Current

PI:
Jeremy Van Cleve		 Jeremy grew up in wonderful Santa Fe, NM and attended Oberlin College.  After Oberlin, he spent a year living in Boulder, CO and worked with Rob Guralnick at the University of Colorado.  He then moved to the Bay Area and completed a Ph.D. at Stanford University in the laboratory of Marc Feldman.  From late 2009 to 2012, he was a SFI Omidyar Fellow at the Santa Fe Institute.  He was a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent) during 2013 and 2014. Jeremy started as an Assistant Professor at the University of Kentucky in January 2015. (curriculum vitae)
Postdoc:
Daniel Priego-Espinosa		 Daniel received his B.S. in Genomic Sciences and Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences from UNAM. Since 2020, he has been working on evolutionary theory and population genetics.
Graduate student:
Kathryn Greene		 Kathryn received her BS in biology from Davidson College in 2018. At the Davidson College Herpetology lab, Kathryn investigated the dispersal behavior of juvenile spotted salamanders and assisted with many long-term lab projects including monitoring the diamondback terrapin population at Kiawah Island. Working with Dr. Steven Price, Kathryn is investigating the effects of mountaintop removal mining and valley filling on stream salamander populations. Kathryn’s interests include hiking, camping, conservation biology, and herpetology.
Graduate student:
Elliott Greene		 Elliott received his undergraduate degree from the University of Alabama at Birmingham and is in his third year in the Biology.
Graduate student:
Rokeya Rahman		 Rokeya received her BS and MS from Jahangirnagar University and is in her first year in Biology at UK.
Undergrad:
Chetas Chavda
High school student:
Jonah Hubert
Alumni

Postdoc:
Taylor Kessinger		 Taylor obtained a PhD from the University of Tübingen where he worked with Richard Neher at the Max-Planck Institute for Developmental Biology. Previously, Taylor obtained a B.S. from the University of Arizona where he worked with Joanna Masel.
Grad student:
Luc Dunoyer		 I am a French guy who wanted to see the world. That’s why after my master degree in Dijon, France (the wine, bread, and cheese country) I decided to cross the Atlantic ocean just to see what is on the other side. Now I am a PhD student co-advised by Dr. Ashley Seifert and Dr. Jeremy Van Cleve. My personal scientific focus relies on inter-species interactions, species behavior, and ecosystem engineering using crayfish in freshwater streams. If you are interested in working on these thematics, just shoot me an email, I always welcome motivated folks.
Undergrad:
Lauren Lawless		 Lauren was a senior at the University of Kentucky majoring in Economics and Mathematics.
High school student:
Blake Jaeger
 Blake was a high school student from Paul Laurence Dunbar High School working on evolutionary game theory.