Evolab -- UC Berkeley
2009-2010
Seek us out in Hilgard Hall, Wellman Hall, Wellman Rotunda, the Essig/Berkeley Natural History Museum, a remote Pacific Island, the California desert, the Sierras, or the Free Speech Movement Cafe on campus. • See our new Evoblog ! •
Terrestrial arthropods: evolution, population biology, biodiversity science.
Principal Investigators
Evolution, systematics, conservation of spiders
Population biology, invasion genetics of insects
Graduate Students
Island biogeography
Natalia Chousou-Polydouri
Spider systematics and biogeography
Kari Roesch Goodman (also Welter lab)
Insect/plant interactions in Hawaii
Margarita Hadjistylli
Origins of biotypes in whiteflies
Evolution of insect/plant mutualisms in the Pacific
Jennifer Imamura
Pollination biology and invasions
Steve Lew (Will lab)
Spider systematics
Joel Ledford (also Griswold lab)
Systematics of cave-dwelling spiders
Veronica Morris (also Simms lab)
Local adaptation of plants to novel environments
Systematics of Cydia moths
Sonja Schwartz
Dispersal of widespread marine organisms
Evolution of assassin spiders in Madagascar
Undergraduates
Christina Cheng
Biogeography of Pacific planthoppers
Danielle Jones
Population genetics of Bemisia whitefly biotypes
Athena Lam
Invasion genetics of whiteflies
Jennifer Tichman
Morphological variation in Parnassian butterflies
Nicole Wong
Butterfly conservation and climate change
Research Scientists, Postdocs, Visitors
Biogeography, systematics of click beetles
Evolutionary genetics; Mygalamorph spiders
Pacific weevils; biodiversity of French Polynesia
Pete Croucher
Origins, genetics of color polymorphism in spiders
Pacific arthropod biodiversity, sap beetles
Jason Kolbe (also Moritz lab)
Adaptation and invasion biology
Ecology, conservation biology, invasive species
Jeff Young
Molecular ecology and evolution