Alumni
Malcolm Rosenthal
Lab Position: Postdoctoral Fellow
Current Position: Adjunct Professor - Sarah Lawerence College
Rosenthal is interested in animal behavior, mate choice, and the evolution of complex communication systems. His work examines evironmental variability influences on courtship behavior
Ambika Kamath
Current position: Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado, Bolder. Kamath is broadly interested in the consequences of individual variation in behavior for the ecological and evolutionary trajecto ries of populations and species.
Erin Brandt
Lab Position: Graduate Student
Current Position: Post-doctoral Fellow - University of Western Ontario
Research Interests: Sexual selection and thermal physiology in ectotherms
Brandt graduated in 2019.
Ignacio Escalante
Lab Position: Graduate Student
Current Position: Post-doctoral Fellow - University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Research Interests: Behavioral plasticity, biomechanics, autotomy
Ignacio graduated in 2020
Benji Kessler
Lab Position: Graduate Student
Current Position: Founder of Joy Tutoring
Research Interests: sensory ecology and foraging behavior
Benji graduated in 2020
Christine Rivera
Lab Position: Graduate Student
Rivera is broadly interested in behavioral ecology, sexual selection, and mating behavior. Her primary research focuses on acoustic, visual, and multi-modal communication. She received her B.A. from Hampshire College, where she studied animal behavior, with a focus on bioacoustics and physiology. Rivera graduated in 2016.
Jennifer Taylor
Lab Position: Postdoctoral Fellow 2010
Current Position: Associate Professor, Scripps Marine Institute
Research interests: Impact mechanics of mantis shrimp telsons and crab acoustics.
J. Patrick Kelley
Lab Position: Post-doctoral Fellow
Current Position: Research Scientist - University of Wyoming
His research interests include Neotropical rainforest birds, predator-induced physiological and behavioral plasticity and predator-driven natural selection. He also studies bioacoustics of Neotropical birds, focusing on information transfer and geographic variation.
Karena Tang
Position: Undergraduate Research Assistant
Karena Tang is currently in the College of Veterinary Medicine at the Western University of Health Sciences.
