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Evolutionary Ecology
of Fishes Laboratory
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Evolutionary Ecology
of Fishes Laboratory
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We are interested in evolutionary ecology, in other words, why organisms do the things that they do. Most of our work focuses on fish reproduction and parental care, though we are interested in all aspects of evolutionary ecology. The lab logo illustrates Tomocichla tuba, a fascinating cichlid fish found in eastern Costa Rica, which I have studied for many years at the La Selva Biological Station and elsewhere in Costa Rica.
Personnel
Graduate Students
Robyn Bilski [The Effects of Structure Enhancement on Chinook Salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) spawning habitat]
Bianka Bommarito [Does Egg Size Influence Spawning Temperature Preference in Neotropical Cichlid Fishes?]
Patrick Crain [Reproductive ecology of Sacramento perch]
Mark Dendy [Interactions between sharks and harbor seals. Mark is doing his degree through the University of Maryland]
Lesley Hamamoto [Watermold infection of substrate-spawned cichlid eggs]
Erika Holland [Reproductive biochemistry of Chinook Salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha)]
Gena Lasko [Lampreys in the Central Valley of California]
Luciana Ramirez [South American cichlid reproductive behvavior]
Geoff Teigen [Will the Interoceanica Highway restrict gene flow in Amazonian Peru?: A study of Two Frog Species]
Dan Worth [The effects of time and location on Trout stocking in Lake Davis]
Undergraduate Assistants and Research Students
Richard Aguirre [SEE summer research student]
Anthony Barley
Selina Cole
Nicole Constantinedes
Jamie Lefevre
Viktorya Polyanskaya
Lab Alumni
Graduate Students Who Have Completed Master's Degrees in the lab
Laura Cholodenko [The role of pesticides, introduced fish, and habitat change in the decline of the Cascades frog (Rana cascadae) in California] December 2006
Danielle Delaporte [Effects of Predator Size and Lag Time between Attacks on Parental Care by Female Archocentrus nigrofasciatus]. December 2007.
Lynn Drennan [Female competition and display in kribensis (Pelvicachromis pulcher), a West African cichlid] December 2006
Rob Grasso [Palatability and antipredator response of Yosemite toad (Bufo canorus) to nonnative brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California] December 2005 pdf Word
Nina Kogut [Effect of Delayed Brood development on Parental Defense by Female convict cichlids] May 2005.
James Phillips [Reproductive ecology and parental care of plainfin midshipman (Porichthys notatus)] December 2007
Stephen Stringer [Optimization of hydrostatic pressure treatment to induce triploidy in American River Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha)] May 2007.
Lissa Thompson [Effects of egg size and temperature on development on mouthbrooding cichlid eggs] December 2004
Martha Volkoff [Stock Identification of Central Valley Chinook Salmon Using Otolith Microstructure] December 2004
Undergraduate Students Who Have Completed Honor's Theses in the lab
Samantha Hilber [Changes in egg size variance and egg number through consecutive spawnings in convict cichlids] May 2005
Bianka Bommarito [Choice of spawning temperature by neotropical cichlids] May 2005
DJ Eichenberger [Effect of diet on egg size in convict cichlids] May 2004
Beth Glidewell [Sexual dimorphism in the convict cichlid] May 2007
Sandy Johnston [] May 2007
Kim Nelson [] May 2007
Graduate Students who went on to other things
Shelly Amrhein [Moved to Dr. Kneitel's lab]
DJ Eichenberger [Moved to Dr. Lancaster's lab]
Elif Fehm-Sullivan [Moved to Dr. Kneitel's lab]
Guthrum Purdin [Withdrew: now in vet school at UC Davis]
Undergraduate Assistants and Research Students
Name What they did Where they are now Brandon Amrhein Field Assistant in Costa Rica, 2005 Autumn Bahlman Field Assistant in Costa Rica, 2004 Allison Berke Research Assistant, Cichlid eggs and temperature, Summer 2004 Biology undergraduate at MIT Camelia Bianchi Field Assistant in Costa Rica, 2002 Masters student at Washington State University (Vancouver campus) in Environmental Science with Dr. Brian Tissot. Bianka Bommarito Honor's thesis 2005; Choice of spawning temperature by neotropical cichlids Masters student in Coleman lab Paul Clerkin Sacramento City College research student] Erin Crumpley Field Assistant in Costa Rica, 2003 Mark Dendy Bio 199; sculpin behavior; Spring 2006 Courtney Dietz Field Assistant in Costa Rica, 2003; Egg attachment threads of Central American cichlids Masters student at Bren School of Environmental Studies at UC Santa Barbara DJ Eichenberger Honor's thesis 2004: Diet and Egg size Masters student in Lancaster lab Alison Galvani Undergraduate thesis; collaborator PhD, Oxford University 2002; Miller PostDoctoral Fellow at University of California Berkeley; As of Oct 2004, an Assistant Professor in the Medical School at Yale University. Awarded the American Society of Naturalists Young Investigator's Prize for 2005. Liz Hanson Research Assistant, Cichlid fry size and temperature, Spring and Summer 2007 Biology undergraduate at MIT as of Fall 2007 Samantha Hilber Honor's thesis 2005: Changes in egg size variance and egg number through consecutive spawnings in convict cichlids PhD student in the lab of Dr. Collette St. Mary at the University of Florida Sandy Johnston Honors program, 2006-2007 Lucinda Kent Field Assistant with California freshwater fishes Teresa Kirkpatrick McNair Scholar; Distinguishing male from female convict cichlids Jamie LeFevre Ectothermic Museum Curatorial Assistant Madeline Majer Field Assistant in Costa Rica, 2004 On her way to becoming an awesome dentist at University of Michigan Adriana Moncada Field Assistant in Costa Rica, 2002; Costa Rican rainforest ecology Now works at the Air Resources Quality Board Carlos Montanez SEE summer research Student Courtney Ray Bio 199; cichlid behavior, Spring 2006 Jennifer Robinson Field Assistant in Costa Rica, 2004 Ameer Thompson McNair Scholar; Evolution of eyespots on fishes; Diet and parental investment PhD program at UC Davis.
Lab History -- My Academic "Family"
Name Who they are Current activities Dr. Mart Gross Ron's MSc and PhD Supervisor, University of Toronto Mart Gross Lab of Conservation Biology University of Toronto Dr. George Barlow Ron's Postdoctorate Supervisor, University of Calfornia, Berkeley Dr. George Barlow Emeritus Professor, UC Berkeley Dr. Ian Fleming Labmate during graduate school Dr. Ian Fleming Director, Ocean Sciences Center, Memorial University, Newfoundland Dr. Isabelle Cote Labmate during graduate school Dr. Isabelle Cote's Tropical Marine Ecology Group Senior Lecturer, University of East Anglia Dr. John Reynolds Labmate during graduate school Dr. John Reynolds' Lab Professor, Simon Fraser University Lab Publications/Presentations
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