| Student | Thesis title and PI | Position after graduation |
|---|---|---|
Avery Selberg, Ph.D. | From Genes to Traits: A combined Approach for Detecting Sequence Errors and Convergent Evolution. PI: Sergei Pond | |
Emily Jayne Cowell, Ph.D. | Ecology Dynamics of Methane-seep Foundation Species: Succession, Disturbance Response and Niche Stability. PI: Erik Cordes | Assistant Professor of Research at Temple University |
Christopher Carnevale, Ph.D. | Investigations of Bacterivory and Microplastics in the Southern Ocean. PI: Robert W. Sanders | |
2025
2024
| Student | Thesis title and PI | Position after graduation |
|---|---|---|
Eli (Chia-Mei) Chang, Ph.D. | Influence of abiotic environmental factors on Physiological responses and mixotrophy in Freshwater and marine chrysophytes. PI: Robert W. Sanders | Postdoctoral Researcher at National Taiwan Ocean University |
Mary R. Cortese, Ph.D. | Range shifts and altered community interactions in the Eastern Pacific kelp forest ecosystem. PI: Brent J. Sewall | Postdoctoral Researcher at Smithsonian Environmental Research Center |
| Konrad R. Dabrowski, Ph.D. | Reward and drug induced molecular neuroadaptations - the role of circular RNAs and m6A RNA modification. PIs: Anna Moore & Stephanie Sillivan | Postdoctoral Researcher at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai |
| Samuel M. Owens, M.Sc. | Multi-scale modeling of the Spotted Lanternfly Lycorma delicatula (Hemiptera: Fulgoridae) reveals enduring risk to viticulture and regional range expansion by 2055. PI: Matthew R. Helmus | Adjunct Instructor at Temple University |
| Payton M. Phillips, Ph.D. | Understanding the influence of anthropogenic habitat modification on urban mammals: Case studies of Caribbean lizards and North American mammals. PI: Jocelyn E. Behm | Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Georgia, Athens |
| Alyssa M. Pivirotto, Ph.D. | Dynamics of natural selection on human genomic variants. PI: Jody Hey | Data Science Instructional Support Coordinator and Lecturer at Bryn Mawr College |
| April L. M Stabbins, Ph.D. | Quantifying the sphere of influence: ecology and trophic dynamics of methane seep communities along the Pacific Costa Rica Margin. PI: Erik E. Cordes | Assistant Professor of Research at Temple University |
| Katherine A. Stevensons, M.Sc. | Interactive effects of predation and assembly time on tropical but not temperate marine invasions. PI: Brent J. Sewall | at |
| Amanda E. Wilson, Ph.D. | Selective forces shaping duplicate gene evolution: insights from stochastic modeling and patterns of retention. PI: David A. Liberles | Postdoctoral Researcher at Columbia University's Medical Center |
2023
| Student | Thesis title and PI | Position after graduation |
|---|---|---|
| Melissa J. Betters, Ph.D. | Biodiversity and Biogeography of Deep-Sea Gastropod Mollusks from the Pacific Costa Rica Margin. PI: Erik E. Cordes | Visiting Assistant Professor at Bryn Mawr College |
| Mark L. Berns, Ph.D. | Functional analysis of residues on Profilin 1 that are modulated by Wnt signaling. PI: Raymond Habas | Senior Scientist at Pharmaron |
| Ryan P. Gasbarro, Ph.D. | Climate change effects on cold-water coral reefs and their associated communities. PI: Erik E. Cordes | Postdoctoral Researcher at University of California, Santa Cruz |
| Samuel L. Junod, Ph.D. | Exploring Nuclear Pore Complexes: Unraveling Structural and Functional Insights through Super-Resolution Microscopy. PI: Weidong Yang | Postdoctoral Researcher at Temple University |
| Alexander G. Lucaci, Ph.D. | The role of complex evolutionary dynamics in molecular sequence analysis. PI: Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond | Postdoctoral Researcher at Weill Cornell Medicine |
| Francisco McGee, Ph.D. | Generative Artificial Intelligence and Bioinformatics: Insights and Explorations in the Protein Sequence-Structure-Function Continuum. PI: Vincenzo Carnevale | Senior Data Scientist at MilliporeSigma |
| Molly M. Schools, Ph.D. | Evolution, systematics, biogeography, and conservation of Neotropical forest lizards. PI: S. Blair Hedges | Postdoctoral Researcher at Omaha Zoo |
| Sudip Sharma, Ph.D. | Big Data Phylogenomics: Methods and Applications. PI: Sudhir Kumar | Postdoctoral Researcher at Temple University |
| Timothy M. Swartz, Ph.D. | An integrative investigation of urban animals and the ecosystem services they provide in cities. PI: Jocelyn E. Behm | Assistant Professor at Wittenberg University |
| Mark Tingey, Ph.D. | The Application of Single-Point Edge-Excitation sub- Diffraction Microscopy for the Study of Macromolecular Transport. PI: Weidong Yang | Assistant Professor of Research at Temple University |
| Andrew Van Kuren, Ph.D. | Phagotrophic phytoplagellates across Ecosystems: Their functional role in the Southern Ocean and Mid-Atlantic vernal pools. PI: Robert W. Sanders | Assistant Professor of Instruction at Holy Family University |
| Mark J. Walker, Ph.D. | Resource competition and soft selection in Sabatia angularis. PI: Rachel Spigler | at |
| Jordan Zehr, Ph.D. | Patterns of natural selection associated with tropism shifts in animal coronavirus genomes. PI: Sergei L. Kosakovsky Ponds | Postdoctoral Researcher at Cornell University |
2022
| Student | Thesis title and PI | Position after graduation |
|---|---|---|
| Nicholas A. Huron, Ph.D. | Building frameworks for understanding invasions and extinctions for biodiversity science. PI: Matthew R. Helmus | Data Scientist at CCS Fundraising |
| Elizabeth Tucker, Ph.D. | Multi-functional Foot Use While Running Across Complex Terrain. PI: Tonia Hsieh | Consultant at Boston Consulting Group |
