I am a second year master's student working in Dr. Noelia Lander's molecular parasitology lab. My research is aimed at better understanding the cAMP signaling pathway that the eukaryotic parasite Trypanosoma cruzi uses to sense its environment and trigger cellular responses necessary for the parasite's survival.

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Chelsea Elizabeth Carminito

Graduate Assistant, A&S Biological Students

carminca@mail.uc.edu

Chelsea is a new PhD student in the Hobson Lab who started in January 2021. She earned her undergraduate degree at Mills College in Oakland, CA, where she studied behavioral ecology of California ground squirrels in Dr. Jenn Smith’s lab. Chelsea studied for a M.Sc. In Applied Animal Behaviour and Animal Welfare from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, U.K. For her capstone project she joined the Auersperg Lab at the Messerli Research Institute of the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna to study social cognition in Goffin cockatoos.

Chelsea’s plan for research in the Hobson Lab is to study the relationship between sociality and stress in Monk parakeets. She is interested in using the study of animal behavior to assess and improve animal welfare in scientific and evidence-based ways.

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Souvik Chakraborty

Graduate Assistant, A&S Biological Students

chakras7@mail.uc.edu

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Ruma Chatterji

PhD Candidate, A&S Biological Students

chattera@mail.uc.edu

Ruma Chatterji is a doctoral candidate in the Layne Lab-Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Cincinnati. Upon graduating with her master’s in biology from Texas A&M University- Corpus Christi, where she investigated memory mechanisms in Aplysia, her fascination with examining the role of memory in animal behavior propelled her to pursuing related research for her PhD. She is currently studying navigation mechanisms in fiddler crabs (Uca pugilator) and is investigating aspects of home vector memory subserving path integration, such as how the memory is stored and its duration.

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Bruna Ciuffa Maria

Graduate Assistant, A&S Biological Students

ciuffaba@mail.uc.edu

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Asima Das

Graduate Assistant, A&S Biological Students

das2am@mail.uc.edu

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Chandrima Das

Graduate Assistant, A&S Biological Students

dasca@mail.uc.edu

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Taher Ali Fletcher

Graduate Assistant, A&S Biological Students

alitk@mail.uc.edu

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Xavier George Francis

Graduate Assistant, A&S Biological Students

francixr@mail.uc.edu

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Jennifer L Goff

Graduate Assistant, A&S Biological Students

goffjf@mail.uc.edu

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Alex Marie Golden

Graduate Assistant, A&S Biological Students

goldenad@mail.uc.edu

paleoethnobotany, archaeology, Central America, plant domestication, diet reconstruction
Advisor: Dr. Lentz

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Peter Caton Grap

Graduate Assistant, A&S Biological Students

grappr@mail.uc.edu

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Alyssa Renee Hamm

MS Student

hammaa@mail.uc.edu

Evolutionary genetics, sensory-skeletal integration

Advisor: Dr. Gross
Gross Lab Website

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Aaron Angelo Hamrick

Graduate Assistant, A&S Biological Students

hamricaa@mail.uc.edu

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Olivia Katherine Harris

PhD Candidate , A&S Biological Students

harrisok@mail.uc.edu

Visual ecology, perceptual realities, sensory exploitation and perceptual bias, evolution of visual illusions, animal cognition, animal behavior, color vision and color signaling
Pronouns: she/her

Advisor: Dr. Nate Morehouse

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Syeda Farjana Hoque

Graduate Assistant, A&S Biological Students

hoquesa@mail.uc.edu

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Dilini Randima Rasanjali K Herath Mudiyanselage

Graduate Assistant, A&S Biological Students

karunadi@mail.uc.edu

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Jacob Kayvon Keshtvarz

keshtvjk@mail.uc.edu

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Deniz Korman

Graduate Assistant, A&S Biological Students

kormandz@mail.uc.edu

Research interests: Sensory ecology, visual perception, functional morphology, computational modelling

Advisor: Dr. Nathan Morehouse (Morehouse Lab webpage)

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Isabella Marie Leisgang

Graduate Assistant, A&S Biological Students

leisgaia@mail.uc.edu

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Mattea A Lewis

Graduate Assistant, A&S Biological Students

lewis4ms@mail.uc.edu

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Abhinav Madabhushi

Graduate Assistant, A&S Biological Students

madabhan@mail.uc.edu

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Augustus P McAnally

Graduate Assistant, A&S Biological Students

mcanalap@mail.uc.edu

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Michael Spencer Meece

Graduate Assistant, A&S Biological Students

meeceml@mail.uc.edu

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Stephanie A Meyers

Graduate Assistant, A&S Biological Students

meyerss4@mail.uc.edu

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Amartya Tashi Mitra

Graduate Assistant, A&S Biological Students

mitraat@mail.uc.edu

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Samuel Andrew Moore

Graduate Assistant, A&S Biological Students

moore5s2@mail.uc.edu

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V Darby Darby Moore

Graduate Assistant, A&S Biological Students

moore2vd@mail.uc.edu

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David James Morris

Graduate Assistant, A&S Biological Students

morri2dd@mail.uc.edu

Speciation, Trait Evolution, Phylogenetics, Sexual Selection, Visual Ecology

Advisor: Dr. Nathan Morehouse
Morehouse Lab Website

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Daniel N Mounir

Graduate Assistant, A&S Biological Students

mounirdn@mail.uc.edu

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Danielle Newsome

Graduate Assistant, A&S Biological Students

newsomde@mail.uc.edu

Danielle is a new graduate student who joined Dr Josh Gross's lab in fall 2023. She earned her undergraduate degree in biological sciences at the University of New Orleans in fall 2022. Her research interests there included genomic sequencing and diversity of Hawaiian Drosophila in Dr Joel Atallah's lab.

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Claire Lawrence O'Connell

PhD student Rieveschl Hall 837 , A&S Biological Students

oconneca@mail.uc.edu

Behavioral ecology, social cognition, social relationships, social networks, dominance hierarchies
Advisor: Elizabeth Hobson
Hobson Lab website

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Kosisochukwu Dematus Onyeagba

Graduate Assistant, A&S Biological Students

onyeagkd@mail.uc.edu

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Nathan Alexander Pack

Graduate Assistant, A&S Biological Students

packna@mail.uc.edu

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Janette Perez-Jimenez

PhD Student , A&S Biological Students

perezjje@mail.uc.edu

Research Interests: Bats, Landscape Ecology, Hibernation, Subterranean Ecology, GIS

Pronouns: she/her
Advisor: Dr. Joseph Johnson

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Sanjay Prasher

PhD student 837 Rieveschl Hall, A&S Biological Students

prashesy@mail.uc.edu

Behavioral ecology, cognitive ecology, social behavior, social cognition, networks, modeling
Advisor: Dr. Hobson
Hobson Lab website

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Shubham Rathore

Ph.D. Candidate

rathorst@mail.uc.edu

Arthropod eye evolution, Eye development, Ancient gene networks, RNA interference.
Advisor: Dr.Buschbeck

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Narjes Salimimoghadam

salimins@mail.uc.edu

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Justine Alexandra Merritt

PhD student, 731 Rieveschl Hall , A&S Biological Students

samuelje@mail.uc.edu

Sexual selection, chemical ecology, plant-animal interactions
Advisor: Dr. Matter

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Payton A Schaefer

Graduate Assistant, A&S Biological Students

schaefpa@mail.uc.edu

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Makayla Whitney Scott

scott3my@mail.uc.edu

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Ashley Virginia Staab

Graduate Assistant, A&S Biological Students

staabav@mail.uc.edu

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Jenny Yi-Ting Sung

Ph.D. Student, A&S Biological Students

sungyg@mail.uc.edu

Evolution of facial morphology and facial recognition, species recognition, visual perception, animal communication, color vision and animal coloration, sexual selection, behavioral ecology

Advisor: Dr. Nathan Morehouse
Morehouse lab website

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Ashley Lana Webster

Graduate Assistant, A&S Biological Students

websteat@mail.uc.edu

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Max B Winkeljohn

PhD Student 703A Rieveschl, A&S Biological Students

winkelmb@mail.uc.edu

Ex Situ Conservation, In vitro Tissue Culture, Cryopreservation, Nutrient Manipulation
Advisor: Dr. Theresa Culley
Culley Lab Website

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Jin-Sang Yu

Graduate Assistant, A&S Biological Students

yu2j2@mail.uc.edu

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