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Evolutionary Biology PhD Program


 Joint-Doctoral Students 2020-2021 Academic Year

Tierney Bougie
PhD candidate
Lab:
Hedin
Research interests: Hybridization zones
Email: tcbougie@gmail.com
Ryan Buck
PhD candidate
Lab:
Flores-Rentería
Research Interests:
Plant Evolutionary Biology
Email: rcbuck@sdsu.edu
Tamsen Dunn
PhD candidate
Lab:
Waters
Research interests:
Plant evolution
Email: tdunn@sdsu.edu

Rudy Fabunan
PhD candidate
Lab:
Waters
Research interests:
Plant genome evolution
Email: fabunanr@gmail.com

Grace Freymiller
PhD candidate
Lab:
Clark
Research interests:
Behavioral ecology, predator-prey interactions, and biomechanics
Email: gfreymil@gmail.com
  Ryan Hanscom
PhD candidate
Lab: Clark
Research interests:
Email:
  ryanhanscom2@gmail.com
Sean Kelly
PhD candidate
Lab:
Hedin
Research interests: Arachnid evolution and diversity
Email:
skelly0576@sdsu.edu
Dylan Maag
PhD candidate
Lab:
Clark
Research interests:
Behavioral ecology, herpetology, and predator-prey ecology/coevolution
Email:
dmaag3229@sdsu.edu

Talieh Ostovar
PhD candidate
Lab:
Waters
Research interests:
Plant genome evolution
Email: talieh.ostovar68@gmail.com

Niveditha Ramadoss
PhD candidate
Lab: Flores-Rentería
Research Interests:
Plant genetics and molecular evolution
Email: nramadoss@sdsu.edu
Juan Pablo Ramirez
PhD candidate
Lab: Reeder
Research Interests:
Herpetology
Email: JP.RAMIREZ10@UNIANDES.EDU.CO

Michael Remington
PhD candidate
Lab:
Sukumaran
Research interests: Computational methods, Predator Prey Dynamics, Conservation
Email:
michaelremington2@gmail.com

Michael Tofflemire
PhD candidate
Lab: Burns
Research interests: Avian evolution and systematics, phylogenetics
Email: mtofflemire@gmail.com


PhD Graduates in Evolutionary Biology

2015
Dr. Andrew Gottscho
PhD, 2015
Lab:
Reeder
Research interests: Herpetology, systematics, speciation, population genetics
Email: andrew.gottscho@gmail.com

2017
Shahan Derkarabetian
PhD, 2017
Lab: Hedin
Research interests: Opilionid systematics
Email:
sderkarabetian@gmail.com
Sean Harrington
PhD, 2017
Lab: Reeder
Research interests: Snake evolution and morphology
Email:
seanharrington256@gmail.com

Stephen Rice
PhD, 2017
Lab:
Clark
Research interests:
Landscape ecology
Email:
srice010@odu.edu


2018

Paul Maier
PhD, 2018
Lab:
Bohonak
Research interests: Herpetology, landscape genetics/genomics
Email: maierpa@gmail.com

Ketan Patel
PhD, 2018
Lab:
Bohonak
Research interests: Population Genetics
Email:
patel11@rohan.sdsu.edu
Casey Richart

Casey Richart
PhD, 2018
Lab:
Hedin
Research interests: Opilionid systematics
Email: pileated@gmail.com


2019
Agnese Lanzetti
PhD candidate
Lab:
Berta
Research interests: Whale anatomy, evolution, and systematics
Email: lanzetti@rohan.sdsu.edu

2020
Brian Myers
PhD candidate
Lab: Burns
Research interests: Bird systematics and evolution
Email: bmyers-w@sdsu.edu