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Back Row: Kelsey Scheckel, Maria Tonione, Kate Mathis, Kaustubh Gokhale
Front Row: Amber Sciligo, Rebecca Sandidge, Neil Tsutsui
From Top: Kate Mathis, Maria Tonione, Neil Tsutsui
Current Lab Members
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Neil D. Tsutsui, Professor
ntsutsui at berkeley dot edu
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Kaustubh Gokhale, Postdoctoral Fellow
kgokhale at berkeley dot edu
Graduate Students
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Rebecca Sandidge, Doctoral Candidate
Fullbright Scholar (Indonesia)
rlsandidge at berkeley dot edu
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Maria Tonione, Doctoral Candidate
riatoni at berkeley dot edu
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Kelsey Scheckel, Doctoral Student
scheckek at berkeley dot edu
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Brian Whyte, Doctoral Student
ba.whyte at berkeley dot edu
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Former Lab Members
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Brian Johnson,
UC President's Post-doctoral Scholar
Currently Assistant Professor at UC-Davis
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Ellen van Wilgenburg,
Post-doctoral Researcher
Currently Lecturer at Fordham University
evanwilgenburg at fordham dot edu
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Johanna Clemencet,
Post-doctoral Researcher
Currently Assistant Professor at Universite de La Reunion
johanna.clemencet at univ-reunion.fr
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Miriam Brandt,
Post-doctoral Researcher
Currently Scientific Coordinator at the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Germany
brandt at izw-berlin dot de
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Megan McPhee,
Post-doctoral Researcher
Currently Assistant Professor at University of Alaska-Fairbanks
mvmcphee at alaska dot edu
Graduate Students
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Kate Mathis, NSF Research Fellow, Ph.D., 2015
Currently: PERT Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Arizona
kamathis at berkeley dot edu
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Virginia Emery, NSERC Scholar, Ph.D., 2014
"The chemistry, recognition behaviors, and population genetics of Neotropical parabiotic ants"
Currently: Research Scientist at SpringStar, Inc.
virginiaemery at gmail dot com
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Candice Torres, Ph.D., 2012. "Chemical and molecular ecology of the North American slave-making ant Polyergus (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) and its closely related host (Formica spp.)"
Currently: Biology Instructor at Tarrant County College, Ft. Worth, TX.
candicewt at gmail dot com
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Tara Madsen-Steigmeyer, Ph.D.,
"Insect ecology from the scale of plant-level interactions to continent wide phylogeography"