Ph.D. & M.Sc. Alumni | Department of Biology | College of Science and Technology

Student	Thesis title and PI	Position after graduation
Christopher Carnevale	Investigations of Bacterivory and Microplastics in the Southern Ocean. PI: Robert W. Sanders

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

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

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