Current Lab Members

Maddie Balman, PhD candidate. Effects of urbanization on salamander microbiomes

Eric Prileson. MS student. Physiological responses to overwintering in urban-adapted acorn ants

Roberta Muehlheim, PhD student and Assistant Curator of Vertebrate Zoology, CMNH. Resource polymorphism in salamanders

Gracie Bellino. Incoming PhD student. Interested in using cities to investigate broad evolutionary questions

Lab Alumni

Dr. Matthew Dugas, Postdoc 2014-2017. Now Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, Illinois State University

Dr. Kat Krynak, Postdoc 2015-2016. Now Associate Professor of Biology, Ohio Northern University

Dr. Alexandru Strugariu, Visiting Fulbright Scholar 2018. Research Faculty, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University

Dr. Michael Moore, PhD 2019. Currently Biodiversity Postdoctoral Fellow, Living Earth Collaborative

Dr. Iulian Gherghel, PhD 2020. Now Research Faculty, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University

Dr. Aaron Yilmaz, PhD 2022. Now USDA Postdoctoral Researcher.