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Chakraborty, Sulagna
schkrbr4@illinois.edu
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Graduate Student
Vector-borne diseases and epidemiology of infectious diseases, focusing on the eco-epidemiology of a tick-borne disease in India called Kyasanur Forest Disease. I want to combine my interest in infectious disease with my background in public health and microbiology as well as use One Health approaches towards disease control and prevention. (advisor: Brian Allan)
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Cox, Maria
mlcox3@illinois.edu
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Graduate Student
Paleogenomic analysis of immune change and function, as well as molecular identification of pathogens; particularly, how genes associated with immune function change through time, especially in populations undergoing long term stress (advisor: Ripan Malhi)
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Cucalon Tamayo, Roberto
rvc4@illinois.edu
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Graduate Student
How populations of species are evolutionarily related, and how their evolutionary history and biogeographic patterns can help us explain our current world (advisor: Milton Tan)
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Curtis, Amanda
amandac3@illinois.edu
W-421 Turner Hall
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Graduate Student
Use environmental DNA (eDNA) as a tool for aquatic conservation (advisor: Eric Larson)
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D'Alessio, Lorenzo
lmd2@illinois.edu
287 NRB
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Graduate Student
Cophylogenetics of ectoparasitic feather lice in the genus Brueelia and their endosymbionts (advisor: Kevin Johnson)
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Dai, Qihong
qihongd2@illinois.edu
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Graduate Student
Fish ecology and biology; modeling (advisor: Cory Suski)
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Doucet Beaupré, Alice
doucetb2@illinois.edu
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Graduate Student
Computational phylogenetics and the development of novel stochastic phylodynamics models and tools for the study of microbial innovations, diversification, cladogenesis, and ecology (advisor: James O'Dwyer)
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Edwards, Joseph
jedwa9@illinois.edu
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Graduate Student
Perturbations of a forest nitrogen economy and its associated microbial community by invasive Alliaria petiolata (garlic mustard)
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Egenriether, Sada
egenrie2@illinois.edu
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Graduate Student
Microbial nitrogen transformations in agricultural soils (advisors: Angela Kent and Wendy Yang)
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Favela, Alonso
favela3@illinois.edu
S-310 Turner Hall
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Graduate student
Microbial community composition and ecosystem function selected by plant host in the rhizosphere. (advisor: Angela Kent)
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Haynes, Ellen
haynes11@illinois.edu
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Graduate Student
Wildlife epidemiology; emerging fungal disease in snakes; investigating how host immune function is related to disease severity, and analyzing fungal genomic variation (advisor: Matt Allender)
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Holstrom, Ingrid
holstrom@illinois.edu
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Graduate Student
Relationship between fire, an invasive grass species, and nutrient cycling in temperate forest ecosystems (advisor: Jennifer Fraterrigo)
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Hyde, Charles
cahyde2@illinois.edu
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Graduate Student
Plant-soil microbial interactions: the effects of bioenergy crop root exudation on microbial communities in agricultural soils (advisor: Wendy Yang)
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Karatgi, Ratna
karatgi2@illinois.edu
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Graduate Student
Sexual selection: Intrasexual competition, mate choice, signalling and signal evolution (advisor: Becky Fuller)
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Long, Kira
kira2@illinois.edu
217 Turner Hall
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Graduate Student
Investigating the supposedly stable hybrid zone of two manakin species in Panama; examining the effects of sexual and natural selection on hybrids and parental species (advisor: Jeff Brawn)
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McClellan, Taylor
taylorm8@illinois.edu
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Graduate Student
Tropical forest ecology and seed dynamics (advisor: James Dalling)
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McFarland, Derek
derekbm2@illinois.edu
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Graduate Student
Ecology of tick-borne pathogens and the wildlife populations they infect within the context of climate change and human encroachment (advisor: Brian Allan)
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McLean, Shay Akil
samclea2@illinois.edu
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Graduate Student
Evolutionary anthropological genetics (advisor: Charles Roseman)
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Neumann, Kevin
kevinn4@illinois.edu
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Graduate Student
Behavioral ecology, genomics, and plasticity in social animals (advisors: Alison Bell and Andrew Suarez)
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Ooi, Sean
sooi3@illinois.edu
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Graduate Student
Biogeochemistry and microbial ecology of nitrous oxide production and consumption in soils (advisor: Wendy Yang)
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Perrin-Stowe, Tolulope
tperri2@illinois.edu
436 Animal Sciences Lab
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Graduate Student
African Elephant mitogenomes and phylogeography (advisor: Al Roca)
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Price, Gabriel
gjprice2@illinois.edu
W-316 Turner Hall
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Graduate Student
Implications of plant-soil feedback on community composition and how species invasion can shape these interactions (advisor: Anthony Yannarell)
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Ricks, Kevin
ricks3@illinois.edu
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Graduate Student
Microbial community and evolutionary ecology, evolution of symbiosis (advisor: Anthony Yannarell)
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Rivera, Michael
mdriver3@illinois.edu
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Graduate Student
Ecological and evolutionary drivers of morphological variation in social insect workers (advisor: Andy Suarez)
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Saboowala, Sana
sanas4@illinois.edu
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Graduate Student
Using a multidisciplinary approach to study the ways in which trauma is physically embodied and inherited, focusing on potential epigenetic effects of border creation during the 1947 Partition of South Asia using molecular methods and oral histories (advisor: Ripan Malhi)
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Sawyer, Elle
elleks2@illinois.edu
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Graduate Student
Understanding the spread and impact of invasive species, particularly Rusty Crayfish (advisor: Eric Larson)
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Strailey, Katherine
ks26@illinois.edu
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Graduate Student
Ecology, physiology, and conservation of freshwater fishes (advisors: Cory Suski and Piotr Cienciala)
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Stuart, Sarai
saraihs2@illinois.edu
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Graduate Student
Evolution of social life and mechanisms that underpin behaviors in the colony environment (advisor: Gene Robinson)
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Sutton, Nicholas
nmsutto2@illinois.edu
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Graduate student
Modeling decision-making processes during predator-prey encounters, with a focus on optimal escape strategies in ungulates (advisor: James O'Dwyer)
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Tan, Grace
gracedt2@illinois.edu
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Graduate Student
Plant biology, specifically water-use efficiency and photosynthetic efficiency relative to sustainable agriculture (advisor: Andrew Leakey)
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Virrueta Herrera, Stephany
svirru2@illinois.edu
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Graduate Student
Ornithology and phylogentics, specifically the evolutionary patterns between birds and their parasitic feather lice (advisor: Kevin Johnson).
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Winnicki, Sarah
sarahkw2@illinois.edu
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Graduate Student
Avian growth and development, parental care behavior, and brood parasitism (advisors: TJ Benson and Mark Hauber)
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