Al-Ali, Tamam
MS student with Drs. Jeff Kelly and Rosemary Knapp; BSc, Univ. Basrah, Iraq; Research interests include ornithology and migration.

Arriaga, Luis
MS student with Dr. Ingo Schlupp; BS University of North Carolina-Wilmington; Research interests include evolution and maintenance of sex (or asexuality) and cave biology/ecology.

Atkinson, Carla
Wethington Fellow and PhD student with Dr. Caryn Vaughn; BS Missouri State University, MS University of Georgia; Research interests include aquatic ecology, ecosystem and community ecology, and conservation biology of aquatic ecosystems.

Ban, Yue
PhD student with Dr. Bing Zhang; BS Henan Normal University, China; Research interests include cellular, behavioral neurobiology, and especially Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), which is a devastating neurodegenerative disorder.

Barkstedt, Judith
MS student with Dr. Edie Marsh-Matthews; BS University of Georgia; Fish ecology and conservation.

Barnard, Alex
Wethington Fellow and PhD student with Dr. Ola Fincke; BS Colorado State University, BS Metro State College of Denver; Research interests include conservation biology, behavioral ecology, and sexual conflict as a promoter of speciation in insects.

Beyer, Jessica
PhD student with Dr. David Hambright; BA Lawrence University; Research interests include invasive species ecology, conservation biology, zooplankton ecology, and limnology.

Bright, Eric
PhD student with Dr. Liz Bergey; BS Wabash College, MS University of Georgia; Research interests include aquatic invertebrates, especially the community structure of wetland invertebrates.

Bujan, Jelena
PhD student with Dr. Michael Kaspari; Diploma Thesis University of Zagreb, Croatia; Research interests include ant ecology, macroecology, and biogeochemistry.

Burba, Elizabeth Mosteller
PhD student with Dr. Gary Schnell; BS Northeastern State University; MS University of Oklahoma; research interests include mammalian ecology and conservation biology, environmental impacts of energy production and bat migration patterns.

Carlisle, Sharon
PhD student with Dr. Rosemary Knapp; BS and MS Arizona State University; Research interests include hormones, behavior and evolution.

Chen, Dahong
Alumni Fellow and PhD student with Dr. Randy Hewes; BS Ocean University, China; Research interests include zebrafish development, genetics and genomics.

Clay, Natalie
PhD student with Dr. Michael Kaspari; BS Colby College; Research interests include tropical ecology of ants.

Contina, Andrea
PhD student with Dr. Jeff Kelly; BSc University of Catania, Italy; MSc, University of Exeter, UK; Research interests include ecology, evolution, migration patterns in birds, stable isotope analyses.

Culver, Billy
PhD student with Dr. Larry Weider; BS Old Dominion University; Research interests include population genetics and ecology of aquatic and marine invertebrates.

Cureton, James
PhD student with Dr. Richard Broughton; BS & MS Sam Houston State University; Research interests include evolution, conservation, ecology, behavior, and role of oxidative phosphorylation in speciation.

Curry, Claire
Alumni Fellow and PhD student with Dr. Michael Patten; BS University of North Texas;Research interests include hybridization, speciation, behavioral ecology (especially competition and community interactions), biogeography, behavior and natural history of birds and odonates.  

Czekanski-Moir, Jesse
PhD student with Dr. Michael Kaspari; BS Colgate University; Research interests include evolution, ecology and biogeography, especially with regards to ants.

Das, Sunetra
PhD student with Dr. David Durica; BS & MS University of Burdwan, India; Research interests include characterizing genes involved in steroid hormone signaling in fiddler crabs.

Deen, Beth
MS student with Drs. Heather Ketchum and Rosemary Knapp; BS University of Oklahoma; Research involves forensic entomology and insect succession.

De Smet, Jessica
MS student with Dr. Rich Cifelli; BS University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Research interests include vertebrate paleobiology with a particular interest in basal mammals and protomammals, biogeography, paleoecology, morphometrics, morphological systematics, and behavioral inferences from fossils.

Donoso, David A.
PhD student with Dr. Michael Kaspari; BS Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito Ecuador; Current research focuses on spatial ecology of brown food webs; Research interests include Neotropical ant taxonomy, estudy of 'size' and 'shape' relationships in ants.

Dusang, Daniel
PhD student with Dr. Michael Patten; BS Purdue University, MS University of Oklahoma; Research interests include modernization of the management process for the Lesser Prairie-Chicken.

Eberle, Jess
MS student with Dr. Gary Wellborn; BS Southwestern College; Research interests include behavioral ecology, sexual sel1 1ection, speciation, and the evolution of mating systems.

Fender, J. Erin
PhD student with Dr. Gary Schnell; BS University of North Carolina at Greensboro, MS University of Memphis; Research interests include ecology, evolutionary biology, and population genetics of small mammals.

Geheber, Aaron
PhD student with Dr. Edie Marsh-Matthews; BS Louisiana State University; MS Southeastern Louisiana University; Research interests include ichthyology and community ecology.

Gonzalez-Perez, Sara
MS  student with Dr. Gary Schnell; BS Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM); Research interests include ecology, natural history, GIS and conservation biology of mammals, mostly bats.

Gu, Tingting
PhD student with Dr. Randy Hewes; BS Soochow Univ., China; Research interests include peptidergic cell regulation in Drosophila.

Hallidayschult, Thayer
PhD student with Dr. David Hambright; BS Lawrence University; Research interests include aquatic community ecology, fish community assemblage and its impact on ecosystem functions, roles and impacts of invaders, and conservation ecology.

Harris, Andrew
McNair Fellow and PhD student with Dr. Caryn Vaughn; BS Central Michigan University; Research interests include stream ecology, conservation genetics, and malacology.

Hao, Zhaozhe
PhD with Dr.  Ari Berkowitz; BS Nankai University, China; Research interests in neurobiology.

Helms, Jackson
Alumni Fellow and PhD student with Dr. Michael Kaspari; BS Ohio State University; Research interests include patterns and causes of species diversity, particularly factors contributing to the latitudinal gradient in diversity, and with a focus on conservation.

Hille, David
MS student with Dr. Michael Patten; BS Northwest Nazarene University; Research interests include conservation biology and ornithology.

Irmscher, Pascal
PhD student with Dr. Caryn Vaughn; MS University of Wisconsin; Research interests include stream (aquatic) ecology, population ecology, fresh water mussels, freshwater fish,  and biogeography.

Khazan, Emily
MS student with Dr. Ola Fincke; BA University of Michigan; Research interests include animal behavior and conservation biology.

Landoll, Diane
PhD student with Dr. Michael Patten; BS Cameron University, MS University of Oklahoma; Research interests include natural history, life history, and ecology of prairie/savannah birds, particularly Scissor-tailed Flycatchers.

Lee, Eric M.
PhD student with Dr. David McCauley; BS & MS University of Oklahoma; Research interests include evolution of cartilage development in fishes

Lo, Esther
MS student Dr. Tom Ray; BS University of Tulsa; Research interests include use of computers in biology.

Loney, Grant
PhD student with Dr. Gary Wellborn; BS University of Oklahoma; Research interests include general ecology and sexual selection (female choice and male conflict).

Makowicz, Amber
PhD student with Dr. Ingo Schlupp; BS & MS University of Oklahoma Research examines how sexual conflict influences the life history of individuals, specifically how sexual harassment affects the fitness in sailfin mollies.

Mui, Jonathan
MS student with Dr. Ari Berkowitz; BS University of Oklahoma; Research interests include neurobiology (memory and learning).

Peng, Xinyun
PhD student with Dr. Bing Zhang; BS Sichuan Normal University, China; Research interests include neuronal circuits.

Sansom, Brandon
MS student with Dr. Caryn Vaughn; BS Washington & Jefferson College; Research interests include stream ecology and conservation biology, with a focus on freshwater mussel ecology and conservation.

Shao, Jie
PhD student with Dr. Thomas Ray; BS Capital University of Medical Sciences, China, MS Georgia Institute of Technology.

Shields, Mark
MS student with Dr. Ola Fincke; BS University of Oklahoma; Research interests include maintenance and inheritance of color polymorphisms in odonates (damselfly “bluets”).

Strickler, Stephanie A.
Ph.D. student with Dr. Douglas Mock; BS & MS University of Tulsa; Behavioral ecology.

Swyden, R. Chase
MS student with Dr. Gary Schnell; BS University of Oklahoma; Research interests include ornithology and analysis of Oklahoma winter birds.

Thomas, D. Andrew
MS student with Drs. Rich Cifelli and Cindy Gordon; BS University of Central Arkansas; Research interests include vertebrate paleontology.

Thompson, Jacob
MS student with Dr. Edie Marsh-Matthews; BS University of Nebraska – Omaha; Research interests include fish ecology and life history.

Wilkerson, Lauren
MS student with Dr. Micheal Patten; BS Oklahoma State University; Research interests include behavioral and evolutionary ecology, grassland ecology, biogeography and biological consequences of climate change.

Xu, Mingzi
PhD student with Dr. Ola Fincke; BS Fundan University, China; Research interests include animal behavior and tropical ecology.

Yuan, Tian
PhD student with Dr. David McCauley; BS Sichuan Agricultural University, MS Sichuan University, China; Research interests include genetics and evolution.

Zamor, Richard M.
PhD student with Dr. David Hambright; BS University of Oklahoma, MS University of Georgia; Research interests include fish ecology and fish communities. I am currently studying the lethal effects of golden algae (Prymnesium parvum) on fishes.

Zhang, Feifei
PhD  student with Dr. Rich Broughton; BS & MS Qufu Normal University, China; Research interests include ecology and evolutionary biology of fishes.