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Hawley Lab Members

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Dr. Dana Hawley

Principal Investigator

Research interests: ecology and evolution of wildlife diseases, animal behavior, ecological immunology

Perez-Umphrey

Dr. Anna Pérez-Umphrey

Postdoctoral Scholar

Research interests: conservation genetics, disease ecology, and wildlife biology

Kelley Langhans

Dr. Kelley Langhans

Postdoctoral Scholar

(co-advised by Dr. Ashley Dayer)

Research Interests: conservation biology, human dimensions of wildlife, landscape ecology

Garrett Larsen

Jesse Garrett-Larsen

Ph.D. Student

Research interests: ecoimmunology, behavioral ecology, disease ecology, and conservation biology

Alicia Arneson

Alicia Surratt

 

Ph.D. Student
(co-advised by Dr. Leah Johnson)

Research Interests: host-pathogen interaction, animal physiology, modeling and statistics for disease ecology

Junior Lab Members

Emmy

Emmy

(daughter of Dana Hawley)

Research interests: geology, astronomy, architecture, electrical engineering

Ari

Ari

(daughter of Dana Hawley)

Research interests: fashion, puffin nest site selection

Adrian

Adrian

(son of Anna Pérez Umphery)

Research interests: natural history of the Hundred Acre Wood and movement dynamics of ceiling fans

Amalia

Amalia

(daughter of Alicia Surratt)

Research interests: bayesian hierarchical modelling of the factors impacting cheek chubbification in human infants

Lab Mascots

Luna

Luna Hawley

Research interests: haute cuisine, evolution of coprophagy, pig farming for optimal bacon production, game theory models of dog disobedience 

Winnie

Winnie Surratt

Research interests: haute cuisine, evolution of coprophagy, pig farming for optimal bacon production, game theory models of dog disobedience

Maia

Maia Surratt

Research interests: soil science, geology, Newtonian mechanics of squeaky ball flight

 

Orfeo

Orfeo Langhans

Research interests: mechanics of biting, insect flight patterns, baroque opera

Georgia

Georgia Hawley

Research interests: Virginia Tech women’s basketball, biomechanics of ceiling locomotion