The Hufbauer Lab Group

Current Lab Members :

Chrissy Alba-Lynn , GDPE PhD student with Jim Detling and myself. Chrissy is working on the effects of seed predators (ants and rodents) and the short grass steppe LTER.

Steven Rauth, Dept. of BSPM PhD student. Steve works on the population genetics of two prospective biological control agents of garlic mustard (Ceutorhynchus alliariae and C. roberti and C. scrobicolis).

Past Lab Members:

Amy Blair, GDPE PhD student. Amy studied the role of hybridization in biological invasions using invasive Centaurea (Asteraceae). Additionally, Amy worked on the potential for allelopathy in C. stoebe (aka C. maculosa, spotted knapweed). She started a postdoc in Bernd Blossey's lab May 2008. Congratulations on finishing, Amy!

Rebecca Hufft Kao, PRIMES Postdoctoral Fellow. Becky studied the evolutionary response of organisms to heterogeneous or changing environments with a focus on evolution of plants in novel environments and the evolution of species interactions. Becky is now a staff scientist with NEON, Inc.

Casandra Lloyd, Dept. of BSPM masters student co-chaired by Dr. Andrew Norton and myself - leafy spurge/gall fly coevolution. Cassie is working on a PhD at University of California, Riverside.

Daniel MacKinnon, GDPE masters student. Dan studied the host use and population genetics of an inadvertently introduced biological control agent (Brachypterolus pulicarius on Linaria dalmatica and L. vulgaris). Dan now works for the USDAAPHIS lab in Fort Collins, CO.

Robin Marrs, GDPE PhD student. Robin explored the population genetics of biological invasions, particularly Centaurea diffusa and C. stoebe using microsatellites. Robin is in Utah while her husband completes his teaching degree.

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