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PI - Tom Powell
Associate Professor 
Department of Biological Sciences
Office- 214 Science IV
email- [email protected]

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I started as a faculty member at Binghamton in August 2016. I came here after a postdoc in Dan Hahn's evolutionary physiology lab in the Entomology and Nematology Department at the University of Florida. Before that, I spent time as visiting postdoc working with Art Weis at the University of Toronto's Koffler Scientific Reserve. I did my PhD at the University of Notre Dame under the guidance of Jeff Feder. My undergrad alma mater is Shepherd University in West Virginia, where I had the opportunity to start my research career in Tim King's conservation genetics lab at the USGS Leetown Science Center.  

Graduate Students

If you are interested in the joining the lab, please see "opportunities" above for more information. 
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Pheobe Deneen

Office - 220 Science IV
email - [email protected]
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I am a  PhD student in the Powell Lab. I graduated from UMass Amherst in May 2017; my undergraduate research in the Adler Lab was on how the chemical composition of pollen affects parasite load in bumblebees. I am broadly interested in how multitrophic systems respond to environmental changes, as well as speciation in plant-insect systems.







Gabriella Quartuccia


Office - 220 Science IV
email - [email protected]

I received my BS in Biological Sciences from the University at Buffalo in 2016 where I worked with Dr. Charlotte Lindqvist on examining the evolution of brown, black, and polar bears in the Arctic throughout time using SDM computer modeling. In my time off from school I worked as a Veterinary Assistant and as a Research Technician in a cardiometabolic genomics lab; both of which aided in my decision to return to graduate school and join the Powell lab. I am a first year PhD student in the Powell lab and I am broadly interested in evolutionary genetics and speciation biology. I particularly want to aid in identifying genetic variations between closely related species, elucidating the functional advantage these variants may confer, and overall trying to answer the question “what is a species?”.



Jordyn Condrate

Office - 220 Science IV
email - [email protected]

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am a Ph.D. student in the Powell Lab. I graduated from the University of Rochester in May 2021. While there, I researched the genetics of ethanol and heat tolerance of common fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster with Dr. James D. Fry. I also investigated parasitoid wasp (Nasonia) courtship and mating behavior, as well as their species distributions in wild bird nests over time with Dr. John (Jack) Werren. I am interested in how environmental changes due to climate change play a role in insect speciation, as well as the underlying genetics behind these changes. I am currently working with the apple maggot fly, Rhagoletis pomonella.


Stephanie Nguyen

Office - 220 Science IV
email - [email protected]

I worked with Dr. Scott Pitnick at Syracuse University on the
Drosophila Evolutionary Phenomics (DEP) project, both as an undergraduate researcher and a research technician. This endeavor quantified 25 behavioral, morphological, physiological, and molecular traits in 150 species of Drosophila and related genera. In particular, I was in charge of quantifying the sex-specific longevity and the age-specific fecundity of these species. I am excited to be working in the Powell lab and further explore my interest in evolutionary biology. I am currently investigating how different environmental factors affect Rhagoletis' life history timing and its effects on speciation. (P.S. I like dogs.)

Janelle B. Talavera (co-advised with Lindsey Swierk)

Office - 220 Science IV
email - [email protected]

I am a PhD student in the Swierk and Powell Labs. In May 2020 I received my BS in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from California State University Northridge, where I worked with Dr. David Gray and Dr. Jeanne Robertson. As an undergraduate I investigated the evolution of prezygotic isolation and speciation among three groups of closely related field crickets. I also investigated the coevolution of signalers and receivers in the field cricket, Gryllus lineaticeps, and parasitoid fly, Ormia ochracea. I also researched sex differences in the costs of boldness in water anoles, Anolis aquaticus, with Dr. Bree Putman and Dr Lindsey Swierk. My undergraduate research experiences shaped my love for behavioral ecology and speciation. I am currently investigating behavioral and ecological reproductive isolating mechanisms and the genomic context of speciation in a water anole species complex.

Chris A. DeAngelis (co-advised with Kirsten Prior)
Office- 220 Science IV
email- [email protected]

I graduated from Binghamton University with a BS in Biological Sciences in 2019 and completed an MAT in Adolescent Biology Education at SUNY New Paltz. Before starting my PhD, I worked in secondary education, teaching multiple levels of biology. I am broadly interested in studying the mutualistic relationship between ants and myrmecochorous plants.

Outside of the lab, I enjoy golfing, hiking, listening to music, writing, stargazing, and spending time with his family.


Current undergraduate researchers:

  
    Antoinetta Raymond C'25 Biology

    Emma Leonard  C'25 Biology

    Mena Coles-Carruthers C'25 Biology

    Hailey Jurenko  C'24 Biology

    Cassandra Smutny C'25 Biology

    Leah Rosenheim    C'25  Biology


Field work specialist:
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Former Lab Members:

Postdocs

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Alycia Lackey 2017-2020
Currently Assistant Prof. U. Louisville
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Graduate Students

Undergraduate researchers


    Adeenah Ahmed     C'19  Integrative Neuroscience, MD-MPH SUNY Upstate Medical

    Austin Dukat          C'19  Biology, NYIT Osteopathic Medicine

    David Fama            C'19  Biology, Binghamton PharmD

    Stephanie Maung   C'18  Biology, Binghamton Nursing Program

    Nadia Mirza           C'19  Biology, Arabic, History, Boston University PhD program

    Maria Molina         C'19  Environmental Studies, SUNY Research Foundation

    Eden Romeo          C'19 Biology, Native Food Sovereignty Fellow, AmeriCorp

    Maria Santa Cruz   C'18  Integrative Neuroscience, NYIT Osteopathic Medicine

    Brooke Thornhill   C'19  Biology, Stony Brook DDS

    Kelsey McCarthy   C'19 Biology, Cornell Veterinary Medicine

    Alyssa Murray       C'19 Biological Anthropology, Tufts PhD Program

    Steve Silverman     C'20 Biology, Stony Brook Marine Biology MS
 
    Sydney Silverman  C'20 Integrative Neuro., Columbia U. Human Nutrition MS

    Andrew Lupinski   C'21 Biology, Notre Dame PhD Program

    Sophia Hall            C'21 Biology, U. Washington Genetic Counseling MS
 
    Hannah Episcopia  C'21 Biology, Advanced Clinical Staff Scientist

    Amanda Pizzo        C'22 Biology, Rutgers U. PA program

    Jordyn-Paige Plair  C'22 Biology, Research Microbiology, NovoBiotic Pharmaceuticals

    Kathryn Guathier   C'22 Integrative Neuroscience

    Madeline Koeble    C'22 Biology
   
    Kathy Fridich         C'22 Psychology, Lab Manager, Prior Lab, Binghamton U.

    Louise Wagenseil   C'23  Environmental Studies

    Kwame Adu           C'23  Biology

    Hannah Roth          C'23  Integrative Neuroscience

    Veronica Carranza  C'24  Chemistry
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