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Sixth Year Graduate Students

Meghan Avolio avolio
Email: meghan.avolio@yale.edu
Advisor: Melinda Smith
Committee: David Post, Oswald Schmitz, Gisella Caccone, and Jesse Nippert

Research
Interests:

Intra-specific genetic diversity, climate change, community and ecosystem ecology, arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus.
Awards: EPA Star Fellowship, YIBS, Weaver Grant  
Publications:

Müller T, Avolio M, Olivi M, Chalot M. and Wipf D (2007). Organic nitrogen transport in the ectomycorrhiza on the basis of the Hebeloma cylindrosporum-Pinus pinaster association. Phytochemistry 68: 41-51.

Müller T, Benjdia, M, Avolio, M, Voigt, B, Menzel, D, Pardo, A, Frommer W.B., and Wipf, D (2006). Functional expression of the green fluorescent protein in the ectomycorrhizal model fungus Hebeloma cylindrosporum. Mycorrhiza, 16: 437-44.

 


Christen Bossu bossu
Email: christen.bossu@yale.edu
Advisor: Near
Committee: Michael Donoghue, Suzanne Alonzo, Kent Holsinger

Research
Interests:

Combining systematics, population genetics and behavioral ecology to study the evolution of reproductive isolation and hybridization in freshwater fishes
Awards: 2006 ASIH Student Travel Award
2006 University of Tennessee Graduate Student Senate Travel Award
2004, 2005 University of Tennessee EEB Summer Research Grant
2004 Edward C. and Charlotte E. Raney Award, ASIH
2003-2004 Hilton A. Smith Graduate Fellowship, University of Tennessee
 


Deena Emera Emera
Email: deena.emera@yale.edu
Advisor: Gunter Wagner
Committee: Gunter Wagner, Vivian Irish, Jeff Townsend, Hugh Taylor

Research
Interests:

Molecular Evolution, Gene Regulation, Transposable elements, Primate Evolution
Awards: NSF GRFP, Honorable Mention  


Richard Harrington Richard Harrington
Email: richard.harrington@yale.edu
Advisor: Tom Near
Committee: Post, Donoghue, McPeek

Research
Interests:

Species delimitation, phylogenetics, and ecolgical niche evolution in North American freshwater fishes.
Awards: North American Native Fishes Association Conservation Research Grant  


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