Spasojevic Ecology Lab

Assistant Professor

Marko J. Spasojevic

Ph.D. 2010 University of California Irvine, Irvine CA. School of Biological Sciences. Dissertation: “Species, trait, and phylogenetic associations in the alpine tundra: insights into the processes that affect community composition”. Advisor: Dr. Katharine N. Suding

B.S. 2004 University of Washington, Seattle WA. Major: Biology (Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation)

A.S. 2002 Shoreline Community College, Seattle WA.

Research Interests: Community assembly, Plant functional traits, Biogeography, Global change, Plant-Soil interactions, Plant hemiparasites.

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Postdoctoral Researchers

Jonathan Henn

B.A. Biology, St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN, 2012
Ph.D. Integrative Biology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2020
 

Research Interests: Plant community change, restoration ecology, climate change, plant functional traits 

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Graduate students

Jared Anderson-Huxley

B.S. 2013 Biology, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz CA. 

Research Interests: Community Ecology, Biogeography, and Global Change Biology

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Magda Argueta Guzman
Co-advised with Quinn McFrederick

B.S. 2014. Biology, The Autonomous Metropolitan University from Mexico City (Spanish: Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Xochimilco, Ciudad de México)
M.S. 2017. M. S., The National Autonomous University of Mexico (Spanish: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM).

Research Interests: Community ecology, Biogeography, Species interactions, Pollinators and their associated microbes

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Ariana Firebaugh Ornelas
Co-advised with Loralee Larios

B.A. Biology, 2018 B.A. Environmental Science

Research Interests: Community assembly, coexistence, plant functional traits, and environmental filtering

AJ Lodge

B.A. 2018 Honors Environmental Biology, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY

Research Interests: alpine ecology, community ecology, biogeography, and global change biology

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Tesa Madsen-McQueen

M.S. 2018 Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC

B.S. 2015 Environmental Plant Science, Missouri State University, Springfield, MO 

Research Interests: Community Ecology, Arid Ecosystems, and Global Change Biology 

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Erin McCann

B.S. 2011 Biology, (minors in Chemistry and Environmental Science) Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem N.C.

Research Interests: Community Ecology, Species distributions, and Global Change Biology

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Undergraduates

Kristen Prattipati

B.S. In progress University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA. Major: Biology 

Advyth Ramachandran 

B.S. In progress University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA. Major: Biology 

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Research Interests: Biogeography, Global Climate Change

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Sena Sadri

B.S. In progress University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA. Major: Biology 

Melissa Salguero

B.S. In progress University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA. Major: Biology 

Alumni

Michel Au (Undergraduate, 2019-2021)

Dan Logan (Undergraduate, 2019-2020)

Lisa Schauer (Lab Manager, Technician 2018-2019)

Shane McFaul (Technician 2018-2019)

Miguel Solis (Undergraduate 2017-2018, Technician 2018-2019)

Martin Arceo (Undergraduate 2016-2017), undergraduate UCSD  

Soren Weber (Lab Manager 2016-2018), PhD Student in Zurich 

Hina Varachhia (Undergraduate 2018-2019) 

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