Current Students
Ph.D. STUDENTS
Taylor Papstein-Novak
Taylor has a broad range of interests across taxa. Her current projects are 1) using computational tools to look at the possible genetic culprits for the uniqueness of M. arctoides as a macaque species, 2) looking at how nutritional variation affects stress physiology across the organism in the fruit fly, D. pseudoobscura, and 3) observing how recombination rate plasticity is affected by an organism's environment using D. melanogaster. Taylor was also a JSPS 2022 summer fellow. She is worked with Dr. Misato Hayashi and others at the Japan Monkey Centre to look at how cognitive abilities vary across primate taxa. You can read about her experience in her weekly blog here.
Taylor has a broad range of interests across taxa. Her current projects are 1) using computational tools to look at the possible genetic culprits for the uniqueness of M. arctoides as a macaque species, 2) looking at how nutritional variation affects stress physiology across the organism in the fruit fly, D. pseudoobscura, and 3) observing how recombination rate plasticity is affected by an organism's environment using D. melanogaster. Taylor was also a JSPS 2022 summer fellow. She is worked with Dr. Misato Hayashi and others at the Japan Monkey Centre to look at how cognitive abilities vary across primate taxa. You can read about her experience in her weekly blog here.
Masters Students
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Amelia Grider
Amelia's research involves the study of predatory arthropod and insectivorous bird ecology within natural and agricultural grass systems. Amelia explores how hayfields potentially provide habitat for beneficial predators and how hayfields could retain biodiversity while providing agricultural products to support the local economy. Currently, Amelia is sampling biodiversity in the Western Alabama Black Belt Prairie using native (i.e. restored) prairies paired with hayfields to compare their biodiversity and of arthropod predators and insectivorous birds between the habitat types. |
Former Gradaute Students
Victoria Spencer
Victoria is interested in species interactions and tropic food webs. Her master's research addresses questions exploring how native ants respond to invasive ant species. Her work also explores how diets of native ants adjust in response to invasive ant species (e.g., Solenopsis invicta). Victoria is now a science instructor at Henderson Collegiate in North Carolina.
Victoria is interested in species interactions and tropic food webs. Her master's research addresses questions exploring how native ants respond to invasive ant species. Her work also explores how diets of native ants adjust in response to invasive ant species (e.g., Solenopsis invicta). Victoria is now a science instructor at Henderson Collegiate in North Carolina.
Former Undergraduate Students
Joshua Semmes
Auburn University 2020
Auburn University 2020
Nadia Fields
Claflin University 2019
Auburn University Collaborative Approaches Among Scientist and Engineers REU Program
Claflin University 2019
Auburn University Collaborative Approaches Among Scientist and Engineers REU Program