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Associate Professor, Case Western Reserve University
Graduation year: 2006Thesis: Consumer-resource interactions, population synchrony, and cycles : population dynamics in time and spaceAdvisor: Greg Dwyer -
Professor, National Institute of Genetics, Japan
Graduation year: 1996Thesis: Natural selection and the population genetics of synonymous DNA mutations in DrosophilaAdvisor: Marty Kreitman -
Professor, Duke University
Graduation year: 1992Thesis: Maturation and dispersal in male baboons: (Papio cynocephalus)Advisor: Jeanne Altmann -
Associate Dean of Students and Executive Director, Medical Scientist Training Program (MD-PhD), UChicago
Graduation year: 2009Thesis: The Role of Local Adaptation in Natural Populations of Arabidopsis thalianaAdvisor: Joy Bergelson -
Statistical Analyst at FiveThirtyEight
Graduation year: 2015Thesis: Computational Approaches Toward the Integration of Functional and Comparative Data in the Evolution of Gene RegulationAdvisor: Ilya Ruvinsky -
Associate Professor, University of Georgia
Graduation year: 2002Thesis: Evolutionary analyses of transcriptional control sequences in DrosophilaAdvisor: Marty Kreitman -
Postdoctoral Researcher, Argonne National Laboratory
kathybeilsmith@uchicago.eduGraduation year: 2020Thesis: Spatiotemporal patterns in the colonization of Arabidopsis thaliana by native bacterial communities and pathogensAdvisor: Joy Bergelson -
Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University
mcbitter@stanford.eduGraduation year: 2020Thesis: Exploring the dynamics of rapid adaptation to ocean acidification in the Mediterranean musselAdvisor: Cathy Pfister -
Senior Lecturer, Indiana University Bloomington
Graduation year: 2017Thesis: Dynamics of polyandry in spotted sandpipers (Actitis macularius): ornamentation, reproductive success, and testosteroneAdvisor: Stephen Pruett-Jones -
Assistant Professor, Los Andes University, Columbia
Graduation year: 2014Thesis: Evolution of visual pigments in old and new world warblers: from genes to functionsAdvisor: Trevor Price -
CEO, Scotsman Guide Media
Graduation year: 2003Thesis: Establishment, spread, and impact of the introduced Japanese seaweed, Sargassum muticum, in the San Juan Islands, WashingtonAdvisor: Cathy Pfister -
Senior Scientist, Century Therapeutics, Philadelphia
Graduation year: 2012Thesis: The evolution of gene regulatory architecture, insights from modeling natural selection and biological functionAdvisor: Molly Przeworski -
Postdoctoral researcher, MIT
whchang@uchicago.eduGraduation year: 2022Thesis: Conserved but not identical: The evolution of an essential gene network in DrosophilaAdvisor: Martin Kreitman -
Head of Research Group Biodiversity Synthesis, iDiv
Graduation year: 1999Thesis: Size-structured interactions and multiple domains of attraction in pond food websAdvisor: Mathew Leibold and Tim Wootton -
Associate Professor, Yale School of Medicine
Graduation year: 2011Thesis: Origin of essential functions and evolution of phenotypesAdvisor: Manyuan Long -
VP Commercial Operations, Oxford Nanopore Technologies
Graduation year: 2009Thesis: Interactions Between Mating System, Dispersal and Genetic Structure in KelpAdvisor: Cathy Pfister -
Computational Research Scientist in the Cobey Lab
mvieira@uchicago.eduGraduation year: 2020Thesis: Evolution of adaptability and the immune response to influenza and HIVAdvisor: Sarah Cobey - Graduation year: 1994Thesis: Genetic and phenotypic analysis of hybrid sterility between three sibling species of Drosophila : D. simulans, D. mauritiana, and D. sechelliaAdvisor: Chung-I Wu
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kdixon@uchicago.edu
Graduation year: 2024Thesis: Interacting effects of host-pathogen ecology and evolution and climate change on outbreaks of a forest pest insectAdvisor: Greg Dwyer - Graduation year: 1993Thesis: Microgeographic variation in sexual selection in the mountain spiny lizard, Sceloporous jarroviAdvisor: Stevan Arnold
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Robert F. Durden Professor of Biology, Duke University
Graduation year: 1993Thesis: The evolution of seed disperal in Cakile edentula var. lacustisAdvisor: Ellen Simms -
Alumni Professor of Zoology, Ohio Wesleyan University
Graduation year: 2001Thesis: The role of biological diversity for the functioning and stability of pond ecosystemsAdvisor: Mathew Leibold and Tim Wootton -
Assistant Professor, Huntington University
Graduation year: 2004Thesis: Effects of movement behavior, space and nonlinearity on interaction rates within and between populationsAdvisor: Greg Dwyer -
Curator and Chair of Birds and Mammals at the California Academy of Sciences.
Graduation year: 1997Thesis: The ecology and evolution of chemical defense in the avaian genus PitohuiAdvisor: Stephen Pruett-Jones -
Science Educator in Chicago
Graduation year: 2012Thesis: The effects of host feeding behavior on insect-pathogen interactions and insect outbreaksAdvisor: Greg Dwyer -
Assistant Professor, University of California at Irvine
Graduation year: 2006Thesis: Evolution of genomic noveltiesAdvisor: Manyuan Long -
fialko@uchicago.edu
Graduation year: 2023Thesis: Building visual signal complexity through modifications of color and motionAdvisor: Trevor Price -
Director of Research Programs and Business Development, BSD, Center for Translational Data Science, UChicago
Graduation year: 2009Thesis: Environmental Determinants of Microbial Community Composition and its Relevence to EcosystemsAdvisor: Tim Wootton and Mike Miller -
Professor, Universidad del Turabo
Graduation year: 1989Thesis: Reproductive biology of Ludwigia peploides peploides and Ludwigia peploides glabrescensAdvisor: Doug Schemske -
Director of Computational Engineering, Genentech, San Francisco
Graduation year: 2007Thesis: Combining models with empirical data to examine dispersal mechanisms in the gypsy moth-nucleopolyhedrovirus host-pathogen systemAdvisor: Greg Dwyer -
Senior Scientist, Computational Epidemiologist, Johns Hopkins
Graduation year: 2017Thesis: Combining high-performance computing and ecological field experiments to understand insect outbreaksAdvisor: Greg Dwyer -
Director of Analytics, TMX Credit
Graduation year: 2008Thesis: Polymorphism and fitness effects of resistance genes in Arabidopsis thalianaAdvisor: Joy Bergelson -
Assistant Professor, Northeastern Illinois University
Graduation year: 2004Thesis: Effect of terrestrial subsidies on structure, functioning, and dynamics of food webs in pond ecosystemsAdvisor: Mathew Leibold -
Assistant Professor, University of Florida
Graduation year: 2005Thesis: Ecology and evolution of the interaction between the plant host Arabidopsis thaliana and its natural bacterial pathogen Pseudomonas viridiflavaAdvisor: Joy Bergelson -
Computational Biologist at Hudson Alpha
Graduation year: 2014Thesis: Disentangling the processes that shape genetic diversity in a widespread, polyploid grass: insights from new genomic methodsAdvisor: Joy Bergelson -
Project Leader, Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Graduation year: 2010Thesis: Vocal Communication in Splendid Fairy Wrens (Malurus splendens)Advisor: Stephen Pruett-Jones -
Professor, Towson University
Graduation year: 1990Thesis: Pattern and process in an aquatic invertebrate communityAdvisor: Monte Lloyd -
Assistant Professor, Aquatic Genetics, School of Biology and Ecology, University of Maine
Graduation year: 2009Thesis: Abiotic and Biotic Drivers of Exotic Species Success in Marine Fouling Communities of Washington, U.S.A.Advisor: Cathy Pfister -
Professor, Cornell
Graduation year: 2003Thesis: Expression divergence and functional redundancy between duplicate genes in yeastAdvisor: Wen-Hsiung Li -
Professor, Indiana University
Graduation year: 2003Thesis: Species sorting and biomass partitioning along light : nutrient predation risk gradients in planktonic pond ecosystemsAdvisor: Mathew Leibold -
Assistant Professor, University of Iowa
Graduation year: 2012Thesis: Use of Drosophila natural variation to study the role of positive selection in cis-regulatory evolution and the genetic basis of a complex disease traitAdvisor: Marty Kreitman -
Director of Data Science, Castell
Graduation year: 2013Thesis: The host-genetic factors that shape Arabidopsis thaliana's microbial communityAdvisor: Joy Bergelson -
Principal Scientist, Abbott Labs
Graduation year: 2011Thesis: Fine Mapping Genetic Factors Involved in Host Plant Tolerance in Drosophila sechellia and Reproductive Isolation in Two Races of D. melanogasterAdvisor: Chung-I Wu -
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Michigan
Graduation year: 2016Thesis: Drivers and Consequences of Intraspecific Trait Variation: Ecology of a Forest-Stream CommunityAdvisor: Tim Wootton -
Director, Data Management and Interoperability, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research
Graduation year: 2000Thesis: Population genetic investigations in Drosophila and SaccharomycesAdvisor: Brian Charlesworth and Marty Kreitman -
Assistant Professor, Biodesign Center for Mechanisms of Evolution, Arizona State University
Graduation year: 2017Thesis: Experimental and computational analysis of canalization and its relation to evolutionAdvisor: John Reinitz -
Assistant Professor, Yale-National University of Singapore College
Graduation year: 1997Thesis: Sexual cannibalism, sexual selection, and the mating system of a sexually cannibalistic praying mantidAdvisor: Stephen Pruett-Jones -
Research Assistant Professor, University of Nebraska
Graduation year: 2016Thesis: Evolution and Sociality in Fairy Wrens (Aves)Advisor: Stephen Pruett-Jones -
Professor, University of Texas Austin
Graduation year: 1999Thesis: The ecology and evolution of species interactions in the scarlet gilia, Ipomopsis aggregata, systemAdvisor: Joy Bergelson -
Independent Researcher
Graduation year: 2015Thesis: A multi-scale investigation of distributional limits in the mussel Mytilus californianusAdvisor: Tim Wootton -
Professor, Tulane University
Graduation year: 2000Thesis: Evolution and adaptive significance of sexual dimorphism in birdsAdvisor: Stephen Pruett-Jones -
Professor, University of Kansas
Graduation year: 1996Thesis: Kin selection in plants : theory and experiments with Impatiens capensisAdvisor: Michael Wade -
Assistant Professor, Pennsylvania State University
Graduation year: 2012Thesis: Assessing the potential for evolution in the insect baculovirus Lymantria dispar nucleopolyhedrovirusAdvisor: Greg Dwyer -
Postdoctoral Researcher, Harvard
Graduation year: 2018Thesis: Consequences and scalings of population historyAdvisor: John Novembre -
Principal Investigator, MITRE
Graduation year: 2002Thesis: Fitness consequences and the evolution of R gene resistance to pathogen infectionAdvisor: Joy Bergelson -
Legislative Affairs Officer, Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB)
Graduation year: 2014Thesis: The evolution of expression networks driven by a young gene in DrosophilaAdvisor: Manyuan Long -
Statistician, Institute of Education Sciences
Graduation year: 1997Thesis: Sociodemography in diurnal primates : the effects of group size and female dominance rank of intra-group spatial distribution, feeding competition, female reproductive success, and female dispersal patterns in white sifaka, Propithecus verreauxi verreauxiAdvisor: Jeanne Altmann -
Marketing Manager, SynoPay
Graduation year: 2015Thesis: Mechanistic models predicting influence of climate change on epidemics of a fungal pathogen that infects an insect pestAdvisor: Greg Dwyer -
Postdoctoral Researcher, MIT
Graduation year: 2017Thesis: Our Microbial Interaction with Built EnvironmentsAdvisor: Jack Gilbert - Graduation year: 1998Thesis: The effect of breeding system on the level and pattern of molecular variation in plant populationsAdvisor: Deborah Charlesworth and Marty Kreitman
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jiaweiliu@uchicago.edu
Graduation year: 2022Thesis: Effects of climate change on interactions between a forest pest and its natural enemiesAdvisor: Greg Dwyer -
Changjiang Distinguished Professor, Center for Bioinformatics, School of Life Sciences, Peking University
Graduation year: 2008Thesis: Natural selection on the coding and non-coding genes at the genome levelAdvisor: Chung-I Wu -
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Texas Austin
Graduation year: 2016Thesis: Natural Variation in Sequence, Disease Resistance, and Fitness in the R-gene Family of Arabidopsis thalianaAdvisor: Joy Bergelson -
Founder and Director of the Animal Sound Library of the National Museum of Natural Sciences (CSIC) of Madrid
Graduation year: 1990Thesis: Male parental care, sexual selection, and the mating systems of the midwife toads : Alytes obstetricans and Alytes cisternasiiAdvisor: NA -
Post-doc in the Kronforst lab
rmarquezp@uchicago.eduGraduation year: 2020Thesis: The evolutionary, biogeographic, and genetic origin of color pattern diversity in Phyllobates poison-dart frogsAdvisor: Marcus Kronforst -
Postdoctoral Researcher, Harvard
Graduation year: 2017Thesis: Strain diversity and the population dynamics of rotavirusAdvisor: Mercedes Pascual -
Independent Researcher
Graduation year: 2017Thesis: The singing behavior of splendid fairy-wrens (Malurus splendens)Advisor: Stephen Pruett-Jones -
Professor, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Graduation year: 2011Thesis: Postzygotic isolation in Drosophila: Genetic basis and evolutionary consequencesAdvisor: Jerry Coyne -
Assistant Professor, Biology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Graduation year: 2014Thesis: Effects of Ocean Acidification on the Ecology of Crustose Coralline Red Algae (Rhodophyta, Corallinales)Advisor: Cathy Pfister -
Associate Professor, Concordia University
Graduation year: 2015Thesis: Adaptation to coastal environments in Swedish Arabidopsis thalianaAdvisor: Joy Bergelson -
Manager, User Solutions and Scientific Support, Center for Translational Data Science
Graduation year: 2014Thesis: The genetics, biogeography, and locat adaptation of intraspecific variation in defense traits of Arabidopsis thalianaAdvisor: Joy Bergelson -
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Minnesota
Graduation year: 2018Thesis: Structural Inferences: three cases of linking pattern and process in ecological networksAdvisor: Stefano Allesina -
zachmiller@uchicago.edu
Graduation year: 2022Thesis: Theoretical approaches to environmental feedbacks and community coexistenceAdvisor: Stefano Allesina -
Clinical Associate Professor and Director of Prairie Biological Sciences, Biology Department, University of Illinois at Chicago
Graduation year: 1996Thesis: The evolutionary ecology of a gregariously nesting wasp, trypoxylon politumAdvisor: Michael Wade -
Director, Bioconductor Project and Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center
Graduation year: 1993Thesis: Selection and evolution of plant reproductive charactersAdvisor: N/A -
Associate Professor, Colorado State University
Graduation year: 2007Thesis: Inferring mechanisms of regulatory evolution in yeast from expression patterns and genome sequenceAdvisor: Wen Hsiung Li -
Assistant Professor, University of Texas A&M Galveston
Graduation year: 2016Thesis: The role of nitrogen in mediating algal-microbial interactions in a rocky intertidal ecosystemAdvisor: Cathy Pfister -
Senior Principal Scientist, Computational Biology, Bristol Myers Squibb
Graduation year: 2011Thesis: Evolution of Gene Regulation in Drosophila GenomesAdvisor: Kevin White -
Professor, Duke University
Graduation year: 1996Thesis: The evolution of mating discrimination between Drosophila pseudoobscura and D. persimilisAdvisor: Jerry Coyne -
Associate Professor, Oregon State University
Graduation year: 2008Thesis: Trophic omnivory and the structure, strength, and nonlinear nature of species interactions across a productivity gradientAdvisor: Tim Wootton -
Director of Institutional Research, Bowie State University
Graduation year: 2005Thesis: Disturbance components and the structure of tidepool communities : independent and interactive effects of area, magnitude, and temporal variabilityAdvisor: Tim Wootton -
Senior Scientist, Fred Hutch
Graduation year: 1995Thesis: Evolutionary physiology of energy use in reptilesAdvisor: Stevan Arnold -
coldstonemoore@uchicago.edu
Graduation year: 2023Thesis: Microbiome assembly processes in Arabidopsis thalianaAdvisor: Joy Bergelson -
Shirley Cox Kearns Professor of Biology, University of Rochester
Graduation year: 1990Thesis: The genetics of postzygotic reproductive isolation in DrosophilaAdvisor: Jerry Coyne -
Professor, Bowdoin College
Graduation year: 1995Thesis: Molecular and evolutionary genetics of the Segregation Distorter system of meiotic drive in Drosophila melanogasterAdvisor: Chung-I Wu -
Founder, Root Deep Insight
Graduation year: 2006Thesis: Evolution of a gene divided : sequence variation within XG : a gene spanning the great ape pseudoautosomal boundaryAdvisor: Bruce Lahn - Graduation year: 1994Thesis: Genetics of postmating reproductive isolation in Drosophila : investigation of an X-linked hybrid male sterility regionAdvisor: Chung-I Wu
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apillai@uchicago.edu
Graduation year: 2021Thesis: Evolutionary origins of molecular complexity in HemoglobinAdvisor: Joseph Thornton -
Research Fisheries Biologist, US Forest Service
Graduation year: 2002Thesis: Foraging theory, habitat selection and the ecology of a guild of benthic estuarine fishesAdvisor: Cathy Pfister -
Enrolled in Medical School
Graduation year: 2018Thesis: Host heterogeneity and the dynamics of pathogen diversityAdvisor: Sarah Cobey -
Associate Professor, University of Cincinnati
Graduation year: 2000Thesis: Courtship pheromone effects on female receptivity in a plethodontid salamanderAdvisor: Marty Kreitman -
Group Leader, Department of Animal Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW)
Graduation year: 2008Thesis: Sexual selection and sperm competition in the Australian MaluridaeAdvisor: Stephen Pruett-Jones -
Lead Data Scientist, Tempus Labs Inc.
Graduation year: 2017Thesis: Computational Approaches to Characterizing the Tatoosh Middle Intertidal CommunityAdvisor: Stefano Allesina and Tim Wootton -
Research Associate, Universidad de los Andes
Graduation year: 2018Thesis: Disentangling the role of social, economic and environmental heterogeneities in urban malaria transmissionAdvisor: Mercedes Pascual -
satterwhite@uchicago.edu
Graduation year: 2023Thesis: Patterns of pathogenicity in Pseudomonas syringaeAdvisor: Joy Bergelson -
cmarceloservan@uchicago.edu
Graduation year: 2020Thesis: Assembling large ecological communities: A theoretical explorationAdvisor: Stefano Allesina -
Senior Data Scientist, Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation
Graduation year: 2007Thesis: Selection and structure in Drosophila populations during the process of speciationAdvisor: Chung-I Wu -
Research Fishery Biologist, Northwest Fisheries Science Center
Graduation year: 2009Thesis: Persistence in foundational seagrasses : genetics, demography, and community implicationsAdvisor: Tim Wootton -
County Director, Natural Resources, Colorado State University Extension
Graduation year: 1999Thesis: The evolutionary ecology of tropane alkaloidsAdvisor: Joy Bergelson -
Professor, University of California San Diego
Graduation year: 2000Thesis: Local and regional influences on the structure of freshwater zooplankton communitiesAdvisor: Mathew Leibold -
msiddiq@uchicago.edu
Graduation year: 2019Thesis: The role of alcohol dehydrogenase evolution in alcohol adaptation of drosophila melanogasterAdvisor: Joseph Thornton -
Data Scientist, Zymeworks
Graduation year: 2018Thesis: Leveraging Haplotype-Based Inference to Describe Adaptation and SpeciationAdvisor: John Novembre -
rsfive@uchicago.edu
Graduation year: 2021Thesis: Inferring the extent and impact of heterogeneity during emerging virus outbreaksAdvisor: Mercedes Pascual -
Postdoctoral Fellow, Massachusetts General Hospital
Graduation year: 2003Thesis: Functional analysis of the hybrid male sterility gene Odysseus in DrosophilaAdvisor: Chung-I Wu -
Director, Credit Suisse
Graduation year: 2005Thesis: Some rules in protein evolutionAdvisor: Chung-I Wu -
Assistant Professor, Lehigh University
Graduation year: 2013Thesis: Stability, reactivity and persistence of large ecosystemsAdvisor: Stefano Allesina -
atengertrolander@uchicago.edu
Graduation year: 2020Thesis: Maintenance and loss of migration and migration-associated phenotypes in monarch butterfliesAdvisor: Marcus Kronforst -
Associate Professor, Michigan State University
Graduation year: 2000Thesis: Vertebrate host community composition and the dynamics of borrelia burgdorferi, the etiologic agent of lyme disease : theory and experimentsAdvisor: Tim Wootton -
Research Scientist, Ancestry
Graduation year: 2011Thesis: Genomic evolution and incipient speciation in Drosophila melanogasterAdvisor: Chung-I Wu -
Program Analyst, NOAA
Graduation year: 2015Thesis: Multiple responses of an intertidal predator to seasonal variation in prey abundance, and their effects at different time scalesAdvisor: Tim Wootton -
ventura@uchicago.edu
Graduation year: 2019Thesis: Functional evolution of young retrogenes with regulatory roles in DrosophilaAdvisor: Manyuan Long -
Faculty Instructor, Baylor College of Medicine
Graduation year: 2012Thesis: Evolution of genes and genomes with different sex determination systemsAdvisor: Manyuan Long -
Postdoctoral Researcher, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
Graduation year: 2018Thesis: Regional influences on community structure across the tropical-temperate divideAdvisor: Trevor Price -
hwhitehurst@uchicago.edu
Graduation year: 2023Thesis: Diversity and heritability in Arabidopsis thaliana leaf microbiomesAdvisor: Joy Bergelson -
Portfolio Manager, PIMCO
Graduation year: 2005Thesis: Determinants of gene duplication and evolution of gene expressionAdvisor: Wen-Hsiung Li -
Ecologist, EPA Gulf Ecology Division
Graduation year: 2006Thesis: Combining spatio-temporal models with data to understand the spatial dynamics of a treehopper populationAdvisor: Greg Dwyer -
Professor, Georgia Tech
Graduation year: 2000Thesis: Molecular variation and the evolution of newly developing sex chromosomes of Drosophila mirandaAdvisor: Manyuan Long -
Research Fellow, Harvard University
Graduation year: 2004Thesis: Evolution of new functionalities in a young chimerical drosophila gene, JingweiAdvisor: Manyuan Long -
Senior Manager, American Express
Graduation year: 2005Thesis: Evolutionary dynamics and fate of young duplicate genes in eukaryotesAdvisor: Wen-Hsiung Li