Cocroft lab
Spring 2024
 

Former lab members
 

PhD students:

                                            

Sabrina Michael (PhD 2023)

Cooperative foraging in treehopper nymphs

Current position: Assistant Professor, Honors College, Univ. of Missouri

 

Jeremy Gibson (PhD 2015)

Mechanisms of vibration localization during mate searching

Current position: Assistant Professor of Zoology, Kentucky Wesleyan University

https://kwc.edu/dr-jeremy-gibson/

 

Jennifer Hamel (PhD 2012)

Positive and negative feedback in social communication

Current position: Associate Professor, Elon University

https://www.elon.edu/u/academics/undergraduate-research/dr-jen-hamel/

 

Flavia Barbosa (PhD 2011)

Cryptic female choice in soldier flies

Current position: Associate Professor, Lake Forest University

https://sites.google.com/view/barbosalab/

 

Karthik Ramaswamy (PhD 2010)

Dynamics of collective signaling in treehopper broods

Current position: Science Communicator, Indian Institute of Science

 

Robert L. Snyder (PhD 2009)

Phylogeny and speciation history in Enchenopa treehoppers

Current position: Associate Professor, SUNY – Potsdam

https://www.potsdam.edu/about/directory/faculty/snyderrl

 

Laura E. Sullivan Beckers (PhD 2008)

Measuring phenotypic selection on sexual signals

Current position: Associate Professor, Murray State University

https://lbeckers.wixsite.com/sullivanbeckerslab

 

Gabe McNett (PhD 2007)

Environmental sources of selection on vibrational signals

Current Position: Professor & Division Chair, Westminster College

https://www.wcmo.edu/fac-staff/gabe-mcnett.html

 

Paul De Luca (PhD 2007)

Age effects on male signals and female choice

Current position: Deceased, Formerly at College of the Bahamas

 

Postdocs:

 

Frederic Legendre

Current position: Curator, Musée d’Histoire Naturelle Paris

https://isyeb.mnhn.fr/fr/annuaire/frederic-legendre-397

 

Chung-Ping Lin

Current position: Professor, National Taiwan Normal University

https://scholar.lib.ntnu.edu.tw/en/persons/chung-ping-lin

 

Rafael Rodríguez

Current position: Professor, Univ. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

https://www.preferencefunctions.org/

 

MA students:

 

Brennan Copp (MA 2022)

Current position: self-employed, Phoenix, AZ

 

Kelly Hougland (MA 2018)

Current position: Data science and analytics, St. Louis, MO

 

Holly Shugart (MA 2004)

Current position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Pennsylvania State University