Justin Havird – PI, Associate Professor
2014-2018 NIH Postdoctoral Fellow, Colorado State University
2009-2014 Ph. D., Auburn University
2006-2008 M.S., 2006-2006 B.S., University of Florida
Research Interests: Evolution, physiology, ecology, genomics, mitochondria, cytonuclear stuff
Joseph Dubie – Postdoc
2021 Ph. D., Texas A&M University
2014 B.S., Oregon State University
Research interests: Selfish mitochondria, mitochondrial mutations, nematodes
Ummat Somjee – Stengl Wyer Postdoc
Research interests: Sexual Selection, Behavior, Exaggerated Morphology, Entomology
Mariangel Correa Orellana – EEB Ph.D. Student
Graduate Student, EEB Graduate Program
B.S. — Western Carolina University 2023
Research Interests: Microbial ecology, anchialine organisms
Erik Iverson – EEB Ph.D. Student
B.S., Ecology & Evolutionary Biology — Tulane University, 2015
M.S., Environmental Biology — Tulane University, 2016
Research Interests: Mitonuclear Interactions, Sexual Selection, Behavioral Ecology, Animal Communication, Ornithology, Conservation
Britt White – EEB Ph.D. Student (co-advised with Kelly Zamudio)
B.S., Ecology, Evolutionary, and Organismal Biology — University of New Mexico, 2016
Research Interests: Conservation genomics, Diversification, Herpetology
Cecilia Fitzgerald-Cook – CMB Ph.D. Student
B.S., Cell and Molecular Biology — University of California Santa Cruz 2016
Research Interests: Bioinformatics, Conservation, Molecular Evolution
Kendra Zwonitzer – CMB Ph.D. Student
B.S., University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 2019
Research Interests: Mitochondrial mutations, bioinformatics, genomics
Jess Sterling – CMB Ph.D. Student
B.S., University of Miami, 2020
Research Interests: Microbial ecology, aging, marine biology
Arlo and Vernon Havird – Honorary Lab Techs
Research Interests: Foraging, sibling conflict, stress physiology
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Lab Alumni
Postdocs
Liming Cai (2021-2024) – University of Florida
Ryan Weaver (2019-2021) – Iowa State University
Chase Smith (2020-2023) – Data Analytics, Ace Hardware Group