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Postdoctoral Fellows

Adam Algar Presently Lecturer in Biogeography, School of Geography, University of Nottingham			Todd Jackman Presently associate professor at Villanova University.

David Collar Presently a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Long Marine Laboratory University of California, Santa Cruz			Jason Knouft Presently assistant professor at St. Louis University.

Renée Duckworth Assistant Professor at the University of Arizona			Jason Kolbe Assistant Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Rhode Island

Anthony Herrel Presently a permanent researcher employed by the French CNRS and working at the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris.			Jane Melville Presently curator of herpetology at Museum Victoria in Melbourne, Australia.

Tonia Hsieh Presently assistant professor at the University of Florida.			Kirsten Nicholson Presently curator of natural history and assistant professor at Central Michigan State University.

Delbert Hutchison Presently associate professor at Whitman College.			Terry Ord Presently lecturer in evolution at the University of New South Wales

Carlos Infante Presently a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Georgia			Ian Wang Presently Molecular Evolution Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Conservation and Evolutionary Genetics, Smithsonian Institution

			Katharina Wollenberg

Graduate Students

Marguerite Butler Ph.D., 1998, "Evolution of Sexual Dimorphism and Adaptive Radiation in Anolis Lizards." Conducted post-doctoral research at the University of California, Berkeley and at the Institute of Statistical Mathematics in Tokyo. She is presently assistant professor at the University of Hawaii.			Brian Langerhans Ph.D., April, 2008, "Predation and Evolutionary Diversification in Gambusia Fishes." Brian is currently an assistant professor at North Carolina State University in the Department of Biology and W.M. Keck Center for Behavioral Biology

Doug Creer Ph.D., August 2001, "Antipredator adaptations in colubrine snakes." Doug is presently assistant professor at Concord University in Athens, West Virginia.			Manuel Leal Ph.D., 1999, "Intra- and Interspecific Variation in the Behavioral Responses Given to an Approaching Predator by Anolis Lizards." Conducted an NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at Union College. Manuel is presently assistant professor at Duke University

Rich Glor (co-advised with Allan Larson). Ph.D. September, 2004, "Population structure and the evolution of Anolis lizard diversity." Rich was a CPB post-doctoral fellow at the University of California, Davis. He is now an assistant professor at the University of Rochester.			Luke Mahler Ph.D. September, 2011, "Rates and patterns of phenotypic evolution in the adaptive radiation of Anolis lizards." Luke is currently a CPB postdoc at the University of California, Davis.

Luke Harmon Ph.D. August, 2005, "Competition and community structure in day geckos (Phelsuma) in the Indian Ocean." Luke was a post-doctoral fellow at the Biodiversity Research Centre, University of British Columbia. He is now an assistant professor at the University of Idaho.			John Parks Ph.D., 2000, "Territoriality and spatial structure of the Eastern Collared Lizard, Crotaphytus collaris collaris : spatial, temporal, and individual variation." John is presently a lecturer at Washington University.

Duncan Irschick Ph.D., 1996, "Adaptation, Performance Ability and Evolutionary Diversification in Anolis Lizards." Conducted a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Cincinnati in the laboratory of Bruce Jayne. Duncan is currently an associate professor at University of Massachusetts at Amherst.			Dave Pepin Ph.D. August, 2001, "Evolution and life-history of varanid lizards."

Michele Johnson Ph.D. August, 2007, "Behavioral Ecology of Caribbean Anolis Lizards: A Comparative Approach." Michele is currently an Assistant Professor in Biology at Trinity University.			Liam Revell Ph.D., June, 2009, "Quantitative Genetics and Evolutionary Inference in a Phylogenetic Context." Liam was a postdoctoral fellow at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center and is now assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts Boston

Jason Kolbe (co-advised with Allan Larson): Ph.D., 2005, "Anoles out of place: an evolutionary analysis of introduced Anolis lizards." Jason is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Rhode Island.			Jim Schulte (co-advised with Allan Larson) : Ph.D. December, 2001, "Systematics, biogeography and evolution of Liolaemus." Following a post-doctoral fellowship at the National Museum of Natural History, Jim accepted a faculty position at Clarkson University in Potsdam, New York.

			Yoel Stuart Ph.D., 2013, "Character displacement and community assembly in Anolis lizards." Presently a postdoc in the Bolnick lab at the University of Texas at Austin

Undergraduate Students

Eva Catenaccio
Worked with Alexis Harrison on evolution of color in anoles. She is currently studying at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

Hannah Kim Frank
Worked with Luke Mahler on phylogenetic signal in toepad characteristics in mainland and Caribbean anoles. After completing a Fulbright fellowship in New Zealand to study tuatara (Sphenodon punctatus) immunology, she is now pursuing a PhD at Stanford University with Elizabeth Hadly.

Updated September 2011

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