Pierce Lab Alumni

Postdoctoral  Fellows and Research Associates:

  • Marco Archetti: School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, Norfolk, UK
  • AnnKristin Axén: Environment and Health Administration, City of Stockholm, Sweden
  • Michael Braby: College of Medicine, Biology and Environment, Australian National University, Canberra, AU
  • Angelica Cibrian-Jaramillo: Ecological and Evolutionary Genomics, Langebio, Irapuato, Guanajuato, MEX
  • James T. Costa: Department of Biology, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC, USA
  • Alden Dirks: Jackson Lab, College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI,  USA
  • Steen Dupont: Natural History Museum, London, UK
  • Rod Eastwood: Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
  • Marianne Espeland: Lepidoptera, Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig, Bonn, Germany
  • Megan Frederickson: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  • David Haig: Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
  • Masaru Hojo: Department of Biology, Graduate School of Science, Kobe University, Kobe, Hyōgo, Japan
  • David Hughes: Departments of Entomology and Biology, Penn State, University Park, PA, USA
  • Lesley Hughes: Climate Change Ecology Group, Macquarie University, Queensland, Australia
  • Milan Janda: Institute of Entomology, Biology Center of the Czech Academy of Sciences, České Budějovice, Czech Republic
  • Matthew Kane: Division of Environmental Biology, National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA, USA
  • Sarah Kocher: Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
  • Daniel Kronauer: Laboratory of Social Evolution and Behavior, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA
  • Matthew Lim: Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore
  • Cong Liu Department of Biology, University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA, USA
  • David Lohman: Biology, City College of New York, New York, NY, USA
  • Kenji Matsuura: Laboratory of Insect Ecology, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
  • Gabriel A. Miller: Research and Development, San Diego Zoo Global, San Diego, CA, USA
  • Antonia Monteiro: Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore
  • James R. Morris: Biology, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, USA
  • G. Narayanaraj: Environmental Studies, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA, USA
  • James Nieh: Ecology, Behavior, & Evolution, UC San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA
  • Robert Oppenheimer: Department of Biological Sciences, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA
  • Stephen Pratt: School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
  • Swee-Peck Quek: UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
  • Christian Rabeling: Department of Biology, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA
  • Jake Russell: Department of Biology, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA USA
  • Lori Shapiro: Department of Applied Ecology, NC State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
  • Shantanu Shukla: Department of Entomology, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany
  • Kathrin Sommer: Department of Pathology, Bonn University, Bonn, Germany
  • Taylor Tai: Gratton Lab, Department of Entomology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI,  USA
  • Gerard Talavera: Institute of Evolutionary Biology, Barcelona, Spain
  • Martin F. J. Taylor: World Wildlife Federation, Sydney, Australia
  • Joao Filipe Riva Tonini: Department of Biology, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA, USA
  • Lisa Vawter: Sanofi, Allenstown, PA
  • Roger Vila: Institute of Evolutionary Biology, Barcelona, Spain
  • James Wetterer: Wilkes Honors College, Florida Atlantic University, Jupiter, FL, USA
  • Noah Whiteman: Department of Integrative Biology, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
  • Melissa Whitaker: Entomological Collection, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
  • Amity Wilczek: Deep Springs College, Big Pine, CA, USA

Graduate Students:

  • Glenn Adelson, PhD 2004: Environmental Studies Program, Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, IL, USA
  • Sandra Andaluz, MS 1999: Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, Raleigh-Durham, NC, USA
  • Adam Bahrami, PhD 2007: Center for Brain Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
  • Christopher CM Baker, PhD 2015: US Army Engineer Research and Development Center Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory Hanover, NH USA
  • Matthew Baylis, DPhil 1989 (Oxford University, co-advised by TRE Southwood): Institute of Infection and Global Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
  • Leonora Bittleston, PhD 2016: Microbial Community Dynamics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
  • Jack Boyle, PhD 2017: Biology, William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA, USA
  • Adriana Briscoe, PhD 1999: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UC Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA
  • Dana Campbell, PhD 1999: Entomology, Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
  • Michael R. Canfield, PhD 2006: Eliot House, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
  • Wei-Ping Chan, PhD 2023 Rowland Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
  • Belinda Chang, PhD 1995: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
  • Katherine Charles, MA Extension 2007: Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA
  • Richard Childers PhD 2021 Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
  • James Crall, PhD 2016: Harvard University Center for the Enviornment, Cambridge, MA, USA
  • Jianping Cui, PhD 2004 (co-advised by Fred Ausubel): Algenol Biofuels, Fort Myers, FL, USA
  • Ann Fraser, PhD 1997: Biology Department, Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, MI, USA
  • Kadeem Gilbert, PhD 2019: Department of Entomology, Penn State, University Park, PA, USA
  • Manda Jost, PhD 2002 (co-advised by Kerry Shaw): Department of Natural Sciences, Western New Mexico University, Silver City, NM, USA
  • Catherine Lindell, PhD 1994 (co-advised by Steve Austad): Integrative Biology Department, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA
  • David Lohman: Biology, City College of New York, New York, NY, USA
  • Ada Kaliszewska, PhD 2015: Department of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
  • Nikolai P. Kandul, PhD 2005: Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
  • Eunsuk Kim, PhD 2010 (co-advised by Kathleen Donoghue): Department of Chemistry, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
  • Richard Macniven, MA Extension 2003: Department of Bioprocess Development, Biogen Idec, Cambridge, MA, USA
  • Dino Martins, PhD 2011: Mpala Research Centre, Nanyuki, Kenya
  • John Mathew, PhD 2003 (Old Dominion University): Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune, Maharashtra, India
  • Luke M. McKneally, MA Extension 2006: New Ecology, Inc., Boston, MA, USA
  • Corrie Saux Moreau, PhD 2007: Department of Science and Education, Integrative Research Center, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL
  • David R. Nash, DPhil 1989 (Oxford University)(co-advised by John Krebs): Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Swee-Peck Quek: UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
  • Tiago Quental, PhD 2008: Department of Ecology, University of São Paulo, São Paluo, SP, Brazil
  • Santiago Ramirez, PhD 2008: Department of Evolution and Ecology, Center for Population Biology, UC Davis, Davis, CA, USA
  • Lukas Rieppel, MS 2012 (History of Science): History Department, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
  • Shayla Salzman PhD 2019: College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, Cornell Unviersity, Ithaca, NY, USA
  • Jon Sanders, PhD 2015 (co-advised by Peter Girguis): Biomedical Sciences, UC San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA
  • Michael Schindlinger, PhD 2009 (co-advised by Bruce Waldman and Evan Balaban): Earth Research Institute, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
  • ManWah Tan, PhD 1997: Infectious Diseases Department, Genentech Inc., South San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Diane Wagner, PhD 1994 (Princeton University): Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, USA
  • Zhengyang Wang PhD 2022 Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
  • Douglas Yu, PhD 1997: School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, Norfolk, UK; Ecology, Conservation and Environment Center, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Kunming, Yunnan, China

Visiting Scholars/Researchers/Collaborators:

  • Mariya Chepisheva, Imperial College, London, UK
  • Catherine Craig, Conservation through Poverty Alleviation, International, Walla Walla, WA, USA
  • Philip J. Devries, Department of Biological Sciences, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA, USA
  • Erick Greene, University of Montana College of Forestry and Conservation, Missoula, MT, USA
  • William D. Hamilton (Oxford University)
  • Guo-Hua Huang, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha, Hunan, China
  • Takao Itino, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Shinshu University, Matsumoto, Nagano, Japan
  • Roger L. Kitching, School of the Environment, Griffith University, Nathan, Queensland, Australia
  • Jay Rosenheim, Department of Entomology and Nematology, UC Davis, Davis, CA, USA
  • Mary Beth Saffo, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC, USA
  • Y. Norma-Rashid, Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Visiting Graduate Students:

  • Thomas Als: Department of Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Anne Andersen: Center for Social Evolution, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark
  • AnnKristin Axén: Environment and Health Administration, City of Stockholm, Sweden
  • Elsa Daniela Chevasco, College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
  • Steen Dupont: Natural History Museum, London, UK
  • Rod Eastwood: Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
  • Niels Groen: Center for Genomics and Systems Biology, New York University, New York, NY, USA
  • John Mathew: Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune, Maharashtra, India
  • Jan Hendrik Megens: Animal Breeding and Genetics, Wageningen UR, Wageningen, The Netherlands
  • Sami Schar: Butterfly Diversity & Evolution Lab, Institut de Biologia Evolutiva, Barcelona, Spain
  • Line Ugelvig: Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Karen Van Dorp: Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, The Netherlands