Fall 2025

Belen Alvestegui - "Shifts between bird and bat pollination and their roles in the diversification of Symbolathus"

Jocelyn Bishop - " Climate change and its effect on mast seeding of white sprunce"

Alan Camp - "Geographic variation in frequency-dependent selection in the Northern paper wasp"

Zoe Ellis - "Do male mating strategies predict behavioral laterality in the livebearing fish Girardinus metallicus?"

Lucy Roth - "Assessing winter contents of tree cavities"

Addy Yoder - "Effect of Habitat Characteristics on Red-headed Woodpecker Overwintering"

Spring 2025

Kristen Rosamond - "A comparison of gut microbiome development in two closely related passerine species"

Fall 2024

Garrett Behrends -"Urbanization's influence on the diet and nesting success of St. Louis paper wasps"

John Bender - "Diet cariation of Sali (Alponis opaca) on three Pacfic Islands"

Samir Kuinkel -  "Thermal tolerance of native and invasive paper wasp species"

Addy Yoder - "Habitat Characteristics and Seasonality of Red-headed Woodpecker Cavity-Use"

Spring 2024

Casey Ernest -  "Ecology and Population Genomics of Endangered Pecos Gambusia (Gambusia nobilis)"

Becky Hansis-O'Neill - "Genetic isolation of Aphonopelma hentzi in Missouri glade grasslands"

Soren Johnson -  "Determining the role of plasticity in the phenotypic divergence of a recently colonized cavefish (Poecilia mexicana)"

Raj Prasai - "Understanding the trapline foraging and acoustic call parameters of nectar-feeding bat Anoura caudifer"

Kristen Rosamond -  "Influence of the gut microbiome on immune gene expression in House Sparrow (Passer domesticus) nestlings"

George Todd -  "Investigating Sensory Ecology and Sensory Tradeoffs in Hover Flies"

Fall 2023

John Bender -  "The Effects of Typhoon Mawar on Såli diet, Aplonis opaca"

Lindsey Dennison - "Investigating the importance of visual cues in flower detection for Anoura caudifer, a nectar-feeding neotropical bat"

Erik Johnson - "The Evolution of Morphological Asymmetry in the Livebearing Fish,
Xenophallus umbratilis"

Madison Smith - "Habitat disturbance in Ozark glades and effect on abiotic factors within burrows"

Current Harris Center Fellowships

Christensen Fellowship

Giulia de Gennaro

Alejandra Serna Sanchez

Raj Prasai

Saint Louis Zoo WildCare Fellowship at the Harris Center

Alisa Sanakoeva

Whitney R. Harris and Saint Louis Zoo Fellowship in Animal Conservation

Casey Ernest