Alumni

Technical Staff

Morris Aguilar

Position After UCSB: 
MD/PhD Student, Penn State
Years in Lab: 
2015-2017

Kerry Geiler

Position After UCSB: 
Graduate Student, Harvard University
Years in Lab: 
2005-2006

Nicole Leung

Position After UCSB: 
Graduate student, MCDB, UCSB
Years in Lab: 
2012-2013

Alexander (Sasha) Zaharoff

Position After UCSB: 
MPH Program Emory University

Postdoctoral Researchers

Markos Alexandrou

Position After UCSB: 
Ecological Consultant
Years in Lab: 
2012-2015

Jan Bielecki

Position After UCSB: 
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Copenhagen
Years in Lab: 
2013-2015

Johanna Cannon

Position After UCSB: 
John Champe High School
Years in Lab: 
2016-2019

Celia Churchill

Position After UCSB: 
Mom
Years in Lab: 
2011-2014

Jessica Goodheart

Position After UCSB: 
Postdoc, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Years in Lab: 
2018-2019

Annie Lindgren

Position After UCSB: 
Portland State University
Years in Lab: 
2008-2011

Aide Macias-Muñoz

Position After UCSB: 
Assistant Professor, UC-Santa Cruz
Years in Lab: 
2020-2022

Ajna S. Rivera

Position After UCSB: 
Professor, University of the Pacific
Years in Lab: 
2006-2009

Jeanne M. Serb

Position After UCSB: 
Professor, Iowa State University
Years in Lab: 
2003-2005

Daniel Speiser

Position After UCSB: 
Assistant Professor U South Carolina
Years in Lab: 
2012-2014

Anna Syme

Position After UCSB: 
Molecular Systematist, Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne, Australia
Years in Lab: 
2006-2007

Oive Tinn

Position After UCSB: 
Curator and Researcher University of Tartu, Estonia
Years in Lab: 
2004-2005

Rebecca Varney

Position After UCSB: 
Assistant Professor, U Nebraska-Lincoln
Years in Lab: 
2021-2024

Shigetaka Yamaguchi

Years in Lab: 
2003-2005

Graduate Students

Emily Ellis

Position After UCSB: 
Postdoc, University of Florida Gainesville
Years in Lab: 
2012-2019

Niko Hensley

Position After UCSB: 
Postdoc, Cornell University
Years in Lab: 
2013-2020

Bekkah Lampe

Position After UCSB: 
Student Outreach, University of Kansas Natural History Museum
Years in Lab: 
2008-2011

Emily Lau

Position After UCSB: 
Postdoc, University of Chicago
Years in Lab: 
2018-2024

Sabrina Pankey

Position After UCSB: 
Postdoc, University of New Hampshire
Years in Lab: 
2007-2014

Natasha Picciani

Position After UCSB: 
Postdoc, Yale University
Years in Lab: 
2014-2020

David C. Plachetzki

Position After UCSB: 
CPB Postdoc, UC-Davis
Years in Lab: 
2004-2009

Desmond Ramirez

Position After UCSB: 
Postdoc, University of Massachusetts - Amherst
Years in Lab: 
2011-2017

Andrew Swafford

Position After UCSB: 
Postdoc, University of Massachusetts - Amherst
Years in Lab: 
2012-2019

Asa Wilson

Years in Lab: 
2004-2006

Bjørn Østman

Position After UCSB: 
PhD Keck Graduate Institute, Postdoc MSU
Years in Lab: 
2003-2005

Visiting Researchers

Jan Bielecki

Position After UCSB: 
University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Years in Lab: 
2010-2011

Federico Gati

Position After UCSB: 
University of Bologna, Italy
Years in Lab: 
2010-2011

Katia Jindrich

Position After UCSB: 
Lund University, Sweden
Years in Lab: 
2010-2011

Depeng Li

Years in Lab: 
2019-2020

Anna Syme

Position After UCSB: 
Museum Victoria, Australia
Years in Lab: 
2005

Carlos Villacorta-Martin

Position After UCSB: 
Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain
Years in Lab: 
2007

Undergraduate Students

Jack Coulpart

Years in Lab: 
2018-2019

Caitlin Fong

Position After UCSB: 
Graduate Student, Brown University
Years in Lab: 
2008-2010

Matthew Harms

Position After UCSB: 
Graduate Student, University of Penn
Years in Lab: 
2007-2008

Bryan Juarez

Position After UCSB: 
Graduate student, University of Michigan
Years in Lab: 
2010-2013

Kim Lum

Position After UCSB: 
Graduate Student, University of Oregon
Years in Lab: 
2003-2007

Jimmy Peniston

Position After UCSB: 
Graduate student, University of Florida
Years in Lab: 
2014-2016

Marina Stoilova

Position After UCSB: 
Graduate Student, University of Kansas
Years in Lab: 
2019-2023

Brian Swartz

Position After UCSB: 
Graduate Student, UC-Berkeley
Years in Lab: 
2004

Alexander Zaharoff

Position After UCSB: 
2008-2011
Years in Lab: 
Graduate Student, Public Health, Emory University