KBS graduate students have a KBS faculty member as an academic advisor and reside here during their graduate training. These top-notch graduate students conduct meaningful research for a global community and are essential to the research and productivity of KBS faculty members.
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Department: Plant Biology
Advisor: Jeff Conner
Year Start: 2022
Research Interests: Plant evolution and ecology, evolutionary genetics, adaptation to environmental change
Department: Integrative Biology
Advisor: Alisha Shah
Year Start: 2023
Research Interests: Freshwater ecology with a focus in thermal biology
Department: Plant Biology
Advisor: Jeff Conner
Year Start: 2020
Research Interests: Phenotypic plasticity, adaptation to environmental change, population genetics
Department: Integrative Biology
Advisor: Fredric Janzen
Year Start: 2022
Research Interests: Turtle behavior and physiology, animal response to climate change
Department: IBIO
Advisor: Nick Haddad
Year Start: 2020
Research Interests: Arthropod demography, native prairie restoration, and Lepidoptera response to global change.
Department: IBIO, EEB
Advisor: Dr. Christopher Kozakiewicz
Year Start: 2024
Research Interests: Zoonotic disease, pathogen transmission, landscape genetics
Department: Integrative Biology; Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior
Advisor: Nick Haddad
Year Start: 2023
Research Interests: Anthropogenic change, butterfly ecology, plant-butterfly interactions, biodiversity, ecosystem ecology
Department: Department of Plant, Soil, and Microbial Sciences
Advisor: Christine Sprunger
Year Start: 2023
Research Interests: Soil health, prairie strips, agroecology, agricultural outreach
Department: Integrative Biology
Advisor: Nick Haddad
Year Start: 2022
Research Interests: Landscape connectivity, plant functional traits, plant-pollinator interactions, community ecology
Department: Integrative Biology & Ecology, Evolutionary Biology, and Behavior (EEBB)
Advisor: Sarah Fitzpatrick
Year Start: 2018
Research Interests: Evolutionary ecology, population genomics, and conservation of amphibians and reptiles
Department: Integrative Biology; Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior (EEB)
Advisor: Sarah Evans
Year Start: 2022
Research Interests: Microbial ecology, plant microbiomes, mycorrhizal-bacterial interactions, microbe-mediated ecosystem services
Department: Fisheries & Wildlife
Advisor: Fredric Janzen
Year Start: 2021
Research Interests: Plasticity and evolution of sex-determining mechanisms, population genetics, reptile conservation
Department: Integrative Biology
Advisor: Sarah Fitzpatrick
Year Start: 2022
Research Interests: Population genomics, conservation biology, evolutionary ecology
Department: Department of Integrative Biology Ecology, Evolution and Behavior Program
Advisor: Alisha Shah
Year Start: 2024
Research Interests: Species responses to climate change along the pond permanence gradient
Department: KBS/Plant Biology/EEB
Advisor: Kadeem Gilbert & Marjorie Weber
Year Start: 2021
Research Interests: Plant-insect interactions, carnivorous plant chemical ecology, convergent pigmentation
Department: Integrative Biology
Advisor: Nick Haddad
Year Start: 2023
Research Interests: restoration ecology, agroecology, landscape ecology, ecosystem services
Department: Integrative Biology
Advisor: Christopher Klausmeier
Year Start: 2021
Research Interests: Trait-based ecology, modeling
Department: Plant Biology
Advisor: Kadeem Gilbert
Year Start: 2023
Research Interests: CAM Photosynthesis, Carnivorous plants, plant-organism interactions
Department: Integrative Biology
Advisor: Kadeem Gilbert, Will Wetzel
Year Start: 2023
Research Interests: herbivory, plant-insect interactions, stochastic processes, quantitative ecology, functional ecology
Department: Integrative Biology
Advisor: Chris Kozakiewicz
Year Start: 2024
Research Interests: Disease ecology, landscape genomics, and conservation
Department: IBIO and EEB
Advisor: Nick Haddad
Year Start: 2024
Research Interests: I am interested in Lepidoptera response to climate and habitat changes.
Department: Integrative Biology
Advisor: Elena Litchman
Year Start: 2021
Research Interests: Harmful algal blooms, primary production in the Great Lakes, and the impacts of climate change in fresh water ecosystems
Department: Integrative Biology, Ecology, Evolution, & Behavior
Advisor: Alisha Shah
Year Start: 2024
Research Interests: community ecology, thermal physiology, host-parasitoid interactions
Department: Plant Biology
Advisor: Jeff Conner
Year Start: 2020
Research Interests: Plasticity and rapid evolution in crop and weed species, eco-evolutionary feedbacks
Department: Integrative Biology
Advisor: Elena Litchman
Year Start: 2021
Research Interests: Plankton ecology, ecological stoichiometry, automated plankton imaging system and image classification
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