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Current Lab Members
Current Lab Members
Annette Ostling
Annette Ostling
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Integrative Biology
University of Texas at Austin
email: aostling 'at' utexas 'dot' edu
Daniel Smith
Daniel Smith
POSTDOC
Peter O'Donnell Jr Postdoc Fellowship
Oden Institute
University of Texas at Austin
Daniel is carrying out development of theory of the coexistence of plant species through differences in interaction with enemies. He is also developing data-informed simulations of this mechanism for tropical forests to quantitatively assess its role in diversity maintenance.
Minh Chau N. Ho
Minh Chau N. Ho
PHD STUDENT
University of Michigan EEB
Chau is carrying out empirical work on the linkage between functional traits and growth and survival in trees.
Daniel Maes
Daniel Maes
PHD STUDENT
University of Michigan AIM
(Applied and Interdisciplinary Math)
Daniel is studying models of coexistence through intransitive loops.
Satavisha De
Satavisha De
PHD STUDENT
University of Texas at Austin EEB
Satavisha is interested in the patterns resulting from community assembly processes. She is currently studying how emergent trait clusters in stochastic niche communities may manifest in phylogenetic patterns.
Jon Staggs
Jon Staggs
PHD STUDENT
University of Texas at Austin CSEM
Oden Institute
Jon is studying size structured stochastic community assembly models using master equations as well as partial differential equation models of size structured competition between tree species.
Ryan Hernandez
Ryan Hernandez
PHD STUDENT
University of Texas at Austin PB
Ryan is currently developing his research focus. He is broadly interested in trait-based plant community ecology.
Lab Affiliates
Lab Affiliates
Ursula Trigos-Razckowski
COLLABORATOR & FORMER POSTDOC
Postdoctoral AssociateUniversity of Louisiana at Lafayette
WebpageUrsula carried out her dissertation research in the Ostling lab as a PhD student in Applied and Interdisciplinary Math (AIM) at the University of Michigan. Her work involved analyzing partial differential equation models of size and patch-age structured competition between tree species, to get insight into successional niche differentiation. Ostling and Ursula continue to collaborate on this work.
Postdoctoral AssociateUniversity of Louisiana at Lafayette
WebpageUrsula carried out her dissertation research in the Ostling lab as a PhD student in Applied and Interdisciplinary Math (AIM) at the University of Michigan. Her work involved analyzing partial differential equation models of size and patch-age structured competition between tree species, to get insight into successional niche differentiation. Ostling and Ursula continue to collaborate on this work.
Michael Kalyuzhny
COLLABORATOR& FORMER POSTDOC
Assistant Professor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Lab WebpageMichael studied the spatial patterns produced by the Janzen-Connell mechanism and is a current collaborator on various lab projects.
Assistant Professor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Lab WebpageMichael studied the spatial patterns produced by the Janzen-Connell mechanism and is a current collaborator on various lab projects.
Sarah Orth
RESEARCH ASSISTANT& FORMER MASTERS STUDENT
Earned Masters in UM EEB in 2021
Sarah is finalizing and writing up her Master's research on patterns chemical defense traits among tree species in a tropical forest while she prepares to go to medical school.
Earned Masters in UM EEB in 2021
Sarah is finalizing and writing up her Master's research on patterns chemical defense traits among tree species in a tropical forest while she prepares to go to medical school.
Tamara Milton
LAB AFFILIATE
Earned PhD in UM EEB in 2023
Tamara earned her PhD in the Dick and Burnham labs at the UM studying hyperdominance. She and Ostling are working on comparing hyperdominance in Amazonia with neutral theory predictions. She is currently a Postdoc in the Fire Ecology lab at Auburn
Earned PhD in UM EEB in 2023
Tamara earned her PhD in the Dick and Burnham labs at the UM studying hyperdominance. She and Ostling are working on comparing hyperdominance in Amazonia with neutral theory predictions. She is currently a Postdoc in the Fire Ecology lab at Auburn
Laura Stroik
VISITORAssociate ProfessorGrand Valley State University
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Laura visited the lab virtually for her sabbatical in Spring 2022, and continues to interact with us. She is interested in the impact of competition on the evolution of mammalian traits.
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Laura visited the lab virtually for her sabbatical in Spring 2022, and continues to interact with us. She is interested in the impact of competition on the evolution of mammalian traits.
Dexiecuo Ai
COLLABORATOR & FORMER VISITOR
Lecturer in School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University
Dexiecuo was a lab member as a visiting student and then a postdoc, and is collaborating with Ostling to study the influence of large scale diversity loss on ecosystem function, and on implementing numerical methods for simulating partial differential equations of tree competition.
Lecturer in School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University
Dexiecuo was a lab member as a visiting student and then a postdoc, and is collaborating with Ostling to study the influence of large scale diversity loss on ecosystem function, and on implementing numerical methods for simulating partial differential equations of tree competition.
Yinghui Yang
COLLABORATOR & FORMER VISITOR
Lecturer, Southwest Jiaotong University
Yinghui was previously a visiting researcher in the lab and is collaborating with Ostling to study the influence of intraspecific variation on coexistence in stochastic niche models.
Lecturer, Southwest Jiaotong University
Yinghui was previously a visiting researcher in the lab and is collaborating with Ostling to study the influence of intraspecific variation on coexistence in stochastic niche models.
Jeffrey Lake
COLLABORATOR & FORMER POSTDOC
Associate ProfessorSiena Heights University
WebpageJeff is a former postdoctoral fellow of the Ostling lab and visited for his sabbatical in Winter and Summer of 2020. He is collaborating on projects related to species' spaital patterns and linking trait variation with successional niche differentiation in forests.
Associate ProfessorSiena Heights University
WebpageJeff is a former postdoctoral fellow of the Ostling lab and visited for his sabbatical in Winter and Summer of 2020. He is collaborating on projects related to species' spaital patterns and linking trait variation with successional niche differentiation in forests.
Lab Alumni
Lab Alumni
Some are listed above, but a complete list is in progress...
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