Cornell Ecology and Evolutionary Biology the Geber Lab

Lab Members


     above: Monica, Billie, Sarah, Laurie, Eric, Jesse

Current Lab Members

Name	Research Interests	E-mail (@cornell.edu)
Monica Geber	Professor -- Evolution and population biology of plants; ecological genetics; ecology and evolution of species’ geographic ranges; mating systems; plant functional biology	mag9
Laurelin Evanhoe	Graduate Student -- Evolution and population ecology of plants and insects, particularly bees; biogeography and community ecology of plant-insect interactions; evolution of ecological specialization	le34
Sarah Reilly	Graduate Student -- Plant-insect community interactions on hybrid Typha sp.	sej26
Billie Gould	Graduate Student -- Ecological genetics of local adaptation and rapid evolution in plants	bag59
Indrani Singh	Graduate Student - reproductive facilitation within and across plant-pollinator communities	is227

Past Lab Members

Blue- Emeritus, Canine Lab Supervisor

Name	Thesis or Dissertation Title	Degree	Date	Present Position
Eric Fabio	Clarkia range biology with interests in forest ecology	Research assistant	2009	TBA
Jesse Bellemare	Ecology of forest herbs, interacting factors determining plant species' distribution and abundance	PhD	2009	Assistant Professor, Smith College
Jill Anderson (co-advised with Peter Marks)	Population ecology of flooding gradients, outbreeding depression and soil microbial associations	PhD	2008	Post doctoral researcher, Duke University Jill's CV
Brian Barringer	Polyploidy, inbreeding depression, and the evolution of mating systems	PhD	2007	Visiting Assistant Professor Franklin and Marshall College
Kathryn Flinn	Land use history and the demography of several fern species of the forest understory in Tompkins County, New York	PhD	2005	NSF International Research Fellow, McGill University
Shannon Murphy	Chemical ecology of plant-insect interactions and host shifts by herbivorous insects	PhD	2005	National Parks Ecological Research Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Maryland
Mark Vellend (co-advised with Peter Marks)	Species diversity and genetic diversity: parallel processes and correlated patterns	PhD	2004	Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
David Moeller	Ecological and evolutionary consequences of spatial variation in plant-pollinator interactions	PhD	2003	Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota
Andrew Zink (co-advised with Richard Root)	Parental care asymmetry among communal breeders: theory and tests with the treehopper Publilia concava	PhD	2002	Post-Doctoral Research Associate, University of California, Davis
Hester Parker	Comparative biology of annual and perennial congeners in the genera Zea and Phaseolus	PhD	1998	Post-Doctoral Research Associate, California State University, Monterey Bay
Rhine Singleton (co-advised with Peter Marks)	Recovery of the forest herb community in post-agricultural forests in central New York: pattern and process	PhD	1998	Assistant Professor, Franklin Pierce Collge, NH
Patricia Doak	Impacts of natural habitat subdivision on an insect herbivore: population dynamics, dispersal and host-parasitoid interactions	PhD	1997	Assistant Professor, University of Alaska
Christine Jonas	Variation and correlations between traits in the annual plant, Clarkia unguiculata	MS	1997	PhD Program, Environmental Studies, Antioch New England Graduate School, NH

Post-Doctoral Research Associates

Name	Project	Date	Present Position
Ania Wieczorek	Phylogeography of the range expansion of the native maritime plant, Solidago sempervirens	2002	Post-Doctoral Research Associate, University of Hawaii
Stephen Bonser	The ecological significance of variation in growth form in plants	2001	Assistant Professor, University of New South Wales
Steven Travers	Population genetics of selfing and outcrossing populations of Clarkia xantiana	1999	Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Pennsylvania State University
C. John Runions	Comparative floral development in selfing and outcrossing supspecies of Clarkia xantiana	1999	Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Cambridge University
Vincent Eckhart	Evolutionary ecology of developmental and life history traits in Clarkia xantiana	1996	Associate Professor, Grinnell College, IA