Lab PI
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Jean-Philippe Gibert, PhD (he/him) Uses math, microcosm experiments and any data he can get ahold of to understand predator-prey and food webs in a changing world. CV | Google Scholar Contact: jean.gibert at duke.edu |
PhD Students
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韩则仪 / Ze-Yi Han
Studies how eco-evolutionary dynamics mediate responses to environmental conditions in food webs. Contact: zeyi.han at duke.edu More about Z's work here. |
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Katrina DeWitt, MSc Studies how biotic and environmental conditions influence pitcher plant bacterial communities in a changing world. Contact: katrina.dewitt at duke.edu |
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Richard Wong Interested in understanding the relationship between pitcher plants and their pitcher communities co-advised with Justin Wright @ Duke Contact: richard.j.wong at duke.edu |
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Andrea Yammine, MSc Studies the impact of anthropogenic activities on microbial food web structure and dynamics. Contact: andrea.yammine at duke.edu |
Postdocs
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Dan Wieczynski, PhD
Studies patterns in the structure and dynamics of communities that emerge from individual organisms interacting with the environment through functional traits. Contact: daniel.wieczynski at duke.edu More about Dan's science here. |
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Ewaldo Leitão, PhD Investigates how temperature and evolution influence trophic interactions and their consequence for food webs dynamics. Contact: ewaldo.leitao at duke.edu |
Lab Manager
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Dejah Smith, MSc Contact: dejah.smityj at duke.edu |
Graduate Student Alumni
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Christopher Kilner, PhD Studies the impact of environmental drivers on microbial communities. Contact: christopher.kilner at duke.edu |
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Melodie Najarro, MSc Studies how moss-associated microbes respond to rapidly changing environments. |
Postdoc Alumni
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Jennifer (Jenny) Rocca, PhD Microbial ecologist (wrangler) extraordinaire studying biotic and abiotic impacts on microbial communities. |
Undergrad alumni
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Megan Liu (Research Associate) Interested in how genetic variation influences temperature performance curves |
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Billy Cao Interested in changes in bird assemblages over time |
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Alexandra (Alex) Singleton Studies how genetic variation mediates temperature responses in protists |
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Adrian Doan Loves staring at and tending to microorganisms, because of the broader implications changes in their feeding interactions within food webs could have for the world. |
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Cody Perry Studies how increased temperatures affect food webs to better understand the full range of effects that human-caused climate change has on the biosphere. |
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Deney Li Studies how drug pollution may impact the structure and dynamics of freshwater communities. |
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Pranav Singla High School student doing work on how temperature affects demographic parameters and intraspecific competition. (Accepted at NC State for his undergrad! Congrats Pranav!) |
Other Alumni
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Sam Votzke (Research Associate) Interested in conservation ecology and the interface between society and the environment. Contact: svotzke21 at gmail.com |
