Staff and Student Directory

Faculty – On site
John D. Wehr, Associate Professor & Director - Aquatic Ecology
Thomas J. Daniels, Associate Research Scientist - Vector Ecology
Richard C. Falco, Associate Research Scientist - Medical Entomology
Craig L. Frank, Associate Professor - Mammalian Ecology
Elizabeth Archie, Assistant Professor - Behavioral & Disease Ecology, Pop. Genetics, Conservation
J. Alan Clark, Assistant Professor - Behavioral Ecology
Steven Franks, Assistant Professor - Ecology and Evolutionary Dynamics of Natural Plant Populations
James D. Lewis, Assistant Professor - Plant Ecology
Gordon R. Plague, Assistant Professor - Ecological Genetics
Amy R. Tuininga, Assistant Professor - Fungal Ecology

Non-faculty Scientists – On site
Shannon Morath, Research Technician (Tuininga lab)
Alissa Perrone, Research Technician (Wehr lab)
Kam Truhn, Research Technician (Wehr lab)

Affiliated Faculty – On Rose Hill campus
Martin Hegyi, S.J., Associate Professor - Freshwater zooplankton
Daniel J. Sullivan, S.J., Professor - Insect behavior and ecology

Support Staff
Mike G. Lambros, Caretaker
Petra E. Del Valle, Administrative Assistant / Business Manager

Graduate Students
Huansheng Cao - Evolutionary trajectory of experimental intracellular bacteria (Plague)
Andrea Caruso - Physiological ecology of Japanese stiltgrass (Microstegium vimineum) (Lewis)
Alvaro Cure Dominguez - Habitat restoration assessment for an endangered bog turtle (Clark)
Jillian K. Decker - Links between potamoplankton assemblages and nutrient dynamics in the Upper Mississippi River, near La Crosse, WI (Wehr)
Kevin Dougherty - Transposable elements and the evolution of intracellular bacteria (Plague)
Jennifer Epstein - Supply and processing of dissolved organic matter in urban streams in Westchester County, NY (Wehr)
Evelyn Fetridge - Effects of intragenomic homologous recombination on fitness and evolution in intracellular bacteria (Plague); Landscape correlates of native bee diversity in suburban gardens (Langellotto)
Kurt Gabel - Analysis of agricultural Best Management Practice effectiveness through water chemistry and macroinvertebrate bioassessment (Wehr)
Seth Ganzhorn - Genetic diversity of an endemic tree species in the Atlantic forest of southern Bahia, Brazil (Lewis & W.W. Thomas, NYBG)
Tim Kerin - Changes in nutrient status, mycorrhizal symbionts and health of surviving eastern hemlock (Tsuga canadensis) trees in a shifting forest community resulting from herbivory and climate change (Tuininga)
Anne McDonough - Analysis of adipose tissue in bats (Frank)
TJ Pray - Aquatic microbial ecology (Wehr)
Xian Wang - Cyanobacteria and its relationships with nutrient variations (Wehr)

Undergraduate Students
Mariel Boyd - Cuticle-degrading enzymes of entomopathic fungi (Daniels, Falco & Tuininga)
Samantha Boustani - Experimental evolution of insertion sequence expansion in intracellular bacteria (Plague)
Matt Cashman - Effects of urbanization on stream periphyton communities (Wehr)
Cody Desjardins (Bowdoin College) - Organic and inorganic nitrogen pools and fluxes in Tsuga canadensis stands infested with hemlock wooly adelgid (Lewis & Tuininga)
Rebecca Lachlan - The effects of climate change on gene flow in an annual plant (Franks & A. Litt, NYBG)
Katherine McConnell - Experimental evolution of insertion sequence expansion in intracellular bacteria (Plague)
Camille McNally - Noninvasive genetic tools to genotype nematodes infecting baboons (Archie)
Marjon Rahimian - The relationship between torpor patterns and body fat reserves in little brown bats (Frank)
Gaelle Voltaire - Experimental evolution of insertion sequence expansion in intracellular bacteria (Plague)

High School Students
Oliver Hegglin (Fox Lane High School) - Role of morphological differences between eastern and western hemlock in differential susceptibility of these hosts to the hemlock woolly adelgid (Lewis)
Dylan Sri-Jayantha (Ossining High School) - Use of algae in managing nutrients from farm wastewater
Andrew Tom (Pleasantville High School) - Interactive effects of chemotrophic and phototrophic cues on host-seeking by dodder (Cuscuta spp.) (Lewis)