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