Lab Members
If you are interested in joining this fantastic team, do get in touch!
Current Graduate Students
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Sierra Jaeger
Graduate Student - Abronia fragrans pollination
Kiley Stoj
Graduate student: nocturnal pollination and artificial light
Bridget Harter
Graduate student: pollen limitation, buzz pollination, and crossing barriers between populations
Current Undergraduate Students
Joe Hill, Lilly Ammons, Grace Dennie, Meghan Cupples, Emma Batson, Mary Mitchell, Celia Razon, Mya Ferguson, Timothy McCrossen, Chloe Gardner, Parker Jackson, Ariya Mehta, Haley Hair, Andrew Williams, Ren Sutton, Jaden Connor
(Some) Lab Alumni - I'll get to everyone eventually!
Sara Warren
Undergraduate research project: effect of temperature on seed mucilage anchorage
Currently, master's student at Oregon State
Natalie Demarest
Undergraduate research project: Abronia betalains and population ecology
Vincent Pan
Tech: Seed mucilage... and more!
Currently, PhD Student at Michigan State
Gabby Barber
Undergraduate research project: Seed camouflage and granivory
Currently, master's student at Oregon State
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!
Currently: PhD student at Santa Cruz
Madi Stessman
Undergraduate/Tech - Polemoniaceae floral evolution, seed mucilage ecology, and more!
Currently - PhD student at UVA
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
Currently: master's student at UF
Elijia Kruise
Undergrad lab tech - pollination ecology
Ashlesha Sharma
Seed Mucilage and Substrate Interactions