Department of Entomology
Education & Background: Awards and Grants: Research Interests: I am broadly interested in biodiversity, from an ecological aspect, to how invasive species impact environments, and how traditional taxonomical work intersects with modern systematics. My interest has propelled me to gain various research experiences as an undergraduate student in Puerto Rico, the US, and Costa Rica. …
Education & Background: Awards and Grants: Research Interests: I believe understanding how nature works is the prerequisite for preserving biodiversity, and effective policy is predicated on biological knowledge. I would like to know how populations persist across spatial scales and evolve over landscapes. Arthropods in natural systems allow me to investigate contemporary evolutionary patterns at …
Education & Background: Awards and Grants: Research Interests: I am interested in landscape-level ecology and identifying how the environment has influenced evolution of Holarctic montane species. This brought me to the Molecular Ecology lab, where I am a PhD student working on genomic datasets of alpine ground beetles (Nebria). I completed my master’s degree at …
Education & Background: M.S. Student in Entomology2025 B.S. in Molecular Environmental Biology, University of California, Berkeley Research Interests: My research interests currently revolve around biodiversity and public health. I am particularly interested in the systematics and ecology of ticks – understanding how the environment and genetics play a role in the distributions and success of …
Education & Background Awards Research Interests I am interested in the branching relationships between species and the use of taxonomy to better understand the connectivity of all creatures. I look forward to broadening my experience by learning new lab techniques and pursuing new questions. I think lab research is a lot like field work—no stone …
Education & Background: Awards and Grants: Research Interests: My general research interests lie in climate change ecology, avian biology, and evolutionary ecology. I am broadly interested in the impacts of anthropogenic change on the health, genetic diversity, and distribution of wildlife, specifically birds. Before pursuing my master’s degree, I followed my passion for science by …
Education & Background: Awards and Grants: Research Interests: Why UW-Madison? I believe if you want to understand almost anything in the world, you must comprehend its mental state and its make-up. As such, I am diving into insects’ genetics in the Molecular Ecology lab. I want to investigate the impact that human-induced environmental disturbances have …
Education & Background: Awards: Research Interests: In general, I am really interested in how people and the environment interact and more specifically the effect of agriculture on global health. To be honest, there are so many interesting topics to research and discover, it’s hard to narrow down my interests! During the 2022-2023 year I will …