CPB POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOWS
Current Recipients
2024-2026
Julia G. Harenčár
Research Interest: The genetics and ecology of plant evolution; population genomics; hybridization and introgression; invasive plant evolution; global change biology.
Mentors: Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra, Jen Funk, Jennifer Gremer
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/juliaharencar/home?authuser=0
Email and Office Location: [email protected], 5310 Storer Hall
2023-2025
Amy Briggs
Research Interest: Community ecology, global change biology, interactions between microbes and macroscopic communities, harmful algal blooms, marine diseases
Mentors: Jay Stachowicz, Anya Brown, Marissa Baskett
Website: http://amyabriggs-ecology.weebly.com/
Email and Office Location: [email protected], 4345 Storer Hall
Past Recipients
The Center for Population Biology Postdoctoral Research Fellowship was established in 1990. Below is a historical listing of our past recipients and where they are now.
2022-2024
Seira (Ashley) Adams
Research Interest: TBA
Mentors: Gail Patricelli, Santiago Ramirez, Peter Wainwright
Website: https://nature.berkeley.edu/~seira.adams/
Email and Office Location: [email protected], 4331 Storer Hall
2021-2023
Michael Yuan
Research Interest: Generation and maintenance of phenotypic diversity through ecological selection; genomics of convergence; ecological epigenetics; evolutionary ecology
Mentors: Rachael Bay, Thomas Schoener, Peter Wainwright
Current Position: California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA
Website: https://michaellyuan.com/
Email: [email protected], or [email protected]
2020-2023
Pavitra Muralidhar
Research Interest: The role of sex chromosomes in sexual conflict; the evolution of sex-determining mechanisms; sexual selection; intragenomic conflict; population genetics.
Mentors: Graham Coop, Gail Patricelli, Peter Wainwright
Current Position: Assistant Professor, University of Chicago Website: https://sites.google.com/view/pavitra-muralidhar
Email: [email protected]
2018-December 2020
Matthew Osmond
Theoretically-inclined evolutionary biology with a major focus to date on evolutionary rescue, where sufficiently rapid genetic adaptation allows a population to persist when it would otherwise go extinct.
Mentors: Graham Coop, Andrew Whitehead, Sebastian Schreiber
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto
Website: https://eeb.utoronto.ca/profile/osmond-matthew/
Email: mm.osmond@utoronto.ca
2019-2020
Denon Start
Research Interest: TBA
Mentors: Andrew Sih, Sebastian Schreiber, Sharon Strauss, Jay Stachowicz
Website: TBA
Email: [email protected]
2016-2018
Kathleen G. Ferris
The genotypic and phenotypic basis of adaptation; Genetic variation in natural plant populations; Speciation; Quantitative genetics; Population genetics; Evolutionary ecology
Mentors: Johanna Schmitt, Graham Coop, Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Tulane University
Website: https://kathleengferristulane.wordpress.com/
Email: [email protected]
2014-2016
Marjorie G. Weber
Plant defense and mutualism; trait-mediated plant-animal interactions; phylogenetic ecology; links between species interactions and macroevolution
Mentors: Sharon Strauss, Santiago Ramirez, Peter Wainwright
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Plant Biology, Michigan State University
Website: http://www.theweberlab.com/
Email: [email protected]
2013-2015
Heather M. Kharouba
Causes and consequences of variation in ecological responses to environmental change; phenology; plant-insect interactions; species' geographic distributions.
Mentors: Rick Karban, Louie Yang, Arthur Shapiro, Johanna Schmitt
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Biology at the University of Ottawa
Website: http://kharoubalab.weebly.com/
Email: [email protected]
2012-2014
Scott C. Burgess
Consequences of phenotypic variability to population dynamics and structure; Evolutionary Ecology; Dispersal; Life-histories; Plasticity, Local adaptation; Marine invertebrates.
Mentors: Rick Grosberg, Marissa Baskett, Andy Sih, Eric Sanford
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University
Website: http://scottburgessecology.wordpress.com/
Email: [email protected]
2011-2013
D. Luke Mahler
Phenotypic evolution during adaptive radiations
Mentors: Peter Wainwright, Brian Moore, Sharon Strauss
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at the University of Toronto
Website: http://mahlerlab.com
Email: [email protected]
2010-2012
Yaniv Brandvain
Empirical and theoretical population genomics, speciation, mating system evolution
Mentors: Graham Coop, Michael Turelli
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Plant Biology, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Website: http://brandvainlab.wordpress.com/
Email: [email protected]
2010-2011
Jonathan N. Pruitt
The ecology of individuals, social behavior, interactions between intra- and interspecific diversity.
Mentors: Jay Stachowicz, Andy Sih, and Eric Sanford
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology, University of California Santa Barbara
Website: http://www.eemb.ucsb.edu/people/faculty/pruitt
Email: [email protected]
2009-2011
David Plachetzki
Sensory Biology and Macroevolution
Mentors: Richard K. Grosberg and Artyom Kopp
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular, Cellular & Biomedical Sciences, The University of New Hampshire
Website: http://www.unh.edu/plachetzki-lab/
Email: [email protected]
2008-2010
Jean H. Burns
Plant community ecology, biological invasions, comparative ecology in a phylogenetic context
Current Position: Assistant Professor Dept. of Biology, Case Western Reserve University,
Mentors: Sharon Strauss and Peter Wainwright
Website:https://filer.case.edu/jbm122/BurnsWebsite/index.html
Email: [email protected]
2007-2008
Alan Lemmon
Evolutionary biology, phylogenetics, phylogeography, speciation, population genetics and genomics
Mentors: Michael Turelli and H. Bradley Shaffer
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Dept. of Scientific Computing, Florida State University;Bioinformatics, Center for Anchored Phylogenomics, Florida State University
Website:http://www.evotutor.org/LemmonLab/
Email: [email protected]
2006 -2008
Shannon J. McCauley
Predation, dispersal interactions of aquatic communities linked through individual traits
Mentors: Sharon Lawler and Andy Sih
Current Position: Assistant Professor ,Biology, University of Toronto Mississauga
Website:http://www.shannonjmccauley.com/
Email: [email protected]
2005-2006
Jason S. McLachlan
Ecology of forests and plant population ecology, statistical modeling, paleoecology
Mentor: Mark Schwartz
Current Position: Assistant Professor,Dept. of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame
Website:http://biology.nd.edu/people/jason-mclachlan/
Email: [email protected]
2004-2006
Richard E. Glor
Biological diversification, formation of new species, macroevolutionary patterns
Mentor: H. Bradley Shaffer
Current Position: Associate Professor, Associate Curator, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, The University of Kansas
Website:https://eeb.ku.edu/richard-glor
Email: [email protected]
2003-2005
Michael L. G. Loeb
Evolution of social behavior
Mentor: Rick Grosberg
Current Position: Owner, Mike's Specialty Garden, Tallahassee, FL
Website:https://www.rhomarket.com/Farmers.aspx?pGuid=a91a1d28-e855-4fd9-a9b9-136fd0221175
Email: [email protected]>
2002-2004
Leonie C. Moyle
Genetic basis of adaptation and speciation
Mentor: Michael Turelli and Maureen Stanton
Current Position:Professor, Department of Biology, Indiana University
Website:http://www.indiana.edu/~moylelab/
Email: [email protected]
2000-2002
Thomas J. Near
Phylogenetic hypotheses
Mentor: H. Bradley Shaffer, Peter Wainwright, and Michael Sanderson
Current Position: Associate Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University
Website:http://nearlab.yale.edu/
Email: [email protected]
1999-2001
Maria R. Servedio
Mechanisms that drive speciation through the evolution of premating isolation
Mentor: Michael Turelli and Sergey Nuzhdin
Current Position: Professor Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Website:http://labs.bio.unc.edu/Servedio
Email: [email protected]
1998-2000
Jonathan M. Chase
Species diversity, composition, and relative abundance in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems
Mentor: Sharon Lawler
Current Position: Professor and Head of Biodiversity Synthesis Research Group, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv)
Website:https://sites.google.com/site/betadiversity/my-cv
Email: [email protected] or [email protected]
1998-2000
Brian Inouye
Spatial and temporal variation in population and community ecology
Mentor: Susan Harrison
Current Position: Associate Professor, Dept. of Biological Sciences, Florida State University
Website:http://bio.fsu.edu/~binouye/
Email: [email protected]
1998-2000
Nora Underwood
Ecology and evolution of plant-insect interactions
Mentor: Rick Karban
Current Position:Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Florida State University
Website:http://www.bio.fsu.edu/faculty-underwood.php
Email: [email protected]
1996-1998
Hiroshi Akashi
Natural selection and its role in genome evolution
Mentor: John Gillespie
Current Position:Professor, National Institute of Genetics Japan
Website: http://www.nig.ac.jp/labs/EvoGen
Email: [email protected]
1996-1998
F. Helen Rodd
Reproduction strategies among livebearing fish
Mentor: Judy Stamps and Maureen Stanton
Current Position:Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto
Website:http://www.eeb.utoronto.ca/people/d-faculty/Rodd.htm
Email: [email protected]
1993-1995
Edwin D. Grosholz "Ted"
Ecology, conservation and restoration of marine and estuarine systems
Mentor: Marc Mangel
Current Position: Professor, Department of Environmental Science and Policy, University of California, Davis
Website:http://desp.ucdavis.edu/people/edwin-grosholz
Email: [email protected]
1992-1994
Fredric J. Janzen
Ecology and evolution and phenotypic variation of reptiles
Mentor: H. Bradley Shaffer
Current Position: Professor, Department of Ecology,Evolution, and Organismal Biology, Iowa State University
Website:http://www.eeob.iastate.edu/faculty/profiles/JanzenF/JanzenF.html
Email: [email protected]
First Recipients of the CPB Fellowship - 3 Awards:
1990-1992
Jonathan B. Losos
Behavioral and evolutionary ecology of lizards
Mentor: Thomas W. Schoener
Current Position: Professor,Museum of Comparative Zoology and Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University
Website:http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/people/jonathan-losos
Email: [email protected]
1990-1992
William F. Morris
Population ecology of plants and insects
Mentor: Maureen Stanton and Marc Mangel
Current Position: Professor, Department of Biology, Duke University
Website:http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/Biology/faculty/wfmorris
Email: [email protected]
1990-1992
Sonia E. Sultan
Evolutionary ecology of plant response to environments.
Mentor: Kevin Rice
Current Position: Professor, Wesleyan University
Website: http://www.wesleyan.edu/academics/faculty/sesultan/profile.html
Email: [email protected]