Click on the name of each lab member to learn more about their work.
Principal Investigator
Professor, UW Biology
Curator of Mammals, Burke Museum
Staff
Mammalogy Collection Manager
Postdoctoral Scholars
Iroro Tanshi (WRF Fellow)
Main project: Traits for conservation: Afrotropical bat ecomorphology with a focus on the Endangered Short-tailed Roundleaf bat
PhD Students
Thesis topic: Ecomorphological and trophic diversification of Neotropical myomorphous rodents
Thesis topic: Morphological and genetic variation in chipmunks (Tamias)
Thesis topic: TBD
Flo Visconti
Thesis topic: Untangling the olfactory enigma in the Chestnut short-tailed fruit bat
Thesis topic: TBD
Undergraduate Researchers
Abby Burtner
Main projects: Evolution of body shape diversity in Sciuridae; evolutionary modeling of mammal limb morphologies
AJ Patterson
Main projects: The role of developmental bias in bat molar diversity; Ecomorphology and macroevolution of the bat feeding apparatus
Annika McFeely
Main project: Evolution of body shape diversity in Sciuridae
Arion Chao
Main project: Mandible functional morphology in reptiles
Sneha Sil
Main projects: Ecological and evolutionary interactions between bats and plants; acoustics analytical methods
Tate Linden
Main project: Evolution of body shape diversity in Sciuridae
Alumni
Chris Law – Postdoctoral Scholar (2019-2022)
Jessica Arbour – Postdoctoral Scholar (2016-2019)
Ada Kaliszewska – Postdoctoral Scholar (2015-2019)
Rochelle Kelly – PhD, 2019; Thesis: Diversity, distributions, and activity of bats in the San Juan Islands
Leith Leiser-Miller – PhD, 2019; Thesis: Sensory ecology, morphology and behavior of Neotropical leaf-nosed bats
Katie Stanchak – PhD, 2019; Thesis: Functional anatomy and evolution of a novel skeletal element in bat feet
Abby Vander Linden – Research Technician (2013-2015)
We are deeply thankful to the numerous undergraduate alumni who have contributed to our research, collection operations, and outreach over the years.
