Graduate Students

Kanan Bell

Kanan Bell

keb0043@uah.edu

Program: MS Track I

Lab: Dr. Ahmed Lawan

Interests: Ecology


Elanie Briggs

Elanie Briggs

eb0129@uah.edu

Program: MS Track I

Lab: Dr. Tanya Sysoeva

Interests: Antimicrobial resistance, microbial interactions, and low-temperature plasma applications in biology. 


Alexis Delgado Castillo

Alexis Delgado Castillo

aoc0007@uah.edu

Program: MS Track I

Lab: Dr. Roger Cruz-Vera

Interests: Connecting with more people, exploring outsides and nature, talking about science,  great films to watch, art, cooking and fashion


Brendan Cramphorn

Brendan Cramphorn

btc0011@uah.edu

Program: MS Track I

Lab: Dr. Matthew Niemiller

Interests: Phylogeography, speciation and cryptic diversity in cave springtails, entomology, invertebrate zoology, speleobiology

 

Richard Evans

Richard Evans

rde0001@uah.edu

Program: MS Track I

Lab: Dr. Ahmed Lawan

Interests: Research interests: metabolism and diabetes; other: learning new things, cooking, sports


Joshua Fitts

Joshua Fitts

jf0133@uah.edu

Program: MS Track I

Lab: Dr. Zach Culumber

Interests: Ichthyology, Ecology, Stream Ecology


Katelyn (Katie) Giltner

Katelyn (Katie) Giltner

kag022@uah.edu

Program: MS Track I

Lab: Dr. Zach Culumber 

Interests: Evolution, ecology, animal behavior & physiology


Jared Higgs

Jared Higgs

jph0029@uah.edu

Program: MS1 Track 1

Lab: Dr Matthew Neimiller

Interests:  Ecology, Environmental DNA, Conservation Biology, and Biogeography.


Kaylie Hintze

Kaylie Hintze

krh0030@uah.edu

Program: MS Track I

Lab: Dr. Tanya Sysoeva

Interests: Bacterial Inhibition, Non Antibiotic Bacterial Therapy, Genomics, and Bacterial Media Creation


Wren Jenkins

Wren Jenkins

waj0005@uah.edu

Program: MS Track I

Lab: Dr. Kankshita Swaminathan

Interests: Plant Biology, Agricultural Genomics, and Phenotyping


Layla Jeries

Layla Jeries

lmj0020@uah.edu

Program: MS Track I

Lab:  Dr. Tanya Sysoeva

Interests: Microbiomes, Microbial Ecology, Bacterial Physiology, Probiotics


Emma Jordan

Emma Jordan

emj0011@uah.edu

Program: MS Track I

Lab: Dr. Matthew Niemiller

Interests: ecology, evolution, conservation biology, herpetology


Emika Miyamoto

Emika Miyamoto

enm0012@uah.edu

Program: MS Track 1

Lab: Dr. Jerome Baudry

Interests: Molecular biology, computational biology, human physiology, space biology


Bjorn Peterson

Bjorn Peterson

bp0089@uah.edu

Program: MS Track I

Lab: Dr. Matthew Niemiller

Interests: Ecology, Evolution, Biogeography, Conservation Biology


Poshan Pokharel

Poshan Pokharel

pp0056@uah.edu

Program: MS Track I

Lab: Dr. Jerome Baudry and Dr. Bradley Kraemer

Interests: Structural and Molecular Biology


Madison Richards

Madison Richards

mjr0031@uah.edu

Program: MS Track 1

Lab: Dr. Matt Niemiller

Interests: Gray bats, cave ecology, conservation 


Jackson Schoettle

Jackson Schoettle

jss0046@uah.edu

Program: MS Track I

Lab: Dr. Matthew Niemiller

Interests: Ecology, Conservation Biology, Herpetology


Cassandra (Cassy) Secunda

Cassandra (Cassy) Secunda

cs0244@uah.edu

Program: MS Track I

Lab: Dr. Ahmed Lawan

Interests: Nonalcoholic fatty liver diseas, Platelet Activation, Metabolic Disorders, Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases


Aayushi Sharma

Aayushi Sharma

as0456@uah.edu

Program : MS Track I

Lab: Dr. Tanya Sysoeva

Interests: Microbiology , Transformation, CRISPR editing


Foster Sims

Foster Sims

jfs0019@uah.edu

Program: MS Track I

Lab: Dr. Matthew Niemiller

Interests: Ornithology, Ecological Conservation, Invasive Plant Species