Schmitt Lab 2005-2006

Postdoctoral Researchers

Current:
Tonia Korves, Ph.D. University of Chicago, 2002. Ecological and evolutionary functions of candidate gene polymorphisms.
Amity Wilczek, Ph.D. Harvard University, 2004. Thesis title: "The Roles of Life History and Environmental Heterogeneity in the Evolution of Maternal Effects in Plants."

Elizabeth Boyd, B.S., Florida State University, 2001. Adaptive phenotypic plasticity, maternal effects, and the evolution of plant mating systems.
Eric von Wettberg, B.A. Swarthmore College, 1999. Evolution and landscape genetics of phytochrome-mediated shade avoidance responses

Undergraduate thesis students

Dolaporn (Novem) Auyeung
Elizabeth Winograd-Cort

Former postdocs

Kathleen Donohue, Assistant Professor, Harvard University
Lisa Dorn, Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin, Osh Kosh
Susan Dudley, Associate Professor, McMaster University
Heidrun Huber, Assistant Professor, University of Nijmegen
Massimo Pigliucci, Associate Professor, SUNY Stony Brook
Bhoomika Singh, Ph.D. Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, 2000. Plant stress responses
John Stinchcombe, Ph.D., Duke University, 2001. Ecology and Evolution of Plant-Animal Interactions, Plant ecological and evolutionary genetics, Evolution and genetics of function-valued traits. Cynthia Weinig, Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota

Former graduate students

Laura Graceffa, Sc.M., MAT, 1990
C. Randal Linder, Ph.D. 1994, Associate Professor, U. of Texas
Pamela O’Neil, Ph.D. 1991, Associate Vice Chancellor for Research, U. of New Orleans
Colin Purrington, Ph.D. 1994, Associate Professor, Swarthmore College
Shane Heschel, Ph.D. 2000, Postdoc, Harvard University
Yuko Toyonaga, Ph.D. 2004, Tokyo

Former undergraduate students and research assistants in biology/environmental science

Lynn Adler 1993 Assistant Professor, U. Mass Amherst
Anna Aguilera 2000 Graduate student, U. Mass Boston
Josh Banta (lab manager 2000-2001) Graduate student, SUNY Stony Brook
Adelia Barber 2001 Graduate student, U.C. Santa Cruz
Duncan Brown 1996 Graduate student, U.C. Berkeley
Sarah Bryson 1996 Graduate student, UCLA
Saara DeWalt 1994 Huxley Research Instructor, Rice University
Steven Franks 1992 Postdoc, U.C. Irvine
David Ehrhardt 1984 Staff scientist, Department of Plant Biology, Carnegie Institute of Washington
Zac German 2002 Graduate student, Colorado State U.
Kelly Gravuer 2002 Graduate student, Lincoln U., New Zealand
Neil Hausmann 1997 Research scientist, Pioneer Hi-Bred
Robin Hopkins 2003 Research assistant, Florida State
Ailene Kane 2001 Staff, New England Plant Conservation Program
Nolan Kane 1999 NSF predoctoral fellow, Dept. of Biology, Indiana U.
Joanna Kelley 2003 Graduate student, bioinformatics, U. of Washington
Satya Maliakal 1995. Ph.D, Louisiana State U. 2004
Jennifer Plaut 2002 Environmental Change Initiative coordinator, Brown U.
Nanette Reese (lab manager 2003-2004) Atlanta Botanical Garden
Corinna Riginos 2000 NSF predoctoral fellow, Program in Ecology, U. C. Davis
Kendra Sikes 1987 graduate student, Dept. of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State U.
Matthew Vadeboncoeur 2003 Research assistant, Brown University
Cynthia Weinig 1991 Assistant Professor, Dept. of Plant Biology, University of Minnesota
Carolyn Wessinger 2004 Research assistant, U.C. Davis
John Willis 1985 Associate Professor, Department of Biology, Duke University
Kyle Young 1991 Postdoc, University of Bern

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