Principal Investigator

Amber M. Rice, Ph.D. Amber attained a BA in Biology from the College of Wooster and a Ph.D. in Biology from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. She completed her graduate research with David Pfennig, and investigated ecological character displacement and its consequences for population divergence and speciation. She then completed a postdoc on the genetics of speciation with Anna Qvarnström at Uppsala University in Sweden. Amber returned to UNC and completed a postdoc with Karin Pfennig on reproductive character displacement’s ability to initiate speciation. In 2011, she started her lab at Lehigh University. For information on the Rice Lab’s projects, please visit our Research and Publications pages. Contact Amber at: amr511 [at] lehigh [dot] edu

 

Graduate Students

Alex V. Huynh, Ph.D. candidate. Alex joined the lab in 2015. Before coming to Lehigh, he attained his BS in Biology at Moravian College. Alex’s past research includes the chemical ecology of plant-insect interactions, plant polyphenolic chemistry, plant-pollinator ecology, and the ecology of invasive species. He is currently interested in chemical signaling, and the role that it may play in prezygotic isolation between hybridizing chickadee species. Alex combines field and behavioral studies with genetic and chemical analyses. Contact Alex at: avh210 [at] lehigh [dot] edu

Undergraduate Students

Alexa Guitmann

Giovanni Zlaket

Lab Alumni

Jessie Brill ’18 (BS-Biology), undergraduate researcher 2016-2018, now employed at Epic in Verona, Wisconsin

Brenda Bukowiecki ’15 (BS-Biology), undergraduate researcher 2015, now in medical school

Sophia Dent ’13 (BS-Biology), undergraduate researcher 2012-2013, now in graduate school at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

Thomas Fox ’14 (BS-Biology), undergraduate researcher 2013-2014, now at Tulane University School of Medicine

Ryan Herbert ’16 (BS-Earth and Environmental Sciences), undergraduate researcher and Presidential Scholar 2016-2017, now in graduate school at Princeton University

Rebecca Jones ’18 (BS-Biology), undergraduate researcher 2017-2018

Ian Kelleher ’15 (BS-IDEAS), undergraduate researcher 2013-2015, earned master’s in biomedical sciences from Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine in 2017, and now employed as a biodefense analyst

Elena Martin ’16 (BS-Biology), undergraduate researcher 2015-2016

Dr. Michael McQuillan ’18 (PhD-Integrative Biology), now a postdoctoral researcher with Dr. Sarah Tishkoff at the University of Pennsylvania

Olivia Mobarakai ’17 (BS-Biology), undergraduate researcher 2016-2017

Chandler Navara ’13 (BS-Earth and Environmental Sciences) ’15 (MS-Earth and Environmental Sciences), Master’s student 2013-2015, now in veterinary school at the University of Pennsylvania

Sean Nelson ’16 (BS-Biology), undergraduate researcher 2014-2016, now in graduate school at the University of Rochester

Jade Radigan ’16 (BS-Biology), undergraduate researcher 2016

Dr. Heidi Seears, postdoc 2013-2015, now a postdoc at the University of Virginia

Rebecca Silverman ’14 (BS-Biology), undergraduate researcher 2012-2014, now at Tufts University Medical School

Joseph Skibbens ’17 (BA-Biology and International Relations), undergraduate researcher 2015-2017, now employed at Lancaster Labs

Sarah Tsuruo (transferred to another university), undergraduate researcher 2018.

Joanna Warren ’15 (BA-Biology and International Relations), undergraduate researcher 2012-2015, now in graduate school at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

Kathryn Wexler ’18 (BS-Biology), undergraduate researcher 2017-2018.