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Graduate Students

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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Isabela Borges

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Department: Integrative Biology

Advisor: Sarah Fitzpatrick

Year Start: 2018

Research Interests: Evolutionary ecology, community ecology, adaptation to environmental change

Meaghan Clark

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Portrait of KBS graduate student Meaghan Clark.

Department: IBIO, EEBB

Advisor: Sarah Fitzpatrick

Year Start: 2019

Research Interests: Population genomics, spatial genetic structure, population genetic theory

Stephanie Clark

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Department: IBIO

Advisor: Nick Haddad

Year Start: 2020

Research Interests: Arthropod demography, native prairie restoration, and Lepidoptera response to global change.

Kate Glanville

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Kate Glanville

Department: Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences

Advisor: Phil Robertson

Year Start: 2012

Research Interests: Biochemical cycling in agricultural landscapes, climate change, spatial variation

Ava Garrison

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Ava Garrison

Department: Plant Biology

Advisor: Jeff Conner

Year Start: 2016

Research Interests: Plant evolutionary biology, weed and crop evolution, adaptation to environmental change

Grant Falvo

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Department: Plant, Soil, and Microbial Sciences

Advisor: Phil Robertson

Year Start: 2019

Research Interests: Soil microbial ecology, biogeochemistry, global change

Kyle Jaynes

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Kyles Jaynes

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

Lindsey Kemmerling

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Department: Integrative Biology

Advisor: Nick Haddad

Year Start: 2017

Research Interests: Biodiversity, habitat connectivity, insect movement, ecosystem services

Heather Kittredge

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Heather Kittredge

Department: Integrative Biology & Ecology, Evolutionary Biology and Behavior (EEBB)

Advisor: Sarah Evans

Year Start: 2015

Research Interests: Movement of genetic information through soil microbial communities focusing on horizontal gene transfer

Di Liang

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Di Lang

Department: Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences & Ecology, Evolutionary Biology and Behavior (EEBB)

Advisor: Phil Robertson

Year Start: 2012

Research Interests: biogeochemistry and nitrogen cycling

Robert Logan

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Robert Logan

Department: Integrative Biology & Ecology, Evolutionary Biology and Behavior (EEBB)

Advisor: Sarah Evans

Year Start: 2015

Research Interests: Microbial ecology, arid land biogeochemistry, climate change

Alice Puchalsky

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Department: Integrative Biology

Advisor: Nick Haddad

Year Start: 2019

Research Interests: Lepidoptera conservation, plant-insect interactions, and ecosystem services

Ravi Ranjan

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Ravi Rajan

Department: Plant Biology & Ecology, Evolutionary Biology and Behavior (EEBB)

Advisor: Chris Klausmeier

Year Start: 2015

Research Interests: Eco-evolutionary dynamics, community ecology, theoretical ecology

Corinn Rutkoski

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Department: Integrative Biology

Advisor: Sarah Evans

Year Start: 2019

Research Interests: microbial ecology, soil health, conservation agriculture, public policy, science communication

Robin Waterman

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Advisor: Jeff Conner

Year Start: 2020

Research Interests: Plasticity and rapid evolution in crop and weed species, eco-evolutionary feedbacks

Tayler C. Ulbrich

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Department: Integrative Biology and Ecological Food and Farming Systems Specialization

Advisor: Sarah Evans

Year Start: 2016

Research Interests: Microbial ecology, rhizosphere interations in agricultural settings, climate change

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