Matthew Aardema, 2010, MS
MSU Department: Department of Entomology
Advisor: J. Mark Scriber
Thesis Title: The influence of female wing color variation on male mate choice in tiger swallowtail butterflies (Papilio Spp.)

Shairah Abdul Razak, 2017, PhD
MSU Department: Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Advisor: Kim L. Scribner
Dissertation title:  Biotic and abiotic factors influence formation and ontogenic dynamics of molecularly defined gastro-intestinal microbial communities in Lake Sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens) and Channel Catfish (Ictalurus punctatus)

Zhanna Abramovsky, 2003, MS
MSU Department: Department of Forestry
Advisor: David E. Rothstein
Thesis Title: Recovery of ecosystem processes after wildfire in Michigan jack pine forests

Acacia Lee Ackles, Degree sought, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Integrative Biology
Advisors:  Elise Zipkin and Emily Dolson
E-mail:  alackles@msu.edu

Christoph Adami
MSU Department:  Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, Professor
Ph.D., State University of New York, Stony Brook, 1991
Evolution of Behavior and Intelligence
Email:  adami@msu.edu

Shailendra Adhikary, 2008, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Forestry
Advisor:  Donald Dickmann
Dissertation title:  The long-term effects of low-intensity fires in a mature red pine (Pinus resinosa Ait.) plantation

Cindy Adkins, 2004, MS
MSU Department:  Department of Anthropology
Advisor:  Jodie O'Gorman
Thesis title:  Introduction of Zea Mays into southwestern Michigan: A microenvironmental study of plant/human relationships 

Jaron Adkins, Degree sought, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Plant, Soil, and Microbial Sciences
Advisor:  Jessica Miesel
E-mail:  adkinsj5@msu.edu

Jameel Al-Haddad, 2012, PhD
MSU Department: Department of Plant Biology
Advisor: Frank W. Telewski
Dissertation Title: Influence of syringyl to guaiacyl ratio and gravity on growth responses and physical properties in genetically altered poplars (Populus tremula x P. alba)

Sara Ali (Hermann), 2019, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Entomology
Advisor: Douglas A. Landis
Dissertation title: Impact of predation risk on the behavior and physiology of insects in agricultural systems

Orlando Alvarez-Fuentes, 2010, PhD
MSU Department: Department of Plant Biology
Advisor: L. Alan Prather
Dissertation Title: The systematic of genus amauropelta (pteridophyta: thelypterdaceae) in the Caribbean Islands

Carlos Anderson, 2013, PhD
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor: Barry L. Williams
Dissertation Title: Mechanisms of adaptation and speciation: an experimental study in artificial life

Gretchen Anderson, 2006, MS
MSU Department: Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Advisor:  Michael Jones
Thesis title:  Optimizing assessment of larval sea lampreys in the Great Lakes

Amy Angert, 2005, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Plant Biology
Advisor:  Doug Schemske
Dissertation title:  The ecology and evolution of altitude range limits in monkey flowers

Isis Arsnoe (Kuczaj), 2015, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Advisor: Jean I. Tsao
Dissertation Title: Variation in blacklegged tick Ixodes scapularis questing behavior has implications for human Lyme disease risk in the eastern United States

Anne Axel, 2011, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Advisor: Brian A. Maurer
Dissertation Title: Lemur-environment relationships in altered and unaltered tropical dry forests in southern Madagascar

Samuel Ayebare, Degree sought, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Integrative Biology
Advisor:  Elise Zipkin
E-mail:  ayebares@msu.edu

Matt Ayers, 1991, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Entomology
Advisor:  Mark Scriber
Dissertation title:  Adaptation and constraint in Papilio canadensis: Geographic variation in nutritional physiology and temperature

Benedicte Bachelot, 2011, MS
MSU Department: Department of Forestry
Advisor: Richard K. Kobe
Thesis Title: Tropical seedling rarity versus commonness: advantage & disadvantage depends on effects of aboveground natural enemies & cospecific neighbors

Oishi Bagchi, Degree sought, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
Advisor:  Ashley Shade
Email:  bagchioi@msu.edu

Lauren Bailey, 2007, MS
MSU Department: Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Advisor:  Kelly Millengah
Thesis title:  Brown-Headed Cowbird response to Kirtland's Warbler habitat management and Cowbird trapping in Michigan

Gabrielle A. Baillargeon, Degree sought, MS
MSU Department:  Department of Fisheries and WIldlife
Advisor:  Travis Brenden
E-mail:  baillar8@msu.edu

Elizabeth Ball, 2008, MS
MSU Department:  Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Advisor:  Andrew McAdam
Thesis title:  Preferences and harvest intentions of white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) hunters in Michigan: insights into harvesting behaviors and their outcomes

Nick Ballew, 2014, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor: Gary G. Mittelbach
Dissertation Title: Fitness tradeoffs can contribute to the maintenance of variation in personality traits in largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides)

Tom Baribault, 2011, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Forestry
Advisor: Richard K. Kobe
Dissertation Title: Revisiting soil resource limitation: resource predictors of tree growth and productivity change across ecological gradients

Meredith Bartron, 2003, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Advisor:  Kim Scribner
Dissertation title:  Assessment of historical and contemporary genetic diversity of steelhead (Oncorhynchus mykiss) in the Lake Michigan basin

Carina Baskett, 2018, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Plant Biology
Advisor:  Doug Schemske
Dissertation title:  Testing hypothesized latitudinal patterns in plant-insect interactions from tropical to north-temperate regions

Tyler Bassett, 2017, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Plant Biology
Advisor: Jennifer A. Lau
Dissertation title:  The role of biodiversity in prairie restoration tests of theory and implications for management

Puja Batra, 2002, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor:  Fred Dyer
Dissertation Title:  Foraging ecology of giant honey bees, Apis dorsata, in an Indian Forest

Alexandra Bauer, Degree sought, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Entomology
Advisor:  Eric Benbow
Email:  baueral2@msu.edu

Kosha Baxi, 2005, MS
MSU Department:  Department of Zoology
Advisor:  Heather Eisthen
Thesis title:  What does the vomeronasal system do? A critical analysis of the data 

Eric Benbow
MSU Department: Entomology, Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Dayton, 1999
Ecological theory to explore interactions between entire microbial communities and individual insects, populations or entire communities of insects.
Email:  eric.benbow@gmail.com

James Bence
MSU Department: Fisheries and Wildlife, Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara, 1985.
Quantitative fishery ecology.
Email:  bence@msu.edu

Jeff Benefiel, 2000, MS
MSU Department:  Department of Botany
Advisor:  Peter Murphy
Thesis title:  Plan B, no title

Sarah Benson-Amram, 2011, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor: Kay E. Holekamp
Dissertation Title: Experimental investigations of cognitive abilities in a socially complex mammal, the spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta)

Aaron Berger, 2011, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Advisor: Michael L. Jones
Dissertation Title: Models to aid in the selection of procedures used to manage Lake Erie walleye (Sander vitreus)

Timothy Bergsma, 2000, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Crop and Soil Sciences
Advisor:  G. P. Robertson
Dissertation title: The relationship between denitrification and nitrous oxide flux from soil 

Michael Berney, 1994, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Entomology
Advisor:  George Bird
Dissertation title:  Studies on the population and community ecology of Heterodera corotae in Michigan

Kali Bird, 2012, MS
MSU Department: Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
Advisor:  Jay Lennon
Thesis Title: Generalist and specialist strategies of phosphorus acquisition by aquatic bacteria

Kevin Bird, Degree sought, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Horticulture
Advisor:  Patrick Edger
E-mail: birdkevi@msu.edu

Jeff Birdsley, 1998, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Zoology
Advisor:  Thomas Getty
Dissertation title:  The evolution of ecological specialization in the tyrant flycatchers (Aves: tyrannidae)

Brett Blaauw, 2013, PhD
MSU Department: Department of Entomology
Advisor: Rufus Isaacs
Dissertation Title: Composition, size, and effectiveness of native plant conservation plantings for supporting beneficial insects

Brian Black, 2000, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Botany
Advisor:  Jeff Conner
Dissertation title:  The evolution of phenotypic plasticity in a natural wildflower population

Chris Blackwood, 2001, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Crop and Soil Sciences
Advisor:  Eldor Paul
Dissertation title:  Spatial organization in soil bacterial communities

Julie Blanchong, 2003, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Advisor: Kim Scribner
Dissertation title:  Genealogical relationships influence the probability of infection with bovine tuberculosis and microgeographic genetic structure in free-ranging white-tail deer

Julie Blanchong, 1999, MS
MSU Department:  Department of Zoology
Advisor:  Kim Scribner
Thesis title:  Nocturnal and diurnal rhythms in the unstriped Nile grass rat, Arvicanthis niloticus

Gregory Bonito
MSU Department: Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Duke University, 2009.
Fungal ecology, fungal-plant interactions, evolution of bacterial endosymbiosis.
Email:  bonito@msu.edu

Joshua Booker, 2010, MS
MSU Department: Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Advisor: Kendra S. Cheruvelil
Thesis Title: The spatial distribution of daphnia resources in shallow lakes: is food quanitity or quality for zooplankton determined by macrophytes?

Isabela Lima Borges, Degree sought, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor:  Sarah Fitzpatrick
E-mail:  limaborg@msu.edu

Janice Bossart, 1993, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Entomology
Advisor:  Mark Scriber
Dissertation title:  Differential selection and adaptation in different host environments: Genotypic and phenotypic variation in host use traits in the tiger swallowtail butterfly, Papilio glaucus L.

Kristin Bott, 2006, MS
MSU Department:  Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Advisor:  Kim Scribner
Thesis title:  Genetic analyses of dispersal, harvest mortality, and recruitment for remnant populations of Lake Sturgeon, Acipenser fulvescens, in open-water and riverine habitats of Lake Michigan

Janette Boughman
MSU Department: Integrative Biology, Professor
Ph.D., University of Maryland, 1997.
Behavioral and evolutionary ecology; mechanisms of speciation.
Email:  boughman@msu.edu

Laura Boughton, 2001, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Zoology
Advisor:  Kay Gross
Dissertation title:  Linking plant communities to soil microbial communities and processes in old-fields

Bill Bowerman, 1993, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Advisor:  John Giesy
Dissertation title:  Regulation of bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) productivity in the great lakes basin: An ecological and toxicological approach

Andrea Bowling, 2014, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Advisor: William F. Porter
Dissertation Title: Landscape-level effects of weather and land cover on wild turkey abundance, productivity, and regional harvest potential

Erin Boydston, 2001, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor: Kay E. Holekamp
Dissertation Title: Socio-ecological determinants of space utilization patterns in the spotted hyena

Ingo Braasch
MSU Department: Integrative Biology, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Würzburg, Germany, 2009.
Evolutionary developmental genomics of fishes and other vertebrates.
Email:  braasch@msu.edu

Gideon Bradburd
MSU Department: Integrative Biology, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Davis, 2015
Research is on evolutionary biology focusing on causes and consequences of genetic variation; population genetics.
Email:  bradburd@msu.edu

Briana Brady, 2015, MS
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor: Juli Wade
Thesis Title: Characterization of coexpression of scamp 1, BDNf and ER? in the juvenile zebra finch telencephalic vocal motor pathway

Melissa Brady, Degree sought, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor: Catherine Lindell
E-mail: bradymel@msu.edu

Valerie Brady, 1996, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Zoology
Advisor:  Thomas Burton
Dissertation title:  Zebra mussels (Dreissena polymorpha) in a great lakes coastal marsh: Population dynamics and effects on the invertebrates

Alicia Bray, 2009, PhD
MSU Department: Department of Entomology
Advisor: James J. Smith
Dissertation Title: AFLP, mtDNA, and microsatellite analysis of emerald ash borer population structure from Asia and North America

Jonathan Brown, 1989, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Zoology
Advisor:  David Sloan WIlson
Dissertation title:  Specialization in Poecilochirus carabi, a phoret

Russell Brown, 1994, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Advisor:  William Taylor
Dissertation title:  Reproduction, early life history, and recruitment of rainbow smelt (Osmerus mordaz) in St. Martin Bay, Lake Huron

Lars Brudvig, Associate Professor
MSU Department: Plant Biology
Ph.D., Iowa State University, 2007
Restoration, landscape, and plant ecology
Email: brudvig@plantbiology.msu.edu

Eric Bruger, 2016, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
Advisor: Christopher M. Waters
Dissertation Title: Quorum sensing and the stabilization of cooperative behavior in Vibrio bacteria

Doug Bruggeman, 2005, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Advisor:  Michael Jones
Dissertation title:  Development of landscape equivalency analysis

Mara Bryan, 2004, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Advisor:  Weiming Li
Dissertation title:  Unusual sex steroids in lampreys

David Bryson, 2012, PhD
MSU Department: Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Advisor: Charles A. Ofria
Dissertation Title: The evolutionary potential of populations on complex fitness landscapes

Tyler Buchinger, 2015, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Advisor: Weiming Li
Dissertation Title: Evolution of sea lamprey mating pheromones

Amy Burgin, 2007, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Zoology
Advisor:  Stephen Hamilton
Dissertation title:  Novel microbial pathways of nitrate removal from freshwater ecosystems

Alita Burmeister, 2017, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
Advisor: Richard E. Lenski
Dissertation title:  Coevolutionary implications of envelope-mediated resistance to phage

Stephen Burr, 2012, MS
MSU Department: Department of Entomology
Advisor: Deborah G. McCullough
Thesis Title: Evaluating emerald ash borer populations and the ash resources at three stages of infestation

Stephanie Bussema, 2009, MS
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor: Fred C. Dyer
Thesis title:  Plan B, no title

Scott Butterfield, 2006, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Botany
Advisor: Carolyn Malmstrom
Dissertation Title:  Enhancing rangeland sustainability with remote sensing and collaborative information exchange

Katie Button-Simons, 2008, MS
MSU Department: Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Advisor:  Scott Peacor
Thesis title:  Environmental dependence of non-consumptive effects in predator-prey interactions

Sophie Buysse, Degree sought, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Plant Biology
Advisor:  Jeffrey Conner
Email:  buysseso@msu.edu

Caitlyn Byron, 2018, MS
MSU Department:  Department of Plant Biology
Advisor:  David Lowry
Thesis title:  Plan B, no title

Katy Califf, 2013, PhD
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor: Kay E. Holekamp
Dissertation Title: A genetic approach to understanding the evolutionary ecology of 2 hyena species

Andery Calkins, 2001, MS
MSU Department:  Department of Geological Sciences
Advisor:  Michael Gottfried
Thesis title:  Paleoecology of Hawaiian sub-fossil geese: Stable isotope analysis

Rosangela Canino-Koning, 2017, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Computer Science
Advisor:  Charles Ofria
Dissertation title:  Evolution and Evolvability of Changing Environments

Elizabeth Capaldi Evans, 1996, PhD.
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor: Fred C. Dyer
Dissertation Title: Acquisition of visual spatial memory on orientation and reorientation flights in the honey bee

Kyle Card, 2020, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
Advisor: Richard E. Lenski
Dissertation title: The effects of genetic background on the evolution of antibiotic resistance and its fitness costs

Matthew Carey, Degree sought, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Plant Biology
Advisor:  David Lowry
Email:  careyma5@msu.edu

Andrew Carlson, 2019, Ph.D.
MSU: Department: Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Advisor: William W. Taylor
Dissertation title:  Michigan stream salmonid growth and survival in a changing climate: predictions and implications for resilience-based management

Brendan Carson, 2013, MS
MSU Department: Department of Entomology
Advisor: Douglas A. Landis
Thesis Title: The biological control of spotted knapweed and conservation of associated pollinator communities

Martha Case, 1993, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Botany
Advisor:  John Giesley
Dissertation title:  Genetic diversity and evolutionary relationships within and among five Cypripedium (Orchidaceae) species: Inference from allozyme electrophoresis

Alexandra Castillo-Ruiz, 2010, PhD
MSU Department: Department of Psychology
Advisor: Antonio A. Nunez
Dissertation Title: Circadian and environmental modulation of arousal and reward systems of a diurnal brain

Jessica Caton, 2015, MS
MSU Department: Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Advisor: Jen Owen
Thesis Title: Migratory behavior of captive blue-winged teals (Anas discors)

Nikki Cavalieri, Degree sought, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor: Barbara L. Lundrigan
E-mail: cavali13@msu.edu

Michael Cavigelli, 1998, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Crop and Soil Sciences
Advisor:  Phil Robertson
Dissertation title: Ecosystem consequences and spatial distribution of soil microbial community structure 

Amanda Charbonneau
MSU Department:  Genetics
Advisor: Ian M. Dworkin
E-mail: charbo24@msu.edu

Sudarshan Chari, 2014, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor: Ian M. Dworkin
Dissertation Title: Understanding the role of standing genetic variation in functional genetics and compensatory evolution

Grace Chen, 2011, PhD
MSU Department: Department of Plant Biology
Advisor: Douglas W. Schemske
Dissertation Title: Experimental studies of adaptation and speciation in two neotropical costus species

Jiquan Chen
MSU Department:  Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences & Center
for Global Change and Earth Observations, Professor
Ph.D., University of Washington, 1991
His research and academic instruction programs are on ecosystem processes and their interactive feedbacks to the biophysical and human activities, 
Email:  jqchen@msu.edu

Kendra Cheruvelil, 2004, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Advisor:  Orlando Soranno
Dissertation title:  Examining lakes at multiple spatial scales: predicting fish growth, macrophyte cover and lake physio-chemical variables

Kendra Cheruvelil
MSU Department: Lyman Briggs/Biology, Professor
Ph.D., Michigan State University, 2004.
Aquatic ecology, landscape limmology, exotic species, applied ecology, macrophytes.
Email:  ksc@msu.edu

Martin Chilvers
MSU Department: Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences, Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Tasmania, Australia, 2003
Fungal and oomycete biology, epidemiology, genetics, host-pathogen interactions; diseases of field crops; molecular diagnostics
Email:  chilvers@msu.edu

Henry Chung (H. W.)
MSU Department: Entomology, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Melbourne, Australia, 2008
Investigating the molecular mechanisms underlying 1) evolution of insecticide resistance and 2) divergence of insect pheromone systems.
Email: hwchung@msu.edu

Leslie Cieplechowicz, 2017, MS
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor: Richard Snider
Thesis title:  Asian wild horse (Equus ferus) care manual

Elizeth Cinto-Mejia, Degree sought, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Entomology
Advisor:  Will Wetzel
E-mail: cintomej@msu.edu

M. Sean Clark, 1996, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Entomology
Advisor:  Stuart Gage
Dissertation title:  An evaluation of domestic chickens and geese as biological control agents for insect pests and weeds

Meaghan Clark, Degree sought, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Integrative Biology
Advisor:  Gideon Bradburd
E-mail:  clarkm89@msu.edu

Stephanie Clark, Degree sought, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor:  Nick Haddad
E-mail:  clarks56@msu.edu

Carl Cloock, 2000, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Zoology
Advisor:  Tom Getty
Dissertation title:  Aggressive mimicry in the pirate spider, Minetus notius

Katherine Coady, 2003, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Zoology
Advisor:  John Giesy
Dissertation title:  An investigation into the mechanism of action of atrazine and its effects on developing Rana clamitans and Xenopus leavis

Anthony Cognato
MSU Department: Entomology, Professor
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 1998
Insect Systematics and Director of the A.J. Cook Arthropod Research Collection
Email:  cognato@msu.edu

Rachel Cohen
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor: Juli Wade
E-mail: cohenra2@msu.edu

Molly Conlin, 2008, MS
MSU Department:  Department of Plant Biology
Advisor:  Merritt Turetsky
Thesis title:  Soil hydroclimate, vegetation, and substrate controls on carbon flux in an Alaskan fen

Brian Connelly, 2012, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Advisor: Philip K. McKinley
Dissertation Title: Ecological effects on the evolution of cooperative behaviors

Jeffrey Conner
MSU Department: Plant Biology, Professor
Ph.D., Cornell University, 1987.
Evolutionary ecology, ecological genetics
Email:  connerj@msu.edu

Thomas Connor, 2019, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Advisor:  Jianguo Liu
Dissertation title:  Assessing species distributions and the effects of habitat fragmentation:  The case of the giant panda

Savvas Constantinou, Degree sought, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor: Jason Gallant
E-mail: consta64@msu.edu

Emily Conway, Degree Sought, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Plant Biology
Advisor:  Lars Brudvig
E-mail:  conwaye@@msu.edu

Jessica Cook, 2004, MS
MSU Department:  Department of Plant Biology
Advisor:  Andy Jarosz
Thesis title:  Effects of pollen limitation, resource limitation, and disease on the reproductive biology and growing season of Arisaema triphllum

Vaughn Cooper, 2000, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Zoology
Advisor:  Rich Lenski
Dissertation title: Consequences of ecological specialization in long-term evolving populations of Escherichia coli 

Andrea Corbett, 1998, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Botany
Advisor:  Kay Gross
Dissertation title:  Root responses to nutrient heterogeneity: A comparison of dominant and subordinate species from old-fields

Alejandro Costamagna, 2006, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Entomology
Advisor:  Doug Landis
Dissertation title:  Do varying natural enemy assemblages impact Aphis glycines population dynamics?

Arthur Covert, 2010, PhD
MSU Department: Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Advisor: Charles A. Ofria
Dissertation Title: The beneficial effects of deleterious mutations

Richard Cowles, 1998, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Entomology
Advisor:  Jim Miller
Dissertation title:  Manipulating oviposition of Delia antiqua (Meigen): A stimulo-deterrent diversionary approach

Andrew Crosby, 2017, Ph.D
MSU Department: Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Advisor: William F. Porter
Dissertation title:  Conserving Avian Biodiversity on Managed Forest Landscapes

Leslie Curren, 2012, PhD
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor: Kay E. Holekamp
Dissertation Title: Competition and cooperation among males in a sex role-reversed mammal, the spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta)

Kyla Dahlin
MSU Department: Geography Environmental Spatial Sciences, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Stanford University, 2012
Quantitative landscape ecology, remote sensing, Earth system modeling, global change
Email:  kdahlin@msu.edu

Kari Dammerman, 2015, PhD
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor: Kim L. Scribner
Dissertation Title: Extrinsic and intrinsic factors affecting adult reproductive biology and early life stage development of lake sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens)

Beth Dankert, 1996, MS
MSU Department:  Department of Entomology
Advisor:  Dan Herms
Thesis title:  Effects of defoliation, drought, and fertilization on the expression of paper birch and sugar maple resistance to insect folivores

Benjamin Dantzer, 2012, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor: Andrew McAdam
Co-Advisor(s): Kay E. Holekamp
Dissertation Title: Adaptive endocrine and behavioral responses of free-living red squirrels to environmental variation

Tara Darcy-Hall, 2004, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Zoology
Advisor:  Gary Mittelbach
Dissertation title: Linking gradients of predators and productivity to the composition and limitation of benthic algal communities

Anita Davelos Baines, 1999, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Botany
Advisor:  Andrew Jarosz
Dissertation title:  Double-stranded RNA mediated recovery of the American Chestnut population: A demographic analysis

Kayla L. Davis, Degree sought, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor:  Elise Zipkin
E-mail: davisk93@msu.edu

Heather Dawson, 2007, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Advisor:  Michael Jones
Dissertation title:  Recruitment variation in Great Lakes sea lamprey (Petromyzon marinus) populations and implications for integrated pest management

Angela De Palma-Dow, 2015, MS
MSU Department: Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Advisor: Kendra S. Cheruvelil
Thesis Title: The relative roles of dispersal and establishment for shaping aquatic macrophyte diversity and community structure among the inland lakes of Isle Royale National Park, Michigan, USA

Andrea Dechner, 2016, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Advisor: Brian A. Maurer
Dissertation title:  Ecology of a carnivore community in an agricultural landscape in the Northeast of Brazil

Patrick DeHaan, 2003, MS
MSU Department:  Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Advisor:  Kim Scribner
Thesis title:  Demographic and life history characteristics of remnant lake sturgeon populations in the upper Great Lakes basin: Inferences based on genetic analyses

Randy DeJong, 1997, MS
MSU Department:  Department of Zoology
Advisor:  Patrick Muzzall
Thesis title:  Hemosporid parasite communities of waterfowl (Anatidae) from Kellogg Biological Station and Douglas Lake, Michigan

Maria Delgado Aquije, 2015, MS
MSU Department: Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Advisor: Kim L. Scribner
Thesis Title: Impact of pathogenic Escherichia coli and Salmonella on the intestinal microbiota of white-tailed deer and cattle sharing an agroecosystem

Michael DeNieu, 2014, Ph,D.
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor: Ian M. Dworkin
Thesis Title: Using experimental evolution in Drosophila melanogaster to test predictions about the adaptation of prey to a novel predator

Andrew Dennhardt, Degree sought, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Advisor: Gary Roloff
E-mail: dennhard@msu.edu

Jonathan Deroba, 2009, PhD
MSU Department: Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Advisor: James R. Bence
Dissertation Title: How many are there and how many can we kill? Improving catch per effort indices of abundance and evaluating harvest control rules for lake whitefish in the Great Lakes

Micaleila Desotelle, 2017, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor: Stephen K. Hamilton
Dissertation title:  The impacts of algal subsidies from a run-of-river reservoir on downstream food webs and nutrient availability, and the implications of a diluted bitumen spill on the Kalamazoo River

Leslie Dethlefsen, 2004, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
Advisor:  Thomas Schmidt
Dissertation title:  Translational power differs between bacteria pursuing different ecological strategies

Garret Dettmann, 2017, M.S.
MSU Department: Department of Forestry
Advisor: Dave MacFarlane
Thesis title:  Evaluating inter and intra specific variation in leaf mass and area

Jeff Dickinson, 1996, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Zoology
Advisor:  Fred C. Dyer
Dissertation title:  How do bees compute the position of the sun?  Alternative representations

Emily Dittmar, 2017, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Plant Biology
Advisor: Douglas W. Schemske
Dissertation title:  Local adaptation and fitness trade-offs

Stephanie Dloniak, 2004, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor: Kay E. Holekamp
Dissertation Title: Socioendocrinology of spotted hyenas: patterns of androgen and glucocorticoid excretion in a unique social system

Norine Dobiesz, 2003, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Advisor:  James Bence
Dissertation title:  An evaluation of the role of top piscivores in the fish community of the main basin of Lake Huron

Kara Dobson, Degree sought, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor:  Phoebe Zarnetske
Email:  dobsonk2@msu.edu

Emily Dolson, Assistant Professor
MSU Department:  Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Ph.D., Michigan State University, 2019
Research in my lab focuses on steering evolution in complex ecological communities, often by taking advantage of spatial heterogeneity. We study digital organisms with an emphasis on applications to evolutionary computation, cancer, and microbiome research.
Email: dolsonem@msu.edu

Emily Dolson, 2019, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Advisor: Charles A. Ofria
Dissertation title: On the constructive power of ecology in open-ended evolving systems 

Marcella Domka, Degree sought, MS
MSU Department:  Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Advisor:  Kendra Cheruvelil
Email:  domkamar@msu.edu

Nathan Dorn, 2003, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Zoology
Advisor:  Gary Mittelbach
Dissertation title:  Effects of omnivorous crayfish on fish populations and the structure of littoral communities

Jeff Doser, Degree sought, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Forestry
Advisor:  Andrew Finley
Email:  doserjef@msu.edu

Hope Draheim, 2015, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor: Kim L. Scribner
Dissertation Title: Landscape genetics of black bears (Ursus americanus) in the northern lower peninsula of Michigan, USA

Austin Dreyer, 2014, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor: Shingleton
Dissertation Title: The causes and effects of genital hypoallometry in drosophila

Natalie Dubois, 2004, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Zoology
Advisor:  Tom Getty
Dissertation title:  Opportunities for polygymy and reproductive investment decisions in house wrens

Jeff Dudycha, 1999, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Zoology
Advisor:  Alan Tessier
Dissertation title:  The evolutionary ecology of senescence in Daphnia

Megan Duffy, 2006, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Zoology
Advisor:  Alan Tessier/Jeff Conner
Dissertation title:  Evolutionary and community ecology of parasitism in Daphnia

Yann DuFour
MSU Department: Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2010
Social behavior of bacteria
Email:  dufourya@msu.edu

Brian Dunphy, 1996, MS
MSU Department:  Department of Botany
Advisor:  Peter Murphy
Thesis title:  The multiple-stemmed growth form of trees in a subtropical dry forest

Yen Duong, 2010, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Advisor: Kim L. Scribner
Dissertation Title: Effects of spawning behavior and environmental factors on adult reproductive ecology and larval dispersal of lake sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens)

Fred Dyer
MSU Department: Integrative Biology, Professor
Director of Graduate Studies
Ph.D., Princeton University, 1984
Ethology and behavioral ecology
Email:  fcdyer@msu.edu

Rachael Eaton, 2016, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor: Catherine Lindell
Dissertation title:  Avian use of cultivated orchards: influences of diet, scale, and sociality on foraging

Diane Ebert-May
MSU Department: Plant Biology, University
Distinguished Professor of Plant Biology
Ph.D., University of Colorado
Science education; plant ecology
Email: ebertmay@msu.edu

Patrick Edger
MSU Department: Horticulture, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Missouri, 2012.
Phylogenomics, Comparative Functional Genomics, Systems Biology
Email:  edgerpat@msu.edu

Heather Eisthen
MSU Department: Integrative Biology, Associate Professor
Ph.D., Indiana University, 1992.
Neuroethology; evolutionary and developmental neurobiology.
E-mail:  eisthen@msu.edu

Sarah Emery, 2005, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Plant Biology
Advisor:  Kay Gross
Dissertation title:  Population and community approaches to understanding invasion in grasslands

Anne Engh, 2002, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Integrative Biology
Advisor:  Kay Holekamp
Dissertation title:  The causes and consequences of social rank in the spotted hyena, Crocuta crocuta

Clarice Esch, Degree sought, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Forestry
Advisor: Richard K. Kobe
E-mail: eschclar@msu.edu

Jeff Evans, 2009, PhD
MSU Department: Department of Entomology
Advisor: Douglas A. Landis
Dissertation Title: Developing demographic models to inform selection of Alliaria petiolata (garlic mustard) biological control agents

Sarah Evans
MSU Department: Integrative Biology, Associate Professor
Ph.D., Colorado State University, 2012.
Microbial community ecology, ecosystems, global change.
Email: evanssa6@msu.edu

Matthew T. Farr, Degree sought, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor:  Elise Zipkin
E-mail: farrmat1@msu.edu

Danielle Fegan, 2015, MS
MSU Department: Department of Plant Biology
Advisor: Lars A. Brudvig
Thesis title: Plan B, no thesis

Carol Fergus, 2016, Ph.D. 
MSU Department: Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Advisor: Patricia Soranno
E-mail: fergusca@msu.edu

Austin J. Ferguson, Degree sought, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Advisor:  Charles Ofria
E-mail: fergu358@msu.edu

Paola Ferreri, 1995, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Advisor:  William Taylor
Dissertation title: Role of compensatory mechanisms in the population dynamics of lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush) in the U.S. waters of Lake Superior 

Anna Fiedler, 2010, PhD
MSU Department: Department of Entomology
Advisor: Douglas A. Landis
Dissertation Title: Restoration of prairie fen plants, insects, and abiotic processes

Cathy Fiegel, 1996, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Advisor:  Harold Prince
Dissertation title:  Genetic heterogeneity and differentiation resulting from sichuan pheasant (Phasianus colchicus strauchi) introduction in southern Michigan

Andrew Finley
MSU Department: Forestry, Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 2006.
Methodology for monitoring and modeling environmental processes; Bayesian statistics; spatial statistics; and statistical computing.
Email:  finleya@msu.edu

Skye Fissette, Degree sought, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Advisor:  Weiming Li
Email:  fissette@msu.edu

Olivia Fitch, Degree sought, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor:  Ingo Braasch
E-mail:  fitcholi@msu.edu

Sarah Fitzpatrick
MSU Department: Integrative Biology, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Colorado State University, 2015
Research in my lab combines genomic tools, mark-recapture methods, and experiments to study how interactions between gene flow, drift, and selection affect population dynamics and diversity patterns.
Email: sfitz@msu.edu

Andrew Flies, 2012, PhD
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor: Kay E. Holekamp
Dissertation Title: Ecology and immune function in the spotted hyena, Crocuta crocuta

Michael R. Foisy, 2020, MS
MSU Department:  Department of Plant Biology
Advisor:  Marjorie Weber
Thesis title:  Do latex and resin canals spur plant diversitication? 
Re-examining a classic example of escape and radiate coevolution

Patrick Forsythe, 2010, PhD
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor: Kim L. Scribner
Dissertation Title: Exogenous correlates of migration , spawning, egg deposition and egg mortality in lake sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens)

Brian Foster, 1996, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Botany
Advisor:  Kay Gross
Dissertation title:  Plant competition and diversity in relation to productivity in old-field plant communities

Brianna Foster, Degree sought, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Entomology
Advisor:  Marianna Szucs
E-mail:  foste323@msu.edu

Erik Foster, 2004, MS
MSU Department:  Department of Entomology
Advisor:  Edward Walker
Thesis title:  Ixodes scapularis and Borrelia burgdorferi in Southwest Michigan: population ecology and verification of a geographic risk model

Steven Fradkin, 1992, MS
MSU Department:  Department of Zoology
Advisor:  Donald Hall
Thesis title:  Induced interference and exploitative competition upon rotifer community structure

Veronica Frans, Degree Sought, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Advisor:  Jianguo (Jack) Liu
E-mail: fransver@msu.edu 

Megan Fritz, 2011, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Entomology
Advisor: James R. Miller
Dissertation Title: Investigations of the African malaria mosquito (Anopheles gambiae s.l., diptera:Culicidae): ovipositional behavior and toxicity of avermectins

Masanori Fujimoto, 2012, PhD
MSU Department: Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
Advisor: Terence L. Marsh
Dissertation Title: Microbial succession on the lake sturgeon egg surface: Mechanisms shaping the microbial community assembly during succession and the effect of microbial successional processes on host life history traits

Stuart H. Gage
Professor Emeritus; Ph.D., Michigan State, 1974
Insect population dynamics and human dimensions
Email:  gages@msu.edu

Jason Gallant
MSU Department: Integrative Biology, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Cornell University, 2011
Neuroethology, genomics, animal communication
Email:  jgallant@msu.edu

Erica Garcia, 2006, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Zoology
Advisor:  Gary Mittelbach
Dissertation title:  Regional coexistence and local dominance in Chaoborus: species sorting along a predation gradient

Sara Garnett, 2018, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor: Thomas Getty
Dissertation title:  Fitness effects of kinship depend on ecological context in the American Toad (Anaxyrus americanus)

Ava Garrison, Degree sought, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Plant Biology
Advisor:  Jeff Conner
E-mail: garri115@msu.edu

Joseph Gathman, 2000, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Zoology
Advisor:  Tom Burton
Dissertation title:  Abiotic and biotic influences on aquatic invertebrate community in a Lake Huron coastal wetland

Vesna Gavrilovic, 2001, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Zoology
Advisor:  Jim Smith
Dissertation title:  Documenting the history of speciation in Rhagoletis zephyria (Diptera: Tephritidae) using molecular markers

Kevin Geedey, 1996, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Zoology
Advisor:  Alan Tessier
Dissertation title:  Seasonal clonal succession in Daphnia pulicaria populations

John Genet, 1999, MS
MSU Department:  Department of Zoology
Advisor:  Tom Burton
Thesis title:  The diversity and abundance of termites (Isoptera) in a fragmented subtropical dry forest landscape

Kristen Genet, 2004, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Zoology
Advisor:  Tom Burton
Dissertation title:  Status and distribution of frogs and toads in southern Michigan: population trends and the influence of habitat and landscape characteristics

Phil Gerrish, 1998, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Zoology
Advisor:  Rich Lenski
Dissertation title:  Dynamics of mutation and selection in asexual populations

Beth Gerstner, Degree sought, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Advisor: Phoebe Zarnetske
E-mail: gerstn11@msu.edu

Sara Getson, Degree sought, MS
MSU Department:  Department of Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences
Advisor:  Gregory Bonito
E-mail: getsonsa@msu.edu

Thomas Getty
MSU Department: Integrative Biology, Professor and Chair 
Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1980.
Behavioral ecology of vertebrates.
Email:  getty@kbs.msu.edu

Merritt Gillilland, 2006, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Zoology
Advisor:  James Atkinson
Dissertation title:  Dispersal ecology and control of the invasive land snail Cepaea menoralis (L. 1758), from Ingham County, Michigan

Merritt Gillilland, 2002, MS
MSU Department:  Department of Integrative Biology
Adviser:  Tom Getty
Thesis title:  Microhabitat analysis of bass tapeworm, Proteocephalus ambloplitis, infrapopulations in four species of centrarchids from Gull Lake, Michigan

Adam Goble, 2008, MS
MSU Department:  Department of Zoology
Advisor:  Kay Holekamp
Thesis title:  Signature signals in the territorial vocalizations of red squirrels (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus) and their use in kin recognition

Sherri Goings, 2010, PhD
MSU Department: Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Advisor: Charles A. Ofria
Dissertation Title: Natural niching: applying ecological principles to evolutionary computation

Heather Goldsby, 2011, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Advisor: Charles A. Ofria
Dissertation Title: The evolution of division of labor in digital organisms

Nathan Borges Gonςalves, Degree sought, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Forestry
Advisor:  Scott Stark
E-mail:  goncal19@msu.edu

Erik Goodman
MSU Department: Computer Science and Engineering, Professor
Director of BEACON
Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1972.
Genetic algorithms and evolutionary computation.
Email:  goodman@msu.edu

Michael D. Gottfried
MSU Department: Earth and Environment Sciences, Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Kansas, 1991.
Vertebrate paleontology.
Email:  gottfrie@msu.edu

Heather Govenor, 1998, MS
MSU Department:  Department of Entomology
Advisor:  Dan Helms/Mark Scriber
Thesis title:  Light, nutrient availability, and defoliation effects on resource acquisition, resource allocation, and herbivore resistance in paper birch and sugar maple

Carolyn Graham, Degree sought, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Plant Biology
Advisor:  Marjorie Weber
E-mail:  graha202@msu.edu

A. Stuart Grandy, 2005, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Crop and Soil Sciences
Advisor:  G. P Robertson
Dissertation title:  Ecosystem consequences of aggregation following soil disturbance

Nkrumah Grant, 2020, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Microbial & Molecular Genetics
Advisor:  Richard Lenski
Dissertation title:  Deconstructing the correlated nature of
ancient and emergent traits: an evolutionary investigation of metabolism, morphology, and
mortality

Steven Gray, 2019, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of FIsheries and Wildlife
Advisor:  Gary Roloff
Dissertation title: Invasive species, spatial ecology, and human-wildlife conflict: Exploration of wildlife sciences in the present

Dina Grayson, 2001, MS
MSU Department:  Department of Zoology
Advisor:  Fred Dyer
Thesis title:  The role of optic versus metabolic odometry in honey bee foraging energetics

Tracy Grazia, 2007, MS
MSU Department:  Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Advisor:  Gary Mittelbach
Thesis title:  Evaluating the ecological contributions of differing land ownership types in the context of a human-dominated landscape

David Green, 2015, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor: Kay E. Holekamp
Dissertation Title: Anthropogenic disturbance, ecological change, and wildlife conservation at the edge of the Mara-Serengeti ecosystem

Julia Greenberg, 2017, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor: Kay E. Holekamp
Dissertation title:  Developmental flexibility in spotted hyenas (Crocuta crocuta): The role of maternal and anthropogenic effects

Khara Greiger, 2003, MS
MSU Department:  Department of Botany
Advisor:  Peter Murphy
Thesis title:  Spatial and temporal patterns of Pinus nigra spread in four Lake Michigan sand dune habitats

Matthew Grieshop
MSU Department: Entomology, Associate Professor
Ph.D., Kansas State University, 2005.
Community and population ecology, animal behavior.
Email:  grieshop@msu.edu

Michael Grillo, 2013, PhD
MSU Department: Department of Plant Biology
Advisor: Douglas W. Schemske
Dissertation Title: Mechanisms of adaptation in Oryza and Arabidopsis

Emily Grman, 2011, PhD
MSU Department: Department of Plant Biology
Advisor: Katherine L. Gross
Dissertation Title: Plant-mycorrhizal interactions and the relative abundance of limiting resources

Sarah Groendyk, Degree sought, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor:  Catherine Lindell
E-mail: groendy7@msu.edu

Katherine L. Gross
MSU Department: Plant Biology, University Distinguished
Professor of Plant Biology
Ph.D., Michigan State University, 1980.
Plant population and community ecology.
Email:  kgross@kbs.msu.edu

Piera Groux, 1998, MS
MSU Department: Department of Entomology
Advisor: Mark Scriber
Thesis title:  Testing the "cold pocket" hypothesis: Oviposition preference of the Canadian tiger swallowtail

Anna Groves, 2018, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Plant Biology
Advisor: Lars A. Brudvig
Dissertation title:  Planting year conditions shape community assembly in restored prairie communities

Knute Gundersen, 2018, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Entomology
Advisor: Rufus Isaacs
Dissertation Title:  Implications of habitat restoration for bumble bee population dynamics, foraging ecology, and epidemiology

Nick Haddad
MSU Department:  Integrative Biology and the W. K. Kellogg Biological Station
Ph.D., University of Georgia, 1997
Nick is an ecologist and conservation biologist. His research is in long-term experiments focused on habitat conservation and restoration. He is lead Principal Investigator for the 30-year old Long-Term Ecological Research program at the Kellogg Biological Station.
Email:  haddadn3@msu.edu

Sahar Haghighat, Degree sought, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Forestry
Advisor: Michael B. Walters
E-mail: haghigha@msu.edu

Donald J. Hall
Professor Emeritus; Ph.D., Michigan, 1962
Aquatic population and community ecology
Email: donhall@msu.edu

Heather Hallen-Adams, 2002, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Botany
Advisor: Gerald Adams
Dissertation title:  Studies in amatoxin-producing genera of fungi: Phylogenetics and toxin distribution

Sarah Hamer (Yaremych), 2010, PhD
MSU Department: Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Advisor: Jean I. Tsao
Dissertation Title: Interactions among invading ticks, wildllife, and zoonotic pathogens

Gabe Hamer, 2008, PhD
MSU Department: Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Advisor: Edward D. Walker
Dissertation Title: West Nile virus transmission ecology: vector-host interactions

Stephen Hamilton
MSU Department: Integrative Biology, Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara, 1994.
Biogeochemistry and aquatic ecology.
Email:  hamilton@kbs.msu.edu

Chris Hamm, 2012, PhD
MSU Department: Department of Entomology
Advisor: Douglas A. Landis
Dissertation Title: Natural hostory and conservation genetics of the federally endangered Mitchell's Satyr butterfly, Neonympha mitchellii mitchellii

Patrick Hanly, 2017, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor: Gary G. Mittelbach
Dissertation title:  "The maintenance and generation of freshwater diversity from the local to the global scale"

Zoe A. Hansen, Degree sought, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
Advisor:  Shannon Manning
E-mail:  hansenzo@msu.edu

Joseph Harsh, 2003, MS
MSU Department:  Department of Plant Biology
Advisor:  Peter Murphy
Thesis title:  Plan B, no title

Joshua Haslun, 2015, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor: Nathaniel Ostrom
Dissertation Title: Identification of local adaptation in porites astereoides inhabiting the Florida reef tract: biotic; stress, a disregarded force of change affecting coral reefs

Kayleigh Hauri, 2020, MS
MSU Department:  Department of Entomology
Advisor:  Will Wetzel
Thesis title:  Effects of plant chemical diversity on predator-prey interactions in an agroecosystem

Daniel Hayes
MSU Department: Fisheries and Wildlife, Professor
Ph.D., Michigan State University, 1990.
Fish community and population interactions.
Email:  hayesdan@msu.edu

Loren Hayes, 1999, MS
MSU Department:  Department of Zoology
Advisor:  Richard Hill
Thesis title: House mouse (Mus domesticus) habitat use and response to repeated harvests in the agricultural landscape

Catherine Henry, Degree sought, Ph.D.
MSU Department;  Department of Forestry
Advisor:  Michael Walters
E-mail:  henrycat@msu.edu

Dan Herms, 1991, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Entomology
Advisor:  William Mattson
Dissertation title:  Variation in resource allocation patterns of paper birch: Evidence of physiological trade-offs among growth, reproduction and defense

Alex Hernandez, 1997, MS
MSU Department:  Department of Zoology
Advisor:  Patrick Muzzall
Thesis title:  Seasonal patterns in the biology of Eubothrium salvelini infecting brook trout and slimy sculpin from Sweetwater Creek, Michigan

Jose Guadalupe Hernandez, Degree sought, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Advisor:  Charles Ofria

Mike Higgins, 2000, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Entomology
Advisor: Richard Merritt
Dissertation title:  Invertebrate trophic relationships in temporary woodland ponds in Michigan

Asia Hightower, Degree sought, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Plant Biology
Advisor:  Alan Prather
Email:  highto29@msu.edu

Richard W. Hill
Professor Emeritus; Ph.D., Michigan, 1970.
Ecological Physiology; marine sulfur metabolism.
Email:  hillr@msu.edu

Sarah Hodgson, 2007, MS
MSU Department:  Department of Zoology
Advisor:  Barbara Lundrigan
Thesis title:  Plan B, no title

Karen Hokanson, 1995, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Horticulture
Advisor:  James Hancock
Dissertation title: The consequences of polyploidy on inbreeding depression in Vaccinium (blueberry) species

Stan Hokanson, 1995, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Horticulture
Advisor:  James Hancock
Dissertation title:  Risk assessment of transgenic plants: Evaluation of border rows as a containment strategy for transgenic pollen and a comparison of pollen dispersal patterns for native and transgenes

Kay E. Holekamp
MSU Department: Integrative Biology, University Distinguished Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1983.
Behavioral ecology; ethology and behavioral endocrinology.
Email:  holekamp@msu.edu

Robert Hollister, 2003, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Plant Biology
Advisor:  Pat Webber
Dissertation title: Response of tundra vegetation to temperature: Implications for forecasting vegetation change

Ellen Holste, 2016, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Forestry
Advisor: Richard K. Kobe
Dissertation Title: The role of mycorrhizal fungi and soil nutrients in tropical reforestation

Geoffrey Horst, 2013, PhD
MSU Department: Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Advisor: Orlando Sarnelle
Dissertation Title: Eco-physiology of the toxic cyanobacterium Microcystis aeruginosa across nutrient gradients

Gregory Houseman, 2004, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Plant Biology
Advisor:  Kay Gross
Dissertation title:  Local and regional effects on plant diversity: the influence of species pools, colonizer traits and productivity

Paige Howell, 2014, MS
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor: Kim L. Scribner
Thesis Title: Genetic and phenotypic variation in the American marten (Martes americana) in the upper peninsula of Michigan

Ani Hristova, Degree sought, MS
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor: Barbara L. Lundrigan
E-mail: hristov1@msu.edu

Shixi Hu, 1993, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Zoology
Advisor:  Alan Tessier
Dissertation title:  Competition in a seasonal environment: Daphnia population dynamics and coexistence

Zachary Huang
MSU Department: Entomology, Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Guelph, Ontario, 1988.
Behavioral physiology, insect sociobiology.
Email:  bees@msu.edu

Lisa Huberty, 1994, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Botany
Advisor:  Kay Gross
Dissertation title:  Dominance, diversity, and resource competition in old-field plant communities

Casey Huckins, 1996, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Zoology
Advisor:  Gary Mittelbach
Dissertation title:  Interpreting the functional relationships between morphology, feeding performance, diet and competitive ability in mollusciouvous sunfish

Sara Hugentobler, Degree sought, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor: Mariah Meek
E-mail: hugentob@msu.edu

Lindsay Hunt, 2016, MS
MSU Department: Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Advisor: Brian A. Maurer
Thesis Title: Effects of Pasture Dairy Farming on Grassland Bird Species in Southwest Michigan

Darren Incorvaia, Degree sought, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor: Fred Dyer
E-mail: incorva1@msu.edu

Rufus Isaacs
MSU Department: Entomology
Professor; Ph.D., Imperial College (London), 1994.
Pest and beneficial insect ecology, wild bees, pollination
Email:  isaacsr@msu.edu

Malcolm Itter, 2018, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Forestry
Advisor: Andrew O. Finley
Dissertation title:  The development and application of spatio-temporal methods to understand and predict broad-scale patterns of forest change

Julius H. Jackson
Professor Emeritus; Ph.D., Kansas, 1969
Microbial physiology & genetics; bacterial gene & genome evolution
Email: jhjacksn@msu.edu

Anna Jacobsen, 2008, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Plant Biology
Advisor:  Frank Ewers
Dissertation title:  Woody plant adaptations to water stress in arid shrub communities

Nikhil Jaikumar, 2013, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences
Advisor: Sieglinde S. Snapp
Dissertation Title: Perennial cereal crops for the cold temperate zone: agronomy, physiology, sink regulation and disease resistance

Joshua James, 2018, MS
MSU Department:  Forestry
Advisor: Jessica Meisel
Thesis title:  Short and long-term effects of prescribed fire on soil properties in a Pinus resinosa forest in Northern Minnesota

Fredric Janzen
MSU Department:  Fisheries and Wildlife and W. K. Kellogg Biological Station
Professor and Director
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1992
Evolutionary ecology, phenotypic selection, evolutionary genetics, and conservation biology
Email: janzenf1@msu.edu

Andrew Jarosz
MSU Department: Plant Biology, Associate Professor
Ph.D., Purdue University, 1984
Evolutionary ecology of plant-pathogen interactions
Email:  amjarosz@msu.edu

Julie Jarvey, Degree sought, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor: Kay Holekamp
E-mail: jarveyju@msu.edu

Christine Jarzomski, 1998, MS
MSU Department:  Department of Botany
Advisor:  Frank Ewers
Thesis title: Liana distribution and host relationships in some temperate versus tropical forest sites

Marta Jarzyna, 2014, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Advisor: William F. Porter
Dissertation Title: Macroecology of breeding birds of New York state. Influences of climate change, landscape matrix, and spatial scale

Kyle Egan Jaynes, Degree sought, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor:  Sarah Fitzpatrick
E-mail:  jaynesky@msu.edu

John Jenkins, 1996, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Zoology
Advisor:  Gary Mittelbach
Dissertation title:  Systematic studies of Rhagoletis and related genera (Diptera: Tephritidae)

Ning Jiang
MSU Department:  Department of Horticulture, Professor
Ph.D., University of Georgia, 2002
Function of transposable elements; mechanisms of genome diversification; computational and molecular biology.
E-mail:  jiangn@msu.edu

Kelly Johnson, 1993, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Entomology
Advisor:  Mark Scriber
Dissertation title:  Physiological adaptations associated with host specialization: Ecological implications for generalist and specialist Saturniid silkmo

Nicholas Johnson, 2008, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Advisor:  Weiming Li
Dissertation title:  In-stream behavioral responses of female sea lampreys to pheromone components

Lily Johnson-Ulrich, 2020, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor: Kay E. Holekamp
Dissertation title:  Intraspective variation in behavioral flexibility in spotted hyenas

Emily Johnston, 2011, MS
MSU Department: Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Advisor: Jen Owen
Thesis Title: Anaplasma phagocytophilum infection in two species of passerine birds, American robins and gray catbirds: an assessment of reservoir competence and disease

Sarah Jones, 2019, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor: Kay E. Holekamp
Dissertation title:  Androgen and seratonin concentrations in spotted hyenas (crocuta crocuta): Physiological predictors and relationships with the social environment

Emily Josephs
MSU Department:  Department of Plant Biology
Ph.D., University of Toronto, 2016
The lab is broadly interested in understanding how various evolutionary forces, like drift and selection, shape patterns of genetic variation and trait variation in natural and domesticated plant species. 
Email: josep993@msu.edu

Sara Kaiser, 2004, MS
MSU Department:  Department of Zoology
Advisor:  Catherine Lindell
Thesis title:  Effect of proximity to forest edges on nestling growth and nest survival of wood thrush (Hylocichla mustelina) in Southwestern Michigan

Kathleen Kay, 2004, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Plant Biology
Advisor:  Dug Schemske
Dissertation title:  The evolution of floral characters and reproductive isolation in neotropical Costus (Costaceae)

Brian Keas, 2002 Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor:  Tom Burton
Dissertation title:  Influence of water level on coastal wet meadow snail communities

Jessie Keith, 2004, MS
MSU Department:  Department of Plant Biology
Advisor:  Alan Prather
Thesis title:  Monarda section Cheilyctis: patterns of speciation, endemism and implications on conservation 

Kane Keller, 2015, PhD
MSU Department: Department of Plant Biology
Advisor: Jennifer A. Lau
Dissertation Title: Context-dependent effects of mutualisms on communities

Sheridan Kelley, 2011, MS
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor: Barbara L. Lundrigan
Thesis Title: Ecomorphological associations of feeding habits of hypercarnivores

Lindsey Kemmerling, Degree sought, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor:  Nick Haddad
E-mail:  kemmerl4@msu.edu

Kristine Kern, 2003, MS
MSU Department:  Department of Plant Biology
Advisor:  Frank Ewers
Thesis title:  The effect of mechanical perturbation on the conductivity, mechanical strength, and above ground biomass of seven hybrid poplars

Jason Kilgore, 2007, PhD
MSU Department: Department of Plant Biology
Advisor: Frank W. Telewski
Dissertation Title: Distribution and ecophysiology of the Ponderosae in the Santa Catalina Mountains of southern Arizona

Jason Kilgore, 2002, MS
MSU Department:  Department of Botany
Advisor:  Frank Telewski
Thesis title:  A dendroecological analysis of a long-term reforestation experiment in Grayling, Michigan

Dustin Kincaid, 2018, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor: Stephen K. Hamilton
Dissertation title:  Revealing the biogeochemistry and hydrodynamic exchange processes of flocculent sediments in shallow freshwaters

Lauren Kinsman-Costello, 2012, PhD
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor: Stephen K. Hamilton
Dissertation Title: Effects of water level fluctuations on phosphorus, iron, sulfur, and nitrogen cycling in shallow freshwater ecosystems

Anna Kirk, 2013, PhD
MSU Department: Department of Entomology
Advisor: Rufus Isaacs
Dissertation Title: From turtle populations to property values: The effects of lakeshore residential development and the invasive zebra mussel

Heather Kittredge, Degree sought, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor: Sarah E. Evans
E-mail: kittred8@msu.edu

Melissa Kjelvik, 2015, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor: Gary G. Mittelbach
Dissertation Title: The ecological consequences of foraging boldness in juvenile bluegill sunfish (Lepomis macrochirus)

Christopher Klausmeier
MSU Department: Plant Biology, Professor
Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 2000
Theoretical and aquatic ecology
Email:  klausme1@msu.edu

Michael J. Klug
Professor Emeritus; Ph.D., Iowa, 1969.
Microbial ecology, ecology of anaerobic bacteria.
Email: klug@kbs.msu.edu

Francis Knapczyk, 2007, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Plant Biology
Advisor:  Jeff Conneer
Dissertation title:  The evolution of population differentiation of autogamous selfing ability in Collinsia verna

David Knoester, 2011, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Advisor: Philip K. McKinley
Dissertation Title: Evolution of distributed behavior

Lesley Knoll, 2004, MS
MSU Department:  Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Advisor:  Orlando Sarnelle
Thesis title:  Understanding zebra mussel (Dreissena polymorpha) impacts on autotrophic and heterotrophic plankton in inland lake ecosystems

Richard Kobe
MSU Department: Forestry, Professor and Chair
Ph.D., University of Connecticut, Storrs, 1995
Forest ecology
Email:  kobe@msu.edu

Lauren Koenig, Degree sought, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor: Jason Gallant
E-mail: koenigl2@msu.edu

Joseph Kolowski, 2007, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor: Kay E. Holekamp
Dissertation Title: Anthropogenic influences on the behavior of large carnivores in the northern Serengeti ecosystem

Matthew Kolp, 2018, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Plant Biology
Advisor: Andrew M. Jarosz
Dissertation title:  Fungal community succession and interactions in chestnut blight cankers in Michigan and Wisconsin

Andrew Kramer, 2007, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Advisor:  Orlando Sarnelle
Dissertation title:  Copepodology in Alpine Lakes: Limitations to recovery of Hesperodiaptomus shosone after exotic fish eradication

Daniel Boyd Kramer
MSU Department: Fisheries & Wildlife, James Madison College, Professor
Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 2005
Conservation biology, coupled human and natural systems, human-wildlife conflict, global change, effects of infrastructure on frontier regions
Email: dbk@msu.edu

Ann Krause, 2004, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Advisor:  William Taylor
Dissertation title:  The role of compartments in food-web structure and changes following biological invasions in southeast Lake Michigan

Colin Kremer, 2014, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Plant Biology
Advisor: Christopher Klausmeier
Dissertation Title: Coexistence in temporally variable environments: eco-evolutionary perspectives

Cara Krieg, 2016, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor: Thomas Getty
Dissertation Title: The form and function of competitive traits in female house wrens (troglodytes aedon)

Michael Kuczynski, 2016, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor: Thomas Getty
Dissertation Title: Individual and ecological sources of variation in sexual signals and mate choice

Thomas LaBar, 2018, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
Advisor: Christoph C. Adami
Dissertation title:  The evolution of complexity and robustness in small populations

Devin Lake, Degree sought, MS
MSU Department:  Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor:  Richard Lenski
E-mail:  lakedevi@msu.edu

Alexander Lalejini, Degree sought, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Advisor: Charles A. Ofria
E-mail: lalejini@msu.edu

Katherin Lander, 2007, MS
MSU Department:  Department of Plant Biology
Advisor:  Kay Gross
Thesis title:  The effects of the parasitic plant Cuscuta gronovii on the mating system of its host plant Impatiens capensis

Douglas Landis
MSU Department: Entomology, University Distinguished
Professor of Entomology
Professor; Ph.D., North Carolina State University, 1987
Landscape ecology and biological control
Email:  landisd@msu.edu

Erika LaPlante, 2020, MS
MSU Department: Department of Plant Biology
Advisor:  Marjorie Weber
Thesis title:  Genome-wide association study reveals genes associated with mite recruitment phenotypes in the domesticated grapevine (Vitis vinifera)

Amy Lark, 2006, MS
MSU Department:  Department of Zoology
Advisor:  Heather Eisthen
Thesis title:  Plan B, no title

Raffica LaRosa, 2015, PhD
MSU Department: Department of Plant Biology
Advisor: Jeffrey K. Conner
Dissertation Title: Floral evolution in milkweeds: evidence for selection past and present

Courtney Larson, 2020, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Entomology
Advisor: Eric Benbow
Dissertation title:  Diverse allochthonous resource quality effects on headwater stream communities through insect-microbe interactions

Brandon Latorre, Degree sought, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Plant Biology
Advisor:  Lars Brudvig
E-mail: latorreb@msu.edu

Jennifer A. Lau
MSU Department: Plant Biology, Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Davis, 2005.
Evolution and community ecology.
Email:  jenlau@msu.edu

Zachary Laubach, 2019, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor: Kay E. Holekamp
Dissertation title:  Developmental plasticity:  Early life environment, DNA methylation, and later life phenotype in spotted hyenas

Theresa Lauber, 1999, MS
MSU Department:  Department of Zoology
Advisor:  Richard Hill
Thesis title:  Can the big bayou be saved? Water quality assessment and management recommendations for spring lake watershed, Ottawa and Muskegon counties, Michigan

Justin Lawrence, 2011, MS
MSU Department: Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Co-Advisor(s): Kelly F. Millenbah
Thesis Title: The diversity, distribution, and conservation of a polymorphic frog (Oophaga pumilio) in Western Panama

Laura Lazarus, 2003, MS
MSU Department:  Department of Entomology
Advisor:  Deborah McCullough
Thesis title:  Suitability of four conifer species for female oviposition and larval development of the white-spotted pine sawyer, Monochamus scutellatus (Say) (Coleoptera: Ceryambycidae)

Stephen LeDuc, 2009, PhD
MSU Department: Department of Forestry
Advisor: David E. Rothstein
Dissertation Title: Soil nitrogen cycling and ectomycorrhizal community composition following disturbance in Michigan jack pine forests

Cheng-Yu Lee, 2005, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Forestry
Advisor:  Brian Epperson
Dissertation title:  Space-time modeling and application to emerging infectious diseases

Lissa Leege, 1997, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Botany
Advisor:  Peter Murphy
Dissertation title:  The ecological impact of Austrian pine (Pinus nigra) on the sand dunes of Lake Michigan: An introduced species becomes an invader

Kenna Lehmann, 2020, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor: Kay E. Holekamp
Dissertation title: Communicataion and cooperation in silico and in nature

Richard Lenski
MSU Department: Microbiology & Molecular Genetics
Hannah Distinguished Professor of Microbial Ecology
Ph.D., University of North Carolina State, 1982.
Experimental evolution with microbes and digital organisms.
Email:  lenski@msu.edu

Christopher Lepczyk, 2002, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Fisheries and WIldlife
Advisor:  Jack Liu
DIssertation title:  Effects of human activities on birds across landscapes in the Midwest

Sarah LeSage, 2008, MS
MSU Department:  Department of Zoology
Advisor:  R. Jan Stevenson
Thesis title:  Plan B - Special project: Nitrogenous biochemical oxygen demand and dissolved oxygen in western Michigan streams

Mitchell Lettow, 2013, MS
MSU Department: Department of Entomology
Advisor: Douglas A. Landis
Thesis Title: Oak savanna restoration: Effects of variable methods on habitat, flowering forbs and pollinator communities

Wendy Leuenberger, Degree sought, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor:  Elise Zipkin
E-mail:  leuenbe9@msu.edu

Eva Lewandowski, 2008, MS
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor: Thomas Getty
Thesis Title: The effects of pokeweed display characteristics on frugivore identity and fruit removal

Nora Lewin, 2017, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor: Kay E. Holekamp
Dissertation title:  Mechanisms mediating life history traits in the spotted hyena

Christy Lewis, 1999, MS
MSU Department:  Department of Zoology
Advisor:  Donald Hall
Thesis title:  Natural history, behavior and species composition of whirligig beetles (Coleoptera: Gyrinidae) in fish and fishless ponds

Weiming Li
MSU Department: Fisheries and Wildlife, Professor
Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1994
Fish chemoreception and chemical ecology
Email:  liweim@msu.edu

Di Liang, 2019, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences
Advisor: G. Philip Robertson
Dissertation title:  Microbial sources of nitrous oxide emisions from diverse cropping systems

Emily M. Liljestrand, Degree sought, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Fisheries and WIldlife
Advisor:  James Bence
E-mail:  liljest3@msu.edu

Chenin Limback, 2010, MS
MSU Department: Department of Entomology
Advisor: Deborah G. McCullough
Thesis Title: Tree vigor and its relation to emerald ash borer (Agrilus planipennis Fairmaire) adult host preference and larval development on green and white ash trees

Catherine Lindell
MSU Department: Integrative Biology, Associate Professor
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1994
Behavioral and landscape ecology
Email:  lindellc@msu.edu

Dan Linden, 2011, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Advisor: Gary J. Roloff
Dissertation Title: All that you can leave behind: Impacts of structure retention on avian ecology in managed forests of the Pacific Northwest

Brian Linton, 2007, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Advisor:  James Bence
Dissertation title:  Model selection and data weighting methods in statistical catch-at-age analysis: Application to 1836 Treaty Water Stock Assessments

Elena Litchman
MSU Department: Integrative Biology, MSU Foundation Professor
Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1997
Ecology and evolution of phytoplankton & other microbes, community ecology, aquatic ecology
Email:  litchman@msu.edu

Jianguo (Jack) Liu
MSU Department: Fisheries and Wildlife, University Distinguished Professor
Director of Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability
Rachel Carson Chair in Ecological Sustainability
Ph.D., University of Georgia, 1992
Coupled human and natural systems, telecoupling, sustainability, conservation, environment
Email:  liuji@msu.edu

Kevin Liu
MSU Department: Computer Science and Engineering, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin, 2011
The Liu Lab creates new computational methodologies for efficient and accurate comparative genomic analyses, especially in the context of complex evolutionary scenarios.
Email:  kjl@msu.edu

J. Robert Logan, Degree sought, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor: Sarah E. Evans
E-mail: loganja3@msu.edu

Amanda Lorenz, 2012, MS
MSU Department: Department of Entomology
Advisors:  Michael Kaufman and Ed Walker
Thesis Title: The role of algae in the invasion ecology of the mosquito species Aedes japonicus japonicus (Diptera: Culicidae)

Mauricio Losilla, Degree sought, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor: Jason Gallant
E-mail: losillam@msu.edu

David Lowry
MSU Department: Plant Biology, Associate Professor
Ph.D., Duke University, 2010
Plant Evolutionary Genomics, Adaptation, and Speciation
Email: dlowry@msu.edu

Matthew Lundquist, 2013, MS
MSU Department: Department of Entomology
Advisor: Zachary Huang
Thesis Title: The effect of nitrogen on the larval growth of the invasive mosquito Aedes japonicus japonicus (Theobald)

Barbara Lundrigan
MSU Department: Integrative Biology, Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1988.
Phylogenetics; evolution of behavior and morphology.
Email:  lundriga@msu.edu

Yining Luo, 1996, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Zoology
Advisor:  Donald Straney
Dissertation title:  A systematic and biogeographic study of the bat genus Rhinolophus (chiroptera: Rhinolophadae)

Meera Iyer, 2006, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Forestry
Advisor:  Richard Kobe
Dissertation title:  Root carbohydrate storage in temperate and tropical forest tree seedlings: inplications for species coexistence

Abigail Lynch, 2013, PhD
MSU Department: Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Advisor: William W. Taylor
Dissertation Title: Designing a decision-support tool for harvest management of Great Lakes lake whitefish (Coregonus clupeafornis) in a changing climate

Emily Lyons, 1996, MS
MSU Department:  Department of Botany
Advisor:  Andrew Jarosz
Thesis title:  Geographic distribution of Silene latifolia and its anther-smut pathogen Microbotrym Violaceum in the eastern United States

David W. MacFarlane
MSU Department: Forestry, Associate Professor
Ph.D., Rutgers University, 2001
Forest measurements and modeling
E-mail: macfar24@msu.edu

Caitlin Mack, Degree sought, MS
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor:  Richard Snider
E-mail: mackcai1@msu.edu

Rohan Maddamsetti, 2016, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor: Richard E. Lenski
Dissertation Title: Population genomics of Escherichia coli in nature and the laboratory

Susan Magnoli, 2018, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Plant Biology
Advisor: Jennifer A. Lau
Dissertation title:  The role of rapid adaptation in plant population establishment

Andrea Maguire, 2013, MS
MSU Department: Department of Plant Biology
Advisor: Richard K. Kobe
Thesis Title: Depletion of non-structural carbohydrate reserves in temperate tree seedlings under stress

Wendy Mahaney, 2007, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Plant Biology
Advisor:  Kay Gross
Dissertation title:  Soil processes and plant species: Does the reintroduction of native grasses alter soil carbon and nitrogen cycling

Megan Mahoney, 2003, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Zoology
Advisor:  Laura Smale
Dissertation title:  Sex, surges, and circadian rhythms: The timing of reproductive events in a diurnal rodent

Carolyn Malmström
MSU Department: Plant Biology, Associate Professor
Ph.D., Stanford University, 1997
Ecosystem & landscape dynamics, restoration ecology, remote sensing
Email: carolynm@msu.edu

Shannon D. Manning
MSU Department:  Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Michigan, 2001
The Manning Lab studies the evolution, epidemiology, ecology and pathogenesis of bacterial pathogens.
Email:  mannin71@msu.edu

Kalina Manoylov, 2005, PhD
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor: R. Jan Stevenson
Dissertation Title: Ecological and evolutionary strategies used by benthic diatoms to compete for nutrients

Terence L. Marsh
MSU Department: Microbiology and Molecular Genetics Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1981
Microbial community analysis
Email:  marsht@msu.edu

Bruce Martin, Degree sought, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Plant Biology
Advisor:  Marjorie Weber
E-mail: mart2121@msu.edu

Sherry Martin, 2010, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Advisor: Daniel Hayes
Dissertation Title: Land-use legacy effect: combining spatial and temporal drivers in statistical and mechanistic models of lake water chemistry

Jason Martina, 2012, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Plant Biology
Advisor: Stephen K. Hamilton
Dissertation Title: Invasive plant species impacts on carbon and nitrogen cycling in inland Michigan wetlands

Laura Marx, 2005, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Forestry
Advisor:  Michael Walters
Dissertation title:  Substrate limitations to Tsuga canadensis and Betula alleghaniensis seedling establishment

Sarah Marzec
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor: Ian M. Dworkin
E-mail: marzecs1@msu.edu

Colleen Masterson, 2001, MS
MSU Department:  Department of Geological Sciences
Advisor:  Nathaniel Ostrom
Thesis title:  A seasonal investigation of energy transfer and food web structure of the deepwater sculpin (Myoxocephalus thompsoni) in Grand Traverse Bay, Lake Michigan

Megan Matonis, 2009, MS
MSU Department: Department of Forestry
Advisor: Michael B. Walters
Thesis Title: Multiple gap-stand and landscape-scale factors affect northen hardwood regeneration

Danielle Matuszak, Degree sought, MS
MSU Department:  Fisheries and Wildlife
Advisor: Kendra Cheruvelil
E-mail:  matusz17@msu.edu

Emily May, 2015, MS
MSU Department: Department of Entomology
Advisor: Rufus Isaacs
Thesis Title: Wild bee community responses to farm management practices, wildflower restorations, and landscape composition

Robert McCann, 2013, PhD
MSU Department: Department of Entomology
Advisor: Edward D. Walker
Dissertation Title: Determinants of malaria vector habitat use, spatial distribution, and community composition with a focus on environmental factors and insecticide-treated bed nets

Erica McConnell, 2003, MS
MSU Department: Department of Botany
Advisor:  Peter Murphy
Thesis title:  Plan B, no title

Melissa McCormick, 1999, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Zoology
Advisor:  Kay Gross
Dissertation title:  Spatial environmental variation: Within and among population effects in Danthonia spicata

Steven K. McCormick, Degree sought, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor: Kay E. Holekamp
E-mail: mccor187@msu.edu

Deborah G. McCullough
MSU Department: Entomology, Professor
Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1990.
Forest entomology, insect ecology.
Email:  mccullo6@msu.edu

Melissa McDonald, 2013, PhD
MSU Department: Department of Psychology
Advisor: Carlos D. Navarrete
Dissertation Title: Motivations for mate choice discrimination in an intergroup dating context

Terri McElhinny, 2009, PhD
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor: Barbara L. Lundrigan
Dissertation Title: Morphological variation in a durophagous carnivore, the spotted hyena, Crocuta crocuta

Jeanette McGuire, 2011, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor: Kim L. Scribner
Dissertation Title: Comparative analysis of factors influencing male reproductive success in sympatric freshwater turtles

Charles McKeown, 2003, MS
MSU Department:  Department of Entomology
Advisor:  Stuart Gage
Thesis title:  Quantifying the roles of competition and niche separation in native and exotic coccinellids, and their response to an exotic prey species

Philip McKinley
MSU Department:  Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1989
E-mail:  mckinley@cse.msu.edu

Laura McKinnon, 2005, MS
MSU Department:  Department of Zoology
Advisor:  Kim Scribner
Thesis title:  Female sociality in the common eider (Somateria mollissima)

Angela McMellen, 2001, MS
MSU  Department:  Department of Zoology
Advisor:  Catherine Lindell
Thesis title:  Nest-site selection and nesting ecology of the orange-billed nightingale-thrush (Catharus aurantiirostris) in southern Costa Rica

Mark McPeek, 1989, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Zoology
Advisor:  Donald Hall
Dissertation title:  The determination of species composition in the Enallagma assemblages (Odonata: Coenagrionidae) of permanent lakes

Christine McTavish, 2019, MS
MSU Department: Department of Plant Biology
Advisor: Andrew M. Jarosz
Thesis Title:  Spruce decline and Diaporthe:  incidence, taxonomy, virulence and tree susceptibility

Mariah Meek
MSU Department: Integrative Biology, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Davis, 2010
Meek Lab aims to understand the interactions among molecular ecology, population health and persistence, anthropogenic change, and trait variation with an emphasis on aquatic systems.
Email:  mhmeek@msu.edu

Haddish Melakeberhan
MSU Department: Horticulture, Associate Professor
Ph.D., Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, 1986
My research focus has been on understanding plant-nematode-soil-nutrient interactions at the organism and ecosystem levels
Email:  melakebe@msu.edu

Jarad Mellard, 2010, PhD
MSU Department: Department of Plant Biology
Advisor: Christopher Klausmeier
Dissertation Title: The vertical distribution of phytoplankton: observations, theory, experiments

Rodrigo Mercader, 2002, MS
MSU Department:  Department of Entomology
Advisor:  Rufus Isaacs
Thesis title:  Phenophase dependent tolerance to foliar herbivory in grape vines, Vitis labrusca (L.) var. 'Niagara'

Rodrigo Mercader, 2008, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Entomology
Advisor:  Kim Scribner
Dissertation title:  Climate change, species boundaries, and hybridization: how climate change may be leading to host use divergence in a native butterfly system

Joseph Messina
MSU Department: Geography, Professor
Ph.D., North Carolina University, Chapel Hill, 2001
Spatial models, environment, applied climate change
Email:  jpm@msu.edu

Justin Meyer, 2012, PhD
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor: Richard E. Lenski
Dissertation Title: Coevolution of bacterial-phage interactions

Shawna Meyer, 2005, MS
MSU Department:  Department of Forestry
Advisor:  David MacFarlane
Thesis title:   Plan B, no title

Lucas Michelotti, 2016, MS
MSU Department: Department of Forestry
Advisor: Jessica R. Miesel
Dissertation Title: Source material and concentration of wildlife-produced pyrogenic carbon influence post-fire soil nutrient dynamics

Andrea Miehls (Jaeger), 2012, PhD
MSU Department: Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Co-Advisor(s): Andrew McAdam, Scott Peacor
Dissertation Title: Preventing predation: Evolution and adaptive plasticity in morphological defense of an invasive species

Jessica Miesel
MSU Departments: Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences, Forestry, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Ohio State University, 2009
Fire ecology, forest ecology and management; restoration ecology; biogeochemistry; intersections between ecology and environmental justice
Email:  mieselje@msu.edu

Beth Miller, 2016, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Plant Biology
Advisor: Christopher Klausmeier
Dissertation Title: Community composition and coexistance: The effects of temporal variation and environmental forcing on community trait distributions and diversity

James R. Miller
Professor Emeritus; Ph.D., Pensylvania State, 1975
Behavioral and physiological aspects of insect ecology
Email:  miller20@msu.edu

Nathan Miller, 2007, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Zoology
Advisor:  Richard Hill
Dissertation title:  Multiphase transport processes in sea turtle nesting beaches

Yue Ming, 1995, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Entomology
Advisor:  Guy Bush
Dissertation title:  Characterization of the Ribosomal DNA of the genus Rhagoletis (diptera: Tephritidae) 

Douglas Minier, 2019, MS
MSU Department: Department of Plant Pathology
Advisor: Linda Hanson
Thesis title:  Diversity of the fungal pathogen Rhizoctonia solani AG2-2

David Minor, 2014, MS
MSU Department:  Plant Biology
Advisor:  Zsofia Szendrei
Thesis title:  The effects of tree size, nutrient availability, competition, and masting synchrony on fruit production in tropical and temperate forests

Masoud Mirmomeni, 2015, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Advisor: Christoph C. Adami
Dissertation Title: Evolution of cooperation in the light of information theory

Dusan Misevic, 2006, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Zoology
Advisor:  Rich Lenski
Dissertation title:  Digital sex: causes and consequences of recombination

Gary G. Mittelbach 
Professor Emeritus, Ph.D., Michigan State, 1980
Community ecology and aquatics
Email:  mittelbach@msu.edu

Robert Mobley, 2020, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor: Janette Boughman
Dissertation title:  Multimodal Ecology of Stickleback Sensing

Anna Monfils, 2003, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Plant Biology
Advisor:  Alan Prather
Dissertation title:  Phenotypes and floral variation: A phylogenetic approach

Robert Montgomery
MSU Department: Fisheries and Wildlife, Associate Professor
Ph.D., Michigan State University, 2012
Ecology of carnivores and their prey, spatial ecology, landscape ecology and international wildlife conservation
Email:  montg164@msu.edu

Tracy Montgomery, 2020, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor: Kay E. Holekamp
Dissertation title:  Physiological mediatian of social behavior in group-living carnivores

Bethany Moore, 2019, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Plant Biology
Advisor: Shin-Han Shiu
DIssertation title:  Specialized metabolism and stress response:  Studies in predicting gene function and regulation

Claire Moore, 2015, MS
MSU Department: Department of Plant Biology
Advisor: Andrew M. Jarosz
Thesis title: Plan B, no thesis

Poco Moore, 1996, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Zoology
Advisor:  Stephen Tonsor
Dissertation title:  Assessing the viability of the shifting balance process

Matthew Andres Moreno, Degree sought, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Advisor:  Charles Ofria
E-mail:  mmore500@msu.edu

Ryan Morgan, 2010, MS
MSU Department: Department of Geological Sciences
Advisor:  Robert Anstey
Thesis Title: Paleobiogeographic associations among Mississippian Bryozoansy

Emily Morrison, 2011, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor: Catherine Lindell
Dissertation Title: Avian ecology and behavior in tropical forest restoration sites

Rob Morrison, 2014, PhD
MSU Department: Department of Entomology
Advisor: Zsofia Szendrei
Dissertation Title: Investigation of the tritrophic interactions of the asparagus miner (Ophiomyia simplex Loew; Diptera: Agromyzidae) and the influence of temperature on its population dynamics

Andrea Morrow, Degree sought, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor: Barbara L. Lundrigan
E-mail: morrowa6@msu.edu

Anita Morzillo, 2005
MSU Department:  Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Advisor:  Jack Liu
Dissertation title:  Integrating ecology and socio-economics for species restoration:  Feasibility of a Louisiana black bear reintroduction in and around Big Thicket National Preserve

Rosa Moscarella, 2011, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor: Barbara L. Lundrigan
Dissertation Title: Dissecting the geographical expansion of Peromyscus leucopus in the northern Great Lakes: insights from genetics, morphometrics and ecology

Eva Maria Muecke, 2005, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor: Kay E. Holekamp
Dissertation Title: Determinants of age at dispersal & settlement patterns in the Belding's ground squirrel, Spermophilus beldingi

Eva-Maria Muecke, 2005, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Zoology
Advisor:  Kay Holekamp
Dissertation title:  Determinants of age at dispersal & settlement patterns in the Belding's ground squirrel, Spermophilus beldingi

Dennis Mullen, 1991, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Zoology
Advisor:  Thomas Burton
Dissertation title:  Size related habitat use in a riffle dwelling fish: the longnose dace (Rhinicthys cataractae)

Cheryl A. Murphy
MSU Department: Fisheries and Wildlife, Professor
Ph.D., Louisiana State University, 2006
Environmental toxicology
Email:  camurphy@msu.edu

Margaret Murphy, 2005, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Zoology
Advisor:  John Giesy
Dissertation title:  The effects of atrazine on ranid frogs collected in Michigan

Peter G. Murphy
Professor Emeritus of Plant Biology
Ph.D., North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1970
Plant ecology
Email:  murphyp@msu.edu

Rose-Marie Muzika, 1989, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Forestry
Advisor:  Kurt Pregitzer
Dissertation title: Carbon allocation and secondary metabolites in Abies grandis as influenced by nitrogen fertilization and seed source

Andrew Myers, 2019, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Entomology
Advisor: Douglas A. Landis
Dissertation title:  The interacting influences of habitat context and predators on monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) oviposition and survival in agricultural landscapes

Kota Nakasato, Degree sought, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Plant Biology
Advisor:  Carolyn Malmstrom
Email:  nakasato@msu.edu

Jakob Nalley, 2016, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor: Elena Litchman
Dissertation Title:  Optimizing the productivity and sustainability of algal biofuel systems: investigating the benefits of algal diversity and utilizing brewery wastewater for cultivation.

Genevieve Nesslage, 2005, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Advisor:  Brian Maurer
Dissertation title:  Spatial structure and invasion success of populations undergoing range expansion: effects of dispersal strategy and landscape heterogeneity

Sarah Neumann, 2008, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Forestry
Advisor:  Richard Kobe
Dissertation title:  Plant-soil feedbacks in temperate and tropical forests

Sifa Ephraim Ngasala, 2016, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Earth and Environmental Sciences
Advisor:  Michael D. Gottfried
Dissertation title:  The biogeography of Lungfishes with a description of new fossil taxa from East Africa

Joshua Nixon, 2005, PhD
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor: Laura Smale
Dissertation Title: Anatomy and function of orexin-containing neurons in day- and night-active animals

Zachary Noel, 2019, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Plant Biology
Advisor: Martin Chilvers
Dissertation title:  Effect of soybean seed treatments on oomycete evolution and diversity for improved seedling disease management

Kristen Nolting, 2014, MS
MSU Department: Department of Plant Biology
Advisor:
Thesis Title: The role of phylogeny and niche differentiation in structuring species co-occurrence in the New Zealand Pittosporum (Pittospraceae)

Emily Norton, 2013, PhD
MSU Department: Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Advisor: Kendra S. Cheruvelil
Dissertation Title: From turtle populations to property values: The effects of lakeshore residential development and the invasive zebra mussel

Nan Nourn, Degree sought, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Advisor:  Dan Kramer
E-mail:  nan@msu.edu

Doug Novinger, 1995, MS
MSU Department:  Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Advisor:  Thomas Coon
Thesis title:  Behavioral, physiological and morphological similarity among populations of redside dace, a threatened species in Michigan

Brian Noyle, 1999, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Botany
Advisor:  Pat Webber
Dissertation title: The vegetation and a landsat assisted land cover map of the Barrow region, northern Alaska 

Antonio A. Nunez
MSU Department: Psychology, Professor
Associate Dean of the Graduate School
Ph.D., Florida State University, 1977
Biological rhythms, hormone and reproductive behaviors
Email:  nunez@msu.edu

Daniel O'Donnell, 2018, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor: Elena Litchman
Dissertation title:  Sea change Phytoplankton change too? Thermal adaptation of the marine diatom Thalassiosira pseudonana: An evolutionary scenario

Charles Ofria
MSU Department: Computer Science and Engineering, Professor
Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 1999
Email:  ofria@msu.edu

Robert Olendorf, 2001, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Zoology
Advisor:  Tom Getty
Dissertation title:  Cooperation in red-winged blackbirds: Niceness, cheating, grudges in "dear enemy" relationships

Jason David Olsen, Degree sought, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Plant Biology
Advisor:  David Lowry
E-mail:  olsenja3@msu.edu

Mark Olson, 1993, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Zoology
Advisor:  Gary Mittelbach
Dissertation title: Mixed competition/predation interactions in size-structured fish communities 

Randal Olson, 2015, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Advisor: Christoph C. Adami
Dissertation Title: Elucidating the evolutionary origins of collective animal behavior

Chase Madeline O'Neil, Degree Sought, MS
MSU Department:  Department of Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences
Advisor:  Jessica Miesel
E-mail:  oneilch2@msu.edu

Gabriel Ording, 2001, MS
MSU Department:  Department of Entomology
Advisor:  Mark Scriber
Thesis title:  Island populations and trait comparisons of tiger swallowtail butterflies, P. canadensis, in the Great Lakes region

Viviana Ortiz Londono, Degree sought, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Plant, Science and Microbial Sciences
Advisor: Martin Chilvers
Email:  ortizviv@msu.edu

Rachel Osborn, Degree sought, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Entomology
Advisor: Anthony Cognato
E-mail: osbornr3@msu.edu

Nathaniel Ostrom
MSU Department: Integrative Biology, Professor
Ph.D., Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1992
Biogeochemistry
Email:  ostromn@msu.edu

Elizabeh Ostrowski, 2005, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Zoology
Advisor:  Rich Lenski
Dissertation title:  Adaptation and specialization in biological and digital organisms

Clint Otto, 2012, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Advisor: Gary J. Roloff
Dissertation title:  The impact of timber harvest on wildlife distribution patterns and population vital rates: Does structural retention ameliorate the negative effects of clearcutting?

Shujun Ou, 2018, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Horticulture
Advisor: Ning Jiang
Dissertation title:  Identification of LTR retrotransposons, evaluation of genome assembly, and modeling rice domestication

Jen Owen
MSU Department: Fisheries and WIldlife, Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Southern Mississippi, 2004
Ecology of infectious diseases, behavioral ecology, ecoimmunology
Email:  owenj@msu.edu

William Paddock, 2006, MS
MSU Department:  Department of Plant Biology
Advisor:  Frank Ewers
Thesis title:  Explaining patterns of mortality following severe drought in a chaparral shrub community

Kevin Page, 2001, MS
MSU Department:  Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Advisor:  Kim Scribner
Thesis title:  Genetic diversity and interrelationships of wild and hatchery lake trout in the upper Great Lakes: Inferences for broodstock management and development of restoration strategies

Anuraag Pakanati, 2015, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Advisor:  Charles Ofria
Dissertation Title: Structure and evolutionary dynamics in fitness landscapes

Genevieve Pang, 2019, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Advisor: Jean I. Tsao
Dissertation title: An investigation of genetic and abiotic factors on the geographic variation in life cycle processes of lxodes scapularis, the vector of Lyme borreliosis, in the eastern United States

Wiline Pangle (Trouilloud), 2008, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor: Kay E. Holekamp
Dissertation Title: Threat-sensitive behaviors and its ontogenetic development in top mammalian carnivores

Kevin Pangle, 2008, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Advisor: Scott Peacor
Dissertation Title: The role of non-consumptive effects in the net effect of an invasive predator in the Laurentian Great Lakes

Abhijna Parigi, 2018, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor: Ian M. Dworkin
Dissertation title:  Mechanisms of southern grasshopper mouse (Onychomys torridus) muscle resistant to paralytic and lethal toxins in Arizona bark scorpion (Centruroides sculpturatus) venom

Dylan Parry, 2000, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Entomology
Advisor:  Dan Herms/Mark Scriber
Dissertation title: Induced responses of poplars to defoliation and their effects on leaf-feeding Lepidoptera 

Eric Patterson
MSU Department:  Department of Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences 
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Colorado State University, 2018
Weed Genomics, Genome Evolution, Herbicide Resistance Evolution, Genetics of Abiotic Stress Tolerence.
Email:  patte543@msu.edu

Scott Peacor
MSU Department:  Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Ph.D., University of Michigan, 2000
Population and community ecology; ecological and ecosystem modeling; aquatic ecology
E-mail:  peacor@msu.edu

Alison Pearks Wilkerson, 1995, MS
MSU Department:  Departmnt of Fisheries and Wildlife
Advisor:  Scott Winterstein
Thesis title: The effect of habitat manipulation on avian populations and vegetation composition on conservation reserve program fields in Gratiot County, Michigan 

Kirsten Pelz-Stelinski, 2008, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Entomology
Advisor:  Michael Kaufman/Edward Walker
Dissertation title:  Mosquito production and microbial diversity in contair habitats

Robert Pennock
MSU Department: Lyman Briggs/Philosophy/Computer Science and Engineering
University Distinguished Professor 
Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh. 1991
Philosophy of biology; evolutionary computation; history & philosophy of science; science & values
Email:  pennock5@msu.edu

Samuel Perez, Degree sought, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Plant Biology
Advisor: Jeffrey K. Conner
E-mail: perezsa4@msu.edu

Toby Petrice, 2020, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Entomology
Advisor: F. William Ravlin
Dissertation title:  Effects of temperature and photoperiod on host-parasitoid synchrony and evaluation of sampling methods for Oobius agrili: an introduced egg parasitoid of emerald ash borer

Jeffrey Pierce, 2012, MS
MSU Department: Department of Plant Biology
Advisor: Frank W. Telewski
Thesis Title: The effects of increased syringyl to guaiacyl lignin monomer ratios on xylem hydraulic properties in hybrid Poplar (Populus tremula x P. alba)

Riley Pizza, Degree sought, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Plant Biology
Advisor:  Lars Brudvig
Email:  pizzaril@msu.edu

Laura Planck, 2012, MS
MSU Department: Department of Plant Biology
Advisor: Carolyn M. Malmström
Thesis Title: Romote sensing to moniter monotypic weed patches in semi-arid grasslands

Anselmo Pontes, Degree sought, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Advisor: Charles A. Ofria
E-mail: pontes@msu.edu

Damian Popovic, 2018, MS
MSU Department: Department of Plant Biology
Advisor: David Lowry
Dissertation title:  Evalutating the role of oceanic salt spray and herbivory on the evolution of locally adapted populations of the Seep Monkeyflower ( Mimulus guttatus)

Amanda Posto, 2001, MS
MSU Department:  Department of Botany
Advisor:  Alan Prather
Thesis title:  The reproductive biology and taxanomic origin of Michigan monkey-flower, Minulus glabratus var. michiganensis

Brenda Pracheil, 2006, MS
MSU Department:  Department of Zoology
Advisor:  Patrick Muzzall
Thesis title:  Parasites of juvenile bluegill, Lepomis macrochirus and young-of-the-year largemouth bass, Micropterus salmoides from Three Lakes II and Gull Lake, Michigan

L. Alan Prather
MSU Department: Plant Biology, Associate Professor
Director of MSU Herbarium
Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin, 1995
Plant systematics and evolution of floral morphology
Email:  alan@msu.edu

Alice Puchalsky, Degree Sought, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor:  Nick Haddad
E-mail:  puchals9@msu.edu

Gabriela M. Quinlan, 2020, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Entomology
Advisor:  Rufus Isaacs
Dissertation title: Influence of landscape composition, landscape diversity, and conservation management on bee health via a pollen nutrition mechanism

Alexandra Rafalski, 2020, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Advisor: Scott Peacor
Dissertation title: Contingency of predation risk-induced trait responses in a model fish-zooplankton community

David Raikow, 2002, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Zoology
Advisor:  Steve Hamilton
Dissertation title:  How the feeding ecology of native and exotic mussels affects freshwater ecosystems

Mercedes Ramirez, 2009, MS
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor: Fred C. Dyer
Thesis Title: Vision as a sensory modality in the honey bee dance language

Ian Ramjohn, 2004, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Plant Biology
Advisor:  Peter Murphy
Dissertation title:  The role of disturbed Caribbean dry forest fragments in the survival of native plant diversity

Ravi Ranjan, Degree sought, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Plant Biology
Advisor: Christopher Klausmeier
E-mail: ranjanra@msu.edu

F. William Ravlin
MSU Department: Entomology, Professor & Chairperson
Ph.D., Michigan State University, 1980
Current research focuses on insect population dynamics, biological control, and integrated pest management. He also has expertise in insect macrophotography.
Email:  ravlin@msu.edu

Joseph Receveur, Degree sought, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Entomology
Advisor:  Eric Benbow
E-mail:  receveur@msu.edu

Charlotte Reemts, 2005, MS
MSU Department:  Department of Plant Biology
Advisor:  Peter Murphy
Thesis title:  Temperate diciduous forest fragments: edge effects, invasion by non-native, and long-term change in mature forest structure

Jessica Rettig, 1999, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Zoology
Advisor:  Gary Mittelbach
Dissertation title:  Interactions in a stage-structured species: Impacts of adult bluegill on larval growth and survival

Alycia Reynolds-Lackey, 2013, PhD
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor: Janette Boughman
Dissertation Title: Speciation in stickleback fish: interactions between sexual selection and ecology can make or break species

Joseph Riedy, Degree sought, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor:  Kim Scribner
E-mail:  riedyjo@msu.edu

Allison Wyatt (Rober), 2012, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor: R. Jan Stevenson
Dissertation Title: Regulation of algal structure and function in northern boreal wetlands

Robert Lawrence, 1990, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Entomology
Advisor:  William Mattson
Dissertation title:  Phenological variation in the susceptibility of white spruce to the spruce budworm

Lance Roberts, 2009, PhD
MSU Department: Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Advisor: Brian A. Maurer
Dissertation Title: Improving wildlife habitat model performance: sensitivity to scale and detail of vegetation measurements

G. Philip Robertson
MSU Department: Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences, University
Distinguished Professor
Ph.D., Indiana University, 1980
Ecosystem and agricultural ecology
Email:  robert30@msu.edu

Molly Robinett, Degree sought, MS
MSU Department: Department of Forestry
Advisor: Deborah G. McCullough
E-mail: robine18@msu.edu

John D. Robinson
MSU Department: FIsheries and WIldlife, Assistant Professor
Ph.D. University of Georgia, 2011
Research Interests:  Population and conservation genetics, demographic inference
Organisms:  Freshwater and marine invertebrates, fish, plants 
E-mail:  jdrob@msu.edu

Todd Robinson, 2011, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Plant Biology
Advisor: Carolyn M. Malmström
Dissertation Title: Impacts of precipitation variability on plant communities

Steven Roels, 2018, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor: Catherine Lindell
Dissertation title:  Recovery of insectivorous bird ecology function in tropical forest restorations

Jorge Alejandro Rojas Flechas, 2016, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Plant Pathology
Advisor: Martin Chilvers
Dissertation title:  "Diversity in oomycetes associated with soybean seedling diseases"

Connie Rojas, Degree sought, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor: Kay E. Holekamp
E-mail: rojascon@msu.edu

Angela Roles, 2007, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Zoology
Advisor:  Jeff Conner
Dissertation title:  Novel studies of spontaneous mutations: measurements of fitness in the field and gene expression in the lab

Benjamin Roller, 2015, PhD
MSU Department: Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
Advisor:  Thomas Schmidt
Dissertation Title: Life histories of bacteria: genomic foundations and ecological implications

Gary Roloff
MSU Department: Fisheries and Wildlife, Associate Professor
Ph.D., Michigan State University, 1994
Ecological community responses to disturbances; landscape-level modeling, planning, and assessments
Email:  roloff@msu.edu

Michael Rondinelli, 1992, MS
MSU Department:   Department of Zoology
Advisor:  Donald Hall
Thesis title:  Predation by three dominant macroinvertebrates in a southcentral Michigan marsh

Samuel Rossman, 2014, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor: Peggy H. Ostrom
Dissertation Title: The foraging ecology of bottlenose dolphins: insights into temporal, demographic, and individual variation

David E. Rothstein
MSU Department: Forestry, Professor
Ph.D., University of Michigan 1999
Ecosystem ecology
Email:  rothste2@msu.edu

Heather Rowe, 1998, MS
MSU Department:  Department of Entomology
Advisor:  Cathy Bristow
Thesis title:  Effects of habitat succession on population and reproduction of the Allegheny mound ant

Logan Rowe, Degree sought, MS
MSU Department: Department of Entomology
Advisor: Rufus Isaacs
E-mail: roweloga@msu.edu

Anne Royer, 2014, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Plant Biology
Advisor: Jeffrey K. Conner
Dissertation Title: Mating system and the evolution of stamen morphology in the Brassicaceae

Danny Rozen, 2000, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Zoology
Advisor:  RIch Lenski
Dissertation title:  The evolution of a balanced polymorphism in a long-term laboratory population of Escherichia coli

Matthew Rupp, 2011, PhD
MSU Department: Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Advisor: Charles A. Ofria
Dissertation Title: Evolvability & Evolution

Taylor Rupp, Degree sought, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor:  Heather Eisthen
E-mail: rupptay1@msu.edu

Michael Ryskamp, Degree sought, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Plant Biology
Advisor:  Carolyn Malmstrom
E-mail: ryskamp@msu.edu

Heather Sahli, 2006, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Plant Biology
Advisor:  Jeff Conner
Dissertation title:  Generalization in plant pollination systems and its effect on floral evolution within and among populations of wild radish (Raphanus raphanistrum)

Monique Sakalidis
MSU Department: Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Murdoch University, Perth, Australia, 2011
Research focuses on the use of genomic tools in conjunction with traditional pathology tools to mitigate and respond to forest tree diseases (detection, identification, pathogenicity and population analysis), emerging endemic and exotic invasive pathogens.
E-mail: sakalidi@msu.edu

Briana Salas (Hauff), 2015, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor: Peggy H. Ostrom
Dissertation Title: The response of symbiotic zooxanthellae (Symbiodinium spp.) diversity and gene expression to stress in geographically distinct reefs

Toby SantaMaria, Degree sought, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Plant Biology
Advisor:  Lars Brudvig
Email:  santam14@msu.edu

Orlando Sarnelle
MSU Department: Fisheries and Wildlife, Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara, 1992
Biological limnology, ecology
Email:  sarnelle@msu.edu

Maggie Sawdy, Degree sought, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor: Kay E. Holekamp
E-mail: sawdymag@msu.edu

Sharon Schapel, 2003, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Advisor:  Tom Coon
Dissertation title:  Relationships between coastal wetland habitat and young of the year fish community characteristics, distribution, and growth

Klara Scharnagl, 2019, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Plant Biology
Advisor: L. Alan Prather
Dissertation title:  Biogeography of an obigate symbiont:  following established patterns, or an exception to the rule?

Carrie, Scheele Kissman, 2007, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Zoology
Advisor:  Don Hall
Dissertation title:  The effects of zebra mussels (Dreissena polymorpha) on inland lake ecosystems

Douglas W. Schemske
Professor Emeritus, Hannah Distinguished Professor; Ph.D., Illinois, 1977
Speciation; mechanisms of adaptation
Email:  schem@msu.edu

Jorden Schossau, 2017, PhD.
MSU Department: Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Advisor: Christoph C. Adami
Dissertation title: Evolution of decision-making systems

Gary Schott, 2000, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Botany
Advisor:  Andrew Jarosz
Dissertation title:  The nature of infertility and response to inbreeding in blueberries

Jessica Schrader (St. John), 2009, PhD
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor: Laura Smale
Dissertation Title: Plasticity in the circadian system: changing rhythms in reproducing female rodents

Laura Schreeg, 2002, MS
MSU Department:  Department of Forestry
Advisor:  Richard Kobe
Thesis title:  Do differences in soil resource availability affect forest composition in northern lower Michigan? A field investigation of seedling growth, survival and morphology

Abbie Schrotenboer, 2011, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Plant Biology
Advisor: Carolyn M. Malmström
Dissertation Title: Prairie grasses for biofuels and ecological restoration: modifications to native species and their place in human-altered landscapes

Amy Schueller, 2009, PhD
MSU Department: Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Advisor: Daniel Hayes
Dissertation Title: Interactions between demographic stochasticity and genetic integrity of lake sturgeon populations

Marissa Schuh, 2016, MS
MSU Department: Department of Entomology
Advisor: Douglas A. Landis
Thesis Title: Influence of switchgrass ecotype, cultivar, & planted stand diversity on herbivores, natural enemy communities, and biological control in bioenergy cropping systems

Elizabeth Schultheis, 2015, PhD
MSU Department: Department of Plant Biology
Advisor: Jennifer A. Lau
Dissertation Title: The role of biotic interactions in biological invasions

Anne Marie Scott, 2018, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Advisor: Weiming Li
Dissertation title:  Characterization and disruption of sea lamprey sex pheromone communication

Emily Scott, 2012, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Forestry
Advisor: David E. Rothstein
Dissertation Title: Dissolved organic nitrogen (DON) cycling in northern hardwood forests of Michigan, USA

J. Mark Scriber
Professor Emeritus; Ph.D., Cornell, 1975.
Evolutionary ecology of insect-plant interactions.
Email:  scriber@msu.edu

Kim Scribner
MSU Department: Fisheries and Wildlife, Professor
Ph.D., University of Georgia, 1992
Population genetics, population ecology and conservation biology
Email:  scribne3@msu.edu

Nancy Seefelt, 2005, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Zoology
Advisor:  Don Hall
Dissertation title:  Foraging ecology, bioenergetics and predatory impact of breeding double-crested cormorant (Pholacrocorax auritus) in the Beaver Archipelago, Northen Lake Mich.

Ashley Shade
MSU Department: Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Assistant Professor
Professor; Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2010
Ecology and evolution of microbial communities
Email:  shadeash@msu.edu

Megan Shave, 2017, PhD.
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor: Catherine Lindell
Dissertation title:  Evaluating the conservation and agricultural applications of orchard nest boxes for a declining raptor

Kathryn Shaw, 2012, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor: Kay E. Holekamp
Dissertation Title: Variation among spotted hyenas in three personality traits

Iurii Shcherbak, 2013, PhD
MSU Department: Department of Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences
Advisor: G. Philip Robertson
Dissertation Title: Production and Movement of N2O in the Full Soil Profile

Kristin Sherfinski, 2000, MS
MSU Department:  Department of Botany
Advisor:  Peter Murphy
Thesis title:  The ecology of interdunal wetpannes and the potential effects of the introduced Austrian pine (Pinus nigra) on their hydrology and vegetation

Prateek Shetty,
MSU Department: Department of Plant Biology
Advisor: Maren L. Friesen
E-mail: shettypr@msu.edu

Shin-Han Shiu
MSU Department: Plant Biology, Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2001
Evolution of Genomes
Email:  shius@msu.edu

Rainy Shorey, 2005, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Advisor:  Kim Scribner
Dissertation title:  Phylogeographies of Snow, Ross's, Canada, and Cackling Geese: Defining spatial structure of biological diversity

Michaet Siefkes, 2003, PH.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Advisor:  Weiming Li
Dissertation title:  Characterization of a male sea lamprey sex pheromone

Nathan Siegert, 2004, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Entomology
Advisor:  Deborah McCullough
Dissertation title:  Meteorological factors affecting the success of the gypsy moth fungal pathogen Entomophaga maimaiga (Zygomycetes: Entomophthorales) in Michigan

Ed Siuda, 2000, MS
MSU Department:  Department of Zoology
Advisor:  Heather Eisthen
Thesis title:  Plan B, no title

Nicholas Skaff, 2018, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Advisor: Kendra S. Cheruvelil
Dissertation title:  Blood in the water: wetlands, wet spells, and drought regulate mosquito-borne disease transmission at multiple scales

Jennifer Skillen, 2005, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Advisor:  Brian Maurer
Dissertation title:  Landscape structure and the biological diversity of the North America avifauna

Robert Skillen, 2005, MS
MSU Department:  Department of Zoology
Advisor:  Barbara Lundrigan
Thesis title:  Changes in the distribution of Michigan's flying squirrels

Katherine Skocelas, Degree Sought, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Advisor:  Charles Ofria
E-mail:  kgs@msu.edu

Laura Smale
MSU Department: Psychology, Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1987
Animal behavior and its physiological substrates
Email;  smale@msu.edu

Aaron Smith, 2010, PhD
MSU Department: Department of Entomology
Advisor: Anthony Cognato
Dissertation Title: Phylogenetic revision of the North American Asidini (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae)

James J. Smith
MSU Department: Lyman Briggs/Biology, Professor
Ph.D., Michigan State University, 1985
Molecular systematics and evolution
Email:  jimsmith@msu.edu

Jennifer Smith, 2010, PhD
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor: Kay E. Holekamp
Dissertation Title: Evolutionary and ecological forces shaping patterns of cooperation among spotted hyenas

Michelle Smith, 2004, MS
MSU Department:  Department of Zoology
Advisor:  Catherine Lindell
Thesis title:  Edge effects on avian and mammalian nest predator relative abundance and species richness

Peter Smith, 1992, MS
MSU Department:  Department of Zoology
Advisor:  Susan Kalisz
Thesis title:  Plan B, no title

RIchard Smith, 2005, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Plant Biology
Advisor:  Kay Gross
Dissertation title:  Agroecosystem diversity: Impacts on weed communities and crop yield

Sarah Smith, 2009, MS
MSU Department: Department of Entomology
Advisor: Anthony Cognato
Thesis title:  Revision of Camptocerus dejean (Coleoptere: Curculionidae: Scolytinea) with notes on its biology

Seth Smith, Degree sought, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Integrative Biology
Advisor:  Kim Scribner
E-mail:  smith2959@msu.edu

Sieglinde S. Snapp
MSU Department:  Department of Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences, Professor
Ph.D., California, Davis, 1991.
Managed ecosystems and agricultural ecology.
E-mail: snapp@msu.edu

Joshua Snook, 2020, MS
MSU Department:  Department of Entomology
Advisor:  Will Wetzel
Thesis title: Effects of heat wave timing on plant, herbivore, disease interactions

Nathan Snow, 2014, PhD
MSU Department: Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Advisor: William F. Porter
Dissertation Title: Hotspots, underreporting, and dynamic space-time influences of wildlife-vehicle collisions

James Sobel, 2010, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Plant Biology
Advisor: Douglas W. Schemske
Dissertation Title: Speciation in the western North American wildflower genus Mimulus

Patricia Soranno
MSU Department: Fisheries and WIldlife, Professor
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1995
Limnology and ecosystem ecology
Email:  soranno@msu.edu

Erin South (Mason)
MSU Department: Department of Plant Biology
Advisor: Andrew M. Jarosz
E-mail: masoner1@msu.edu

Olivia Spagnuolo, Degree sought, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor:  Kay Holekamp
E-mail: spagnu39@msu.edu

Susan Spaulding, 2008, MS
MSU Department: Department of Forestry
Advisor: David E. Rothstein
Thesis Title: Does clearcut harvesting emulate the effects of natural disturbance on the development of stand structure in Pinus banksiana forests of northern lower Michigan

Joshua Springer, 2013, PhD
MSU Department: Department of Plant Biology
Advisor: Andrew M. Jarosz
Dissertation Title: Influence of mycoviruses on the population structure of the chestnut blight pathogen, Cryphonectria parasitica and recovery of American chestnuts, Castanea dentata

Christine Sprunger, 2015, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences
Advisor: Sieglinde S. Snapp
Dissertation Title: Root production and soil carbon accumulation in annual, perennial, and diverse cropping systems

Kurt Stanley, 2000, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Botany
Advisor: Peter Murphy
Dissertation title:  The structure, composition, and hydrology of wet meadow plant communities fringing Saginaw Bay (Lake Huron)

Scott C. Stark
MSU Department:  Department of Forestry, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Arizona, 2012
Integrative ecological and Earth system perspective to address the future of forest ecosystems, and the Amazon rainforest
Email: scstark@msu.edu

Melissa D. Starking, Degree sought, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Advisor: Gary Roloff
E-mail: szyman87@msu.edu

Elizabeth Stebbins, Degree sought, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Advisor: Jim Bence
E-mail: stebbi39@msu.edu

Katherine Steensma, 2012, MS
MSU Department:  Animal Science
Advisor:  Santiago Utsumi
Thesis Title: Foraging behavior of dairy cattle in a pasture-based system with automated milking

Chris Steiner, 2001, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Zoology
Advisor:  Gary Mittelbach
Dissertation title:  Seasonal succession and variable Daphnia dominance in fishless ponds: Ecological determinants and ecosystem consequences

Lisa Stelzner, 2015, MS
MSU Department: Department of Plant Biology
Advisor: Carolyn M. Malmström
Thesis title: Plan B, no thesis

R. Jan Stevenson
MSU Department: Integrative Biology
Professor; Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1981
Algal ecology; aquatic ecology; environmental science
Email:  rjstev@msu.edu

Roger Strand, 1996, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Entomolgy
Advisor:  Richard Merritt
Dissertation title:  Landscape alteration effects on lotic invertebrate ecology

Eli Strauss, 2019, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor: Kay E. Holekamp
Dissertation title: Social inequality and its dynamics in spotted hyenas

Craig Stricker, 2003, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Zoology
Advisor:  Tom Burton
Dissertation title:  Natural lake level declines in a Great Lakes coastal marsh: Effects on hydrochemistry, resource availability, and invertebrates 

Aram Stump, 2000, MS
MSU Department:  Department of Entomology
Advisor:  Mark Scriber
Thesis title: Lack of cryptic reproductive isolation between Papilio canadensis and Papilio glaucus; and population genetics near their hybrid zone

Abby Sulesky, Degree sought, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics
Advisor:  Ashley Shade
E-mail: suleskya@msu.edu

Sean Sultaire, 2020, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Advisor:  Gary Roloff
Dissertation Title:  Biodiversity responses to alternative green tree retentions practices in the Pacific Northwest: A regional forestry experiment

Allison Sussman, 2017, M.S.
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor: Elise Zipkin
Thesis title:  Assessing waterbird hotspots for conservation and management in the Great Lakes

Tomomi Suwa, 2016, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Plant Biology
Advisor: Jennifer A. Lau
Dissertation Title: The role of resource mutualism in plant response and adaptation to abiotic environments

Eli Swanson, 2013, PhD
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor: Kay E. Holekamp
Dissertation Title: Evolution and Development of Body Size in the Spotted Hyena

Tracy Swem, 2017, MS
MSU Department: Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Advisor: Gary J. Roloff
Thesis title:  Prescribed fire effects on Eastern Box Turtles in Southwest Michigan

Sara Syswerda (Parr), 2009, PhD
MSU Department: Department of Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences
Advisor: G. Philip Robertson
Dissertation Title: Ecosystem services across a management intensity gradient in southwest Michigan

Emily Szalai, 2003, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Advisor:  James Bence
Dissertation title:  Uncertainty in alewife (Alosa psuedoharengus) and bloater (coregonus hoyi) population dynamics and its effects on salmonine stocking strategies in Lake Michigan

Zsofia Szendrei
MSU Department: Entomology, Associate Professor
Ph.D., Michigan State University, 2005
Insect ecology, chemical ecology, biocontrol
Email:  szendrei@msu.edu

Marianna Szucs
MSU Department:  Department of Entomology, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Idaho, 2010
I use classical biological control systems to study the ecological and evolutionary mechanisms that influence colonization, adaptation and spread of species in novel environments. Research areas of particular interest include: the effects of hybridization on fitness, efficacy and host-specificity of biological control agents; the importance of genetic diversity and its interaction with demography in mediating agent and pest establishment and persistence; and the mechanisms that enable biological control agents and pests to adapt to novel environments.
Email:  szucsmar@msu.edu

Micaela Szykman, 2001, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor: Kay E. Holekamp
Dissertation Title: Sexual behavior and male mate choice in the spotted hyena, Crocuta crocuta

Ralph E. Taggart
Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., Michigan State, 1971
Botany, paleobotany, palynology
Email: taggart@msu.edu

David Tank, 2000, MS
MSU Department:  Department of Botany
Advisor:  Tao Sang
Thesis title:  Evolution and phylogenetic utility of low-copy nulear genes: Examples from conifers and peonies

Jaime Tanner, 2007, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor: Kay E. Holekamp
Dissertation Title: Behavioral and morphological development in a female-dominated species, the spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta)

Jeff Taylor, 1999, MS
MSU Department:  Department of Zoology
Advisor:  Richard Hill
Thesis title:  Roost-site and habitat selection of the long-legged Myotis in a managed landscape on the east slopes of the Cascade range

Ryan Taylor, 2012, PhD
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor: Kay E. Holekamp
Dissertation Title: Quantitative genetics, selection, mate choice and red squirrel behavior in a fluctuating environment

William W. Taylor
MSU Department:  Department of Fisheries and WIldlife
University Distinguished Professor in Global Fisheries Systems
Ph.D., Arizona State, 1978.
Fish population and community dynamics
Email:  taylorw@msu.edu

Frank Telewski
MSU Department: Plant Biology, Professor
Ph.D., Wake Forest University, 1983
Developmental tree ecophysiology
Email:  telewski@msu.edu

Nicholas Testa, 2016, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor: Ian M. Dworkin
Dissertation title:  The developmental and molecular-genetic mechanisms of sexual size and shape dimorphism in Drosophila melanogaster

Kevin Theis, 2008, PhD
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor: Kay E. Holekamp
Dissertation Title: Scent marking in a highly social mammalian species, the spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta)

Eric Thobaben, 2004, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Zoology
Advisor:  Steve Hamilton
Dissertation title:  Linking plant communities and environmental variables in southwest Michigan wetlands

Mridul Thomas, 2013, PhD
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor: Elena Litchman
Dissertation Title: The effects of temperature on the ecology, evolution, and biogeography of phytoplankton

Timothy Tibbetts, 2000, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Botany
Advisor:  Frank Ewers
Dissertation title:  Evolution and phylogenetic utility of low-copy nulear genes: Examples from conifers and peonies

James M. Tiedje
MSU Department: Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences
University Distinguished Professor
Ph.D., Cornell University, 1968
Microbial ecology
Email:  tiedjej@msu.edu

Andrew Tluczek, 2009, MS
MSU Department: Department of Entomology
Advisor: Deborah G. McCullough
Thesis Title: Influences of host vigor on larval distribution, development, and mortality of Agrilus planipennis Fairmaire (Coleoptere: Buprestidae) in North America

Lauri Torgerson (Das), 2010, MS
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor: Barbara L. Lundrigan
Thesis Title: Personality in Michigan's Peromyscus

John Townsend-Mehler, 2010, PhD
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor: Fred C. Dyer
Dissertation Title: Decision-making following shifts in reward distribution: a look at the foraging behavior of honeybees and bumblebees as they respond to shifts in resource availability

Mark Tran, 2013, PhD
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor: Richard W. Hill
Dissertation Title: The use of olfactory foraging cues by intertidal hermit crabs

Michael Travisano, 1993, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Zoology
Advisor:  Rich Lenski
Dissertation title:  Adaptation and divergence in experimental populations of the bacterium Escherichia coli: The roles of environment, phylogeny and chance

Jean Tsao
MSU Department: Fisheries and Wildlife, Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2001
Ecology and evolution of disease organisms
Email:  tsao@msu.edu

Julianna Tuell, 2007, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Entomology
Advisor:  Rufus Isaacs
Dissertation title:  Ecology and conservation of wild bees associated with highbush blueberry farms in Michigan

Caroline Turner, 2015, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor: Richard E. Lenski
Dissertation Title: Experimental evolution and ecological consequences: New niches and changing stoichiometry

Daniel B. Turner, Degree sought, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Entomology
Advisor:  Will Wetzel
E-mail:  turne400@msu.edu

Julie Wolfe Turner, 2018, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor: Kay E. Holekamp
Dissertation title: Social development and its influence on adult traits in the spotted hyena

Paul Turner, 1995, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Zoology
Advisor:  Rich Lenski
Dissertation title:  Associations between bacteria and conjugative plasmids: Model systems for testing evolutionary theory

Laura Twardochleb, 2020, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Advisor: Phoebe Zarnetske
Dissertation Title:  Climate effects on freshwater ecological communities:  From local species interactions to continental biodiversity patterns

Maria Umana
MSU Department: Department of Plant Biology
Advisor: Swenson
E-mail: umanamar@msu.edu

Stacy Umstatter, 2003, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Crop and Soil Sciences
Advisor:  James Tiedje
Dissertation title:  Accelerated microbial degradation of carbofuran in soils

Stacy Umstatter, 1999, MS
MSU Department:  Department of Zoology
Advisor:  James Tiedje
Thesis title:  Plan B, no title

Satish Udpa
MSU Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering
University Distinguished Professor
Ph.D., Colorado State University, 1983
Developing tools for sensing and measurement.
Email:  udpa@msu.edu

Olivia Jo Utley, Degree sought, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor: Catherine Lindell
E-mail: utleyoli@msu.edu

Don Uzarski, 1999, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Zoology
Advisor:  Tom Burton
Dissertation title:  Community metabolism in Michigan rivers: Effects of including hyporheic sediments in estimates of production/respiration (P/R) ratios

Patric Vaelli, 2019, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor: Heather L. Eisthen
Dissertation Title: Mechanisms of tetrodotoxin production and resistance in the poisonous rough-skinned newt (Taricha granulosa)

Ray Valley, 2000, MS
MSU Department:  Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Advisor:  Mary Bremigan
Thesis title:  The indirect effects of herbicide control of Eurasian watermilfoil on largemouth bass recruitment

Skip Van Bloem, 2004, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Plant Biology
Advisor:  Peter Murphy
Dissertation title:  Multiple scale patterns in growth and structure of subtropical dry forests: soils, trees, and hurricanes

Russell Van Horn, 2003, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor: Kay E. Holekamp
Dissertation title: Behavioral and genetic consequences of dispersal in the spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta)

Adria Van Loan, 2011, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Advisor: Kelly F. Millenbah
Dissertation Title: The Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP) and grassland conservation in Michigan

Farida Vasi Attar, 2000, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Zoology
Advisor:  Rich Lenski
Dissertation title: Population growth, dynamics and evolution in Escherichia coli: Theoretical and experimental studies

Steven Vieira, 2001, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Zoology
Advisor: Don Beaver
Dissertation title:  The interaction of nest predation and brood parasitism: Factors and consequences of re-nesting in songbirds

Michelle Volk, Degree sought, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Advisor: Jean Tsao
E-mail:  volkmic1@msu.edu

Wendy Vostinar (Johnson), 2017, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Teacher Education
Advisor: Charles (Andy) Anderson
Dissertation title:  Supporting three-dimensional science learning: The role of curiousity-driven classroom discourse

Anya Vostinar, Ph.D., 2017
MSU Department: Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Advisor: Charles A. Ofria
Dissertation title: Suicide, signals, and symbionts:  Evolving cooperation in agent-based systems

Corine Vriesendorp, 2003, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Forestry
Advisor:  Richard Kobe
Dissertation title:  Maintenance of diversity in a neotropical seedling community

Miranda Wade, Degree sought, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor: Mariah Meek
E-mail: wademira@msu.edu

Michael  C. Wagner
MSU Department: Fisheries and WIldlife, Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Georgia, 2004
Behavioral and community ecology of fishes
Email:  mwagner@msu.edu

Sofia Wahaj, 2004, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Zoology
Advisor:  Kay Holekamp
Dissertation title:  Multiple scale patterns in growth and structure of subtropical dry forests: soils, trees, and hurricanes

Erin Walaszczyk, 2015, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Advisor: Weiming Li
Dissertation Title: Pheromone modulation of locomotor rhythmicity in adult femalesea lamprey

Nina Wale
MSU Department:  Microbiology & Molecular Genetics
Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, 2016
Studying parasite ecology with the goal of better understanding the evolution of parasite traits, such as drug resistance, virulence and secondary metabolite production.
Email:  walenina@msu.edu

Seth Walk, 2007, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Zoology
Advisor:  Thomas S. Whittam
Dissertation title:  Population genetics of Salmonella enterica serovar Enteritidis and Escherichia coli from biotic and abiotic sources

Bess Walker, 2012, PhD
MSU Department: Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Advisor: Charles A. Ofria
Dissertation Title: The evolution of digital communities under limited resources

Edward (Ned) Walker
MSU Department: Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Professor
Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, 1984
Medical entomology
Email:  walker@msu.edu

John Wallace, 1997, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Entomology
Advisor:  Richard Merritt
Dissertation title:  Larval feeding ecology of Anopheles quadrimaculatus (Say) and An. Punctipennis (Say) in south central Michigan ponds

Jenna Walters, Degree sought, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Entomology
Advisor:  Rufus Isaacs
E-mail: walte309@msu.edu

Lindsey Walters, 2008, PhD
MSU Department: Department of Integrative Biology
Advisor: Thomas Getty
Dissertation Title: Mate quality and parental investment in the house wren

Nathaniel Walton, 2013, PhD
MSU Department: Department of Entomology
Advisor: Rufus Isaacs
Dissertation Title: The role of natural enemies in pest management of codling moth (Cydia pomonella [L.]) in organic apple orchards in Michigan

Nathaniel Walton, MS, 2009
MSU Department: Department of Entomology
Advisor:  Rufus Isaacs
Thesis title: Habitat management using native flowering perennials to increase beneficial insects in Michigan highbush blueberry

Jie Wang, 2016, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Plant Pathology
Advisor:  Martin Chilvers
Dissertation title:  Molecular diagnostics, epidemiology, and population genetics of the soybean sudden death syndrome pathogen, fusarium virguliforme

Yi-Kuang Wang, 2003, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Zoology
Advisor:  R. Jan Stevenson
Dissertation title:  Ecological assessment of human disturbance on stream ecosystems with algae

Zhonglei Wang, 2012, PhD
MSU Department: Department of Forestry
Advisor: David W. MacFarlane
Dissertation Title: An integrative theory of bio-energetic growth, mortality and evolutionary optimization

Zinan Wang, Degree sought, Ph.D.
MSU Department:  Department of Entomology
Advisor: Henry Chung
E-mail: wangzina@msu.edu

Justin Waraniak, 2017, MS
MSU Department: Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Advisor: Kim Scribner
Thesis TItle: Barcoding, metabarcoding, and experimental analyses of community dynamics and environmental conditions affecting predation of larval lake sturgeon in the Black River, Michigan

Christopher Warneke Degree sought, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Plant Biology
Advisor: Lars A. Brudvig
E-mail: warnekec@msu.edu

Scott Warner, Degree sought, Ph.D.
MSU Department: Department of Plant Biology
Advisor: Andrew M. Jarosz
E-mail: warner91@msu.edu