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 Munoz Research Interests: ecophysiological evolution, herpetology, adaptive radiation, phylogenetic comparative methods Year joined department: 2021
	Arielle Biro Graduate Student 165 Prospect St., New Haven, CT 06511 arielle.biro@yale.edu Lab Group: Carla Staver Research Interests: Nitrogen fixation, plant-soil feedbacks, plant nutrient acquisition, mycorrhizal fungi, bacterial and fungal plant symbionts, savanna ecology Year joined department: 2017
	Elizabeth Blackmore Graduate Student elizabeth.blackmore@yale.edu Year joined department: 2023
	Brooke Bodensteiner Graduate Student 21 Sachem St., New Haven, CT 06511 brookelee.bodensteiner@yale.edu Website Lab Group: Martha Munoz Research Interests: Better understanding of the evolutionary patterns and timing of adaptive radiations. (Evolutionary ecology; thermal physiology; phylogenetic comparative methods) Year joined department: 2019
	Chase Brownstein Graduate Student chase.brownstein@yale.edu 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 Munoz Research Interests: Evolutionary ecology, functional morphology & biomechanics, phylogenetic comparative methods Year joined department: 2019
	Ben Carlson Graduate Student 165 Prospect St., New Haven, CT 06511 ben.carlson@yale.edu Lab Group: Walter Jetz Year joined department: 2014
	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 Research Interests: Evolution of marine invertebrates, 3D genome structure, and comparative genomics. Year joined department: 2023
	Diego Ellis Soto Graduate Student 165 Prospect St., New Haven, CT 06511 diego.ellissoto@yale.edu Lab Group: Walter Jetz Research Interests: global change biology, human-wildlife interactions, movement ecology, remote sensing Year joined department: 2018
	Ava Ghezelayagh Graduate Student 21 Sachem St., New Haven CT 06511 ava.ghezelayagh@yale.edu Lab Group: Tom Near Research Interests: Phylogenetics, Systematics, Ichthyology, Macroevolution, Diversification Year joined department: 2018
	Ian Gilman Graduate Student 165 Prosect St., New Haven, CT 06511 ian.gilman@yale.edu Website Lab Group: Erika Edwards Research Interests: Evolution of photosynthesis, CAM photosynthesis, genomics, and gene regulatory networks. Year joined department: 2017
	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
	Isabela Hernández Rodriguez Graduate Student isabela.hernandezrodriguez@yale.edu 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: Walter Jetz 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 Year joined department: 2023
	Julia Laterza Barbosa Graduate Student 21 Sachem St., New Haven, CT 06511 julia.laterzabarbosa@yale.edu Lab Group: Martha Munoz 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
	Jasmine Mah Graduate Student 165 Prospect St., New Haven, CT 06511 jasmine.mah@yale.edu Lab Group: Casey Dunn Research Interests: Cell type evolution, origin and evolution of complex characters, gene-phenotype relationships Year joined department: 2018
	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 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
	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
	Chantal Parker Graduate Student 21 Sachem St., New Haven, CT 06511 chantal.parker@yale.edu Lab Group: Tom Near Year joined department: 2017
	Josh Randall Graduate Student 165 Prospect St., New Haven, CT 06511 josh.randall@yale.edu Lab Group: Erika Edwards Research Interests: Botany, ecophysiology, plant diversity, urban adaptation, tissue anatomy. Year joined department: 2020
	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 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
	Mansa Srivastav Graduate Student 21 Sachem St., New Haven, CT 06511 mansa.srivastav@yale.edu Lab Group: Michael Donoghue Year joined department: 2017
	Daniel Stadtmauer Graduate Student 300 Heffernan Dr., West Haven, CT 06516 daniel.stadtmauer@yale.edu Lab Group: Gunter Wagner Year joined department: 2017
	Liam Taylor Graduate Student 21 Sachem St., New Haven, 06511 liam.taylor@yale.edu Lab Group: Richard Prum Research Interests: Evolution of delayed reproduction and delayed plumage maturation in birds; Developmental and behavioral perspectives on life history theory; Fieldwork with seabirds (especially gulls) and manakins. Year joined department: 2018
	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 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