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Osmary Medina-Báez
Osmary Medina-Báez
PhD
PhD
Osmary is broadly interested in the ecophysiology of ectotherms.
website: https://osmarymedina.github.io/
Dr. Angela J. Brandt, PhD
Dr. Angela J. Brandt, PhD
Dunedin, New Zealand
Dunedin, New Zealand
Angela studies the role of spatio-temporal environmental heterogeneity on biological invasions and species coexistence, and how species characteristics affect their interactions and outcomes of invasion or restoration. See our work on spatial soil heterogeneity and coexistence (Brandt et al. 2013, Brandt et al. 2014, Burns and Brandt 2014, del Pino et al. 2015, Brandt et al. 2015, Burns et al. 2017). Angela is now working as a postdoctoral fellow with Dr. Bill Lee in New Zealand at Landcare Research.
"Grant" Yu Liu,
"Grant" Yu Liu,
PhD
PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Louisiana State University
Louisiana State University
Grant is studying the microbiome and disease resistance in Rhododendron (Liu and Burns 2018, Liu 2018, Liu et al. 2021, Liu 2023).
Dr. Colin Cope, PhD
Dr. Colin Cope, PhD
Research Statistician,
Research Statistician,
Patrick Airforce Base, Florida
Patrick Airforce Base, Florida
Colin studies how species interactions such as herbivory and soil biota mediate biological invasions (Cope 2018, Cope and Burns 2019, Cope et al. 2020).
Dr. Jennifer E. Murphy, PhD
Dr. Jennifer E. Murphy, PhD
Biostatistician,
Biostatistician,
University Hospitals
University Hospitals
Jennifer is studying the correlates of global invasiveness in the Roses, using detailed physiological studies and phylogenetic comparative methods (Murphy et al. 2016, Murphy 2019).
Dr. Andrew C. Lance,
Dr. Andrew C. Lance,
PhD
PhD
Restoration Project Manager, Western New York Land Conservancy
Restoration Project Manager, Western New York Land Conservancy
Andy is studies temperate tree restoration (Lance et al. 2019, 2020a, b).
Dissertations
Dissertations
Cope, C.G. 2018. Understanding above- and belowground interactions within invasion biology: an integrative approach across a forest community. PhD Thesis. Department of Biology, Case Western Reserve University.
Lance, Andrew C. 2020. Soil microbiota and ecological restoration: connections and implications for practice. PhD Thesis. Department of Biology, Case Western Reserve University.
Liu, Yu. 2023. The role of soil biota in plant invasions and plant defense to a soil-borne pathogen. PhD Thesis. Department of Biology, Case Western Reserve University.
Medina-Báez, Osmary. 2025. Vulnerability of butterflies to climate change. PhD Thesis. Department of Biology, Case Western Reserve University.
Murphy, J.E. 2019. The beginning and legacy of Rosa multiflora invasions: Understanding the mechanisms that drive its success Across Stages of Invasion. PhD Thesis. Department of Biology, Case Western Reserve University.
Ósvaldsson, A. 2019. Examining the influence of winter climate change across species and scales: a case for studying winter in temperate systems. PhD Thesis. Department of Biology, Case Western Reserve University.
Alums
Tristan Acosta-Pecina. RA-LEAFY. 2021
Lexi Blood. Hawken High School.
Margaret Bounds.
Lane Chesler, Hathaway Brown High School.
Noah Clayton, Undergraduate student Oglebay Summer undergraduate fellow.
Anna Cryan Undergraduate student BIOL388: Independent Research in Biology. Quantifying Plant Disease in Rhododendron Species Using Color Image Analysis.
Gaston del Pino, SPUR fellow. (del Pino et al. 2015).
Rae Dwyer, Undergraduate student. RA-LEAFY: Testing the growth-defense tradeoff versus superpowers hypotheses across Rhododendron species.
Deanna Drenton, GLISTEN undergraduate stewardship liaison.
Alex Faidiga. Alex is interested in floral evolution and pollen limitation.
Jessica Furlough. Oglebay Undergraduate Fellow.
Jenny Fu. Mayfield High School. Volunteer.
Nathan Gilbert. Oglebay Undergraduate Fellow.
Kathleen Grigsby. Kat is interested in species interactions, including between plants and soil microbes.
Lauren Huffman, GLISTEN undergraduate stewardship liaison.
Angela Kaczowka, SPUR fellow (Burns et al. 2017). Angela is an Assistant Professor of Practice at Agricultural Education Department, University of Arizona.
Kasey Kiesewetter, undergraduate honors in biology. Kasey has started in the PhD program at the University of Miami, in the Afkhami Lab.
Nicole LaReddola. RA-LEAFY. 2021
Conor Leahy, SPUR fellow.
Colin Lestina.
Aaron Marin. Undergraduate student. IRIHSE undergraduate fellow (Interdisciplinary Research at the Interface of Health Science and the Environment ) PI: Blanton Tolbert, Chemistry, Expanding Horizons Initiative, CWRU.
Brad Ochocki, visiting scholar. Brad is currently a member of the Tom E. X. Miller lab at Rice University. Congratulations, Brad!
Elizabeth Odil, undergraduate researcher.
Anika Sharma.
Matthew Sievers, undergraduate researcher.
Danielle Sirivat. Undergraduate student. SOURCE undergraduate fellow, CWRU. Investigating the Limits of Biological Invasions Through Belowground Interactions between Lupinus polyphyllus and fungal pathogens.
Benjamin Sulka, undergraduate researcher.
Drake Sweet, NSF REU fellow, undergraduate honors in biology (Sweet and Burns, 2017).
Rosana Villafan. Undergraduate student.
Christine Yu, undergraduate researcher.
Cameron Ward, undergraduate researcher.
Kayla Williams RA-LEAFY.
Xiaoni Zhao, undergraduate researcher.
Yu-Long Zheng, Visiting Scholar. Visiting from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden and funded by a Chinese Academy of Science Fellowship. See our work in Zheng et al. (2018, Ecology Letters).
Nicole Zimmerman, undergraduate researcher.
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