Lab Alumni
Dr. Genevieve Mount (2021-2023, NSF Postdoc)
Genna completed an NSF PRFB in our lab, coadvised by the Womack Lab at Utah State University on the evolutionary drivers and consequences of sexually selected trait loss. She investigated vocal sac loss in frogs,
Genna started working as a bioinformatician at Boehringer Ingelheim in Sept 2023.
Contact: ggmountt [at] gmail [dot] com
Veryan Brown (2022-2022, UCB undergrad)
Veryan graduated in December 2022.
Contact: veryanbrown [at] berkeley [dot] edu
Novia Kayfetz-Vuong (2021-2022, UC undergrad)
Novia graduated in 2022 and is now working in biotech.
Contact: noviakayfetzvuong [at] berkeley [dot] edu
Sofia Guajardo Beskid (2021, NSF REU)
Sofia graduated UT in Spring 2022 and as of 2023 is a graduate student at Stanford. Sofia was a coauthor on our Douglas et al., 2022 paper about the use of nicotine in fruit flies against wasp parasites.
Contact: sbeskid [at] utexas [dot] edu
Yin Chen Wan (2018-2020, visiting undergrad & tech)
Yin graduated with a degree in Genetics from University College Dublin in May 2020 and as of 2020 is pursuing a PhD in Molecular Genetics at the University of Toronto. While in the lab, Yin did her honors thesis working on visual opsin evolution in poison frogs (Chen et al., 2023).
Contact: yinchen202009 [at] gmail [dot] com
Poppy Northing (2022-2023, Lab technician)
Poppy received her BS in Biology from Haverford College and spent a year as a lab technician in our group managing the evolving toxic fruit flies experiment. She started her PhD at the University of Arizona in Fall 2023.
Contact: pcnorthing [at] arizona [dot] edu
Bri Baumbach (2021-2022, UCB undergrad)
Bri graduated in 2023 and as of 2023 is working in the Jepson Herbarium
Contact: bribaumbach [at] berkeley [dot] edu
Zahara Gianni Gali (2021-2022, UC undergrad)
Zahara graduated in Spring 2022.
Contact: zzrock [at] berkeley [dot] edu
Kate Montana (2019-2020, UC undergrad)
Kate graduated from IB in May 2020. Kate was awarded the Department’s Award in Natural History! While in the lab, Kate conducted an honors thesis on potential TTX resistance in Pacific Chorus Frogs that are sympatric with toxin newts (Montana et al., 2023). Kate obtained a masters degree at the CAS in 2023 and is looking for PhD programs as of 2023.
Contact: kmontana [at] berkeley [dot] edu
Dr. Inga Conti-Jerpe (2021-2023, NSF Postdoc)
Inga completed an NSF PRFB in our lab coadvised by Todd Dawson (UC Berkeley). While in the lab, Inga developed new protocols for measuring trophic niches of plants, fungi, and marine organisms. Inga left for a tenure-track job at Lingnan University in 2023.
Marc Bonnot (2021-2022, UC undergrad)
Marc left the lab in 2022 to continue in another research position at the MVZ.
Contact: mpb0614 [at] berkeley [dot] edu
Dr. Lawrence Uricchio (2019-2021, Postdoc)
Lawrence joined the tenure-track faculty at Tufts University in 2021.
Kannon Pearson (2020-2021, UC undergrad)
Kannon graduated from UC Berkeley in May 2021 and then joined the lab as a graduate student. As an undergraduate, Kannon did an honors thesis reviewing the ecology and evolution of chemical defenses in Harlequin toads (Pearson and Tarvin 2022).
Luis Jazo (2021-2022, UC undergrad)
Luis graduated in Spring 2022 and as of 2022 is working in biotech.
Contact: luisjazo [at] berkeley [dot] edu
Dr. Tyler Douglas (2019-2023, PhD student)
Tyler completed his PhD in the UC Berkeley Integrative Biology program in the Tarvin Lab. His research was focused on the experimental evolution of chemical defense in fruit flies (Douglas et al., 2022, Douglas et al., in prep) and on genome size evolution in poison frogs (Douglas et al., bioRxiv).
Tyler graduated in December 2023 and will seek out work in biotech or clinical research starting in 2024.
Contact: tyler.douglas [at] berkeley [dot] edu
Connor Tumelty (2020-2022, UC undergrad)
Connor graduated in 2023 and as of 2024 was pursuing a PhD in plant biology at UC Davis.
Kristen Tamsil (2018-2020, UC undergrad)
Kristen graduated from UC Berkeley in May 2020 and as of 2023 she currently in med school at Touro in Vallejo. Kristen was a coauthor on our Douglas et al., 2022 paper about the use of nicotine in fruit flies against wasp parasites.
Noah Martin (2019-2020, UC undergrad)
Noah graduated from UC Berkeley with a degree in Integrative Biology in May 2020.
Noah was awarded the 2019 Conchologists of America Academic Grant!
Zongzhuang (Sanderling) Liu (Visiting student 2019)
Zongzhuang graduated in 2020 and is currently (2023) a Masters student studying Ecology and Conservation at Uppsala University, Sweden
Rachel Ong (2020-2021, UC undergraduate)