Graduate Students
Elanie Briggs
Program: MS Track I
Lab: Dr. Tanya Sysoeva
Interests: Antimicrobial resistance, microbial interactions, and low-temperature plasma applications in biology.
Alexis Delgado Castillo
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
Program: MS Track I
Lab: Dr. Matthew Niemiller
Interests: Phylogeography, speciation and cryptic diversity in cave springtails, entomology, invertebrate zoology, speleobiology
Richard Evans
Program: MS Track I
Lab: Dr. Ahmed Lawan
Interests: Research interests: metabolism and diabetes; other: learning new things, cooking, sports
Joshua Fitts
Program: MS Track I
Lab: Dr. Zach Culumber
Interests: Ichthyology, Ecology, Stream Ecology
Katelyn (Katie) Giltner
Program: MS Track I
Lab: Dr. Zach Culumber
Interests: Evolution, ecology, animal behavior & physiology
Jared Higgs
Program: MS1 Track 1
Lab: Dr Matthew Neimiller
Interests: Ecology, Environmental DNA, Conservation Biology, and Biogeography.
Kaylie Hintze
Program: MS Track I
Lab: Dr. Tanya Sysoeva
Interests: Bacterial Inhibition, Non Antibiotic Bacterial Therapy, Genomics, and Bacterial Media Creation
Wren Jenkins
Program: MS Track I
Lab: Dr. Kankshita Swaminathan
Interests: Plant Biology, Agricultural Genomics, and Phenotyping
Layla Jeries
Program: MS Track I
Lab: Dr. Tanya Sysoeva
Interests: Microbiomes, Microbial Ecology, Bacterial Physiology, Probiotics
Emma Jordan
Program: MS Track I
Lab: Dr. Matthew Niemiller
Interests: ecology, evolution, conservation biology, herpetology
Emika Miyamoto
Program: MS Track 1
Lab: Dr. Jerome Baudry
Interests: Molecular biology, computational biology, human physiology, space biology
Bjorn Peterson
Program: MS Track I
Lab: Dr. Matthew Niemiller
Interests: Ecology, Evolution, Biogeography, Conservation Biology
Poshan Pokharel
Program: MS Track I
Lab: Dr. Jerome Baudry and Dr. Bradley Kraemer
Interests: Structural and Molecular Biology
Madison Richards
Program: MS Track 1
Lab: Dr. Matt Niemiller
Interests: Gray bats, cave ecology, conservation
Jackson Schoettle
Program: MS Track I
Lab: Dr. Matthew Niemiller
Interests: Ecology, Conservation Biology, Herpetology
Cassandra (Cassy) Secunda
Program: MS Track I
Lab: Dr. Ahmed Lawan
Interests: Nonalcoholic fatty liver diseas, Platelet Activation, Metabolic Disorders, Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases
Aayushi Sharma
Program : MS Track I
Lab: Dr. Tanya Sysoeva
Interests: Microbiology , Transformation, CRISPR editing
Foster Sims
Program: MS Track I
Lab: Dr. Matthew Niemiller
Interests: Ornithology, Ecological Conservation, Invasive Plant Species
