Lab photos over the years
Current Graduate Students
Shelby Palmer (PhD student): Variation and function of calls in Carolina Wrens
Brittaney Buchanan (PhD candidate): Vocalizations and behavior in Northern Bobwhites, call evolution across New World quail
Current Undergraduate Students
Joshua Crauder: Working on the evolution of paired ovaries in diurnal raptors
Tuline AL Hassan: Looking for recombination breaks in manakin genomes
Donna Nesselroth: Looking at distribution and correlates of homopolymers in avian genomes
Former Postdocs
Min Zhao (2022-2024). PhD 2022, University of Florida. Currently a postdoc at Virginia Tech. Worked on theOpenWings project.
Michael Forthman (2016-2020). PhD 2016, University of California, Riverside. Currently a curator at California State Collection of Arthropods (CA Food and Agriculture). Worked with Dr. Miller on the evolution of Coreideoidea.
Peter A. Hosner (2014-2016). PhD 2014, University of Kansas. Currently Curator of Ornithology, Natural History Museum of Copenhagen. Worked on galliform evolution.
Kelly A. Meiklejohn (2012 – 2013). PhD 2012, University of Wollongong, Australia. Currently at North Carolina State University. Worked on galliform evolution.
Tamaki Yuri (2007-2009). PhD, University of Michigan. Currently a curator at Ohio State University. Worked on EarlyBird.
Former Graduate Students (and dissertation/thesis titles)
Ellen Humbel, PhD (2023); co-advised with Lisa Taylor: Courtship and Communication in Jumping Spiders: A Sensory Ecology Perspective
Luis Daniel Montalvo, PhD (2023); co-advised with Scott Robinson: Potential Local Adaptations to Climate and Aggression Territoriality as Drivers of Distributional Ranges of Campylorhynchus in Ecuador and Peru
Carolyn Enloe, PhD (2022): Population Genomic Structure and Geographic Variation in Florida’s Coastal Seaside Sparrows
Min Zhao, PhD (2022): The Phylogenetic Relationships, Diversification and Evolution of Sexual Dichromatism of the Old World Flycatchers, Robins and Chats (Aves, Muscicapidae)
Joni Wright, PhD (2022): An Investigation of Two New World Vultures (Family Cathartidae) Thought to Demonstrate Differences in Olfaction
Tania Chavarria, PhD (2018): Genetic and Phenotypic Population Structure of an Endemic Mangrove Warbler Subspecies (Setophaga petechia xanthotera) along an Environmental Gradient in Costa Rica
Kin Han, PhD (2016): Mating System and Genetic Structure of Brown-Headed Nuthatches (Sitta pusilla) and Their Sister, Pygmy Nuthatches (Sitta pygmaea)
Ambuj Kumar, MS (2016); co-advised with Edward Braun: Tracing Brain Evolution Signal in Eutherian Mammals
Ping Huang, PhD (2016); co-advised with Colette St. Mary: Behavioral Syndrome, Stress Hormone, Melanin-Based Morphological Trait and Urban-Rural Variation of Northern Cardinals (Cardinalis cardinalis)
Jordan Smith, MS (2009); co-advised with Edward Braun: An Independent Test of Ratite Polyphyly
Deena Westbrook, MST (2008): non-thesis
Sarah Haas, MS (2007): Fine-Scale Spatial Genetic Structure in the Brown-Headed Nuthatch (Sitta pusilla)
Melissa Cousins/Nasuti, MS (2006); co-advised with Colette St. Mary: Differential Allocation in the Flagfish, Jordanella floridae, in Response to Male Condition
Gregory Babbitt, PhD (2006); co-advised with Ben Bolker: Characterization of the Distribution of Developmental Instability
Former Undergraduate Students (in alphabetical order)
Frantzie Anestin, Stephen Garrett Arnold, Amber Bonilla, Hyun-Ji Choi, Tara Conway, W. Andrew Cox, Naomi Csaki, Melany Danielson, Helia Dharia, Chandler Downie, Syki Duong, Natasha Elejalde, Carly Ferguson, Elon Fernandez, Katarina Forstheoefel, James Franklin, Ana Galarza, Andrea Garcia, Katherine Ghivizziani, Emily Gordon, Reid Green, Emily Griffith, Marisa Guido, Eliot Gunn, Victoria Heimer-Torres/McGinn, Jorden Holland, Dawson Houghtaling, Amanda Hudson, Sarah Hyde, Shaun Jensen, Gabriel Jerkins, Dieula Johns, Kevin Johnson, Aecha Kimball, Michael Kusniak, Nick Lysak, Laura Patterson, Nicholas Persons, Hannah Phan, Sarah Ring, Alice Rodriguez, Katherine Rozofsky, Laura Salazar, Jordan Smith, Doug Storch, Ryan Tamashiro, Padmaksi Tester, Lindsey Thompson, Caitlin Wildes, Dong Yang, Katie Zelle
Kimball-Braun Lab, Spring 2014. Top row (left to right): Gabe Jerkins, Edward Braun, Nick Persons, Rebecca Kimball, Joni Wright, Akanksha Pandey, Brooke Dayton, Jess Sabo, Jessica Oswald, Tania Chavarria, Ping Huang, Kin Han, and Kelly Meicklejohn. Missing are Melany Danielson and Ambuj Kumar.
