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Evolutionary Ecology
of Fishes Laboratory
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Updated: February 6, 2013
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Evolutionary Ecology
of Fishes Laboratory
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Updated: February 6, 2013
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
Jessica Alexander [started Fall 2012]
Farhat Bajjaliya [Effect of environment on Steelhead morphology]
Kasie Barnes [The effects of body length and density on the initiation and completion of metamorphosis in larval lamprey]
Steve Brumbaugh [Modeling Spring-Run Chinook Salmon Abundance to Determine Restoration Benefits in Data-Poor Northern California Watersheds]
Beth Parvis [started Fall 2012]
AJ Southwell [Modeling oceanographic circulation flows in Monterey Canyon]
Erin Strange [started Fall 2012]
Shannon Waters [Effects of Salinity on Reproductive success of Tilapia in the Salton Sea, California]
Undergraduate Assistants and Research Students
Marcos Arreola
Jody Baugh [Effect of variable temperature on cichlid development]
Nathan Bell
Sam Borstein [Cichlid Reproduction and Evolution]
Philicia Canady
Jasmine Hamilton [McNair Scholar, Size asymmetry and aggression]
Eliza Hanson [Effects of familiarity on aggression]
Katie Karpenko
Taylor Rucker
Kia Seehaufer [Individuality]
Angelica Sprague
Sadie St. Lawrence [Brood cannibalism]
Esther Tracy [Effects of predator size on parental defense]
Alison Wagner [Using GIS for mapping fish distributions]
Lab Alumni
Graduate Students Who Have Completed Master's Degrees in the lab
Robyn Bilski [The Effects of Structure Enhancement on Chinook Salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) spawning habitat] December 2008
Bianka Bommarito [Does egg size influence spawning temperature preference in substrate spawning cichlid fishes?] May 2011
Laura Cholodenko [The role of pesticides, introduced fish, and habitat change in the decline of the Cascades frog (Rana cascadae) in California] December 2006
Karen Converse [Genetic Mating System and Territory Inheritance in the Sacramento Valley Red Fox] December 2012
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
Lesley Hamamoto [The influence of parental care behavior by convict cichlids on the incidence of oomycete infection of their eggs] May 2010
Erika Holland [Reproductive biochemistry of Chinook Salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha)] May 2008
Nina Kogut [Effect of Delayed Brood development on Parental Defense by Female convict cichlids] May 2005.
Gena Lasko [Straying of late-fall-run Chinook Salmon from the Coleman National Fish Hatchery into the Lower American River, California]
James Phillips [Parental ecology of the plainfin midshipman (Porichthys notatus)] December 2007
Luciana Ramirez [Predation Pressure as a Determinant of Parental Behavior in Neotropical Cichlids] December 2008 Word
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
Dan Worth [Growth and Dispersal of Recently Stocked Eagle Lake Rainbow Trout in the Lake Davis Watershed] December 2010
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, then withdrew]
DJ Eichenberger [Moved to Dr. Lancaster's lab, graduated with MS]
Elif Fehm-Sullivan [Moved to Dr. Kneitel's lab, graduated with MS]
Guthrum Purdin [Completed vet school at UC Davis]
Geoff Teigen [Withdrew]
Undergraduate Assistants and Research Students
Name What they did Where they are now Richard Aguirre SEE summer research student Science Education Equity (SEE) office at CSU Sacramento Brandon Amrhein Field Assistant in Costa Rica, 2005 Tracy Audisio Cave biology SFSU and California Academy of Sciences doing MS on spiders with Charles Griswold Autumn Bahlman Field Assistant in Costa Rica, 2004 Anthony Barley Research Assistant Worked in the lab of Brad Shafer at UC Davis; now in PhD at Kansas since Fall 09 Allison Berke Research Assistant, Cichlid eggs and temperature, Summer 2004 Allison was a Biology undergraduate at MIT, and is now a PhD student at UC Berkeley. 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 Went on to do Masters student in Coleman lab Nicolette Canzoneri Research Assistant Masters student in Anthrozoology at Canisius College in New York
Lizette Castillo Lab Assistant, 2012 undegrad at CSUS Paul Clerkin Sacramento City College research student Now undergraduate at Cornell University Selina Cole Field Assistant in Costa Rica, 2008 Erin Crumpley Field Assistant in Costa Rica, 2003 Mark Dendy Bio 199; sculpin behavior; Spring 2006 Interactions between sharks and harbor seals. Mark did his MS degree through the University of Maryland] Angela De Palma Aquatic plants MS at Michigan State University with .... 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 Anna Doty Lab Assistant summer 2009; Field Assistant in Costa Rica 2009 Completed Master of Science at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Univerisity, South Africa in January 2012 DJ Eichenberger Honor's thesis 2004: Diet and Egg size Finished MS with Dr. Winston Lancaster at CSUS 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 2009 Eduardo Hazera OTS REU student, Summer 2009 Eduardo is an undergraduate at Colorado College 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 for California freshwater fishes Teresa Kirkpatrick McNair Scholar; Distinguishing male from female convict cichlids Michelle Kleine OTS REU student, Summer 2010 Michelle is a graduate of College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, Maine Kelly Klingler OTS REU student, Summer 2009 Kelly is a student at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry Jamie LeFevre Ectothermic Museum Curatorial Assistant Works at Army Corps of Engineers Nick Macias Research on The magical world of crayfish 2011 In MS program at University of Southern Georgia Madeline Majer Field Assistant in Costa Rica, 2004 Completed DDS at University of Michigan, and is now a dentist in Roseville. 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 Undergraduate at CSU Sacramento Courtney Ray Bio 199; cichlid behavior, Spring 2006 Jennifer Robinson Field Assistant in Costa Rica, 2004 Nathaniel Shanklin Fish aggression and temperature, Summer 2011 Preeti Talwai Ameer Thompson McNair Scholar; Evolution of eyespots on fishes; Diet and parental investment Ameer started the PhD program at UC Davis, then he moved with his lab to Cornell Medical School, NY where he finished his PhD in fall 2010 Sarah van Ruiten NSM SURE award, Summer 2010 in Costa Rica Alex Webb
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 {deceased, 2007} Dr. Ian Fleming Labmate during graduate school Dr. Ian Fleming Ocean Sciences Center, Memorial University, Newfoundland Dr. Isabelle Cote Labmate during graduate school Dr. Isabelle Cote's Tropical Marine Ecology Group Professor, Simon Fraser University Dr. John Reynolds Labmate during graduate school Dr. John Reynolds' Lab Professor, Simon Fraser University Lab Publications/Presentations
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