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Second Year Graduate Students

Meghan Avolio avolio
Email: meghan.avolio@yale.edu
Advisor: Melinda Smith
Committee:  

Research
Interests:

Grassland plant communities, mycorrhizae, climate change, nitrogen deposition, and genetic structure of plant populations
Awards: YIBS Center for Field Ecology Grant (2007)
Fulbright (2005/2006)		  
Publications:

Müller T, Avolio M, Olivi M, Chalot M. and Wipf D (2007). Organic nitrogen transport in the ectomycorrhiza on the basis of the Hebeloma cylindrosporum-Pinus pinaster association. Phytochemistry 68: 41-51.

Müller T, Benjdia, M, Avolio, M, Voigt, B, Menzel, D, Pardo, A, Frommer W.B., and Wipf, D (2006). Functional expression of the green fluorescent protein in the ectomycorrhizal model fungus Hebeloma cylindrosporum. Mycorrhiza, 16: 437-44.

  

 
Christen Bossu bossu
Email: christen.bossu@yale.edu
Advisor: Near
Committee: Michael Donoghue, Suzanne Alonzo, Kent Holsinger

Research
Interests:

Combining systematics, population genetics and behavioral ecology to study the evolution of reproductive isolation and hybridization in freshwater fishes
Awards: 2006 ASIH Student Travel Award
2006 University of Tennessee Graduate Student Senate Travel Award
2004, 2005 University of Tennessee EEB Summer Research Grant
2004 Edward C. and Charlotte E. Raney Award, ASIH
2003-2004 Hilton A. Smith Graduate Fellowship, University of Tennessee		  


Deena Emera Emera
Email: deena.emera@yale.edu
Advisor: Wagner
Committee: Jeffrey Townsend, Vivian Irish, Hugh Taylor

Research
Interests:

evolution of development, human evolution, evolution of miRNAs
Awards: NSF GRFP Honorable Mention 2007  


Richard Harrington Richard Harrington
Email: richard.harrington@yale.edu
Advisor: Near
Committee: Post, Donoghue, McPeek

Research
Interests:

Evolutionary trends in ecological traits during adaptive radiations; Biogeography, phylogeography, and community assembly patterns of North American freshwater fishes.
Awards: Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies Field Ecology Grant (2007)  

 
Holly Kindsvater Holly Kindsvater
Email: holly.kindsvater@yale.edu
Advisor: Suzanne Alonzo
Committee: Steve Stearns, David Post, Gil Rosenthal (Texas A&M)

Research
Interests:

Evolutionary ecology: life history trade-offs, mating systems and behavior
Awards: EPA STAR (2004-2009).
YIBS Field Ecology Grant (2007)		  
Publications: Mangel, M., Kindsvater, H.K., and Bonsall, M.B. 2007. Evolutionary analysis of life span, competition, and adaptive radiation, motivated by the Pacific rockfishes (Sebastes). Evolution 61-5: 1208-1224.  

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