I am interested in prospective graduate students who want to pursue research on the process of coevolution, and the ways in which evolving interactions organize biodiversity over broad geographic areas. Most students and postdoctoral associates in recent years have pursued questions about how interactions have evolved in different ways in different environments.

Most recent graduate students in my lab have used a combination of field and laboratory or greenhouse experiments and molecular techniques. Some have used a combination of empirical and mathematical approaches.

If you are interested in questions about the coevolutionary process, please take a look at the recent publications from our lab to see if some of the questions and approaches match your research interests. If they do, then send me an email telling me about your background and overall research interests.

Over the years, I have developed a set of guidelines for what I think it takes to be a highly successful graduate student. I give it to all beginning graduate students in my lab, so that we can use it as a basis for working together. The document is intended only as an an aid to help new graduate students learn how to focus on what is important and unimportant as they formulate a dissertation, organize their time, interact with colleagues, and prepare for a professional career. To view a PDF of the document, click here.