Graduate Students Kanan Bell keb0043@uah.edu Program: MS Track I Lab: Dr. Ahmed Lawan Interests: Ecology 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 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 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 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 jf0133@uah.edu Program: MS Track I Lab: Dr. Zach Culumber Interests: Ichthyology, Ecology, Stream Ecology Katelyn (Katie) Giltner kag022@uah.edu Program: MS Track I Lab: Dr. Zach Culumber Interests: Evolution, ecology, animal behavior & physiology Jared Higgs jph0029@uah.edu Program: MS1 Track 1 Lab: Dr Matthew Neimiller Interests: Ecology, Environmental DNA, Conservation Biology, and Biogeography. 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 waj0005@uah.edu Program: MS Track I Lab: Dr. Kankshita Swaminathan Interests: Plant Biology, Agricultural Genomics, and Phenotyping Layla Jeries lmj0020@uah.edu Program: MS Track I Lab: Dr. Tanya Sysoeva Interests: Microbiomes, Microbial Ecology, Bacterial Physiology, Probiotics Emma Jordan emj0011@uah.edu Program: MS Track I Lab: Dr. Matthew Niemiller Interests: ecology, evolution, conservation biology, herpetology Emika Miyamoto enm0012@uah.edu Program: MS Track 1 Lab: Dr. Jerome Baudry Interests: Molecular biology, computational biology, human physiology, space biology Bjorn Peterson bp0089@uah.edu Program: MS Track I Lab: Dr. Matthew Niemiller Interests: Ecology, Evolution, Biogeography, Conservation Biology Poshan Pokharel pp0056@uah.edu Program: MS Track I Lab: Dr. Jerome Baudry and Dr. Bradley Kraemer Interests: Structural and Molecular Biology Madison Richards mjr0031@uah.edu Program: MS Track 1 Lab: Dr. Matt Niemiller Interests: Gray bats, cave ecology, conservation Jackson Schoettle jss0046@uah.edu Program: MS Track I Lab: Dr. Matthew Niemiller Interests: Ecology, Conservation Biology, Herpetology 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 as0456@uah.edu Program : MS Track I Lab: Dr. Tanya Sysoeva Interests: Microbiology , Transformation, CRISPR editing Foster Sims jfs0019@uah.edu Program: MS Track I Lab: Dr. Matthew Niemiller Interests: Ornithology, Ecological Conservation, Invasive Plant Species