Dr. Lila Fishman Professor
lila.fishman@umontana.edu
Office: ISB 319, 243-5166
Dr. Trinity Depatie Postdoc
Evan Stark-Dykema
PhD Candidate
Meiotic drive
Natalie Dietz
PhD Candidate
Life history and physiology
Will Conner
Awesome shared (w/ Cooper Lab) bioinformatician in the cloud…
Tim Wheeler
Awesome shared wetlab tech, CMMB PhD student, Lichen + macrofungus expert, Photographer
Dr. October Moynahan
ECOR Manager and all-round plant growth and phenotyping maven
Dr. David (Denghui) Xing
Senior Research Scientist on molecular components of drive and stigma closure projects (and UMGC Manager)
Rose Meyer
Undergraduate researcher and plant-care helper extraordinaire
Rayne McCoullough
Undergraduate researcher
Hadley Bybee
Undergraduate researcher
Campbell Forkner
Undergraduate researcher
Bela Browning
Undergraduate researcher
Holly Eisenstadt
High School Intern
Lab Alumni
Postdocs
Thom Nelson - Statistical Geneticist, Embark Veterinary, Ithaca NY
Findley Finseth - Assoc. Professor, Keck Science Department, Claremont Colleges
Andrea Sweigart - Professor, University of Georgia
Camille Barr (Patent Lawyer, deceased)
Graduate Students
Dr. Colette Berg (PhD) - Postdoctoral Researcher, Michigan State University
Kory Kolis (MS) - Researcher, O’Connor Center for the Rocky Mountain West
Angela Stathos (MS) - Researcher, Monsanto
Dr. Margaret Cherne-Hendrick (MS) - Senior Lead in Innovation & Impact @ Fresh Energy
Eli Loomis (MS) - Instructor, Western Washington University and Executive Director/Instructure of BOSS (BOulder OUlder Survival School)
Dr. Paula Alejandra Trillo (PhD) - Assoc. Professor, Gettysburg College
Undergraduate and Post-baccalaureate Students (a small subset…)
Kailey Baesen (‘20) - Lab Manager, College of Forestry, Northern Arizona University
Peter Breigenzer (‘17) - MS, College of Forestry, University of Maine
Dr. Brooke Kern (‘17) - Postdoc in Plant Evolutionary Genomics, University of South Carolina
Dr. Mariah McIntosh (‘16) - Science to Implementation Specialist, Inter-Mountain Joint Venture
Dr. Tyler Huggins (‘08) - co-Founder & CEO Meati Foods; Founder, Stealth Start-up
Dr. Arpiar Saunders (post-bacc. mid-2000s) - Asst. Professor, Neuroscience, OHSU
Dr. John Tuthill (post-bacc. mid-2000s) - Asst. Professor, Neuroscience, University of Washington
And many more!!!