Former members

Ariel Kahrl (PhD in 2017)

Ariel's dissertation took the lab in an entirely new direction by focusing on the evolution of sperm morphology in anoles and other lizards. She published a variety of papers on topics such as the condition-dependence of sperm morpholoy, the coevolution of testis size and sexual size dimorphism, differences in sperm morphology between native and introduced anoles, and even the evolution of the Anolis ​gut microbiome. Ariel is now a postdoc with John Fitzpatrick at Stockholm University.

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Albert Chung - (2012-16)

Albert worked in our lab as an undergraduate, contributed to a paper on parasites as a cost of reproduction, and continued to work with our group on field trips to Florida and as our animal facilty manager. He is currently a graduate student with Christian Cox at Georgia Southern University, where he is working with our lab to measure age- and tissue-specificity of sex-biased gene expression in anoles for his MS thesis. 

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Christian "Free Meat" Cox (2012-15)

Christian took the lead on a variety of projects during his postdoc in our lab, including studies of sex and species differences in growth-regulatory gene expression, the effects of testosterone on female anoles, and the evolutionary physiology of resting metabolism and evaporative water loss in reptiles. Christian is now an Assistant Professor of Biology at Georgia Southern University.

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Amanda Hanninen (2012-15)

Amanda studied the interactions between brown anoles and a sexually transmitted nematode worm, Cyrtosomum penneri. She also streamlined the hormone assays for our studies of the effects of testosterone on female anoles.
Nicky Rose (2015-16)

Nicky ran our Anolis colony and generated the F2 generation for our ongoing breeding study. She also makes exceptional cakes and cupcakes at her bakery, Kraken Cakes!

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Hannah Donald-Cannon (2013-14)

Hannah ran our Anolis breeding colony for several years and collaborated on our studies of the developmental breakdown of between-sex genetic correlations. She's now a research technician in Vince Formica's lab at Swarthmore College, where she is studying social selection in forked fungus beetles.
Jennifer Price (2012-2013)

Jennifer ran our Anolis breeding colony for several years and generated the initial data for our common-garden comparisons of sexual dimorphism between populations of brown anoles from Eleuthera and Great Exuma. She also worked with Josh Nash on a project showing that incubated anole eggs hatch in response to photoperiodic cues.