Alumni

Past Postdoctoral Fellows

Dr. Bret Pasch
Assistant Professor, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ
2015 – Biology of vocal rodents
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Dr. Tom White
Research Associate, Lancaster University, UK
2013-2014 – Evolutionary bioinformatics of small mammals
2010-2012 – Genomics of bank vole invasion on Ireland
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Dr. Rodrigo Vega
Senior Lecturer, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK
2010-2013 – Lab Manager, Searle Lab
2011-2013 – Genomics of an endemic Mexican small mammal
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Dr. Michelle Alexander
Senior Lecturer, University of York, UK
2011 – Genomic studies of the origins of the European domestic goose
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Past Undergraduate Students

 

Omair Irfan
B.S. in Biological Sciences, CALS ’21
Fall 2020-Spring 2021
Research: Ecology and morphology of voles
Emily Kowalski
B.S. in Biology and Society, CALS ’21
Spring 2019-Spring 2021
Research: Land use change and agricultural policy
Avery Voehl
B.S. in Biological Sciences, CALS ’21
Fall 2018-Spring 2021
Research: Quantitative studies and website development
Sara O’Malley
B.S. in Biological Sciences, CALS ’20
Fall 2019 – Spring 2020
Research: Iberian vole genetic data analysis
Nikrumah Frazer
B.S. in Biological Sciences, CALS ’19
Fall 2017 – Spring 2019
Research: Field vole mitochondrial DNA variation
Jailene Hidalgo
B.S. in Environmental and Sustainability Sciences, CALS ’19
Fall 2017 – Fall 2019
Research: Preparing specimens of meadow voles for the Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates
Christopher Watson
B.A. in Computer Science, CAS ’21
Fall 2018 – Spring 2019
Research: Speciation in European Corn Borer Moths
Anita Michalak
B.S. in Environmental & Sustainability Science magna cum laude with Distinction in Research, CALS ’19
Fall 2017 – Spring 2019
Research: Gray squirrel foraging behavior (Searle Lab supervision); Population structure of bobcats in New York State (Therkildsen Lab supervision)
Jeremy Pustilnik
B.S. Biological Sciences magna cum laude with Distinction in Research, CALS ’18
Summer 2016-Spring 2018
Honors Thesis: The effects of red fox (Vulpes vulpes) predator scent on winter burrow use by eastern cottontail rabbits (Sylvilagus floridanus)
Austin Wong
B.S. in Biological Sciences, CALS ’17
Fall 2016-Spring 2017
Research: Human health economics in Alaska after wildfire in the Kenai Peninsula
Tamar Law
B.A. cum laude in Feminist, Gender, Sexuality Studies (College Scholar), CAS ’17
Fall 2014-Spring 2017
Research: Human health economics in Alaska after wildfire in the Kenai Peninsula
Beatriz Olivia
B.A. in Biology and Society, CAS ’17
Summer 2014-Spring 2017
Research: House mice as human proxies
Elizabeth Ellor
B.S. in Biological Sciences, CALS ’16
Summer-Fall 2015
Research: Trait distributions of North American red squirrels
Samuel Coleman
B.S. in Biological Sciences, CALS, ’15
Spring 2014-Spring 2015
Research: Phylogeography of the four-striped grass mouse in Africa
Brian Magnier
B.S. in Biological Sciences with a Distinction in Research, CALS, ’15
Fall 2012-Spring 2015
Honors Thesis: Using stable isotope analysis to reveal variation in diet and reproductive condition in American red squirrel (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus) populations in Alaska
Camille Mangiaratti
B.A. cum laude in Biology and English, CAS ’15
Spring 2013-Spring 2015
Honors Thesis: Mapping migration with Mus musculus: Genetic analysis of house mice as a bioproxy for tracking multinational human colonization in Alaska
Brian O’Toole
B.S. in Biological Sciences, CALS ’13
Spring 2011-Spring 2013
Research: Skull morphology in mainland and island populations of European ermine

Past Visiting Researchers

Dr. Svetlana Pavlova
A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology & Evolution, Russia
2016
Fulbright Fellow
Research: Shrew cytogenetics
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Dr. Mumtaz Baig
GVISH, India
2014-2015
Research: Phylogeography of the black rat as a proxy for human history
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Past Visiting Graduate Students

Dr. Joanna Stojak
Mammal Research Institute, Bialowieza, Poland
Spring 2016
Research: Vole phylogeography
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Dr. Margherita Collini
F. Edmund Mach, Italy
Summer 2014
Research: Phylogeography of European small mammals and the Northern American red squirrel
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Dr. Ardern Hulme-Beamen
University of Aberdeen, UK, and MNHN, France
Summer 2012
Research: Phylogeography of house shrews as a proxy for human history
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Dr. Marja Heikkinen
University of Oulu, Finland
Summer 2012
Research: Origins of the European domestic goose
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Dr. Alexandra Trinks
Durham University/University of Aberdeen, UK
Summer 2012
Research: Phylogeography of house mice as a proxy for human history
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Dr. Soraia Barbosa
University of Porto, Portugal
2012-2015
Research: Phylogeography and landscape genomics of endangered voles in southern Portugal

 

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