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Tenure Faculty

Dean Adams
- Distinguished Professor
- Director, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Graduate Program
dcadams@iastate.edu
Lynn Clark
- Distinguished Professor
- Director, Ada Hayden Herbarium
lgclark@iastate.edu
William Crumpton
- University Professor
crumpton@iastate.edu
Phoebe Edwards

she/her/hers
- Assistant Professor
pde@iastate.edu
Tracy Heath
- Associate Professor
phylo@iastate.edu
Wenjuan Huang
- Assistant Professor
wjhuang@iastate.edu
Matthew Hufford
- Professor
- Cassling Family Professor
mhufford@iastate.edu
Dennis Lavrov
- Professor
dlavrov@iastate.edu
Charlie Loewen

he/him/his
- Assistant Professor
cloewen@iastate.edu
Kevin Roe
- Associate Professor
kjroe@iastate.edu
Amy Toth

she/her/hers
- Professor
amytoth@iastate.edu
Nicole Valenzuela
- Professor
nvalenzu@iastate.edu
Ryan Weaver
- Assistant Professor
rjweaver@iastate.edu
Jonathan Wendel
- Distinguished Professor
jfw@iastate.edu
Brian Wilsey
- Professor
bwilsey@iastate.edu

Adjunct Faculty

Lori Biederman
- Adjunct Professor
- Associate Department Chair for Teaching
lbied@iastate.edu
Corinna Most
- Adjunct Associate Professor
- Co-Director of the Uaso Ngiro Baboon Project
cmost@iastate.edu
Norah Warchola
- Assistant Teaching Professor
warchola@iastate.edu

Affiliate and Collaborating Faculty

Jeanne Serb
- Professor
- Director, Office of Biotechnology
serb@iastate.edu

Emeritus Faculty

John Pleasants
- Adjunct Associate Professor
jpleasan@iastate.edu

Staff

Alexa DiNicola

she/her
- Curator III, Ada Hayden Herbarium
Department
- Ecology Evolution & Organismal Biol
dinicola@iastate.edu

Research Associates

Lu Yang
- Postdoc Research Associate
luyang@iastate.edu

Graduate Students

Momin Ahmed
- Graduate Assistant
- Program: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
- Advisor: Dennis Lavrov
makhaki@iastate.edu
Katie Cope

she/her/hers
- Graduate Student, MS
- Research Scientist I
- Program: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
- Advisor: Charlie Loewen
ktjcope@iastate.edu
Bruno Do Rosario Petrucci
- Graduate Assistant
- Program: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
- Advisor: Tracy Heath
petrucci@iastate.edu
Daniel Edwards
- Graduate Assistant
- Program: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
- Advisor: Charlie Loewen
dje@iastate.edu
Jordyn Eovito
- Graduate Assistant
- Program: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
- Advisor: Dean Adams
jreovito@iastate.edu
Yining Fu
- Graduate Assistant
- Program: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
- Advisor: Phoebe Edwards
Department
- EEB
ynfu@iastate.edu
Elizabeth Glynne
- Graduate Assistant
- Program: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
- Advisor: Dean Adams
- Spring 2025 graduate
eglynne@iastate.edu
Kale Hawks
- Graduate Assistant
- Program: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
- Advisor: Corinna Most
- GREBE Secretary; GSO DEIC Representative
kahawks@iastate.edu
Erika Ibarra-Garibay
- Graduate Assistant
- Program: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
- Advisor: Amy Toth
egaribay@iastate.edu
Grace Jackson
- Graduate Assistant
- Program: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
- Advisor: Charlie Loewen
ghj@iastate.edu
Kaitlyn Kelley
- Graduate Assistant
- Program: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
- Advisor: Charlie Loewen
kkelley@iastate.edu
Tayah Lande
- Graduate Assistant
- Program: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
- Advisor: Phoebe Edwards
tlande@iastate.edu
Mia Locquegnies
- Graduate Assistant
- Program: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
- Advisor: Brian Wilsey
mlocqueg@iastate.edu
Elizabeth McMurchie
- Graduate Assistant
- Advisor: Lynn Clark
mcmurch@iastate.edu
Regina Minjares Grajeda
- Graduate Assistant
- Program: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
- Advisor: Dean Adams
mrmg96@iastate.edu
Morgan Moore
- EEB Graduate Research Assistant
- EEOB GSO DEIC Representative
- Advisor: Amy Toth
mimoore@iastate.edu
Lien Tran
- Graduate Assistant
- Program: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
- Advisor: Amy Burgin
lmtran@iastate.edu
Tamara Tyner-Swanson
- Graduate Assistant
- Advisor: Eric Riddell and Amy Toth
- Program: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
tltyner@iastate.edu