Students and Colleagues
Current students, postdocs, and technicians:
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Marwa Adawe (adawemar at msu.edu), Undergraduate Student |
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Brian Baer (baerb at msu.edu), Tech |
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Jeff Barrick (jbarrick at msu.edu), Postdoc |
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Zachary Blount (blountza at msu.edu), Graduate Student |
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Carla Davidson (carla at msu.edu),
Postdoc. Research Interests: in vivo gene regulation in evolved and ancestral lines. In particular, whether mutational robustness can be a heritable property of gene regulatory networks, and in changes in temporal regulation of evolved and ancestral lines, as well as population diversity during evolution. |
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James Dittmar (dittmarw at msu.edu), Undergraduate Student |
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Neerja Hajela (hajelan at msu.edu), Lab Manager. |
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Mark Kauth (kauthmar at msu.edu), Undergraduate Student |
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Andrew Melfi (melfiand at msu.edu), Undergraduate Student |
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Justin
Meyer (meyerju3
at msu.edu), Graduate Student. Research Interests: the molecular underpinnings and ecological control of co-evolutionary dynamics between lambda phage and E. coli. |
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Christian Orlic (orlicchr at msu.edu), Undergraduate Student |
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Chris Strelioff (streliof at msu.edu), Postdoc |
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Brian
Wade (brian at msu.edu), Graduate Student. Research Interests: evolutionary adaptations to environmental stressors and nutrient limitation. |
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Mike
Wiser (mwiser at msu.edu), Graduate Student. Research Interests: epistasis, adaptation, experimental evolution, horizontal gene transfer, population structure. |
Former grad students and postdocs:
| Brendan Bohannan (U of Oregon) | Christina Borland (Beijing, China) |
| Judy Bouma | Tim Cooper (U Houston) |
| Vaughn Cooper (U of New Hampshire) | Santiago Elena (U Valencia, Spain) |
| Phil Gerrish (Los Alamos Natl Lab) | Kristina Hillesland (University of Washington) |
| Ryszard Korona (Jagiellonian U, Poland) | Christopher Marx (Harvard U.) |
| Dule Misevic (ETH Zurich) | John Mittler (U Washington) |
| Judy Mongold | Francisco (Paco) Moore (U of Akron) |
| Toai Nguyen (UC-Irvine) | Charles Ofria (MSU) |
| Elizabeth Ostrowski (Rice U) | Susi Remold (U Louisville) |
| Daniel Rozen (Manchester U) | Sean Sleight (U Washington) |
| Felisa Smith (U New Mexico) | Paul Sniegowski (U Pennsylvania) |
| Valeria Souza (UNAM, Mexico) | Doug Taylor (U Virginia) |
| Mike Travisano (U Houston) | Paul Turner (Yale) |
| Farida Vasi | Greg Velicer (Indiana U) |
| Arjan de Visser (Wageningen, Netherlands) | Robert Woods (U of Chicago) |
| Gabe Yedid (Nanjing, China) | Cliff Zeyl (Wake Forest U) |
Other colleagues with related interests:
| Chris Adami (Keck Graduate Institute) | Graham Bell (McGill U) |
| Al Bennett (UC-Irvine) | Sebastian Bonhoeffer (ETH Zurich) |
| Jim Bull (U Texas) | Lin Chao (UC-San Diego) |
| Dan Dykhuizen (SUNY Stony Brook) | Paul Keim (N Arizona U) |
| Larry Forney (U Idaho) | Bruce Levin (Emory U) |
| Nancy Moran (U Arizona) | Howard Ochman (U Arizona) |
| Rob Pennock (MSU) | Paul Rainey (New Zealand) |
| Peg Riley (U of Massachusetts) | Dom Schneider (Grenoble, France) |
| Tom Schmidt (MSU) | Tom Whittam (MSU) |
| Claus Wilke (U Texas) |













