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: Integrative Biology
Advisor: Sarah Fitzpatrick
Year Start: 2018
Research Interests: Evolutionary ecology, community ecology, adaptation to environmental change
Department: Integrative Biology & Ecology, Evolutionary Biology and Behavior (EEBB)
Advisor: Tom Getty
Year Start: 2010
Research Interests: Behavioral ecology, kin selection, competition and cooperation
Department: Plant Biology
Advisor: Jeff Conner
Year Start: 2016
Research Interests: Plant evolutionary biology, weed and crop evolution, adaptation to environmental change
Department: Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences
Advisor: Phil Robertson
Year Start: 2012
Research Interests: Biochemical cycling in agricultural landscapes, climate change, spatial variation
Department: Integrative Biology
Advisor: Nick Haddad
Year Start: 2018
Research Interests: Wild bee conservation, habitat restoration, animal dispersal and movement
Department: Integrative Biology
Advisor: Sarah Fitzpatrick
Year Start: 2018
Research Interests: Evolutionary ecology, population genomics, and adaptation in a deterministic framework
Department: Integrative Biology
Advisor: Nick Haddad
Year Start: 2017
Research Interests: Biodiversity, habitat connectivity, insect movement, ecosystem services
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
Department: Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences & Ecology, Evolutionary Biology and Behavior (EEBB)
Advisor: Phil Robertson
Year Start: 2012
Research Interests: biogeochemistry and nitrogen cycling
Department: Integrative Biology & Ecology, Evolutionary Biology and Behavior (EEBB)
Advisor: Sarah Evans
Year Start: 2015
Research Interests: Microbial ecology, arid land biogeochemistry, climate change
Department: Plant Biology & Ecology, Evolutionary Biology and Behavior (EEBB)
Advisor: Jen Lau
Year Start: 2011
Research Interests: Plant ecology, evolutionary ecology, invasions, and restorations
Department: Plant Biology & Ecology, Evolutionary Biology and Behavior (EEBB)
Advisor: Chris Klausmeier
Year Start: 2015
Research Interests: Eco-evolutionary dynamics, community ecology, theoretical ecology
Department: Integrative Biology
Advisor: Sarah Evans
Year Start: 2019
Research Interests: microbial ecology, soil health, conservation agriculture, public policy, science communication
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
Department: Integrative Biology and Ecology, Evolutionary Biology and Behavior (EEBB)
Advisor: Elena Litchman
Research Interests: Extremophile biology, bioinformatics, ecological modeling
Department: Plant Biology
Advisor: Jen Lau
Year Start: 2015
Research Interests: Community and disturbance ecology, impacts of land use on biodiversity patterns
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