Lab Members
If you are interested in joining this fantastic team, do get in touch!
Current Members
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Sierra Jaeger
Graduate Student - Abronia fragrans pollination
Madi Stessman
Lab Manager/tech - professional petal counter and seed wrangler
Eric LoPresti
PI - plant-insect ecology and evolution
Joe Hill
Undergraduate: chemist-in-residence
Ashlesha Sharma
Undergraduate: seed mucilage and substrate
Jimmy Coates
Undergraduate: jack-of-all-trades
Maddie Dimarco
Undergraduate: Seed Mucilage Ecology
Kiley Stoj
Graduate student: nocturnal pollination and artificial light
Bridget Harter
Graduate student: pollen limitation, buzz pollination, and crossing barriers between populations
Allie Fletcher
Undergraduate: Moth coloration, collections research, and community ecology
Oliver Malatich
Undergraduate: insect ecology and behavior, collections research
Elijia Kruise
Undergraduate: pollination ecology
Lab Alumni
Sara Warren
Undergraduate research project: effect of temperature on seed mucilage anchorage
Natalie Demarest
Undergraduate research project: Abronia betalains and population ecology
Vincent Pan
Tech: Seed mucilage... and more!
Gabby Barber
Undergraduate research project: Seed camouflage and granivory
Addison Darby
Undergraduate/Tech: Abronia meristic stability and A. ammophila conservation
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Cecilia Girvin
Lab/Field Tech - A little bit of everything - seeds, pollination, floral evolution!
Madi Stessman
Undergraduate/Tech - Polemoniaceae floral evolution, seed mucilage ecology, and more!
Austyn Rice
NSF EPSCOR REU, Northeastern State University, Tahlequah, OK. Seed mucilage and animal dispersal (co-advised with Lizz Waring)
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Catherine Alexander
USC Magellan Scholar, Pollination of Glandularia.
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Lillian Self
USC-UREP Effects of omnivory on success of a crop pest caterpillar