosynthesis arose, and how they are maintained today. Karolina is working with Dr. Erika Edwards in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. |
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| Luke Parry, Ph.D. | February 2018 - December 2019 |
Sponsor: Derek Briggs, Professor, Department of Geology & Geophysics Research: Luke completed his PhD on fossil annelids at the University of Bristol in 2017. Prior to coming to Yale he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Royal Ontario Museum and University of Toronto in Canada. Luke’s research at Yale focuses on understanding the origin of animal body plans, with particular focus on spiralians (molluscs, segmented worms and their close relatives). Much of this research is on fossil material from the Cambrian Period (541-485 million years ago) as well as comparative work on the morphology and phylogeny of extant organisms. |
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Maria Natalia Umana Medina, Ph.D. |
July 2017 - December 2019 |
Sponsor: Liza Comita, Assistant Professor, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. Research: Natalia’s research at Yale, aims to identify ecological processes driving shifts in tree community composition and structure along a rainfall gradient in a tropical forest in Panama. |
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Josh Daskin, Ph.D. |
September 2017 - August 2019 | Research: Josh is a community and conservation ecologist with research focused on (1) how war and its aftermath affect wildlife populations, habitat loss, and human use of natural resources, and (2) how anthropogenic alteration of hydrological regimes affects ecosystems. The latter includes effects on biodiversity of climate- and land use-driven impacts on seasonal inundation patterns in tropical floodplains, and of climate-driven declines in temperate-zone snowpack. | |
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Ines Zucker, Ph.D. |
October 2016 - October 2018 |
Research: Dr. Ines Zucker’s postdoctoral research in the Elimelech research group focuses on the development of nanotechnology-based solutions for water decontamination, as well as environmental and health impacts of nanotechnology. |
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Oliver Griffith, Ph.D. |
September 2015 - August 2017 |
Sponsor: Gunter Wagner, Professor, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Research: Identifying the processes that underpin the evolution of pregnancy in vertebrates, including reptiles; understanding how pregnancy and specifically the evolution of a placenta interacts with the environment, and how this interaction may help or hurt organisms in a changing climate. |
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Chun Ho (Jason) Lam, Ph.D. |
July 2015 - June 2017 |
Sponsor: Paul Anastas, School of Forestry & Environmental Studies Research: “A path to fossil-free chemical feedstocks to alleviate global warming: Electrocatalytic upgrading of depolymerized lignin and industrial waste to value-added products” |
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Charlotte O’Brien, Ph.D. |
September 2015 - September 2017 |
Sponsor: Mark Pagani, Professor, Department of Geology & Geophysics Research: Estimating global temperatures for the late Oligocene Epoch, which occurred from about 33.9 to 23 million years ago |
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Adam Roddy, Ph.D. |
April 2015 - March 2017 |
Sponsor: Craig Brodersen, Assistant Professor, School of Forestry & Environmental Studies Research: Evolutionary transitions in the structure-function relationships of flowers |
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Lindsey Swierk, Ph.D. |
July 2015 - June 2017 |
Sponsor: David Skelly, Professor, School of Forestry & Environmental Studies Research: Understanding amphibian responses to suburbanization |
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Lauren Smith, Ph.D. |
September 1, 2014 - August 31, 2016 |
Sponsor: Oswald Schmitz, Oastler Professor of Population and Community Ecology, School of Forestry & Environmental Studies Research: Do invasive plants that promote predators fundamentally alter ecosystem functioning? |
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Erin Saupe, Ph.D. |
August 1, 2014 - July 31, 2016 |
Sponsor: Derek Briggs, G. Evelyn Hutchinson Professor of Geology & Geophysics Research: Evolution and climate change: Elucidating the controls on species’ responses to 4myr of environmental change in the Atlantic Coastal Plain, USA |
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Peter Cowman, Ph.D. |
May 15, 2014 - May 14, 2016 |
Sponsor: Thomas Near, Professor, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Research: Mechanistic processes and genomic evolution in marine biodiversity hotspots: Do coral reefs promote diversity through accelerated rates of molecular change? |
Research Fellow in Ecosystem Dynamics, ARC Center of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University, Queensland, Australia |
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Sara Kuebbing, Ph.D. |
June 1, 2014 - May 31, 2016 |
Sponsor: Mark Bradford, Professor, School of Forestry & Environmental Studies Research: Testing predictions in field and laboratory experiments on invasive functional trait analysis, litter decomposition and field litter-addition |
Postdoctoral Researcher, Bradford Lab, Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies New Haven, CT |
Giovanna Carpi, Ph.D |
July 1, 2013 - June 30, 2015 |
Sponsor: Maria Diuk-Wassar, Assistant Professor, Yale School of Public Health Research: Linking vertebrate diversity with tick-borne pathogen species and genome-wide diversity |
Associate Research Scientist in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Yale University New Haven, CT |
| Jesse Berman, Ph.D. | August 1, 2013 - July 31, 2015 |
Sponsor: Michelle Bell, Assistant Professor, Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies Research: Research to examine how drought in the United States affects levels of airborne particles and thereby impacts the risk of mortality and illness for respiratory diseases |
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Baltimore, MD |
| Susanna Messinger, Ph.D. | July 1, 2012 - June 30, 2014 |
Sponsor: David Vasseur, Assistant Professor, Yale Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Research: Understanding the mechanisms governing the distribution and abundance of the more than 8 million species that inhabit earth |
Data Analyst, Zions Bancorporation Salt Lake City, UT |
| Arthur Middleton, Ph.D. | September 1, 2012 - August 31, 2014 |
Sponsor: David Skelly, Professor of Ecology, Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies Research: Linking prey behavior to population and ecosystem-level pattern: What drives variation in the strength of risk effects among temperate ungulates? |
Associate Research Scientist, Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies New Haven, CT |
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Bridget Nugent, Ph.D. |
August 1, 2012 - July 31, 2014 |
Sponsor: Suzanne Alonzo, Assistant Professor, Yale Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Research: Understanding the proximate mechanisms that give rise to variation within and across species and thereby provide a substrate for selection and diversification that is critical to understanding the origins of biodiversity in wild species that may help to explain phenotypic variation in other organisms through comparative studies |
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine Philadelphia, PA |
| Matthew Ogburn, Ph.D. | September 1, 2012 - August 31, 2014 |
Sponsor: Michael Donoghue, Sterling Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Research: Community assembly, niche evolution, and the future of alpine plant communities |
Assistant Professor of Biology, Southern Utah University Cedar City, UT |
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Isabelle Kruta, Ph.D. |
August 25, 2011 (completed 2nd year in August 2014) |
Sponsor: Derek Briggs, G. Evelyn Hutchinson Professor of Geology & Geophyics Research: Role of ammonites in the Mesozoic food web |
Research Associate, American Museum of Natural History New York, NY |
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Matthew Niemiller, Ph.D. |
September 1, 2011 - August 31, 2013 |
Sponsor: Thomas Near, Professor, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Research: Cryptic diversity and speciation in cave organisms: delimiting species and evolutionary history in the southern cavefish (Typhlichthys subterraneus)
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Illinois Natural History Survey, Prairie Research Institute, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Champaign, IL |
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Jay Zarnetske, Ph.D. |
October 1, 2012 - August 31, 2013 |
Sponsors: James Saiers and Peter Raymond, Professors at the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies Research: Watershed hydrology, aquatic ecology, ecosystem informatics, hydrogeology, stable isotope biogeochemistry and global water resource issues |
Assistant Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, Michigan State University East Lansing, MI |
| Adrian Ghilardi, Ph.D. | September 1, 2011 - August 31, 2013 |
Sponsor: Robert Bailis, Professor, School of Forestry & Environmental Studies
Research: Charcoal-driven degradation in secondary forests: Conserving biodiversity while maintaining production levels using opportunities under REDD+
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Associate Professor, Environmental Geography Research Centre, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) Mexico City, Mexico |
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Daniel Rosauer, Ph.D. |
August 15, 2010 - June 30, 2012 |
Sponsor: Walter Jetz, Associate Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Research: Biodiversity informatics, macroevolution and conservation science |
Research Fellow, College of Medicine, Biology and Environment, Australian National University Canberra, Austalia |
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Nina Lehr, Ph.D. |
May 17, 2010 - May 16, 2012 |
Sponsor: Jeffrey Townsend, Associate Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Research: The evolution of gene expression underlying sexual development in fungi |
Postdoctoral Associate, Strobel Lab, Department of Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry, Yale University New Haven, CT |
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Valerie Fuchs, Ph.D. |
August 16, 2010 - August 15, 2012 |
Sponsor: Julie Zimmerman, Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering Research: Optimizing ecosystem benefits through water systems infrastructure location |
Water Resources Engineer, Brown and Caldwell Seattle, WA |
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Matthew Walsh, Ph.D. |
July 1, 2009 - June 30, 2011 |
Sponsor: David Post, Associate Professor in the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Research: The link between environmental heterogeneity and evolutionary change in coastal lake ecosystems |
Assistant Professor of Biology, Department of Biology, University of Texas Arlington Arlington, TX |
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Andrea Gloria-Soria, Ph.D. |
August 1, 2009 - July 31, 2011 |
Sponsor: Leo Buss, Professor in the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Research: Characterization of the allelic variation on the allorecognition complex of Hydractinia symbiolongicarpus |
Associate Research Scientist, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Yale University New Haven, CT |
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Christopher Clark, Ph.D. |
June 1, 2009 - May 31, 2011 |
Sponsor: Rick Prum, William Coe Robinson Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology (EEB), Professor at the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies Research: The mechanics and diversity of feather-generated sounds in birds |
Assistant Professor of Biology, Department of Biology, University of California Riverside Riverside, CA |
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Nicholas Longrich, Ph.D. |
August 1, 2008 - July 31, 2010 |
Sponsor: Jacques Gauthier
Professor of Geology and Geophysics and Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology and Vertebrate Zoology, Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History Research:
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath Bath, UK |
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Christopher Gilbert, Ph.D.
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August 1, 2008 - July 31, 2010
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Sponsors: Andrew Hill, Clayton Stephenson Class of 1954 Professor of Anthropology and Eric Sargis, Associate Professor of Anthropology
Research: Paleoenvironments and the biodiversity, biogeography and phylogenetic history of African cercopithecoid monkeys
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Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Hunter College CUNY New York, NY |
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Michael Dodd, Ph.D.
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October 1, 2008 -
September 30, 2009
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Sponsor: William Mitch, Associate Professor of Chemical and Environmental Engineering
Research: The influence of solar irradiation-generated halogen radicals on processing of marine dissolved organic matter: implications for oceanic photic zone depth and organic carbon bioavailability
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Associate Professor of Environmental Engineering, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Washington Seattle, WA |
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Austin Hendy, Ph.D.
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October 1, 2007 - September 30, 2009 |
Sponsor: Derek E.G. Briggs, Frederick W. Beinecke Professor of Geology & Geophysics
Research: Consequences of variations in large-scale environmental transitions (e.g. tectonic, climatic and sea level change) on the structure and diversity of past marine ecosystems
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Collections Manager, Invertebrate Paleontology, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Los Angeles, CA |
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Matthew Brandley, Ph.D.
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September 1, 2008 - August 31, 2010
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Sponsor: Tom Near, Assistant Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Research: Developmental processes of morphological diversity and their evolutionary response to climate change
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Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Biological Sciences, University of Sydney Sydney, Australia |
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Katy L. Prudic, Ph.D.
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October 1, 2007 - August 31, 2010 |
Sponsor: Antonia Monteiro, Assistant Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Research: Function of border eyespots in butterflies (do eyespots function as an anti-predator defense, or in butterfly mate recognition and choice?)
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Research Scientist, Department of Integrative Biology, Oregon State University Corvallis, OR |
| David Zinniker, Ph.D. | September 2006 - August 2008 |
Sponsor: Mark Pagani, Associate Professor of Geology & Geophysics
Research: Intersection of the earth and life sciences, including organic geochemistry, micropaleontology, sedimentary geology, basin analysis, and petroleum systems
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Dror Hawlena, Ph.D.
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January 2007 - December 2008 |
Sponsors: Oswald Schmitz, Oastler Professor of Population & Community Ecology, Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies
Research: The way disease agents and predators interact to alter the behavior of the species of host/prey that they share
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Ecology, Evolution & Behavior, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Jerusalem, Israel |
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Barry Alto, Ph.D.
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September 2006 - August 2008 |
Sponsor: Paul Turner, Associate Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Research: Biostatistics and the ecology and evolution of arthropod-borne RNA viruses
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Assistant Professor in arbovirology, Florida Medical Entomology Lab, University of Florida Vero Beach, FL |
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Tracy Langkilde, Ph.D.
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September 2005 - August 2007 |
Sponsor: Professor David Skelly, School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Research: Incorporating evolutionary theory into biodiversity conservation: how rapidly and effectively can native communities evolve to minimize the impact of invasive species?
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Associate Professor and Head of Biology, Department of Biology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA |
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Margaret Evans, Ph.D. |
September 2005 - July 2006;
July 2007 - August 2008
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Sponsors: Michael Donoghue, G. Evelyn Hutchinson Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and Stephen Stearns, Edward P. Bass Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Research: Research in basic and applied plant evolutionary ecology, particularly in the fields of life history evolution, demography and population modeling
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Assistant Research Professor, EEB and Dendrochronology, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona Tucson, AZ |
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Helen Nguyen, Ph.D.
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June 2005 - May 2007 |
Sponsor: Menachem Elimelech, Professor in Environmental Engineering
Research: Adsorption of genetic materials to soil minerals: implications for horizontal gene transfer in the environment
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Associate Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Urbana, IL |
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Craig Layman, Ph.D. |
July 2004 - June 2006 |
Sponsor: David Post, Professor, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Research: To address (1) does ecosystem size affect food chain length in Caribbean estuaries, and if so (2) which measure(s) of ecosystem size (e.g. water volume of estuaries, catchment surface area, amount of tidal flow, or “resource “shed” – the total area from which an ecosystem derives resources) is most useful in accounting for differences in FCL. |
Associate Professor, Department of Applied Ecology, North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC |
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Gregory Dietl, Ph.D. |
August 2004 - July 2006 |
Sponsor: Derek Briggs, Professor, Department of Geology & Geophysics Research: Circumstances under which evolution occurs with particular interest in arms races between species in evolution |
Director of Collections, Paleontological Research Institute & Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Cornell University Ithaca, NY |
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Stephen Meyers, Ph.D. |
October 2003 - September 2005 |
Sponsor: Mark Pagani, Professor, Geology & Geophysics Research: Quantifying Holocene climate response to the North Atlantic oscillation; the origin and stability of centennial-millennial scale cyclicity in quaternary |
Assistant Professor, Department of Geoscience, University of Wisconsin, Madison Madison, WI |
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Benjamin Twining, Ph.D. |
August 2003 - July 2005 |
Sponsor: Gaboury Benoit, Professor, School of Forestry & Environmental Studies Research: Use of a combination of synchrotron-based x-ray fluorescence microscopy, AAS/and/or ICP-MS, and voltammetric techniques to study the factors controlling the accumulation of metals by estuarine biota |
Senior Research Scientist & Director of Research and Education, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences East Boothbay, ME |
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Amy Russell, Ph.D. |
August 2003 - July 2005 |
Sponsor: Anne Yoder, Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Research: Evolutionary history and biogeography of chameleons in a megadiversity hotspot |
Associate Professor, Department of Biology, Grand Valley State University Allendale, MI |
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Susanna Remold, Ph.D. |
October 2002 - September 2004 |
Sponsor: Paul Turner, Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Research: Environmental heterogeneity and the evolutions of genetic architecture in viruses; career consequences of expertise with mammalian pathogens |
Associate Professor, Department of Biology, University of Louisville Louisville, KY |
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Klaus Meiners, Ph.D. |
January 2003 - December 2004 |
Sponsor: John Wettlaufer, Professor, Geology & Geophysics Research: The ecology of frozen oceans - controls on primary production in sympagic communities |
Research Scientist, Sea Ice Ecology, Australian Antarctic Division’s Climate Processes and Change program & Antarctic Climate & Ecosystems Cooperative Research Center’s Ecosystem Impacts program |
| Jenney Hall, Ph.D. | August 2002 - July 2004 |
Sponsor: Karl K. Turekian, Sterling Professor of Geology & Geophysics Research: Paleoceanographic and climate change reconstruction over various time scales |
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| Jeremy Redman, Ph.D. |
July 2001 - June 2003 |
Sponsor: Menachem Elimelech, Roberto C. Goizueta Professor of Chemical Engineering; Professor, Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies Research: Bacterial transport in aquatic systems; interpreting microbial deposition patterns |
Lecturer, Civil Engineering & Construction Engineering Management Department, California State University at Long Beach Long Beach, CA |
| Luciano Beheregaray, Ph.D. | July 2001 - June 2003 |
Sponsor: Gisella Caccone, Director, ECOSAVE Conservation Genetics Laboratory; Lecturer, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Research: Evolution and conservation of Giant Galápagos Tortoises; patterns of diversification in Amazonian fishes |
ARC Future Fellow, School of Biological Sciences, Flinders University Adelaide, South Australia |
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Campbell Webb, Ph.D. |
September 2000 - August 2002 |
Sponsors: Mark Ashton, Professor of Silviculture and Forest Ecology, Director of School Forests; and Michael Donoghue, G. Evelyn Hutchinson Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Research: Comparative phylogenetic structure of rain forest tree communities |
Research Associate, Arnold Arboretum, Harvard University Kalimantan, Indonesia |
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Claudio Ciofi, Ph.D. |
July 2000 - June 2002 |
Sponsors: Dr. Gisella Caccone, ECOSAVE Conservation Genetics Laboratory and Lecturer, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology; and Jeffrey Powell, Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Research: Genetics and ecology of island reptiles; established long-term collaboration with both US and foreign Institutions aimed at the management and conservation of endangered species |
Associate Professor, Department of Biology, University of Florence Firenze, Italy |
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Ofer Ovadia, Ph.D. |
July 1999 - June 2001 |
Sponsor: Oswald Schmitz, Oastler Professor of Population & Community Ecology and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, School of Forestry & Environmental Studies; Professor, Ecology/Evolutionary Biology Research: Effect of state-dependent decision making of individual herbivores on food web dynamics |
Lecturer in Ecology & Evolution, Ben‑Gurion University of the Negev Be’er Sheva, Israel |
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Douglas Gollin, Ph.D. |
July 1999 - June 2001 |
Sponsor: Professor Robert Evenson, Economic Growth Center Research: Impact of international agricultural research on the sustainable production of crops; management of materials in agricultural gene banks |
Professor of Development Economics, Department of International Development, Oxford University Oxford, England |
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Joseph Kiesecker, Ph.D. |
July 1997 - June 1999 |
Sponsor: Professor David Skelly, School of Forestry & Environmental Studies Research: Disease ecology – investigating the influence of fungal pathogens on the distribution of larval amphibians and dynamics of their communities |
Lead Scientist, Conservation Lands Team, The Nature Conservancy |
Past YIBS Postdoctoral Associates |
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Federico Spada, Ph.D. |
July 1, 2010 - June 30, 2012 |
Sponsor: Sabatino Sofia, Professor, Astronomy Research: Solar structural variability and its influence on Earth climate |
Karl Schwarzschild Fellow, Potsdam, Germany |
| Berat Haznedaroglu, Ph.D. | May 1, 2010 - April 30, 2012 |
Sponsor: Jordan Peccia, Assistant Professor, Environmental Engineering Research: Microalgae lipid analysis and bioinformatics |
Assistant Professor, Institute of Environmental Sciences, Bogaziçi University Istanbul, Turkey |
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Li-Qing, Jiang, Ph.D. |
March 2010 - February 2011 |
Sponsor: Peter Raymond, Associate Professor, School of Forestry & Environmental Studies Research: The impact of seasonal hypoxia on carbon dioxide in large estuarine systems – a case study of the Long Island Sound |
Assistant Research Scientist, College Park, MD |
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Philip Larese-Casanova, Ph.D. |
August 10, 2009 - August 9, 2010 |
Sponsor: Ruth Blake, Professor, Department of Geology & Geophysics Research: Improving bioremediation of groundwater contamination using δ 18O stable isotope signatures |
Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Northeastern University Boston, MA |
| Henry Wilson, Ph.D. | July 20, 2009 - July 19, 2011 |
Sponsor: James Saiers, Professor of Hydrology and Associate Dean of Academic Affairs at the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, and Professor of Chemical Engineering Research: Determining the role played by hydrological events in mediating dissolved organic matter (DOM) dynamics and related in-stream processes |
Research Scientist, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Brandon, Manitoba |
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Chad Vecitis, Ph.D. |
March 16, 2009 - March 15, 2011 |
Sponsor: Menachem Elimelech, Roberto C. Goizueta Professor of Chemical Engineering; Chairman, Chemical Engineering & Director of the Environmental Engineering Program; Professor, School of Forestry & Environmental Studies Research: Anti-microbial activity of single-walled carbon nanotubes, with investigations into membrane stress mediated toxicity |
Associate Professor of Environmental Engineering, Cambridge, MA |
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Alexander Jih-Pai Lin, Ph.D. |
August 1, 2008 - July 31, 2010 |
Sponsor: Derek Briggs, William Beinecke Professor of Geology & Geophysics Research: The uniqueness of Cambrian paleoecology and closure of the Cambrian taphonomic window |
Associate Professor, Department of Geosciences, National Taiwan University Taipei, Taiwan |
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Linda Puth, Ph.D. |
August 2002 - July 2004 |
Sponsor: Professor David Skelly Research: Putting the parts together: A holistic treatment of invasion |
Lecturer in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Yale University New Haven, CT |