María José Navarrete

by PMadmin | Aug 28, 2024

María José (Majo) is an Ecuadorian biologist and a PhD candidate at the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology in the Tarvin lab. Her research focuses on unraveling the origin and evolution of chemical defenses, with a particular emphasis on guanidinium alkaloids such as the...

Asa Conover

by PMadmin | Aug 28, 2024

Asa studies how microbes contribute to the functioning of larger organisms. For his dissertation, he uses the digestive microbiome of the carnivorous California pitcher plant as a model for understanding how microbiomes function and how we can manipulate them. Asa...

Emily Lam

by Andrea | Sep 1, 2022

The morphological and physiological adaptations that have allowed marine mammals to overcome the challenges associated with the recolonization of the aquatic environment confer unique life history traits that are uncommon in terrestrial mammals and have converged...

Nina Sokolov

by Andrea | Sep 1, 2022

Nina Sokolov is a Ph.D. candidate at UC Berkeley in Dr. Mike Boots’ lab studying disease ecology in managed and native bees of California. She is interested in understanding how crop pollination events such as the almond bloom impact viral dynamics in pollinator...

Veronarindra Ramananjato

by Andrea | Sep 1, 2022

Vero (veiru:) is a 2nd year PhD candidate in Razafindratsima lab. She is investigating the contributions of tropical nocturnal omnivores in the maintenance of plant diversity and the impacts of human activities on the seed dispersal processes in the tropics. As a...