Current/recent Members of the Roach Lab

Current/recent Members of the Roach Lab | 16 Articles

Andrew Wozniak PhD

Assistant Professor at University of Delaware

Andrew was an undergraduate who did a lot of Plantago field work.  He went on to get his PhD in Marine Science at William & Mary and is currently an Assistant Professor at the Universoty of Delaware...

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Caroline Ridley PhD

Ecologist, Environmental Protection Agency

Caroline was a technician in the lab and she then went to graduate school at the University of California, Riverside to work with Norm Ellstrand.  She is an ecologist with EPA.

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Elizabeth Ostrowski PhD

Senior Lecturer at Massey University, New Zealand

Elizabeth was a technician in the lab before she went to Michigan State to do her PhD with Richard Lenski.  She is currently a Senior Lecturer in the School of natural and Computational Sciences at...

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Erika Mudrak PhD

Statistical Consultant

Erika was a technician in the lab, she then went to graduate school and is now a Statistical Consultant in the Division of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell University

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Sarah Tacke MA

Assistant Coach of Softball at Iona College

MA. in Biological Conservation. Sarah used the Plantago dataset to address questions about the timing of reproduction across age and years.  She is currently the Assistant Coach for softball at Iona...

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Eric Yoshizuka MS

Instructor of Biology

Eric’s thesis work focused on plastic growth responses to herbivory.  He is currently an Instructor of Biology and Laboratory Coordinator at Bridgewater College.

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Nicholas Priest PhD

Lecturer at University of Bath, England

As a graduate student Nick did his work on the effects of maternal mating on offspring fitness in Drosophila melanogaster. He is currently a Lecturer in the Department of Biology & Biochemistry at...

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Jeff Dudycha PhD

Professor at University of South Carolina

Jeff was a postdoc in the lab and took major responsibility for doing the crosses and planting the first cohorts of our large experimental population of nearly 30,000 individuals of Plantago.  He is ...

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Richard Shefferson PhD

Associate Professor at University of Tokyo

Rich was a postdoc in the lab and he did  some innovative analysis on the long-term Plantago dataset including reverse-age analysis, the frequency and timing of reproduction, and the impact of...

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Brandie Quarles

PhD student at Duke University

Brandie was an undergraduate in the lab for three years and she did a Distinguished Majors Project that was published in Journal of Ecology.  She is currently working on her PhD in Kathleen Donohue's...

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Kelsie Hunnicutt

PhD student at University of Denver

Kelsie was an undergraduate in the lab and she did her Distinguished Majors Project on the correlation between variation in early-life traits and the rate of inbreeding in Mimulus ringens.  She is...

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Melissa Aikens PhD

Assistant Professor at University of New Hampshire

Melissa did her dissertation on the population dynamics across the range of the Southern Appalachian endemic plant, Prenanthes roanensis.  She is currently an Assistant Professor of Biological...

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Carolyn Beans PhD

Science Journalist

Carolyn was a graduate student in the lab and her dissertation focused on competition-driven selection on a native plant following a species invasion.  She is now a science writer specializing in...

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