Chelsea is a new PhD student in the Hobson Lab who started in January 2021. She earned her undergraduate degree at Mills College in Oakland, CA, where she studied behavioral ecology of California ground squirrels in Dr. Jenn Smith’s lab. Chelsea studied for a M.Sc. In Applied Animal Behaviour and Animal Welfare from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, U.K. For her capstone project she joined the Auersperg Lab at the Messerli Research Institute of the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna to study social cognition in Goffin cockatoos.

Chelsea’s plan for research in the Hobson Lab is to study the relationship between sociality and stress in Monk parakeets. She is interested in using the study of animal behavior to assess and improve animal welfare in scientific and evidence-based ways.

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Mindy Chen

Graduate Assistant, Biological Sciences

chen3s6@mail.uc.edu

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Bruna Ciuffa Maria

Graduate Assistant, Biological Sciences

ciuffaba@mail.uc.edu

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Jasper A Damewood

Graduate Assistant, Biological Sciences

damewoja@mail.uc.edu

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Asima Das

Graduate Assistant, Biological Sciences

das2am@mail.uc.edu

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Chandrima Das

Graduate Assistant, Biological Sciences

dasca@mail.uc.edu

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Xavier George Francis

Graduate Assistant, Biological Sciences

francixr@mail.uc.edu

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Nicholas Gabbard

Biological Sciences

gabbarns@mail.uc.edu

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Cesar Gonzalez Zermeno

Graduate Assistant, Biological Sciences

Rieveschl Hall

513-556-9700

gonzalc8@mail.uc.edu

I'm pursuing my Master's at Dr. Noelia Lander's lab. My research focuses on cAMP-related genes in Trypanosoma cruzi, learning about the signaling pathways in this parasite that could aid in the development of new treatment options for Chagas disease.

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Aaron Angelo Hamrick

Graduate Assistant, Biological Sciences

hamricaa@mail.uc.edu

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Lauren Elizabeth Heininger

Clinical Lab Scientist 1, Biological Sciences

Hoxworth Center (4-5)

513-558-1500

heininle@ucmail.uc.edu

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Omeshi Chamiska Uluwaduge Uluwaduge Hewa Uluwaduge

Graduate Assistant, Biological Sciences

uluwadca@mail.uc.edu

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Kaitlyn Rose Hines

Biological Sciences

hines2kn@mail.uc.edu

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Syeda Farjana Hoque

Graduate Assistant, Biological Sciences

hoquesa@mail.uc.edu

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Dilini Randima Rasanjali K Herath Mudiyanselage

Graduate Assistant, Biological Sciences

karunadi@mail.uc.edu

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Murukkuwadurage Ama Upeksha Upeksha Karunarathne

Graduate Assistant, Biological Sciences

karunamu@mail.uc.edu

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Deniz Korman

Graduate Assistant, Biological Sciences

kormandz@mail.uc.edu

Research interests: Sensory ecology, visual perception, functional morphology, computational modelling

Advisor: Dr. Nathan Morehouse (Morehouse Lab webpage)

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Olivia Renee Leek

Graduate Assistant, Biological Sciences

Rieveschl Hall

513-556-9700

leekoa@mail.uc.edu

Olivia is a Master's student in the Tepe lab studying herbarium collecting biases in the Northen Appalachian region. She is also the Collection's Manager at the Margaret H. Fulford Herbarium (CINC) since 2021.

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Mattea A Lewis

Graduate Assistant, Biological Sciences

lewis4ms@mail.uc.edu

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Abhinav Madabhushi

Graduate Assistant, Biological Sciences

madabhan@mail.uc.edu

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Zoe M Marczak

Graduate Assistant, Biological Sciences

marczazm@mail.uc.edu

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Augustus P McAnally

Graduate Assistant, Biological Sciences

mcanalap@mail.uc.edu

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Morgan Marie McNeely

Biological Sciences

mcneelmm@mail.uc.edu

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Michael Spencer Meece

Graduate Assistant, Biological Sciences

meeceml@mail.uc.edu

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Stephanie A Meyers

Asst Professor - Educator, Biological Sciences

meyerss4@ucmail.uc.edu

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Amartya Tashi Mitra

Graduate Assistant, Biological Sciences

mitraat@mail.uc.edu

Vision, Evolution, Development
Advisor: Dr Buschbeck

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V Darby Darby Moore

Biological Sciences

moore2vd@mail.uc.edu

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Danielle Newsome

Graduate Assistant, Biological Sciences

newsomde@mail.uc.edu

Danielle is a new graduate student who joined Dr Josh Gross's lab in fall 2023. She earned her undergraduate degree in biological sciences at the University of New Orleans in fall 2022. Her research interests there included genomic sequencing and diversity of Hawaiian Drosophila in Dr Joel Atallah's lab.

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Claire Lawrence O'Connell

PhD student Rieveschl Hall 837 , Biological Sciences

oconneca@mail.uc.edu

Behavioral ecology, social cognition, social relationships, social networks, dominance hierarchies
Advisor: Elizabeth Hobson
Hobson Lab website

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Kehinde Adewole Oniyide

Graduate Assistant, Biological Sciences

oniyidka@mail.uc.edu

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Kosisochukwu Dematus Onyeagba

Graduate Assistant, Biological Sciences

onyeagkd@mail.uc.edu

Kosisochukwu is a Ph.D. student in Benoit’s lab, where he studies the physiology and sensory biology of ticks, focusing on how the Haller’s organ detects humidity. His research examines how disrupting this hygrosensory ability affects tick survival, oviposition, and reproduction, with the goal of developing novel and ecologically sustainable strategies for tick control.

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