School of Humanities and Sciences
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Christopher Anderson
Ph.D. Student in Biology, admitted Autumn 2016
BioMy research focuses on the use of satellite remote sensing technology to characterize multi-scale patterns of terrestrial biodiversity. I am interested in understanding how ecosystem structure and function changes for multiple taxonomic groups as a result of anthropogenic forces. These forces include land use change, climate change, establishing protected areas, the development of novel ecosystems, and assisted migration.
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Daniel Berenson
MD Student, expected graduation Spring 2021
Ph.D. Student in Biology, admitted Autumn 2015
MSTP StudentBioI am an MD/PhD student through the Medical Scientist Training Program. I completed my PhD in Biology in Jan Skotheim's lab for studies on cell cycle and cell size regulation, and now am completing medical school.
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Paul Bump
Ph.D. Student in Biology, admitted Summer 2016
BioPaul Bump is an explorer of the small and squishy. His research in strange, enigmatic, marine invertebrates hopes to unlock secrets around basic biological processes and provide novel perspectives to advance fundamental cell biology research. He currently studies how an organism can build two wildly different bodies during its life while having access to the same genetic information. While puzzling, the process of indirect development, with distinct larval and adult body plans, is the most common developmental strategy in many animals. His research involves studying the metamorphosis of Schizocardium californicum, an indirect developing hemichordate worm, which transforms from a small swimming planktonic balloon into a burrowing, muscular worm in a 24-48 hour time period.
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Benjamin Burford
Ph.D. Student in Biology, admitted Autumn 2015
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsFor my PhD research, I utilize in situ footage, comparative respirometry, scientific surveys, animal-borne data loggers, and oceanographic data to understand the competitive ability of ecologically-similar social squid and fish in an environmental context.
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Rachel Crane
Ph.D. Student in Biology, admitted Autumn 2015
BioRachel is interested in molluscan shell form. Animals’ shells defend them from a variety of environmental dangers and predatory attacks, including a multitude of low-magnitude, repeated stresses, which could cumulatively cause lethal fatigue damage. She studies how shell features—from composition and microstructure to overall morphology—contribute to fatigue resistance. By developing new mechanical techniques to test shell fatigue resistance, she hopes to answer questions about the evolution of shell shape and the ecological interactions between hard-shelled molluscs, their predators, and the environment.
Rachel received her B.A. in Biology from Swarthmore College where she worked with Rachel Merz studying worm burrowing and distribution in the muddy intertidal zone. She then worked as the lab manager in Sheila Patek’s lab at Duke University examining the behavioral strategies that mantis shrimp use when hammering open hard-shelled prey
