Fifth Year Graduate Students
| Jeremy
Beaulieu |
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| Email: |
jeremy.beaulieu@yale.edu |
| Advisor: |
Michael Donoghue |
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| Research Interests: |
Broad comparative analyses for detecting correlated evolution between plant functional/ecological traits; understanding the evolutionary role plant genome size plays in shaping the phenotype. |
| Selected Publications: |
Beaulieu, J.M., A.T. Moles, I.J. Leitch, M.D. Bennett, J.B. Dickie, and C.A. Knight. (2007). Correlated evolution of genome size and seed mass. New Phytologist. 173: 422-437.
Beaulieu, J.M., I.J. Leitch, C.A. Knight. (2007). Genome size evolution in relation to leaf strategy and metabolic rates revisited. Annals of Botany 99: 495-505. |
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| Julia Brown |
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| Email: |
julia.brown@yale.edu |
| Advisor: |
Jeffrey Powell |
| Committee: |
Gisella Caccone, Paul Turner, Jeffrey Townsend, Durland Fish |
| Research Interests: |
Evolution of human association in arthropod disease vectors; population genetics; vector competence for pathogens; environmental effects on the distribution of vector and pathogen populations |
| Awards: |
NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant (2010-2012)
Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies, Center for Field Ecology Pilot Grant (2009) |
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| Academic Service: |
Vice President and Science in the News Co-Director, Scientists and Engineers for America, Yale Student Chapter; Program Interpreter, Yale Peabody Museum Community Education Center at West Campus |
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| Publications: |
Brown JE, McBride CS, Johnson P, Ritchie S, Paupy C, Bossin H, Lutomiah J, Fernandez-Salas I, Ponlawat A, Cornel AJ, Black WC 4th, Gorrochotegui-Escalante N, Urdaneta-Marquez L, Sylla M, Slotman M,Murray KO, Walker C, Powell JR. 2011. Worldwide patterns of genetic differentiation imply multiple 'domestications' of Aedes aegypti, a major vector of human diseases. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Online early: doi: 10.1098/rspb.2010.2469
Hunt G, Wicaksono SA, Brown JE, MacLeod KG. 2010. Climate-driven body-size trends in the ostracod fauna of the deep Indian Ocean, Palaeontology 53(6):1255-1268.
Brown JE, Komatsu KJ, Abila PP, Robinson AS, Okedi LMA, Dyer N, Donnelly MJ, Slotman MA, Caccone A. 2008. Polymorphic microsatellite markers for the tsetse fly Glossina fuscipes fuscipes (Diptera: Glossinidae), a vector of Human African Trypanosomiasis. Molecular Ecology Resources 8:1506-1508.
Abbot P, Grinath J, Brown J, Peeden E, Erickson D, Billick I. 2008. Insect herbivore stoichiometry: the relative importance of host plants and ant mutualists. Ecological Entomology 33: 497–502. |
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| Anne
Greenberg |
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| Email: |
anne.greenberg@yale.edu |
| Advisor: |
Michael Donoghue |
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| Research Interests: |
Plant phylogenetics, biogeography, polyploidy, invasion |
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| Andrea
Hodgins-Davis |
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| Email: |
andrea.hodgins-davis@yale.edu |
| Advisor: |
Jeffrey Townsend |
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| Research Interests: |
Phenotypic plasticity and gene expression. Environmental and social influences, on behavior. |
| Publications: |
Gerlach, G.; Hodgins-Davis, A.; MacDonald, B.; Hannah, R. C. In press. Benefits of kin association: related larval zebrafish (Danio rerio) grow better.
Weiss, E.; Bennie, M.; Hodgins-Davis, A.; Roberts, S.; Gerlach, G. Characterization of new SSR-EST markers in cod, Gadus morhua. Online early: doi:10.1111/j.1471-8286.2007.01731.x
Hodgins-Davis, A; Roberts, S.; Cowan, D.; Atema, J.; Avolio, C.; DeFaveri, J.; Bennie, M.; Gerlach, G. 2007. Characterization of SSRs from the American lobster, Homarus americanus. Molecular Ecology Notes 7 (2): 330-332.
Brown, J. C; Hodgins-Davis, A.; Miller, P. J. O. 2006. Classification of vocalizations of killer whales using dynamic time warping. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 119: 34-40. |
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| Kimberly
Lapierre |
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| Email: |
kimberly.lapierre@yale.edu |
| Advisor: |
Melinda Smith |
| Committee: |
David Post, Oswald Schmitz |
| Research Interests: |
interaction between bottom-up and top-down controls of plant communities |
| Awards: |
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship |
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| Academic Service: |
Long Term Ecological Research Network Graduate Student Co-Chair |
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| Publications: |
La Pierre, KJ, Harpole, WS, Suding, KN. 2010. Strong feeding preference of an exotic generalist herbivore for an exotic forb: a case of invasional antagonism. Biological Invasions.12(9): 3025-3031. |
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| Erica
Westerman |
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| Email: |
erica.westerman@yale.edu |
| Advisor: |
Antonia Monteiro |
| Committee: |
Suzanne Alonzo, Stephen Stearns, Leslie Griffith |
| Research Interests: |
I am interested in how the environment (both abiotic and biotic components)influences reproductive patterns, at both the population and individual levels.I study the effect of annual temperature patterns and interspecific interactions on reproductive patterns in benthic communities and the effect of social interactions on mating behavior and mate choice in butterflies. |
| Awards: |
National Estuarine Research Reserve System Graduate Research
Fellowship 2006-2008; Best Student Oral Paper, Division of Animal
Behavior, Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology 2011. |
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| Academic Service: |
Yale Graduate Student Assembly, EEB representative
2009-2011, Yale Graduate and Professional Student Senate, Science
representative 2008-2009. |
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Westerman, E.L.; Dijkstra, J.A.; Harris, L.G. 2009 High natural fusion rates in
a botryllid ascidian. Marine Biology 156(12): 2613-2619.
Westerman, E.L.; Whitlatch, R.; Dijkstra, J.A.; Harris, L.G. 2009. Variation in
brooding period masks similarities in response to changing temperatures. Marine
Ecology Progress Series 391: 13-19.
Dijkstra, J.; Dutton, A; Westerman E; Harris, G. 2008 Heart rate reflects
osmostic stress levels in two introduced colonial ascidians Botryllus
schlosseri and Botrylloides violaceus. Marine Biology 154: 805-811.
Dijkstra, J.; Harris, L.; Westerman, E. 2007 Distribution and long-term temporal
patterns of four invasive colonial ascidians in the Gulf of Maine. Journal of
Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 342: 61-68. |
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