Evolab -- UC Berkeley
2011-2012
Seek us out in Hilgard Hall, Wellman Hall, Wellman Rotunda, the Essig/Berkeley Natural History Museum, a remote Pacific Island, the California desert, the Sierras, Yali’s, or the Free Speech Movement Cafe on campus.
Terrestrial arthropods: evolution, population biology, biodiversity science.
Principal Investigators
Evolution, systematics, conservation of spiders
Population biology, invasion biology of insects
Graduate Students
Island biogeography
Nezha Benabdallah
Color polymorphism in spiders
Natalia Chousou-Polydouri
Spider systematics and biogeography
Temporal dynamics of adaptive radiations
Evolution of insect/plant mutualisms in the Pacific
Pollination biology and invasions
Historical population biology and invasions
Changes in land use and pollination biology
Macroevolution and biodiversity theory
Sonja Schwartz
Dispersal of widespread marine organisms
Evolution of assassin spiders in Madagascar
Undergraduates
Grace Anderson
Diversity of island ecosystems
Lesje Atkinson
Co-phylogenetics of insects and plants
Alexia Capsuto
Francesca Paterno
Ian Rose
Genetic analyses of food webs
Ai Takahashi
Andrew Yee
Research Scientists, Postdocs, Visitors
Biogeography, systematics of click beetles
Pete Croucher
Origins, genetics of color polymorphism in spiders
Pacific arthropod biodiversity, sap beetles
Caribbean biogeography, scorpion systematics
Systematics of Cydia moths, Pacific entomology
Chris Winchell
Development and evolution of spider coloration