| Degree Year | | Dissertation Title | | Current Position |
| Andre Ole Shelton | 2009 | | Persistence in foundational seagrasses : genetics, demography, and community implications | | Postdoctoral Fellow,
UC Santa Cruz |
| Mark Novak | 2008 | | Trophic omnivory and the structure, strength, and nonlinear nature of species interactions across a productivity gradient | | Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Santa Cruz |
Jacob Roman Arguello
CEB | 2008 | | Evolutionary Dynamics of Gene Families and the Fourth Chromosome in Drosophila | | Postdoctoral Fellow,
Cornell University |
| Melissa Rowe | 2008 | | Sexual selection and sperm competition in the Australian Maluridae | | Postdoctoral Fellow, AZ State University |
Susan Lott
CGGSB | 2008 | | Robustness and evolution of segmentation in Drosophila | | Postdoctoral Fellow,
UC Berkeley |
| Jian Lu | 2008 | | Natural selection on the coding and non-coding genes at the genome level | | Postdoctoral Fellow, Cornell |
Lisa Castillo Nellis
CEB | 2008 | | An Investigation of Synergistic Interactions Among Invasive Species | | Visiting Scientist,
University of Chicago |
| Liping Gao | 2008 | | Polymorphism and fitness effects of resistance genes in Arabidopsis thaliana | | Financial Analyst, Cornell |
Megan Dunning
CGGSB | 2008 | | Effects
of host genotype and population structure in the interaction between
Arabidopsis thaliana and its natural bacterial pathogens | | Manager of Natural History Education, Morton Aboretum |
| Jake Byrnes | 2008 | | Statistical analysis and probabilistic model development in evolutionary genomics | | Postdoctoral Fellow, Oxford |
| Geoffrey Morris | 2007 | | Inferring mechanisms of regulatory evolution in yeast from expression patterns and genome sequence | | Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Chicago |
| Pauline Fujita | 2007 | | Combining models with empirical data to examine dispersal mechanisms in the gypsy moth-nucleopolyhedrovirus host-pathogen system | | Research Scientist, UC Santa Cruz |
| Joshua Shapiro | 2007 | | Selection and structure in Drosophila populations during the process of speciation | | Postdoctoral Fellow, Princeton |
| Karen Abbott | 2006 | | Consumer-resource interactions, population synchrony, and cycles : population dynamics in time and space | | Assistant Professor, Iowa State |
| Susan Harrell Yee | 2006 | | Combining spatio-temporal models with data to understand the spatial dynamics of a treehopper population | | Scientist, EPA Gulf Ecology Div. |
| Alison Adams | 2006 | | Inferring Human Demography from Patterns of Genetic Variation | | Consolutant, L.E.K. Consulting |
| Nathanial Pearson | 2006 | | Evolution of a gene divided : sequence variation within XG : a gene spanning the great ape pseudoautosomal boundary | | Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Michigan |
| JJ Emerson | 2006 | | Evolution of genomic novelties | | Postdoctoral Fellow, Academie Sinica |
| Jing Yang | 2005 | | Determinants of gene duplication and evolution of gene expression | | Portfolio Manager, PIMCO |
| Hua Tang | 2005 | | Some rules in protein evolution | | Associate, Credit Suisse |
| Douglas Nutter | 2005 | | Disturbance
components and the structure of tidepool communities : independent and
interactive effects of area, magnitude, and temporal variability | | Academic Administrator, Univ. of Arizona |
| Peng Zhang | 2005 | | Evolutionary dynamics and fate of young duplicate genes in eukaryotes | | Financial Analyst, Capitol One |
| Erica Goss | 2005 | | Ecology
and evolution of the interaction between the plant host Arabidopsis
thaliana and its natural bacterial pathogen Pseudomonas viridiflava | | Research Scientist, USDA |
| Kevin Drury | 2004 | | Effects of movement behavior, space and nonlinearity on interaction rates within and between populations | | Assistant Professor, Bethel College |
| Jianming Zhang | 2004 | | Evolution of new functionalities in a young chimerical drosophila gene, Jingwei | | Research Fellow, Harvard University |
| Pamela Geddes | 2004 | | Effect of terrestrial subsidies on structure, functioning, and dynamics of food webs in pond ecosystems | | Postdoctoral Fellow, Loyola University |
| Spencer Hall | 2003 | | Species sorting and biomass partitioning along light : nutrient predation risk gradients in planktonic pond ecosystems | | Assistant Professor, Indiana University |
Eli Stahl
CGGSB | 2003 | | Gene Conversion and Natural Selection at Duplicate Loci in Drosophila melanogaster | | Assistant Professor,
University of Mass., Dartmouth |
| Zhenglong Gu | 2003 | | Expression divergence and functional redundancy between duplicate genes in yeast | | Assistant Professor, Cornell |
| Kevin Britton-Simmons | 2003 | | Establishment, spread, and impact of the introduced Japanese seaweed, Sargassum muticum, in the San Juan Islands, Washington | | Residing Scientist, Friday Harbor Laboratories, University of Washington |
| Sha Sun | 2003 | | Functional analysis of the hybrid male sterility gene Odysseus in Drosophila | | Postdoctoral Fellow,
Massachusetts General Hospital |
| Karl Polivka | 2002 | | Foraging theory, habitat selection and the ecology of a guild of benthic estuarine fishes | | Research Fishery biologist, Pacific Northwest Research Station |
| Tonia Korves | 2002 | | Fitness consequences and the evolution of R gene resistance to pathogen infection | | Postdoctoral Fellow, Brown University |
| Casey Bergman | 2002 | | Evolutionary analyses of transcriptional control sequences in Drosophila | | Lecturer in Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics,
University of Manchester |
Julie Alipaz
CEB | 2001 | | The Nature of Incipient Speciation in Drosophila | | Scientist, Illumina Inc. |
| Amy Downing | 2001 | | The role of biological diversity for the functioning and stability of pond ecosystems | | Associate Professor and Department Chair Zoology,
Ohio Wesleyan University |
Jeffrey Wall
CEB | 2001 | | Recombination and human demography | | Assistant Professor,
Division of Biostatistics
U.C. San Francisco |
| Jordan Karubian | 2000 | | Evolution and adaptive significance of sexual dimorphism in birds | | Associate Researcher, UCLA |
| Jonathan Shurin | 2000 | | Local and regional influences on the structure of freshwater zooplankton communities | | Assistant Professor of Zoology,
University of British Columbia |
Molly Przeworski
CEB | 2000 | | Natural selection and patterns of genetic variability in Drosophila and humans | | Professor,
University of Chicago |
| Jean Tsao | 2000 | | Vertebrate
host community composition and the dynamics of borrelia burgdorferi,
the etiologic agent of lyme disease : theory and experiments | | Assistant Professor,
Michigan State University |
Andrew Crawford
CEB | 2000 | | The Evolution and Maintenance of a Color Pattern Polymorphism in Neotropical Frogs. | | NSF Postdoctoral Fellow
The Smithsonian Institution
Molecular Genetics Laboratory |
| Stephanie Rollmann | 2000 | | Courtship pheromone effects on female receptivity in a plethodontid salamander | | Assistant Professor of Biology, University of Cincinnati |
| Mark Allen Jensen | 2000 | | Population genetic investigations in Drosophila and Saccharomyces | | Senior Consultant & Principal, Fortinbras Research |
| Soojin Yi | 2000 | | Molecular variation and the evolution of newly developing sex chromosomes of Drosophila miranda | | Assistant Professor of Biology,
Georgia Tech |
| Irene Shonle | 1999 | | The evolutionary ecology of tropane alkaloids | | Extension Officer and Adjunct Assistant Professor,
CO State Univ. |
| Thomas Juenger | 1999 | | The ecology and evolution of species interactions in the scarlet gilia, Ipomopsis aggregata, system | | Assistant Professor, Section of Integrative Biology U.T. Austin |
Satie Airame
CEB | 1999 | | Population structure and viability of stream-dwelling frogs from Borneo | | Policy and Outreach Coordinator
Marine Science Institute
U C Santa Barbara |
| Jonathan Chase | 1999 | | Size-structured interactions and multiple domains of attraction in pond food webs | | Associate Professor of Biology,
Washington Univ. in St. Louis |
Fengli Liu
| 1998 | | The effect of breeding system on the level and pattern of molecular variation in plant populations | | Research Coordinator,
Illinois State University |
| Philip Johns | 1997 | | Sexual cannibalism, sexual selection, and the mating system of a sexually cannibalistic praying mantid | | Assistant Professor of Biology, Bard College |
Yujun Xu
CGGSB | 1997 | | The X chromosome and spermatogenesis in Drosophila melanogaster : a molecular and genetic analysis | | Assistant Professor of Reproductive Biology Research,
Northwestern University |
| Katarzyna Kubzdela | 1997 | | Sociodemography
in diurnal primates : the effects of group size and female dominance
rank of intra-group spatial distribution, feeding competition, female
reproductive success, and female dispersal patterns in white sifaka,
Propithecus verreauxi verreauxi | | Deputy Director of Research for the Academic Accountability Council,
Chicago Board of Education |
Guoping Shu
CGGSB | 1997 | | Cell type-specific expression of C4 photosynthetic genes in Flaveria species : developmental and genetic control | | |
| John Dumbacher | 1997 | | The ecology and evolution of chemical defense in the avaian genus Pitohui | | Curator and Department Chair, Department of Ornithology and Mammalogy, California Academy of Sciences |
| Mohamed Noor | 1996 | | The evolution of mating discrimination between Drosophila pseudoobscura and D. persimilis | | Professor and Associate Chair,
Dept. of Biology, Duke Univ. |
Shaibal Mitra
CEB | 1996 | | Sexual dimorphism and plumage elaboration in socially-monogamous birds | | Assistant Professor,
CUNY Staten Island |
| John Kelly | 1996 | | Kin selection in plants : theory and experiments with impatiens capensis | | Associate Professor,
University of Kansas |
| Hiroshi Akashi | 1996 | | Natural selection and the population genetics of synonymous DNA mutations in Drosophila | | Assistant Professor,
Pennsylvania State University |
| Alan J. Molumby | 1996 | | The evolutionary ecology of a gregariously nesting wasp, trypoxylon politum | | Clinical Assistant Professor,
University of Illinois @ Chicago |
| Michael Palopoli | 1995 | | Molecular and evolutionary genetics of the Segregation Distorter system of meiotic drive in Drosophila melanogaster | | Associate Professor of Biology,
Bowdoin |
| Shyril O'Steen | 1995 | | Evolutionary physiology of energy use in reptiles | | College of Science & Engineering, Seattle University |
| Daniel Perez | 1994 | | Genetics of postmating reproductive isolation in Drosophila : investigation of an X-linked hybrid male sterility region | | |
| Andrew W. Davis | 1994 | | Genetic
and phenotypic analysis of hybrid sterility between three sibling
species of Drosophila : D. simulans, D. mauritiana, and D. sechellia | | |
| Martin Morgan | 1993 | | Selection and evolution of plant reproductive characters | | |
| Kevin Allan Dixon | 1993 | | Microgeographic variation in sexual selection in the mountain spiny lizard, Sceloporous jarrovi | | |
| Kathleen Donohue | 1993 | | The evolution of seed disperal in Cakile edentula var. lacustis | | Associate Professor,
Duke University |
| Susan C. Alberts | 1992 | | Maturation and dispersal in male baboons: (papio cynocephalus) | | Professor, Duke University |
| Susan E. Gresens | 1990 | | Pattern and process in an aquatic invertebrate community | | Associate Professor,
Towson University |
| H. Allen Orr | 1990 | | The genetics of postzygotic reproductive isolation in Drosophila | | Shirley Cox Kearns Professor of Biology, University of Rochester |
| Rafael Márquez | 1990 | | Male parental care, sexual selection, and the mating systems of the midwife toads : Alytes obstetricans and Alytes cisternasii | | Founder and Director of the Animal Sound Library of the National Museum of Natural Sciences (CSIC) of Madrid |
| Samuel Flores | 1989 | | Reproductive biology of Ludwigia peploides peploides and Ludwigia peploides glabrescens | | Associate Professor, Universidad del Turabo, School of Science and Technology |
Janet Sherman
CEB | 1984 | | Functional morphology of the forelimb in Nothrotheriine sloths (Mammalia: Edentata) | | Associate Professor
Pennsylvania College of Technology |
John Damuth
CEB | 1982 | | The Evaluation of the Degree of Community Structure Preserved in Assemblages of Fossil Mammals | | Research Biologist,
UC Santa Barbara |
Gary Galbreath
CEB | 1980 | | Aspects of natural selection in Dasypus novemcinctus | | Distinguished Senior Lecturer
Program in Biological Sciences
Northwestern University |
