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Students and Colleagues

Current students, postdocs, and technicians:


Photo of Marwa Marwa Adawe (adawemar at msu.edu), Undergraduate Student


Photo of Brian Brian Baer (baerb at msu.edu), Tech


Photo of Jeff Jeff Barrick (jbarrick at msu.edu), Postdoc


Photo of Zachary Zachary Blount (blountza at msu.edu), Graduate Student


Photo of Carla 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.


Photo of James James Dittmar (dittmarw at msu.edu), Undergraduate Student


Photo of Neerja Neerja Hajela (hajelan at msu.edu), Lab Manager.


Photo of Mark Mark Kauth (kauthmar at msu.edu), Undergraduate Student


Photo of Andrew Andrew Melfi (melfiand at msu.edu), Undergraduate Student


Photo of Justin 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.


Photo of Christian Christian Orlic (orlicchr at msu.edu), Undergraduate Student


Photo of Chris Chris Strelioff (streliof at msu.edu), Postdoc


Photo of Brian Brian Wade (brian at msu.edu), Graduate Student.

Research Interests: evolutionary adaptations to environmental stressors and nutrient limitation.


Photo of Mike 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)