KBS Visiting Graduate Students are students at MSU or at other accredited colleges and universities who work at KBS, but whose major advisor is not a KBS faculty member. Visiting Graduate Students have a KBS faculty member as their sponsor/host.
Elizeth Cinto Mejia
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Department: Entomology
Advisor: Will Wetzel (ENT), Nick Haddad (KBS)
Year Start: 2018
Research Interests: Global change ecology, community ecology, human impacts
Beth Gerstner
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Department: Fisheries & Wildlife
Advisor: Phoebe Zarnetske
Year Start: 2018
Research Interests: Biodiversity conservation, species distribution modeling, neotropical frugivores, and global change
Veronica F. Frans
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Department: Fisheries & Wildlife
Advisor: Jianguo Jack Liu (FW), Chris Klausmeier (KBS)
Year Start: 2022
Research Interests: Theoretical ecology, statistics, species distributions, human-nature interactions, biodiversity, global sustainability, conservation, community engagement
Kara Dobson
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Department: Integrative Biology
Advisor: Phoebe Zarnetske (IBIO), Nick Haddad (KBS)
Year Start: 2020
Research Interests: Chemical ecology, community ecology, global change ecology
Kayleigh Hauri
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Department: Entomology
Advisor: Will Wetzel (ENT), Nick Haddad (KBS/IBIO)
Year Start: 2017
Research Interests: Predator-prey interactions, biocontrol, and intraspecific diversity
Craig Kohn
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Department: Curriculum, Instruction, and Teacher Education, Environmental Science & Policy Program
Advisor: Andy Anderson
Year Start: 2019
Research Interests: Secondary agriscience education, curriculum development, cognitive and sociocultural mechanisms of learning, factors affecting adoption of Best Management Practices (BMPs) among current and future agriculturalists
Dan Oliveira
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Department: Biology
Advisor: Susan Foster (CU), Sarah Fitzpatrick (KBS)
Year Start: 2019
Research Interests: Conservation genetics, evolution, molecular ecology, ichthyology, genomics
Vincent Pan (he/him)
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Department: Integrative Biology
Advisor: Will Wetzel (IBIO), Kadeem Gilbert (KBS)
Year Start: 2022
Research Interests: Plant-insect interactions, plant defense theory, statistics, community ecology, functional ecology
Michael Ryskamp
EmailDepartment: Plant Biology
Advisor: Carolyn Malmstrom (PLB), Katherine Gross (KBS)
Year Start: 2016
Jake Swanson
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Department: Biology (University of South Carolina)
Advisor: Jeff Dudycha (USC), Steve Hamilton (KBS)
Year Start: 2019
Research Interests: Community ecology, mechanisms of species coexistence, and modeling
Dan Turner
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Department: Entomology
Advisor: Will Wetzel (ENT)/Jeff Conner (KBS/PLB)
Year Start: 2018
Research Interests: Plant-insect interactions, global change ecology, ecosystem services
Laura Twardochleb
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Department: Fisheries & Wildlife
Advisor: Phoebe Zarnetske (Forestry), Gary Mittelbach (KBS)
Year Start: 2015
Moriah Young
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Department: Integrative Biology + Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior Program
Advisor: Phoebe Zarnetske (IBIO), Sarah Evans (KBS)
Year Start: 2020
Research Interests: Community ecology, soil microbial ecology, climate change, plant-soil-insect interactions
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