People
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
Education
2011-2013 NIH Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale University
2005-2011 Ph.D., University of Virginia
1998-2003 B.A., Wesleyan University
Google Scholar: Profile
Twitter: @SloanEvoLab
Research Interests: organelles, endosymbionts, mutation rates, genome architecture, and all things evolutionary
SENIOR RESEARCHERS
Education
2005-2009 Ph.D., Colorado State University
2003-2005 M.S., University of Missouri, Columbia
1997-2001 B.S., University of Missouri, Columbia
Research Interests: interspecific interactions, cytonuclear interactions, rapid evolution, plant mating systems, self/non-self recognition
Education
1994-2000 Ph.D., Central University, Jamia Millia Islamia
1992-1994 M.S., Central University, Jamia Millia Islamia
1989-1992 B.S., University of Delhi
Research Interests: functional genomics; gene regulation; biochemical, molecular, and physiological aspects of plant and environment interactions, organelle interactions, and cellular signaling
POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHERS
Education
2015-2021 Ph.D., Washington State University
2011-2014 B.S, Colorado State University
Research Interests: organelle genomics and transcriptomics, cytonuclear interactions, abiotic stress, photosynthesis
GRADUATE STUDENTS
Education
2013-2017 B.S., Sarah Lawrence College
Research Interests: phylogenetics, rates of evolution
Education
2017-2021 B.S., Tarleton State University
Research Interests: phylogenomics, mitonuclear discordance
Education
2018-2020 B.S., Colorado State University
Research Interests: cytoplasmic male sterility and abiotic stress
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS
Elly Freeland
CSU Class of 2027
Jada Joseph
CSU Class of 2025
Jada is studying mitochondrial function in Peromyscus deer mice in collaboration with Shady Kuster and with the Wilsterman and Chicco Labs.
Jenna Marron
CSU Class of 2025
Jenna is working on phylogenetic analysis of MutS gene family diversification in plants.
HONORARY LAB ASSISTANTS
Reed and Asher Sloan
Research Interests: Human cloning
LAB MASCOT
Clifford
Research Interests: Optimal foraging theory
LAB ALUMNI
Senior Researchers
Salah Abdel Ghany, Ph.D. (Associate Professor, Colorado State University)
Peter Fields, Ph.D. (Research Scientist, The Jackson Laboratory)
Postdoctoral Researchers
Justin Havird, Ph.D. (Assistant Professor, University of Texas)
Joel Sharbrough, Ph.D. (Assistant Professor, New Mexico Tech)
Evan Forsythe, Ph.D. (Assistant Professor, Oregon State University-Cascades)
Graduate Students
Gus Waneka, Ph.D.
Jessica Warren , Ph.D. (HHMI Hanna Gray Postdoctoral Fellow with John McCutcheon, Arizona State University)
Alissa Williams, Ph.D. (Postdoctoral Fellow with Susan Balenger, University of Minnesota)
Kate Rockenbach, M.S. (Research Technician, Plant Breeding and Genetics, Anheuser-Busch InBev)
Research Technicians
Matheus Fernandes Gyorfy
Tony Gatts
Forrest-Wold McGimsey
Undergraduate Researchers
Monica Berggren
Olivia Carter
Nicole Coots
Jocelyn Cuthbert
Lucas Dominguez
Diana Gerardo
Haleakala Harroun
Mychaela Hodous
Jessica Hurley
Cody Kalous
Connor King
Kalia Kodrich Saavedra
Jocelyn Lapham
Lio Lee
Luke Link
Xiaorui Lou
Hannah Mendoza
Johanna Michelsohn
Jerrell Mock
Greg Noe
Janna Novak
Braden Pate
Mariella Rivera
Amara Rose
Amber Torres
Paul Trapp
Melody Weber
Nick Whitehill
Lauren Willoughby
Jacob Wilson
High School Interns
Mary Andel
Eric Wright