Student Associate Research Interests
Research Interests of Harris Center Graduate Student Associates at the University of Missouri-St. Louis
Student Associate |
Research Interests |
E-mail Address |
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Rani Asmarayani |
Systematic study of Asian Piper (Piperaceae). |
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Christina Baer Ph. D. USA |
The ecology and evolution of plant-insect interactions, specifically ecosystem engineering. |
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Kirk Barnett |
Invasive plant effects on rodent foraging behavior, insect herbivory and plant defensive compounds. |
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Alonso Bussalleu |
Home range variation in space and time related to environmental gradients and life stages and the implications in conservation. |
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Hu Chen |
Locomotory development in European starlings. |
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Vincenzo Ellis |
Health and population distribution of North American birds. |
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Gideon Erkenswick |
Evolution and ecology of primate pathogen assemblages in the Amazon basin of southeast Peru. |
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Jeffery Ettling |
Population structure and landscape genetics of the Armenian viper. |
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Allisyn Gillet |
Social behavior and disease transmission in Galápagos hawks. |
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Leticia Gutiérrez |
Effects of a complex trophic structure of mammalian host species on the ecology of emerging infectious diseases |
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Robbie Hart |
Ethnobiology, alpine ecology, biodiversity conservation in the greater Himalayan region |
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Edgar Javier Hernandez Ph.D. Colombia |
Evolution of social behavior
in hymenoptera; origins of caste determination and evolution of
different life strategies in bees. |
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Cynthia Hong-Wa |
Plant systematics. |
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Mari C. Jaramillo M.S. Ecuador |
Native species and community responses to eradication of introduced species in island ecosystems. |
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Emily Konrath |
Mate choice techniques in captive cheetahs. |
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Daniel Layton M.S. USA |
Plant systematics (Commelinaceae and Poaceae); species limits; developmental evolution; population genetics of diploid-polyploid pairs. |
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Iris Levin Ph.D. USA |
Disease ecology and population genetics of Galápagos seabirds and their parasites. |
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Matthew Madeiros |
Vector relations of avian haemosporidian parasites. |
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Robert Meile |
Modeling disease threat of Plasmodium in Galápagos penguins. |
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Eliot Miller |
Patterns of phylogenetic community structure along environmental gradients. |
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Daniel O'Brien M.S. USA |
Utilizing bioinformatics, population biology, and evolutionary ecology to understand the diversity of life's phenotypes. |
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Oyomoare Osuzawa-Peters |
Soil carbon sequestration in tropical ecosystems, focusing on how traits of woody species influence rates of decomposition |
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Jamie Palmer |
Disease ecology. |
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Maria W. Pil |
Population genetics of island bird populations. |
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Galen Priest |
Herbivory on trees in the Brazilian cerrado. |
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Heritiana Ranarivelo |
Systematics and biogeography of the Afro-malagasy genus Psorospermum (Hypericaceae). |
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José Luis Rivera |
Host-parasite interactions, population genetics, speciation processes and community assembly. |
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Diego Salazar Ph.D. Costa Rica |
The genus Piper, its role in
the tropical understory and how it is affected by tri-trophic
interactions. |
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Population genetics, disease ecology, and diversification of Neotropical birds |
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Letícia Soares |
Effects of forest fragmentation in malaria parasites, avian hosts and vector communities. |
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Maria Svensson-Coelho |
Community ecology, evolution of specialization, and biogeography of avian malaria parasites. |
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Pagi Toko |
Plant-animal interactions, population dynamics and evolution, insect ecology. |
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Toshi Tsunekage |
Oxidative damage to avian embryos. |
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Elvis Valderrama |
Plant systematics |
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Jinshun Zhong |
Plant Evo-Devo. The evolution and development of flower symmetry: A case study in Lamiales. |