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.
This Grid will be updated by August 2025 for the Fall 2026 Application Cycle.
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!
1 | First Name | Last Name | Accepting students for Fall cohort? | Expertise | Website | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2 |  | William | Adams | - | Plant ecophysiology; structure/function of leaves | Professor Bio https://www.colorado.edu/ebio/william-adams-iii |
3 |  | Lisa | Corwin | Accepting students for Fall 26, email me | Biology education; psychosocial outcomes; assessment of course-based undergraduate research experiences | REACH Lab Website http://thereachlab.org/ |
4 |  | Kendi | Davies | Not accepting students for Fall 26 | Effects of multiple disturbances on biodiversity; forest fragmentation experiment; Australia; fire; climate change; invertebrates; forest | Davies Lab Website https://www.colorado.edu/lab/davies/ |
5 |  | Laura | Dee | - | Nature's contributions to people, causal inference, conservation science, and biodiversity-ecosystem functioning, community-engaged scholarship | Dee Lab Website http://lauraedee.com/ |
6 |  | Barbara | Demmig Adams | - | Photosynthesis; plant ecology and physiology; photoprotection; biofuels | Professor Bio https://www.colorado.edu/ebio/barbara-demmig-adams |
7 |  | Nancy | Emery | Not accepting students for Fall 26 | Evolutionary ecology; population biology | Emery Lab Website https://emery-lab.org/ |
8 |  | Luke | Evans | - | Behavioral; quantitative; statistical genetics | Evans Statistical Genetics Lab Website https://www.colorado.edu/lab/evans/ |
9 |  | Noah | Fierer | - | Microbial ecology; soil ecology; microbiomes | Fierer Lab Website http://fiererlab.org/ |
10 |  | Mike | Gil | - | Community; behavioral; theoretical ecology | Gil Lab Website https://gillab.org/ |
11 |  | Eve-Lyn | Hinckley | - | Ecosystem biogeochemistry | Hinckley Lab Website https://enviro-biogeochemistry.weebly.com/ |
12 |  | Pieter | Johnson | - | Disease ecology; marine biology; aquatic sciences | Johnson Lab Website http://www.johnsonlaboratory.com/ |
13 |  | Nolan | Kane | - | Genomics; bioinformatics; speciation; hybridization; sustainable agriculture | Kane Lab Website https://nkane.weebly.com/index.html |
14 |  | Patrick | Kociolek | - | Taxonomy; systemics | Professor Bio https://www.colorado.edu/ebio/patrick-kociolek |
15 |  | Jingchun | Li | Not accepting students for Fall 26 | Biodiversification; symbiosis; invertebrates; evolutionary biology | Li Lab Website https://jingchunli.weebly.com/ |
16 |  | Erin | Manzitto-Tripp | Not accepting students for Fall 26 | Plant systematics | The Tripp Report https://tripp-report.com/ |
17 |  | Andrew | Martin | Not accepting students for Fall 26 | Biology education; intersections between conservation biology, law and JEDI | Martin Lab Website https://martincolorado.weebly.com/ |
18 |  | Andrew | McAdam | Not accepting students for Fall 26 | Natural selection; adaptation; quantitative genetics; social evolution; plasticity | McAdam Lab Website http://www.mcadamlab.ca/ |
19 |  | Christy | McCain | Not accepting students for Fall 26 | Animal community ecology; biodiversity; climate change biology; montane ecology | McCain Mountain Lab Website https://spot.colorado.edu/~mccainc/ |
20 |  | Valerie | McKenzie | - | Parasitology; host-associated microbes; disease ecology | McKenzie Lab Website https://mckenzielab.com/ |
21 |  | Dan | Medeiros | - | Evolutionary developmental biology; vertebrate evolution; evolution of gene regulation | Medeiros Lab Website https://www.colorado.edu/lab/medeiros/ |
22 |  | Brett | Melbourne | - | Biodiversity, extinction, climate change, ecological models, data science | Melbourne Lab Website https://www.colorado.edu/lab/melbourne/ |
23 |  | Isabella | Oleksy | Not accepting students for Fall 26 | Ecosystem ecology; biogeochemistry; aquatic ecology; limnology | Mountain Limnology Lab Website https://www.mountainlimnologylab.com/ |
24 |  | Alisha | Quandt | Not accepting students for Fall 26 | Mycology; host-microbe interactions; comparative genomics; microbial diversity | Quandt Lab Website https://quandtmycology.weebly.com/ |
25 |  | Sammy | Ramsey | - | Symbiosis; pollinator health; invasive species ecology; superorganism biology | Ramsey Lab Website https://www.drsammy.online/ |
26 |  | Julian | Resasco | - | Community ecology; landscape ecology; spatial ecology; conservation biology | Resasco Lab Website https://www.colorado.edu/lab/resasco/ |
27 |  | Rebecca | Safran | - | Speciation; evolutionary ecology; population genomics; science communication | Safran Lab Website http://www.safran-lab.com/ |
28 |  | Steven | Schmidt | - | Extremophiles; microbial ecology; biogeochemistry; cryobiosphere | Alpine Microbial Observatory https://alpinemicrobialobservatory.weebly.com/ |
29 |  | Stacey | Smith | - | Molecular phylogenetics; plant trait evolution | Smith Lab Website https://www.colorado.edu/smithlab/ |
30 |  | Ryan | St Laurent | Not accepting students for Fall 26 | Insect-plant interactions; phylogenetics; systematics, taxonomy | Professor Bio https://www.colorado.edu/lab/stlaurent/ |
31 |  | David | Stock | - | Genetics; development; evolution of fishes | Professor Bio https://www.colorado.edu/ebio/david-w-stock |
32 |  | Katharine | Suding | Not accepting students for Fall 26 | Plant community ecology; restoration ecology; diversity; species interactions; plant-soil feedbacks | Suding Lab Website https://www.sudinglab.org/join-in |
33 |  | Scott | Taylor | Not accepting students for Fall 26 | Hybridization; speciation; anthropogenic change; population genomics | Taylor Lab Website https://www.colorado.edu/lab/taylor/ |
34 |  | Merritt | Turetsky | - | Ecosystem ecology; disturbance ecology including wildfire, carbon and nutrient biogeochemistry | Professor Bio https://www.colorado.edu/rasei/merritt-turetsky |