Alumni

PhD Students


Stephen S. Mulkey–Ph.D. June, 1986; now Director, Environmental Science Program, University of Idaho.  “The photosynthetic and demographic responses of three tropical bambusoid herbs to openings in the tree canopy.”

Joshua Kohn–Ph.D. 1988; now Professor and Department Chair, University of California, San Diego.  “The maintenance of sex ratio in the gynodioecious Cucurbita foetidissima.”

Anna Traveset–Ph.D. 1989; now holds position at the Spanish Research Council (CSIC), Institut Mediterrani d’Estudis AvanÁats, Palma de Mallorca, Spain.“Interactions among the insect seed predators and the dispersers of a tropical shrub Acacia farnesiana.”

Roger Latham–Ph.D. 1990; now self-employed ecologist, Swarthmore, PA.  “Specialization at the seedling stage by coexisting tree species on combinations of light, mineral nutrients and soil moisture.” 

John W. Y. Chan–Ph.D. 1990.  Now working in industry.  “The adaptive significance of ADH variants in Trifolium repens.”

Richard Niesenbaum–Ph.D. 1992; now Professor, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA. “The reproductive ecology of the dioecious shrub Lindera benzoin in sun and shade habitats.” 

David Vann–Ph.D. 1992; now research associate, Department of Geology, Univ. of Pennsylvania. “Partitioning of carbon after injury in branches of red spruce.”

Laura Hyatt–Ph.D. 1996; now Associate Professor, Rider University, Lawrenceville, NJ.  “Spatial patterns in seed bank dynamics.”

James F. Cahill, Jr–Ph.D. 1997; now Professor, University of Alberta.  “Symmetry, additivity, and intensity: belowground interactions among plants in an early successional community.
 
Christine Hawkes–Ph. D. 2000; now Assistant Professor, University of Texas.  “Microbiotic soil crusts and their interactions with vascular plants in a xeric Florida scrubland.”

Jeffrey Castelli–Ph. D. 2001; now employed by Amicus Therapeutics, Cranbury, NJ.  “Negative mycorrhizal feedback and plant species coexistence in a serpentine grassland.”

Jeffry Klemens—Ph. D. 2003; now instructor Philadelphia area colleges;  “Biomass allocation and growth of tropical dry forest tree seedlings across light and soil gradients.”

Lori Spindler—Ph. D. 2007; now lab instructor Penn Department of Biology; “Aging in plants at multiple scales.”

Richard Lucas—Ph. D. 2007; now Assistant Professor, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, UmeÂ, Sweden; “Peeking into the black box—ectomycorrhizal structure and function”

Baoming Ji—Ph. D. 2007; now post-doc Indiana University; “Taxonomic and functional diversity of AM fungi in serpentine and prairie grasslands.”

Jennifer Doherty—Ph.D. 2009; now post-doc Michigan State University;  “Niche partitioning among arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and consequences for host plant performance.”

Roberto Salguero-Gomez—Ph.D. 2011; now a post-doc at the Max Plank Institute; "Physiological bases of plant shrinkage and its demographic implications."

Masters Students


Camille Barr, 1992

Julie Schwantes Boman, 1993

Jennifer Mayr, 1995

Jessica Page, 2002

Sydney Glassman, 2010

Frank Anderson, 2010


Lab Technicians


Roo Vandegrift