PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
Barnabas Daru
Postdoc – Harvard University
PhD – University of Johannesburg
BSc – University of Jos
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STUDENTS AND POSTDOCS
Gabriel Nakamura (Daru Lab)
Postdoc
Research: Methods and tools development in macroecology and biogeography
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Alex Aromin (Daru Lab)
PhD student
Research: NSF project on phyloregion
Paul Markley (Daru Lab)
PhD student
Research: The changing nature of Arctic plant diversity
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Kendall Johnson (Pezold & Daru Labs)
PhD student
Research: The Phylogeny and Evolution of Gobioid Fishes
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THIS COULD BE YOU!
Please contact me about opportunities for undergraduate research experience, graduate study, or postdoctoral research in my lab
LAB ALUMNI
Jordan Rodriguez (Undergraduate)
Jordan was an undergraduate student & herbarium intern in the Daru lab from 2019 to 2022. Her research focused on disentangling the mismatches in plant sampling biases between vouchered specimens and observations.
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Brianna Rock (Masters)
Brianna joined the lab in Jan 2019 & successfully defended her Masters in July 2021. Brianna’s research focused on assessing seagrass evolutionary diversity in the Anthropocene. Her work resulted in 2 first-author papers, one published in Frontiers in Marine Science, and another under review at Nature Plants.
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Piyal Karunarathne (Postdoc)
Piyal was a postdoc in the lab from June 2019 to August 2020. Piyal focused on developing a modeling framework to determine the evolutionary origin of biomes at a global scale. Piyal co-authored a paper in Methods Ecol Evol describing a new R package phyloregion. After finishing in the Daru lab, Piyal accepted a postdoctoral fellowship in Sweden.
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LINKS TO COLLABORATORS
April Wright Lab
(Southeastern Louisiana University)
Emily Meineke Lab
(University of California, Davis)
Klaus Schliep
(Graz University of Technology, Austria)
Charles Davis Lab
(Harvard University)
Betsy Arnold Lab
(University of Arizona)