Current team members
Current team members
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Britt Heidinger
Britt Heidinger
Professor
Email: britt.heidinger@ndsu.edu
I love sharing discoveries with students and collaborators in the field, lab, and classroom. I have long been interested in understanding why some individuals are more resilient to environmental challenges than others.
Hailey Wimberly
MS Student
Email: hailey.r.wimberly@ndsu.edu
I am currently researching IGF-1, growth hormone, and plasticity along a longitudinal gradient and will manipulate temperature and IGF-1 to see if there are effects on body size and shape. I will also examine local IGF-1 receptors in specific tissues.
Rachel Bockrath
PhD Student
Email: rachel.bockrath@ndsu.edu
I am investigating how House sparrows’ body size has changed over the last several decades in response to climate change. I am also investigating how both nestlings and adults alter their physiology and behavior in response to changes in temperature and extreme weather events.
Isaac Rush
PhD Student
Email: isaac.rush@ndsu.edu
My studies focus on the effects of rapid environmental change on the body size and plumage characteristics of the broadly distributed House Sparrow utilizing historical specimens from the 1960s and contemporary specimens that have been collected from similar sites.
Bethany Bespoyasny
PhD Student
Email: bethany.bespoyasny@ndsu.edu
I'm excited to see how feather structure has changed in the last 50 years in response to climate change, and also how it varies across a latitudinal gradient.
Bird lab
Bird lab
We have joint lab meetings and regularly get together with Bird Lab, which includes the Heidinger Lab, the Greives Lab and the Klug Lab!
Team members who have fledged!
Team members who have fledged!
Members of the lab have moved on to successful careers in academia, industry, medicine, and government agencies.
Post-doc at the University of Tennessee
Assistant Professor at San Jose State University
Senior Scientist at Aldevron
Research Scientist at North Dakota State University
Abigail Dennis
PhD Student at the University of Michigan
PhD Student at the University of Michigan
Jennifer Vangorder-Braid
Developmental Scientist II at Beckman Coulter
Clinical Associate Professor at Loyola University Chicago
Physician of Emergency Medicine at Grande Ronde Hospital and Clinic
Jacob Schmidt
Food Inspector for the USDA
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