Dr. Jeremy Van Cleve
Principal Investigator
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 Fellow at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent) during 2013–2014. Jeremy started as an Assistant Professor at the University of Kentucky in January 2015.
Rokeya Rahman
Ph.D. Student
Rokeya received her BS and MS from Jahangirnagar University. Rokeya is working on the evolution of virulence in collaboration with Dr. Ann Tate and the evolution of cooperation in microbes with quorum sensing. She joined the lab in 2022.
Dylan Thorp
M.S. Student
Dylan is a graduate student in the lab and is co-advised by Dr. Jen White. Dylan is using mathematical models to study the evolution of reproductive manipulations like cytoplasmic incompatibility in arthropods. Dylan joined the lab in 2023.
Chetas Chavda
Undergraduate student
Chetas started working in the lab in 2022. He is working on the evolution of social norms and the role of group size in the evolution of cooperation.
Amare Thompson
High school student
Amare is a high school student at Paul Laurence Dunbar High School in Lexington, KY. He started working in the lab in 2025.
Kylar Byrd
Ph.D. Student - In Memorium
Kylar joined the lab in 2024 after receiving his BS from Southwestern Oklahoma State University. His interests included the evolution of mutualisms and how complex ecological communities assemble. He passed away in 2025 and is very deeply missed.
Alumni
Postdoctoral scholars
David Priego-Espinosa
2020–2025
Taylor Kessinger
2016–2019
Graduate students
Elliott Greene
2020-2024
Kathryn Greene
2019-2024
Luc Dunoyer
2017-2019
Undergraduate students
Lauren Lawless
2016–2017
High school students
Sebastian Creane-Herrera
2024–2026
Rize Sizemore
2023–2025
Jonah Hubert
2022–2024
Parker Smith
2018–2020
Melodie Jaeger
2016–2018