Dr. Alan O. Bergland is an Assistant Professor in the Biology Deptartment at the University of Virginia. He is interested in basic questions in evolutionary and ecological genetics and studies...
Alyssa Bangerter-Black (2016 - current) is a Ph.D. student in the Biology Deptartment broadly interested in studying incipient speciation and clinal differentiation between populations. She is...
Dr. Karen Barnard-Kubow (2016 - current) is interested in the processes underlying the generation and maintenance of genetic variation, and how genetic divergence may eventually lead to the...
Dr. Dörthe Becker (2016 - current) is a physiological ecologist interested in the molecular mechanisms by which various stressors are tolerated via acclimation. During her PhD, her research focused...
Austin Edwards (2017 - current) is a technician building devices to study Drosophila behavior. He previously was a technician at Janelia Research Campus studying the neuronal basis of social and...
Dr. Priscilla Erickson (2016 - current) joined the Bergland lab as a postdoc after completing her PhD in Molecular and Cell Biology in Craig Miller's lab at UC Berkeley, where she studied the...
(2016-current) is an undergraduate student in the College of Arts and Sciences studying Biology and Statistics. She is currently working to characterize phenotypic responses to predation in Daphnia...
Daniel Song (2016-current) is an undergraduate student working with Priscilla Erickson to determine the effect of olfactory and nutrition cues on diapause in Drosophila melanogaster.
Erin Voss (2017 - current) is a technician working on Daphnia evolutionary genetics. Erin attended Bowdoin College in Maine where she studied the evolutionary history of the European Green Crab.
Cory Weller is a Ph.D. candidate (Bergland Lab: 2016 - current) in the Biology Department. Cory is currently developing computational approaches to map cis-eQTL and perform whole genome...