Yale Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

Third Year Graduate Students

Karin Burghardt
Email:	karin.burghardt@yale.edu
Advisors:	Dr. Oswald Schmitz, Dr. Melinda Smith
Committee:
Research Interests:	Research Interests: plant-insect interactions; impact of disturbance and plant defensive traits on diversity, community structure, and ecosystem function
Awards:	NSF GRFP

Waldan Kwong
Email:	waldan.kwong@yale.edu
Advisor:	Nancy Moran
Committee:	Nancy Moran, Howard Ochman, Paul Turner, Andrew Goodman
Research Interests:	Bacterial genomics, host-microbe interactions, gut microbial communities
Awards:	NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship


Katherine Mertes
Email:	katherine.mertes@yale.edu
Advisor:	Walter Jetz
Committee:
Research Interests:	environmental variables and landscape features that influence movement decisions and occurrence patterns in East African vertebrates; functional connectivity of landscapes; species responses to habitat fragmentation and global change at multiple spatial scales


Andrew Moeller
Email:	andrew.moeller@yale.edu
Advisor:	Howard Ochman
Committee:
Research Interests:	ecology and evolution of microbes, metagenomics
Awards:	NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Academic Service:

Natalie Pilakouta
Email:	natalie.pilakouta@yale.edu
Advisor:	Suzanne Alonzo
Committee:
Research Interests:	research interests: female mate choice, MHC genes, social and reproductive behavior

Amanda Subalusky
Email:	amanda.subalusky@yale.edu
Advisor:	David Post
Committee:
Research Interests:	The role of biotic and abiotic variables in mediating allochthonous nutrient subsidies; large wildlife as nutrient vectors in East African rivers


Daniel Wieczynski
Email:	daniel.wieczynski@yale.edu
Advisor:	David Vasseur
Committee:	Suzanne Alonzo, Paul Turner, David Vasseur
Research Interests:	eco-evolutionary dynamics in variable environments