Our Faculty Grid below is a great resource to start your search for a graduate advisor. The Grid indicates which faculty are recruiting for the upcoming cycle. The list is updated between June 1 and October 15 every year. If there are no faculty recruiting in your interest area, please revisit us between June 1 and October 15 for an updated list.
Check out each person’s research area, website, and availability below. You can also see all our official faculty bios on the website here. Have some fun exploring the research opportunities here and choose a few advisors that could be a great fit for you!
| First Name | Last Name | Accepting students for Fall 2024 cohort? | Expertise | Website | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | William | Adams | No | Plant ecophysiology; structure/function of leaves | Bio |
 | Nichole | Barger | TBD | Aridlands ecology; restoration; biogeochemical cycling | Barger Lab |
 | Lisa | Corwin | No | Biology education, Psychosocial outcomes, Assessment of Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences | REACH Lab |
 | Kendi | Davies | Maybe, email me | Effects of multiple disturbances on biodiversity; forest fragmentation experiment; Australia; fire; climate change; invertebrates; forest | Davies Lab |
 | Laura | Dee | TBD | Global change ecology | Dee Lab |
 | Barbara | Demmig Adams | No | Photosynthesis; plant ecology and physiology; photoprotection; biofuels | Bio |
 | Nancy | Emery | No | Evolutionary ecology, population biology | Emery Lab |
 | Luke | Evans | Yes, email me | Behavioral, quantitative, and statistical genetics | Evans Statistical Genetics Laboratory |
 | Noah | Fierer | TBD | Environmental microbiology; human microbiome | Fierer Lab |
 | Mike | Gil | TBD | Marine ecology | Gil Lab |
 | Eve-Lyn | Hinckley | No | Ecosystem biogeochemistry | Hinckley lab |
 | Pieter | Johnson | Yes, email me | Disease ecology; marine biology; aquatic sciences | Johnson Lab |
 | Ambika | Kamath | No | Animal behavior | FLAIR Lab |
 | Nolan | Kane | TBD | Genomics; bioinformatics; speciation; hybridization | Kane Lab |
 | Patrick | Kociolek | TBD | Taxonomy, systemics | Bio |
 | Jingchun | Li | Maybe, email me | Biodiversification, symbiosis, invertebrates, evolutionary biology | Li Lab |
 | Erin | Manzitto-Tripp | No | Plant systematics | The Tripp Report |
 | Andrew | Martin | TBD | Conservation genetics | Martin Lab |
 | Andrew | McAdam | Yes, email me | Natural selection, adaptation, quantitative genetics, social evolution, plasticity | McAdam Lab |
 | Christy | McCain | Yes, email me | Animal Community Ecology, Biodiversity, Climate Change Biology, Montane Ecology | McCain Mountain Lab |
 | Valerie | McKenzie | TBD | Parasitology, host-associated microbes, disease ecology | McKenzie Lab |
 | Dan | Medeiros | TBD | Developmental evolution, vertebrates | Medeiros Lab |
 | Brett | Melbourne | Yes | Biodiversity, invasive species | Melbourne Lab |
 | Isabella | Oleksy | Yes, email me | ecosystem ecology, biogeochemistry, aquatic ecology, limnology | Website |
 | Alisha | Quandt | Maybe, see my website | Mycology, host-microbe interactions, comparative genomics, microbial diversity | Quandt Lab |
 | Sammy | Ramsey | Yes, email me | Symbiosis, Pollinator Health, Invasive Species Ecology, Superorganism Biology | Ramsey Lab |
 | Julian | Resasco | No | Community Ecology, Landscape Ecology, Spatial Ecology, Conservation Biology | Resasco Lab |
 | Rebecca | Safran | Yes, email me | Speciation, evolutionary ecology, population genomics, science communication | Safran Lab |
 | Steven | Schmidt | TBD | Extremophiles, Microbial Ecology, Biogeochemistry, Cryobiosphere | Alpine Microbial Observatory |
 | Stacey | Smith | No | Molecular phylogenetics, plant trait evolution | Smith Lab |
 | David | Stock | TBD | Genetic morphological evolution | Bio |
 | Katharine | Suding | TBD | Plant community ecology, restoration ecology, diversity, species interactions, plant-soil feedbacks | Suding Lab |
 | Scott | Taylor | No | Hybridization, speciation, anthropogenic change, population genomics | Taylor Lab |
 | Merritt | Turetsky | TBD | Ecosystem ecology, disturbance ecology including wildfire, carbon and nutrient biogeochemistry | Bio |