University of Michigan
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

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REU Research Projects

Carbon storage in tropical forest plant communities under increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide

 ( Mentor:  David Marvin  )

CLIMBERS: Censusing Lianas in Mesic Biomes of the Eastern Region

 ( Mentor:  Professor Robyn J. Burnham  )

Dietary habits of living and fossil mammals

 ( Mentor:  Professor Catherine Badgley  )

Ecosystem ecology and the impacts of fire and thermokarst in the Arctic

 ( Mentor:  Professor George Kling  )

Evolution of genes controlling meiosis initiation in land plants

 ( Mentor:  Professor Yin-Long Qiu  )

Evolutionary Games of Ants: unmasking the rules of biological invasions

 ( Mentor:  Senay Yitbarek  )

Genetic and developmental mechanisms underlying phenotypic evolution

 ( Mentor:  Professor Patricia Wittkopp  )

How do parasites alter interactions between native and invasive species?

( Mentor:  Professor Meghan Duffy  )

Measuring Regrowth of Trees in Biostation Burn Plots

 ( Mentor:  Knute Nadelhoffer  )

Molecular genetics of ecological adaptations

 ( Mentor:  Professor Thomas F. Duda, Jr.  )

Old forest net absorption of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2)

 ( Mentor:  Luke Nave  )

Population genetic approaches for estimating species boundaries and relationships

 ( Mentor:  Professor L. Lacey Knowles  )

Role of symbiotic bacteria in modulating competitive interactions between freshwater phytoplankton populations

 ( Mentor:  Vincent Denef  )

Spatial dynamics of a complex ecological network in Mexican coffee agroecosystems

 ( Mentor:  Professor John Vandermeer  )

Species discovery and the coexistence of tropical trees

 ( Mentor:  John Guittar  )

The Ecology of Whooping Cough

 ( Mentor:  Doug Jackson  )

The evolution of cognition in wasps

 ( Mentor:  Professor Elizabeth Tibbetts  )

Unmasking the Spatiotemporal Signature of Neurodegenerative Disease

 ( Mentor:  Micaela Martinez-Bakker  )

Urban Agriculture as a science: how biocomplexity and crop variety affect pest prevalence and dispersal through an urban landscape

 ( Mentor:  Theresa Ong  )

Why are there so many Galeommatoidean clams in the sea? Speciation of a group of marine clams

 ( Mentor:  Professor Diarmaid Ó Foighil  )