Graduate Students

	Namrata Ahuja Graduate Student 165 Prospect St., New Haven, CT 06511 namrata.ahuja@yale.edu Lab Group: Casey Dunn Research Interests: evolution and development of marine invertebrates, novel cell types and characteristics, embryology, comparative studies Year joined department: 2021
	Nathalie Alomar Graduate Student 21 Sachem St., New Haven, CT 06511 nathalie.alomar@yale.edu Lab Group: Martha Muñoz Research Interests: ecophysiological evolution, herpetology, adaptive radiation, phylogenetic comparative methods Year joined department: 2021
	Elizabeth Blackmore Graduate Student elizabeth.blackmore@yale.edu Lab Group: Brandon Ogbunu Year joined department: 2023
	Niklas Blanadet Graduate Student niklas.blanadet@yale.edu Research Interests: Ecosystem ecology, biogeochemistry, nutrient dynamics, plant physiology, biogeography, disturbance ecology Year joined department: 2024
	Chase Brownstein Graduate Student chase.brownstein@yale.edu Lab Group: Thomas Near Research Interests: Phylogenetics, Speciation, Evolvability, Genomics, Fossil Record, Species Depauperacy, Evolutionary Stasis Year joined department: 2023
	Henry Camarillo Graduate Student 21 Sachem St., New Haven, CT 06511 henry.camarillo@yale.edu Lab Group: Martha Muñoz Research Interests: Evolutionary ecology, functional morphology & biomechanics, phylogenetic comparative methods Year joined department: 2019
	Haysun Choi Graduate Student 21 Sachem St, New Haven CT 06511 haysun.choi@yale.edu Lab Group: Richard Prum Research Interests: aesthetic evolution, sexual selection and mate choice, mathematical modeling Year joined department: 2021
	Anri Chomentowska Graduate Student 165 Prospect St., New Haven, CT 06511 anri.chomentowska@yale.edu Lab Group: Erika Edwards Year joined department: 2018
	Dalila Destanovic Graduate Student dalila.destanovic@yale.edu Lab Group: Casey Dunn Research Interests: Evolution of marine invertebrates, 3D genome structure, and comparative genomics. Year joined department: 2023
	Camila Reis Freire Graduate Student camila.freire@yale.edu Research Interests: Open ecosystems dynamics, fire ecology. Year joined department: 2024
	Freddy Gonzalez Graduate Student 165 Prospect St., New Haven, CT 06511 freddy.gonzalez@yale.edu Lab Group: Paul Turner Research Interests: Microbial ecology, phage-mediated community design and using metagenomics to predict & characterize microbial function Year joined department: 2022
	Aleksandra Greshnova Graduate Student aleksandra.greshnova@yale.edu Research Interests: Robustness and evolvability, gene regulatory network evolution, evolution of infectious disease, experimental evolution Year joined department: 2024
	Isabela Hernández Rodriguez Graduate Student isabela.hernandezrodriguez@yale.edu Lab Group: Martha Muñoz Research Interests: Ecophysiological evolution, thermal physiology, neurophysiology, adaptive radiation, developmental biology, comparative morphology. Year joined department: 2023
	Arata Honda Graduate Student 165 Prospect St., New Haven, CT 06511 arata.honda@yale.edu Lab Group: Richard Prum Research Interests: Arboreality and the assembly of life across forest canopies, advancing taxonomic representation & spatial coverage in remote sensing, temporal niche partitioning, tropical biodiversity, ecosystem science, conservation biology & plans, disturbance ecology Year joined department: 2022
	Noah Houpt Graduate Student 165 Prospect St., New Haven, CT 06511 noah.houpt@yale.edu Lab Group: Paul Turner Research Interests: Untangling the dynamics and drivers of microbial adaptation and diversification using experimental evolution. Year joined department: 2021
	Ketty Kabengele Graduate Student 165 Prospect St., New Haven, CT 06511 ketty.kabengele@yale.edu Lab Group: Brandon Ogbunu Research Interests: Experimental evolution in viruses, drug resistance evolution and epidemiology. Year joined department: 2020
	Misha Kummel Graduate Student misha.kummel@yale.edu Lab Group: David Vasseur Year joined department: 2023
	Julia Laterza Barbosa Graduate Student 21 Sachem St., New Haven, CT 06511 julia.laterzabarbosa@yale.edu Lab Group: Martha Muñoz Research Interests: Herpetology, evolutionary physiology, biogeography, phylogenetic comparative methods. Year joined department: 2020
	Richard Li Graduate Student 165 Prospect St., New Haven, CT 06511 richard.li.rl839@yale.edu Lab Group: Walter Jetz Research Interests: Urban ecology, invasion ecology, biogeography, botany, ornithology Year joined department: 2019
	Cody Limber Graduate Student 21 Sachem St., New Haven, CT 06511 cody.limber@yale.edu Lab Group: Richard Prum Research Interests: Birds, feather development and evolution, genomics Year joined department: 2019
	Swathi Nachiar Manivannan Graduate Student swathinachiar.manivannan@yale.edu Lab Group: Brandon Ogbunu Research Interests: Life history traits and eco-evolutionary dynamics of pathogens, host-pathogen interactions, transmission modes of pathogens Year joined department: 2022
	Lauren Mellenthin Graduate Student 165 Prospect St., New Haven, CT 06511 lauren.mellenthin@yale.edu Lab Group: Casey Dunn Research Interests: Siphonophores, Biophysical evolution of Metazoans, and Morphological diversity. Year joined department: 2019
	Marie Norwood Graduate Student marie.norwood@yale.edu Lab Group: Carla Staver Research Interests: Grassland/savanna ecology, fire ecology, disturbance, and restoration. Year joined department: 2023
	Emmanuel Oduro Takyi Graduate Student 165 Prospect St., New Haven, CT 06511 emmanuel.odurotakyi@yale.edu Lab Group: Carla Staver Research Interests: Savanna vegetation dynamics; plants' responses to disturbances. Year joined department: 2022
	Isaac Larbi Osew Graduate Student isaac.osew@yale.edu Research Interests: Disease ecology, host-parasite interaction, co-infection, helminths. Year joined department: 2024
	Oluwatobi Oso Graduate Student 165 Prosect St., New Haven, CT 06511 oluwatobi.oso@yale.edu Lab Group: Erika Edwards Research Interests: Plant anatomy, digital morphometrics, biosystematics, and evolution. Year joined department: 2021
	Alison Robey Graduate Student 165 Prosect St., New Haven, CT 06511 alison.robey@yale.edu Lab Group: David Vasseur Research Interests: : theoretical ecology, species distribution and persistence, spatio-temporal impacts of environmental variability, biodiversity Year joined department: 2021
	Will Rogers Graduate Student 165 Prosect St., New Haven, CT 06511 will.rogers@yale.edu Lab Group: Vanessa Ezenwa Research Interests: Host movement ecology, social behavior, fitness of mixed tolerance/resistance mechanisms, ecoimmunology, phylodynamics, and parasitic community interactions Year joined department: 2021
	Claire Schraidt Graduate Student 165 Prospect St., New Haven, CT 06511 claire.schraidt@yale.edu Lab Group: David Post Research Interests: Rapid evolution, mechanisms for adaptation, secondary contact + hybridization, eco-evo feedbacks. Year joined department: 2022
	Pia Franziska Schwarz Graduate Student piafranziska.schwarz@yale.edu Lab Group: Jenn Coughlan Research Interests: Evolutionary genetics, hybridization and introgression patterns, population genomics, speciation and genome evolution. Year joined department: 2023
	Shubhi Sharma Graduate Student 165 Prosect St., New Haven, CT 06511 shubhi.sharma@yale.edu Lab Group: Walter Jetz Research Interests: climate change, global biodiversity, forest distributions, statistical modelling, spatio-temporal dynamics Year joined department: 2020
	Abigail Skwara Graduate Student abby.skwara@yale.edu Lab Group: David Vasseur Year joined department: 2021
	Hagar Soliman Graduate Student 165 Prospect St., New Haven, CT 06511 hagar.soliman@yale.edu Lab Group: Jenn Coughlan Research Interests: Investigating the evolution of reproductive isolation barriers and revealing the underlying genetic and molecular mechanisms leading to their formation and fixation in plant species from the genus Mimulus Year joined department: 2022
	Pei-Wei Sun Graduate Student pei-wei.sun@yale.edu Year joined department: 2024
	Riley Wadehra Graduate Student 165 Prosect St., New Haven, CT 06511 riley.wadehra@yale.edu Lab Group: Carla Staver Research Interests: ecosystems transitions, theoretical ecology Year joined department: 2021
	Petra Wakker Graduate Student 165 Prospect St., New Haven, CT 06511 petra.wakker@yale.edu Lab Group: David Post Research Interests: Food web ecology, spatiotemporal community dynamics, aquatic ecology and entomology. Year joined department: 2020
	Maggie Weber Graduate Student 165 Prospect St., New Haven, CT 06511 maggie.weber@yale.edu Lab Group: Vanessa Ezanwa Research Interests: Host-parasite interactions within ecological communities, coevolution, coinfection, disease ecology Year joined department: 2022
	Lan Wei Graduate Student l.wei@yale.edu Lab Group: Erika Edwards Year joined department: 2023
	Julia Wood Graduate Student 21 Sachem St., New Haven, CT 06511 julia.wood@yale.edu Lab Group: Tom Near Research Interests: phylogenetics of freshwater fishes, diversification, and speciation Year joined department: 2021