[Graduate Student Projects]
[Visitors]

Dr. Alexey Desnitskiy. 2008. Sabbatical visitor. Evolution of development in volvocine green algae. From Biological Institute of Saint Petersburg State University, Saint Petersburg, Russia. Russia and UA CoS supported.

Dr. Cristian Solari. 2005-08. Hydrodynamics in volvocine algae. Collaborator. NSF and UA CoS supported.

Dr. Aurora Nedelcu. 2005-08. Collaborator. Evolution of individuality in volvocine algae. UNB. Canada. NSF and UA CoS supported.

Mathilde Hurand. April 12th to June 25th 2004. Evolution of Individuality. French Government supported.

Dr. Aurora Nedelcu. 2002-2003. UNB. Canada. UA CoS supported.

Dr. John Birdsell. June 2001 - 2003. Comparative genomics.

Corentin Mercier visited from ENS Paris during Summer 2001 to work on theoretical models for the evolution of multicellularity in the Volvacale green algae.

Xavier Lafon. July-October 2000. Evolution of Individuality. French Government supported.

Dr. Rolf Hoekstra from Wageningen University in the Netherlands was on sabbatical during Spring 2000. He works on fungal genetic systems. His current interests include somatic (in)compatibility, spore killing (meiotic drive) , fungal senescence (associated with mitochondrial plasmids) and population level effects of toxin secretion.

Yannick Viossat from the Ecole Polytechnique in France will be visiting April-July 2000 doing theoretical work on multi-level selection and individuality.

Betsy Arnold worked on tropical fungal endophyte diversity for her PhD thesis with Dr. Lucinda McDade. She is interested in cataloging the diversity and in assessing the costs and benefits of endophyte infection to low land tropical trees. 

Mario Pineda-Krch visited during Fall 99 from the theoretical biology group in Lund Sweden. He is working on multi-level selection approaches to plant meristems and defining units of selection in asexual plants