People

Principal Investigators

Elena Litchman

Senior Staff Scientist, Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution for Science 

Professor (by courtesy), Departments of Earth System Science and Biology, Stanford University

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Christopher Klausmeier

MSU Foundation Professor, KBS and Plant Biology, Michigan State University

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Postdocs

Ashwini Ramesh 

Host-parasite stoichiometry

 

Jonas Wickman

Theoretical community ecology and evolution

Graduate Students

Nasser Mohammed

Theoretical community ecology

Carol Waldmann Rosenbaum

Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs) in the Great Lakes

Esther Wong

Stoichiometry of food webs

Veronica Frans

visiting grad student

Human dimensions of  ecological niche, species distribution models (SDMs)

Domiziana Cristini

visiting grad student (from Uni Konstanz, Germany)

Phytoplankton community assembly

Sarah Levasseur

visiting grad student (from EAWAG and ETH Zurich, Switzerland)

Phytoplankton ecology, trait-based approaches

Undergraduate Students

Silas Hicks

Eco-evolutionary theory

Gabriel Curbelo Estrella

HAB ecology

Technicians

Ally Hutchens

Phytoplankton ecology

Pam Woodruff

Plankton ecology

Past Lab Members

Jorge Arroyo-Esquivel 

Data-driven models of ecological community dynamics

Now research scientist at the California Department of Fish and Wildlife

Yi Chun (Liv) Yeh

Resilience in microbial networks

Now assistant professor at the National Taiwan University

Thomas Koffel 

Theoretical community ecology and evolution, evolution of microbial metabolisms

now assistant professor at the University of Lyon, France

Hilary Bayer

undergrad

Microbial networks

Ibraheem Syeed

undergrad

Regime shifts in aquatic ecosystems

Madison Colmanares

undergrad

HAB ecology

John Guittar

postdoc

Community ecology of host-associated microbiota

now computational scientist at Myriad Genetics

Ravi Ranjan

graduate student

Theoretical community ecology

now postdoc at the Institute for Functional Marine BIodiversity, University of Oldenburg, Germany

Colin Kremer

graduate student and postdoc

Theoretical community ecology and evolution, thermal biology

now assistant professor at University of Connecticut

Paul Wilburn

graduate student

Freshwater microbial ecology, Lake Baikal

now postdoc at NASA

Daniel O'Donnell

graduate student

Phytoplankton ecology and evolution, thermal biology

now postdoc at UC Davis

Elizabeth Miller

graduate student

Theoretical community ecology

now postdoc at University of Oregon

Jake Nalley

graduate student

Algal biofuel communities

now R&D officer at Qualitas Health  

Mridul Thomas

graduate student

Phytoplankton ecology, thermal biology

now assistant professor at University of Geneva, Switzerland

Tatiana Severin

postdoc 

Phytoplankton ecology, thermal biology

now postdoc at STARESO, France

Maria Aranguren-Gassis

postdoc

Phytoplankton ecology and evolution, thermal biology

now researcher at University of Vigo, Spain

Masatoshi Katabuchi

postdoc

Trait-based community ecology

now associate professor at Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)

Kaito Umemura

postdoc

Theoretical trait-based ecology

now postdoc at UC Berkeley

Ghjuvan Grimaud

postdoc

Theoretical community ecology, microbial evolution

now co-founder and CEO of Biomathematica startup, France

Simon Stump

postdoc

Theoretical community ecology, models of microbial cross feeding

Lea Roselli

postdoc

Phytoplankton ecology

now researcher at Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Italy

Şeyda Erdoğan

visiting grad student

Plankton ecology

now assistant professor, Yozgat Bozok University, Turkey

Kirill Shchapov

visiting grad student

Limnology of Lake Baikal, plankton ecology

now PhD student at University of Minnesota Duluth

Zepeng Sun

postdoc

Theoretical community ecology, models of microbial cross feeding

Mia Stockenreiter

postdoc

Phytoplankton ecology, algal biofuel communities

now assistant professor at Ludwig Maximilian University, Germany

Matt Osmond 

postmaster

Theoretical ecology and evolution

now assistant professor at University of Toronto, Canada

Sabine Wollrab

postdoc

Theoretical plankton ecology

now group leader at IGB, Germany

Kyle Edwards

postdoc

Trait-based community ecology, phytoplankton ecology

now associate professor at University of Hawai'i

Kohei Yoshiyama

postdoc

Theoretical and experimental plankton ecology

now associate professor at University of Shiga Prefecture, Japan

Paula de Tezanos Pinto

postdoc

Phytoplankton ecology

now research scientist at University of Buenos Aires, Argentina

Maayke Stomp

postdoc

Phytoplankton ecology

Chris Steiner

postdoc

Plankton ecology

now associate professor at Wayne State University

Anne Schwaderer

postdoc

Phytoplankton ecology

Jarad Mellard

graduate student

Phytoplankton ecology

now associate professor at the Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway