Bronikowski Lab

Dr. Anne Bronikowski
Assistant Professor

Anne studies the evolution and ecological context of life history evolution, with an emphasis on senescence, in natural populations of snakes and semi-natural populations of baboons. The laboratory integrates across the levels of landscape ecology, population genetics, organismal physiology, and genetic and epigenetic mechanism. She participates in three graduate programs: EEB (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology), IG (Interdepartmental Genetics), and BCB (Bioinformatics and Computational Biology)

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	Dr. Anne Bronikowski Assistant Professor Anne studies the evolution and ecological context of life history evolution, with an emphasis on senescence, in natural populations of snakes and semi-natural populations of baboons. The laboratory integrates across the levels of landscape ecology, population genetics, organismal physiology, and genetic and epigenetic mechanism. She participates in three graduate programs: EEB (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology), IG (Interdepartmental Genetics), and BCB (Bioinformatics and Computational Biology)
I am interested in taking motivated undergraduate and graduate students in any area consistent with my current research interests. There are also opportunities to volunteer in any of our current research programs. This typically gives students an opportunity to become integrated into the lab and obtain research experience.
	Dr. Kylie Roberts - Post-Doc Research Associate Kylie studies the stress response (HPA axis) in colubrid snakes, and how it interacts with an individual's life history profile to impact morphology, performance, and cellular markers of stress (mitochondrial oxidant production, anti-oxidant defenses). The stress response is studied as an age-sensitive trait to generate ontogenetic trajectories across the lifespan of the study organism.
	Amanda Sparkman - Graduate Student Amanda is a graduate student in EEB. Her doctorate research is on the hormonal regulation of growth and maturation in the Eagle Lake garter snake meta-population. Her primary focus is evolution of the somatotrophic axis (GH, IGF1) as it relates to the divergent life history phenotypes observed in this system.
	Dawn Reding - Graduate Student Dawn is a graduate student in EEB pursuing her PhD on the population genetics and habitat use of Iowa bobcats. She is co-advised by Anne; her primary advisor is Bill Clark. The Bronikowski laboratory collaborates with the Clark lab on molecular markers for population genetic studies of bobcats.
	Tonia Schwartz - Graduate Student Tonia is a PhD student in the Interdepartmental Genetics program. She is co-advised by Anne Bronikowski in EEOB and Jo-Ann Powell-Coffman in GDCB. Her doctorate research is on the acclimation and evolution of gene expression and gene regulatory networks involved in stress, immunity, and aging. To explore these interconnected life history traits, Tonia is using two complementary model systems: natural populations of garter snakes (T. elegans) with evolved differences in various life history traits as an ecological genomics model; and nematodes (C. elegans) as a laboratory genetic model for experimental evolution studies.
	Kristy Bellinger - Undergraduate Student
	Jeremy Chamberlain - Undergraduate Student
	Abbie Lehman - Undergraduate Student
	Matthew Morrill - Undergraduate Student
	Nicole Reutsher - Undergraduate Student