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EEB Graduate Program's award and fellowship roundup

Wednesday, May 22, 2019

The IU Department of Biology's Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior Graduate Program is pleased to announce the following awards and fellowships received by its students. Congratulations to each of them!

Award recipients are:

Bolin, Lana (Lau Lab, current Ph.D.) Winner, Graduate Research Fellowship (GRFP), National Science Foundation (NSF)

Civitello, David (Hall Lab, Ph.D. 2013) Early Career Fellow, Ecological Society of America (ESA)

David Civitello in a boat on University Lake at the Indiana University Research and Teaching Preserve Griffy Woods property, checking the Daphnia mecocosms. — David Civitello checks on the *Daphnia* mecocosms in University Lake at the IURTP Griffy Woods property in 2013 while a Ph.D. student.

Durden, Lekeah (Clay Lab, current Ph.D.) President’s Award, University Graduate School, Indiana University; Anne S. Chatham for Medicinal Botany Award, Garden Club of America (GCA)

Lekeah Durden poses with her research plants in the Jordan Hall greenhouse. — Lekeah Durden in the Jordan Hall greenhouse. Durden investigates host-microbe interactions in plants.

George, Elizabeth (Rosvall Lab, current Ph.D.) Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) Research Grant and Gaunt Award

Gibson, Amanda (Lively Lab, Ph.D. 2016) 2018 Theodosius Dobzhansky Prize, Society for the Study of Evolution (SSE); honorable mention, Best Student Paper in 2018,The American Naturalist

Mandy Gibson on a boat on Lake Manapouri in New Zealand. — Mandy Gibson in 2014 on a boat on Lake Manapouri on the way to Doubtful Sound during a brief vacation from her fieldwork, which was based on the South Island of New Zealand. Gibson studies the evolution and ecology of host-parasite interactions.

Keller, Adrienne (Phillips Lab, current Ph.D.) USDA Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) | National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Predoctoral Fellowship

Kimmitt, Abby (Ketterson Lab, current Ph.D.) 2018 William J. Rowland Mentoring Award

Miller, Delaney (Newton Lab, current Ph.D.) Co-winner of $52K grant from Project Apis m.

Delaney Miller, wearing a beekeeper's hat with netting, presents a frame from a bee hive with honeycomb and lots of bees. — Delaney Miller presents a frame from a bee hive with honeycomb—and lots of bees! She studies how members of the honey bee microbial community interact with fungal pathogens.

Million, Kara (Lively Lab, current Ph.D.) American Society of Naturalists (ASN) Student Research Award

Kara Million holds a darter (a small fish) in her hand that she has just netted from an Indiana stream. — Kara Million's fieldwork for her research on darters—small, native fishes—often finds her in local Indiana streams. The tiny darter in Million's hand is probably a Fantail Darter (*Etheostoma flabellare*).

Mueller, Emmi (Lennon Lab, current Ph.D.) Honorable Mention, Graduate Research Fellowship (GRFP), National Science Foundation (NSF)

The snake sticks out its tongue as Emmi Mueller holds it up for the picture. — Emmi Mueller holds a speckled kingsnake (*Lampropeltis holbrooki*) in 2016 at the Cheyenne Bottoms Preserve in Kansas while she was an NSF-funded REU student at Kansas State University. She is currently a second-year Ph.D. student in Dr. Jay Lennon's lab where her research seeks to understand the relationship between the physical complexity of environments and the structure and function of the microbial communities that inhabit them.

Munley, Katherine (Demas Lab, current Ph.D.) Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) Grant-in-Aid of Research Award; 2019 Indiana Academy of Sciences Senior Grant

A lake and trees in autumn colors are the backdrop for this photo of Kat Munley. — Kat Munley. Munley's research examines the neuroendocrine mechanisms underlying territorial aggression in Siberian hamsters, with a particular emphasis on how seasonal fluctuations in melatonin secretion mediate changes in neural and adrenal androgen synthesis.

Oschrin, Emma (Reynolds Lab, current Ph.D.) Indiana Academy of Science (IAS) grant 2018

Parish, Audrey (Newton Lab, current Ph.D.) Co-winner of $52K grant from Project Apis m.

Peckenpaugh, Brooke (Moyle Lab, current Ph.D.) Honorable Mention, Graduate Research Fellowship (GRFP), National Science Foundation (NSF)

Ramesh, Ashwini (Bashey and Hall Labs, current Ph.D.) 2019 Indiana Academy of Science (IAS) Senior Grant

Schwab, Daniel (Moczek Lab, Ph.D. 2018) American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Science & Technology Policy Fellowship

Shocket, Marta (Hall Lab, Ph.D. 2016) Best student paper in 2018, The American Naturalist

Marta Shocket in a kayak writes in her notebook while collecting samples from a lake in Greene-Sullivan State Forest in southern Indiana. — Marta Shocket, while an IU Ph.D. student, collects samples from a lake in Greene-Sullivan State Forest in southern Indiana for her research on *Daphnia*, infections they get from fungal pathogens, and how temperature changes affect the infection rate.

Shoemaker, Will (Lennon Lab, current Ph.D.) Graduate Research Excellent Grant–Rosemary Grant Advanced Award from Society of the Study of Evolution (SSE), and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Astrobiology Early Career Collaboration Award

Strauss, Alex (Hall Lab, Ph.D. 2016) J.B.S. Haldane Prize, best student paper in 2018, Functional Ecology (British Ecological Society)

Talbott, Katie (Ketterson Lab, current Ph.D.) Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) Grant-in-Aid of Research Award, Virginia Society for Ornithology (VSO)'s J.J. Murray Grant-in-Aid of Research

Katie Talbott holding a junco. — Katie Talbott. Katie studies the relationship between haemosporidian parasite prevalence and reproductive behavior in Dark-eyed Juncos.

Wolf, Sarah (Rosvall Lab, current Ph.D.) Indiana Academy of Science (IAS) grant 2018

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