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Center for Population Biology (CPB)

CPB Postdoctoral Research Fellows

 

Name

Contact Information
E-mail prefix @ucdavis.edu
location
Office Phone

Research Interest

CPB Mentors

D. Luke Mahler
2011 - 2013

lmahler
5343 Storer Hall
530-752-5061

How diverse ecological interactions impact the evolution of morphological disparity; and the relationship between lineage proliferation and the evolution of disparity over space and time.

Peter Wainwright
Brian R. Moore
Sharon Strauss

Brandvain, Yaniv
2010 - 2012
NSF Postdoctoral Fellow

ybrandvain [at] gmail [.] com
3348 Storer Hall
530-752-2999

Cooperation and conflict, meiosis, co-evolution, speciation genetics, mating system evolution.

Graham Coop
Michael Turelli
Charles Langley

Plachetzki, David
2009 - 2011

plachetzki
4337 Storer Hall

I integrate phylogenetics, comparative genomics and transcriptomics, and experimental biology to address questions regarding the origins of novelty and complexity in evolution. I use the macroevolution of the animal sensory systems as a model.

Rick Grosberg
Artyom Kopp

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Past Recipients

The Center for Population Biology Postdoctoral Research Fellowship was established in 1990. Below is a historical listing of our past recipients and where they are now.

2010-2011
Jonathan Pruitt
(Congratulations!)
Current Position: Assistant Professor
Current Employer: Dept. of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh
Research Area: The ecology of individuals, social behavior, interactions between intra- and interspecific diversity.
CPB Mentors: Jay Stachowicz, Andy Sih, and Eric Sanford
http://www.biology.pitt.edu/person/jonathan-pruitt

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2008-2010
Jean H. Burns
Current Position: Assistant Professor
Current Employer: Dept. of Biology, Case Western Reserve University
Research Area: Plant community ecology, biological invasions, comparative ecology in a phylogenetic context
CPB Mentors: Sharon Strauss and Peter Wainwright
https://filer.case.edu/jbm122/BurnsWebsite/index.html

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2007-2008
Alan Lemmon
Current Position: Assistant Professor
Current Employer: Dept. of Scientific Computing, Florida State University
Research Area: Evolutionary biology, phylogenetics, phylogeography, speciation, population genetics and genomics
CPB Mentors: Michael Turelli and H. Bradley Shaffer
http://www.evotutor.org/LemmonLab/

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2006 -2008
Shannon McCauley
Current Position: Assistant Professor
Current Employer: Biological Sciences Dept., Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo
Research Area: Predation, dispersal interactions of aquatic communities linked through individual traits
CPB Mentors: Sharon Lawler and Andy Sih
http://bio.calpoly.edu/
Temporary: http://labs.eeb.utoronto.ca/rowe/McCauley.htm

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2005-2006
Jason S. McLachlan
Current Position: Assistant Professor
Current Employer: Dept. of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame
Research Area Ecology of forests and plant population ecology, statistical modeling, paleoecology
CPB Mentor: Mark Schwartz
http://biology.nd.edu/people/faculty/mclachlan/

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2004-2006
Richard E. Glor
Current Position: Assistant Professor
Current Employer: Dept. of Biology, University of Rochester
Research Area: Biological diversification, formation of new species, macroevolutionary patterns
CPB Mentor: H. Bradley Shaffer and Michael Turelli
http://www.rochester.edu/college/bio/professors/glor.html

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2003-2005
Michael L. G. Loeb
Current Position: Postdoctoral Scholar
Current Employer: Section of Evolution and Ecology, University of California, Davis
Research Area: Evolution of social behavior
CPB Mentor: Rick Grosberg
http://www-eve.ucdavis.edu/mlloeb/

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2002-2004
Leonie C. Moyle
Current Position: Assistant Professor
Current Employer: Dept. of Biology, Indiana University
Research Area: Genetic basis of adaptation and speciation
CPB Mentor: Michael Turelli and Maureen Stanton
http://www.bio.indiana.edu/facultyresearch/faculty/Moyle.html

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2000-2002
Thomas J. Near
Current Position: Assistant Professor
Current Employer: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University
Research Area: Phylogenetic hypotheses
CPB Mentor: H. Bradley Shaffer, Peter Wainwright, and Michael Sanderson
http://www.eeb.yale.edu/near/

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1999-2001
Maria R. Servedio
Current Position: Associate Professor
Current Employer: Dept. of Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Research Area: Mechanisms that drive speciation through the evolution of premating isolation
CPB Mentor: Michael Turelli and Sergey Nuzhdin
http://www.bio.unc.edu/Faculty/servedio/default.htm

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1998-2000
Jonathan M. Chase
Current Position: Professor
Current Employer: Depat. of Biology, Washington University, St. Louis
Research Area: Species diversity, composition, and relative abundance in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems
CPB Mentor: Sharon Lawler
http://www.biology.wustl.edu/faculty/chase/opening_page.htm

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1998-2000
Brian Inouye
Current Position: Associate Professor
Current Employer: Dept. of Biological Sciences, Florida State University
Research Area: Spatial and temporal variation in population and community ecology
CPB Mentor: Susan Harrison
http://bio.fsu.edu/~binouye/

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1998-2000
Nora Underwood
Current Position: Associate Professor
Current Employer: Dept. f Biological Sciences, Florida State University
Research Area: Ecology and evolution of plant-insect interactions
CPB Mentor: Rick Karban
http://www.bio.fsu.edu/faculty-underwood.php

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1996-1998
Hiroshi Akashi
Current Position: Associate Professor
Current Employer: Dept. of Biology, Pennsylvania State University
Research Area: Natural selection and its role in genome evolution
CPB Mentor: John Gillespie
http://www.bio.psu.edu/People/Faculty/Akashi/

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1996-1998
Helen Rodd
Current Position: Associate Professor
Current Employer: Dept. of Zoology, University of Toronto
Research Area: Reproduction strategies among livebearing fish
CPB Mentor: Judy Stamps and Maureen Stanton
http://labs.eeb.utoronto.ca/rodd/

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1993-1995
Edwin D. Grosholz "Ted"
Current Position: Professor and Cooperative Extension Specialist
Current Employer: Environmental Science and Policy, University of California, Davis
Research Area: Ecology, conservation and restoration of marine and estuarine systems
CPB Mentors: Donald Strong and Rick Grosberg
http://www.des.ucdavis.edu/FacultyInfo.aspx?ID_Number=35

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1992-1994
Fredric Janzen
Current Position: Professor
Current Employer: Dept. of Zoology and Genetics, Iowa State University
Research Area: Ecology and evolution and phenotypic variation of reptiles
CPB Mentor: H. Bradley Shaffer
http://www.eeob.iastate.edu/faculty/profiles/JanzenF/JanzenF.html

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First Recipients of the CPB Fellowship - 3 Awards:

1990-1992
Jonathan B. Losos
Current Position: Professor
Current Employer: Dept. of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University
Research Area: Behavioral and evolutionary ecology of lizards
CPB Mentor: Thomas W. Schoener
http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/faculty/losos/

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1990-1992
William F. Morris
Current Position: Professor
Current Employer: Dept. of Biology, Duke University
Research Area: Population ecology of plants and insects
CPB Mentor: Maureen Stanton and Marc Mangel
http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/Biology/faculty/wfmorris

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1990-1992
Sonia E. Sultan
Current Position: Associate Professor
Current Employer: Dept. of Biology, Wesleyan University
Research Area: Evolutionary ecology of plant response to environments.
CPB Mentor: Kevin Rice
http://www.wesleyan.edu/bio/sultan/

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