Trevor Krabbenhoft, Assistant ProfessorWe study fish genome evolution and the origins and maintenance of biodiversity. I am particularly interested how polyploidy (whole genome duplications) contribute to phenotypic and ecological diversity in fishes such as suckers (Catostomidae) and ciscoes (Salmonidae).
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Dr. Daniel (Dan) MacGuigan, NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Biology
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Dr. Levi Gray, Postdoctoral Researcher
Levi studies speciation and phylogenetics in a wide variety of organisms. |
Christopher Osborne, Ph.D. Student
Christopher is studying variation in thiaminase tolerance in lake charr (Salvelinus namaycush) populations using pan-genomics. He is also investigating how hatchery environments may alter the epigenetic characteristics of lake charr used for restoration stocking efforts in the Laurentian Great Lakes. |
Pia Schwarz, M.S. Student
Pia is studying the ecology and evolutionary dynamics of a hybrid swarm of tessellated darters, Etheostoma olmstedi. She is also an excellent tennis player at University at Buffalo, having recently been named to the MAC 1st team! See here for more about Pia's research and tennis success at UB: arts-sciences.buffalo.edu/biological-sciences/news-events.host.html/content/shared/arts-sciences/biological-sciences/2022/pia-schwarz-wins.detail.html |
Former Lab Members
Dr. Moisés Bernal, Postdoctoral Researcher
Moisés studied the connection between genetics, morphology, and ecology in Great Lakes Coregonus species ("ciscoes"). Moisés has moved on to an Assistant Professor position at Auburn University: http://www.auburn.edu/academic/cosam/faculty/biology/bernal/index.htm Read more about Moisés' work at: https://sites.google.com/site/moisesbernalresearch/ |
Dr. Isabel (Isa) Porto-Hannes, Research Scientist
Isa worked on understanding the invasion dynamics of grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idella) in Lake Erie. She is also interested in freshwater mussel (Unionidae) conservation and restoration. Isa is now a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Environment and Sustainability at University at Buffalo. |
Katherine (Katie) Eaton, Miles Fellow and Undergraduate Honors Student.
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Jessie Pelosi, Formerly an undergraduate honors student at Univ. Buffalo.
Jessie did his undergraduate research on octocoral bleaching and systematics (M. Coffroth and H. Lasker labs). He is currently a Grinter Fellow and PhD Candidate at the University of Florida, working on comparative and population genomics of ferns in the Sessa and Barabazuk labs. |