#  Pierce Lab Alumni 

 



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**Postdoctoral Fellows and Research Associates:**

- [Marco Archetti](https://science.psu.edu/bio/people/mua972): Penn State Eberly College of Science, University Park, PA, USA.
- [AnnKristin Axén](https://www.linkedin.com/in/annkristin-ax%C3%A9n-98a92a3b): Environment and Health Administration, City of Stockholm, Sweden
- [Michael Braby](https://biology.anu.edu.au/people/michael-braby): Research School of Biology, Australian National University, Canberra, AU
- [Angelica Cibrian-Jaramillo](https://www.naturalis.nl/en/angelica-cibrian-jaramillo): Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
- [James T. Costa](https://www.wcu.edu/faculty/costa.aspx): Department of Biology, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC, USA
- [Alden Dirks](https://jacksonlab.agronomy.wisc.edu/people/alden-dirks/): Jackson Lab, College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA
- [Steen Dupont](https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Steen_Dupont): Natural History Museum, London, UK
- [Rod Eastwood](https://www.ethz.ch/en/utils/search.html?persid=206416&pagetype=people&search=eastwood&language=en&lang_filter=false&site_filter=false): Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
- [Marianne Espeland](https://leibniz-lib.de/en/ueber-das-lib/mitarbeitende/marianne-espeland.html?find=espeland): Lepidoptera, Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig, Bonn, Germany
- [Megan Frederickson](http://mutualism.ca/): Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- [David Haig](http://haiggroup.oeb.harvard.edu/): Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
- [Masaru Hojo](https://sites.google.com/site/hojokmasaru/): School of Science and Technology, Kwansei Gakuin University, Sanda, Hyōgo, Japan
- [David Hughes](https://ento.psu.edu/directory/dph14): Departments of Entomology and Biology, Penn State, University Park, PA, USA
- [Lesley Hughes](https://researchers.mq.edu.au/en/persons/lesley-hughes): Faculty of Science and Engineering, Macquarie University, Queensland, Australia
- [Milan Janda](https://www.entu.cas.cz/en/staff/profile/422/): Institute of Entomology, Biology Center of the Czech Academy of Sciences, České Budějovice, Czech Republic
- [Matthew Kane](http://www.nsf.gov/staff/staff_bio.jsp?displayFullSite=true&org=DEB&lanId=mkane): Division of Environmental Biology, National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA, USA
- [Sarah Kocher](http://www.kocherlab.com/): Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
- [Daniel Kronauer](http://lab.rockefeller.edu/kronauer/): Laboratory of Social Evolution and Behavior, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA
- [Matthew Lim](http://nus.academia.edu/MatthewLim): Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore
- [Cong Liu](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=asm6vnIAAAAJ) Department of Biology, University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA, USA
- [Kenji Matsuura](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=x5ROo_cAAAAJ&hl=ja): Laboratory of Insect Ecology, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
- [Gabriel A. Miller](http://www.techtoreconnect.org/): Research and Development, San Diego Zoo Global, San Diego, CA, USA
- [Antonia Monteiro](http://lepdata.org/monteiro/): Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore
- [James R. Morris](http://www.brandeis.edu/facultyguide/person.html?emplid=a057a715f0bb286d98a58a4b5754656aced3239a): Biology, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, USA
- [G. Narayanaraj](https://cla.umn.edu/about/directory/profile/nara0030): College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
- [James Nieh](http://labs.biology.ucsd.edu/nieh/index.html): Ecology, Behavior, & Evolution, UC San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA
- Robert Oppenheimer: Invaio Sciences, Cambridge, MA, USA
- [Stephen Pratt](http://pratt.lab.asu.edu/): School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
- [Christian Rabeling](http://www.rochester.edu/College/BIO/people/faculty/rabeling_christian/): Institute of Biology, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany
- [Jake Russell](https://drexel.edu/coas/faculty-research/faculty-directory/bees/russell-jacob/): Department of Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Science, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA USA
- [Lori Shapiro](https://www.suenoschocolate.com/): Suenos Chocolates, Watertown, MA, USA
- [Shantanu Shukla](https://dbg.iisc.ac.in/people/shantanu-shukla/): Developmental Biology and Genetics, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India
- [Kathrin Sommer](https://www.bfb.uni-bonn.de/liste-personen/kathrin-sommer): Department of Pathology, Bonn University, Bonn, Germany
- [Taylor Tai](http://www.taylortai.com/primary-teaching.html): Clover Montessori School, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- [Gerard Talavera](https://www.phylomigrationlab.com/): Botanical Institue of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
- [Martin F. J. Taylor](https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Martin_Taylor4): School of the Environment, University of Queensland, Queensland, Australia
- [Joao Filipe Riva Tonini](https://sites.google.com/view/joao-tonini/): Department of Biology, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA, USA
- [Lisa Vawter](https://www.linkedin.com/in/vawter): Sanofi, Allenstown, PA, USA
- [Roger Vila](https://www.ibe.upf-csic.es/vila): Institute of Evolutionary Biology, Barcelona, Spain
- [James Wetterer](https://www.fau.edu/honors/faculty/wetterer/): Wilkes Honors College, Florida Atlantic University, Jupiter, FL, USA
- [Noah Whiteman](http://www.noahwhiteman.org/): Department of Integrative Biology, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
- [Melissa Whitaker](https://www.linkedin.com/in/melissa-whitaker-aa659719): Entomological Collection, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
- [Amity Wilczek](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=5vjUEmEAAAAJ&hl=en): Deep Springs College, Big Pine, CA, USA

**Graduate Students:**

- [Glenn Adelson](https://www.lakeforest.edu/academics/faculty/gadelson), 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](https://bakerccm.github.io/pdfs/chris_baker_cv.pdf), PhD 2015: US Army Engineer Research and Development Center Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory Hanover, NH USA
- [Matthew Baylis](https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/people/matthew-baylis), DPhil 1989 (Oxford University, co-advised by TRE Southwood): Institute of Infection and Global Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
- [Leonora Bittleston](http://www.leonorabittleston.com/), PhD 2016: Department of Biological Sciences, Boise State University, Boise, ID, USA
- [Jack Boyle](https://www.umary.edu/about/directory/john-boyle-phd), PhD 2017: School of Arts and Sciences, University of Mary, Bismarck, ND, USA
- [Adriana Briscoe](https://faculty.uci.edu/profile/?facultyId=5288), PhD 1999: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UC Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA
- Dana Campbell, PhD 1999: Scientific Liaison, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
- [Michael R. Canfield](https://thedogwatchcompany.com/), PhD 2006: The Dogwatch Company, Minneapolis, MN, USA
- [Wei-Ping Chan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/wei-ping-chan), PhD 2023 Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
- [Belinda Chang](http://chang.eeb.utoronto.ca/), 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](https://www.linkedin.com/in/richard-childers-009bba6b) PhD 2021 Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
- [James Crall](https://www.crall-lab.com/), PhD 2016: Entomology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA
- [Jianping Cui](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessiejcui), PhD 2004 (co-advised by Fred Ausubel): Sanofi, Waltham, MA, USA
- [Ann Fraser](https://reason.kzoo.edu/biology/facstaff/afraser/), PhD 1997: Biology Department, Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, MI, USA (retired)
- [Kadeem Gilbert](https://ento.psu.edu/directory/kjg5649), PhD 2019: W.K. Kellogg Biological Station, Michigan State University, Hickory Corners, MI, USA
- Manda Jost, PhD 2002 (co-advised by Kerry Shaw): Department of Natural Sciences, Western New Mexico University, Silver City, NM, USA
- [Catherine Lindell](https://clindell.natsci.msu.edu/), PhD 1994 (co-advised by Steve Austad): Integrative Biology Department, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA
- [David Lohman](https://lohman.ccny.cuny.edu/dave.html), PhD 2004 Biology, City College of New York, New York, NY, USA
- [Ada Kaliszewska](https://zakalisz.wixsite.com/adasadventures), PhD 2015: Department of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
- Nikolay Kandul, PhD 2005: Synvect, San Diego, CA, USA
- [Eunsuk Kim](http://www.brown.edu/Research/Kim_Research_Group/Website/index.html), PhD 2010 (co-advised by Kathleen Donoghue): Department of Chemistry, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
- [Richard Macniven](https://www.linkedin.com/in/rich-macniven-b2a9a27), MA Extension 2003: Department of Bioprocess Development, Biogen Idec, Cambridge, MA, USA
- [Dino Martins](https://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/somas/people/_profiles/dino-martins.php), PhD 2011: Turkana Basin Institute, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA
- [John Mathew](https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-mathew-54775b136?originalSubdomain=in&original_referer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.vibconferences.be%2F), PhD 2003 (Old Dominion University): Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune, Maharashtra, India
- [Luke M. McKneally](https://www.linkedin.com/in/luke-mckneally-b8423a5), MA Extension 2006: ICF, Cambridge, MA, USA
- [Corrie Saux Moreau](https://www.linkedin.com/in/luke-mckneally-b8423a5), PhD 2007: Department of Entomology, Department of Ecology and Evolution, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
- [David R. Nash](https://ku-dk.academia.edu/DavidNash), DPhil 1989 (Oxford University)(co-advised by John Krebs): Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- [Swee-Peck Quek](https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Swee-Peck_Quek): UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
- [Tiago Quental](https://labmeme.github.io/), PhD 2008: Department of Ecology, University of São Paulo, São Paluo, SP, Brazil
- [Santiago Ramirez](https://biology.ucdavis.edu/people/santiago-ramirez), PhD 2008: Department of Evolution and Ecology, Center for Population Biology, UC Davis, Davis, CA, USA
- [Lukas Rieppel](https://vivo.brown.edu/display/lrieppel), MS 2012 (History of Science): History Department, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
- [Shayla Salzman](https://shaylasalzman.com/) PhD 2019: College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, Cornell Unviersity, Ithaca, NY, USA
- [Jon Sanders](https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=VEsdTjwAAAAJ), PhD 2015 (co-advised by Peter Girguis): Lightweight Labware, Ithaca, NY, 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](http://www.gene.com/scientists/our-scientists/man-wah-tan), PhD 1997: Infectious Diseases Department, Genentech Inc., South San Francisco, CA, USA
- [Diane Wagner](http://people.iab.uaf.edu/diane_wagner), PhD 1994 (Princeton University): Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, USA
- [Zhengyang Wang](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=yL-Iv6wAAAAJ&hl=en) PhD 2022 Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
- [Douglas Yu](https://research-portal.uea.ac.uk/en/persons/douglas-yu), PhD 1997: School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, Norfolk, UK

**Visiting Scholars/Researchers/Collaborators**:

- [Mariya Chepisheva](https://ypa.yale.edu/profile/mariya-chepisheva), Neurocritcal Care and Emergency Neurology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
- [Catherine Craig](https://www.cpali.org/post/honoring-cpali-s-retiring-founder-dr-catherine-craig), Conservation through Poverty Alleviation, International, Walla Walla, WA, USA (retired)
- [Philip J. Devries](https://www.uno.edu/profile/faculty/philip_devries), Department of Biological Sciences, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA, USA (retired)
- [Erick Greene](https://www.umt.edu/biological-sciences/people/emeritus-faculty.php?ID=883), University of Montana College of Forestry and Conservation, Missoula, MT, USA (retired)
- [William D. Hamilton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._D._Hamilton) Oxford University (deceased)
- [Guo-Hua Huang](https://www.linkedin.com/in/guo-hua-huang-b0334b42), Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha, Hunan, China
- [Takao Itino](http://science.shinshu-u.ac.jp/~bios/Evo/itino/english/research_e.html), Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Shinshu University, Matsumoto, Nagano, Japan
- [Roger L. Kitching](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=4P-t6BcAAAAJ&hl=en), School of the Environment, Griffith University, Nathan, Queensland, Australia (retired)
- [Jay Rosenheim](http://rosenheim.faculty.ucdavis.edu/), Department of Entomology and Nematology, UC Davis, Davis, CA, USA
- [Mary Beth Saffo](https://mbsaffo.wordpress.com/), Freelance writer and editor
- [Y. Norma-Rashid](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=8elEtTkAAAAJ&hl=en), Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

**Visiting Graduate Students**:

- [Thomas Als](http://pure.au.dk/portal/en/persons/thomas-damm-als(19947870-3cb1-4d9d-9566-eaf60bc4babb).html): Department of Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- [Anne Andersen](https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Anne_Andersen3): Center for Social Evolution, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark
- Elsa Daniela Chevasco, College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
- [Niels Groen](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=gPvbftwAAAAJ&hl=en): Department of Nematology, UC Riverside, Riverside, CA, USA
- [John Mathew](https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-mathew-54775b136?originalSubdomain=in): Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune, Maharashtra, India
- [Jan Hendrik Megens](https://www.wageningenur.nl/en/Persons/dr.ir.-HJWC-Hendrik-Jan-Megens.htm): Animal Breeding and Genetics, Wageningen UR, Wageningen, The Netherlands
- [Sami Schar](http://biologiaevolutiva.org/rvila/Lab/Team.html): Swiss Group for Clinical Cancer Research, Bern, Switzerland
- [Line Ugelvig](http://www1.bio.ku.dk/english/staff/?pure=en/persons/196816): Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- [Karen Van Dorp](https://burrenbeo.com/the-trust/about/team/?__cf_chl_tk=ZZWCJM0ipS.j_KVm0qAnehvn3wOO2xPd03kK3nEAw7I-1751311977-1.0.1.1-6kaBYTC5YZds8u2LLNey6OD1ZfFyONVoxsgpeb0FKsk): Burrenbeo Trust, Galway, Ireland



 

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##  Pierce Lab Through the Years 

   ![Pierce Lab 2017](/sites/g/files/omnuum6481/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/pierce/files/dsc_2817_2819_composite_lighter-rsize.jpg?itok=hUufFsXz) 

 

   ![Pierce Lab 2014 in MCZ](/sites/g/files/omnuum6481/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/pierce/files/pierce_lab_2014_mcz.jpeg?itok=H65DJlQw) 

 

   ![Pierce Lab-Turku 2014](/sites/g/files/omnuum6481/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/pierce/files/pierce_lab-turku_2014.jpeg?itok=rhG_1R7l) 

 

   ![Pierce Lab-IUSSI 2014](/sites/g/files/omnuum6481/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/pierce/files/pierce_lab_iussi_2014.jpeg?itok=5bmHiJ70) 

 

   ![Pierce Lab 2012](/sites/g/files/omnuum6481/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/pierce/files/pl_2012.jpg?itok=G1U_l52B) 

 

   ![Pierce Lab 2009](/sites/g/files/omnuum6481/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/pierce/files/pl_2009.jpg?itok=eI-EWfbI) 

 

   ![Pierce Lab 2005](/sites/g/files/omnuum6481/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/pierce/files/pl_2005.jpg?itok=2zc9ncaf) 

 

   ![Pierce Lab 2009](/sites/g/files/omnuum6481/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/pierce/files/pl_bw_2009.jpg?itok=jQd7sk2k)