Tiffany Knight

Laura Burkle - Plant-pollinator interactions; population and community ecology of invasive species.

Eleanor Pardini - population biology of invasive and rare plant species

Graduate students

Nick Griffin- Effects of inbreeding on the competitive ability of Mimulus.

Steve Kroiss - Rare plant ecology and population modeling

Kristin Powell- the effect of invasive species on species abundance distributions

Current Undergraduate Researchers

Anny Chung - Comparing Historic and Contemporary Plant-Pollinator Interactions of Invasive Species.

Aaron David - Environmental Conditions and Inbreeding Depression in Mimulus ringens

Zach Marine - Succession and rare plant ecology on California sand dunes.

Branden Sidoti - Spatial population modeling of spreading invasive species populations under different management regimes.

Lab Alumni

Postdoctoral Associates

Laura Beaton - Local adaptation and evolution of increased competitive ability in alien plant species. Laura is now an Assistant Professor at York College.

Jean Burns - Determining the role of species traits, demography and dispersal in explaining plant invasion sucpico cess

Mickey Schutzenhofer - Plant-animal interactions and the causes of rarity and invasiveness in Lespedeza.
Mickey is now an Assistant Professor at McKendree University.

Graduate Students

Wayne Law- Population dynamics of rare snow lotus species in Tibet. Wayne is now a post-doctoral associate in Michael Balick's lab at the New York Botanical Garden.

Undergraduate Researchers

Alona Banai- Pollination biology of rare and common Linanthus species. Currently a graduate student in Ecology at Northwestern University/Chicago Botanic Garden.

Emily Dangremond- currently a graduate student in Ecology at the University of California, Berkeley.

Carla Fresquez- BS 2005- The invasive plant, Alliaria petiolata (Garlic Mustard), decreases fitness of native plants through reduction in mycorrhizal fungi symbiont colonization. Carla is currently a graduate student in Ecology at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Alexandra Harmon-Threatt- Pollination ecology of native and non-native plant species. Currently a graduate student in Ecology at the University of California, Berkeley.

Dan Martin- Class of 2007- Fungal Defense in Alliaria petiolata.

Brian Smeets- Class of 2007- Effects of elevated CO₂ on plant-herbivore interactions.

Luz Silverio- Class of 2007- Evolution of competitive ability in Lespedeza.

Britta Teller- currently a graduate student in Ecology at Pennsylvania State University.

Ania Truszczynski - currently a graduate student in Ecology at the University of California, Davis.

Jocelyn Tsai- After graduating from Wash U, Jocelyn and Tiffany have initiated a project in the United States and Taiwan to look at herbivory, competition and the population dynamics of ragweed.