PhD candidate in Environmental Engineering at UC Berkeley. At Berkeley, she works with Sally Thompson studying ecohydrology. Prior to coming to Berkeley, Jeannie did her undergraduate degree in Chemical Engineering at the University of Arizona as a Flinn Scholar....
Kirsten is a sixth-year PhD Candidate in the Whiteman Lab at the University of California, Berkeley. for her thesis she is investigating the horizontal gene transfer of cytolethal distending toxin B, which encodes a DNase, in insects (Diptera: Drosophila and aphids)....
The global extinction crisis has thrown the importance of fundamental ecological questions into sharp relief. What are the consequences of the addition or removal of species from a community? How do permutations to the length of food chains influence the role of...
Repeated convergent evolution has captured the interest of generations of biologists in part because it implies some degree of determinism in evolution, whether through natural selection toward common adaptive peaks or shared evolutionary constraints. Michael studies...
