Tiffany Knight

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

Eleanor Pardini - Optimal management of density-dependent garlic mustard populations

Graduate students

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

Steve Kroiss - Rare plant ecology and population modeling

Current Undergraduate Researchers

Emily Dangremond- Role of seed predation on the conservation and restoration of the endangered plant, Lupinus tidestromii.

Aaron David - Environmental Conditions and Inbreeding Depression in Mimulus ringens

Britta Teller- Role of density dependence and plant tolerance on the management of the invasive plant, Alliaria petiolata.

Ania Truszczynski - the role of phylogenetic distinctiveness in invasion success.

Jocelyn Tsai- The long term effects of Alliaria petiolata on arbuscular mycorrhizal communities.

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.

Mickey Schutzenhofer - Plant-animal interactions and the causes of rarity and invasiveness in Lespedeza.
Mickey is now a visiting 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.

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 taking some time off to travel through Europe. After that she plans on applying to graduate school in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.

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.

Kristin Powell- Pollination ecology of endangered, common andinvasive plants within the genus Cirsium.
Kristin is now a research technician at Chicago State University.

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

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