
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Principle Investigator
Postdocs
- Sandra Durán
- Julia Chacón-Labella
- Cesar Hinojo Hinojo
- Teresa Bohner
- Erica Newman (BBCS Postdoc)
- Robbie Burger (BBCS Postdoc)
- Xiao Feng (BBCS Postdoc)
Graduate Students

- Adam Chmurzynski, PhD Student
- Brian Maitner, PhD Student
- Lorah Patterson, PhD Student
- Michiel Pillet , PhD Student
- Matiss Castorena Salaks, PhD Student
- Joceyln Navarro, PhD Student
- Lindsay Backhaus, Masters Student.
Visiting Graduate Students 
- Johanna Andrea Matinez Villa – PhD Student, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada (2020)
- Ragnhild Gya – PhD Student, Norway (2019-2021)
- Mia Vedel Sørensen – PhD Student, Norway (2017 – 2018)
- Jehová Lourenço Junior – PhD Student, Brazil (March 2017 – August 2019)
- Yaoqi Li – PhD Student, Peking University, China (Nov. 2017 – Nov. 2018)
- Jiaxin Zhang – PhD Student, Chinese Academy of Science, Wuhan China (June 2018 – June 2019).
Lab Manager
Research/Computational Technicians & Scientists
- Brad Boyle
- Jeanine McGann
- Anjeanette Mckay
- Daniele Guaderrama
- Nathan Castler
- Amanda Henderson
Undergraduate Researchers
- Connor Wilson
- Cecina Babich Morrow – Kenyon College, conducting a research honors project.
- Elisabeth Bergman – Conducting a research honors project, University of Arizona
- Kenji Hayashi – Conducting a research honors project, Brown University
Extended lab network: Visitors / Sabbatarians / Collaborators
- Alberto Burquez
- Bente Graae
- Deborah Goldberg
- Jens-Christian Svenning
- Yadvinder Malhi
- Cory Merow
- Henry Horn
- Angelina Martinez-Yrizar
- Ruben Milla
- Choy Huang
- Van Savage
- Richard Strimbeck
- Vigdis.Vandvik
Propagules & Alumni
Postdocs
- Noah Charney
- Margaret Evans
- Rachael Gallagher
- Andrew Kerkhoff
- Sean Michaletz
- Helene Morlon
- Naia Morueta-Holme
- Danilo Neves
Lisa Patrick Bentley
- Daniel Park
- Jason Pither
- Cyrille Violle
- Ethan White
Graduate students
- Brian Maitner
- Vanessa Buzzard
- Alex Brummer
- Lindsey Sloat
- Benjamin Blonder
- Julie Messier
- Cathy Hulshof
- Christine Lamanna
- Scott Stark
- James C. Stegen
- Nate Swenson
- Michael Weiser
- Megan McCarthy
- Charles Price
International Graduate Students and Postdocs
- Kristine Engemann Jensen – Aarhus, Denmark
- Cecilia Chavana-Bryant – PhD Student, Oxford, UK
- Segolene Lireux – Masters Student, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris France
Notable lab undergrads/research techs/informaticians
- Andrew Timothy Gray – University of Arizona
- Isak Kvam – REU student at RMBL, Luther College
- Jordan Stark – Undergraduate researcher at RMBL, Skidmore College
- Rebecca Lehman – Colorado College
- Evan Economo
- Peter Gaube
- John Grady
- John Lacson
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