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 Perez-Umphrey](/content/biol_vt_edu/en/faculty/hawley/hawley_lab_members/_jcr_content/content/vtmulticolumn_1775130148/vt-items_0/adaptiveimage.img.jpg/1701192304865.jpg)
Dr. Anna Pérez-Umphrey
Postdoctoral Scholar
Research interests: conservation genetics, disease ecology, and wildlife biology
![Kelley Langhans Kelley Langhans](/content/biol_vt_edu/en/faculty/hawley/hawley_lab_members/_jcr_content/content/vtmulticolumn_258981405/vt-items_0/adaptiveimage.img.jpg/1701190817886.jpg)
Dr. Kelley Langhans
Postdoctoral Scholar
(co-advised by Dr. Ashley Dayer)
Research Interests: conservation biology, human dimensions of wildlife, landscape ecology
![langager](/content/biol_vt_edu/en/faculty/hawley/hawley_lab_members/_jcr_content/content/vtmulticolumn_copy/vt-items_0/adaptiveimage.img.png/1631114635830.png)
Marissa Langager
Ph.D. Candidate
Research interests: social behavior and disease ecology
![Sara Teemer Teemer](/content/biol_vt_edu/en/faculty/hawley/hawley_lab_members/_jcr_content/content/vtmulticolumn_copy_c_370531359/vt-items_0/adaptiveimage.img.png/1631114648358.png)
Sara Teemer Richards
Ph.D. Candidate
Research interests: behavioral ecology, disease ecology, and conservation biology
![Jesse Garrett Larsen Garrett Larsen](/content/biol_vt_edu/en/faculty/hawley/hawley_lab_members/_jcr_content/content/vtmulticolumn_29685053/vt-items_0/adaptiveimage.img.png/1631114538690.png)
Jesse Garrett-Larsen
Ph.D. Student
Research interests: ecoimmunology, behavioral ecology, disease ecology, and conservation biology
![Alicia Arneson Alicia Arneson](/content/biol_vt_edu/en/faculty/hawley/hawley_lab_members/_jcr_content/content/vtmulticolumn_1460638269/vt-items_0/adaptiveimage.img.jpg/1701191134076.jpg)
Alicia Arneson
Ph.D. Student
(co-advised by Dr. Leah Johnson)
Research Interests: host-pathogen interaction, animal physiology, modeling and statistics for disease ecology
![Riley Meyers Riley Meyers](/content/biol_vt_edu/en/faculty/hawley/hawley_lab_members/_jcr_content/content/vtmulticolumn_146063_1155548007/vt-items_0/adaptiveimage.img.jpg/1701191318293.jpg)
Riley Meyers
MS student
Research Interests: Disease ecology, behavioral ecology, human-wildlife interactions, and conservation ecology
![Tope Oduyelu Tope Oduyelu](/content/biol_vt_edu/en/faculty/hawley/hawley_lab_members/_jcr_content/content/vtmulticolumn_146063/vt-items_0/adaptiveimage.img.jpg/1701191596785.jpg)
Tope Oduyelu
Post-baccalaureate scholar, VT PREP program
Research interests: livestock health and nutrition, dairy science
Junior Lab Members
![Emmy Emmy](/content/biol_vt_edu/en/faculty/hawley/hawley_lab_members/_jcr_content/content/vtmulticolumn_copy_c_598203083/vt-items_0/adaptiveimage.img.jpg/1701191645571.jpg)
Emmy
(daughter of Dana Hawley)
Research interests: geology, astronomy, architecture, electrical engineering
![James James](/content/biol_vt_edu/en/faculty/hawley/hawley_lab_members/_jcr_content/content/vtmulticolumn_copy_c_1249150924/vt-items_0/adaptiveimage.img.jpg/1701191893477.jpg)
James
(son of Dana Hawley)
Research interests: pathogen spillover at the human-domestic animal interface
Lab Mascots
![Luna Luna](/content/biol_vt_edu/en/faculty/hawley/hawley_lab_members/_jcr_content/content/vtmulticolumn_1882112167/vt-items_0/adaptiveimage.img.jpg/1701191887979.jpg)
Luna Hawley Spotila
Research interests: haute cuisine, evolution of coprophagy, pig farming for optimal bacon production, game theory models of dog disobedience
![Pico Richards Pico Richards](/content/biol_vt_edu/en/faculty/hawley/hawley_lab_members/_jcr_content/content/vtmulticolumn_copy_c_2020388249/vt-items_0/adaptiveimage.img.png/1701191878230.png)
Pico Richards
Research Interests: physiology of long walks, dog treat nutrition
![Winnie Winnie](/content/biol_vt_edu/en/faculty/hawley/hawley_lab_members/_jcr_content/content/vtmulticolumn_1397469098/vt-items_0/adaptiveimage.img.jpg/1701191869864.jpg)
Winnie Arneson
Research interests: human nutrition, psychology of emotional manipulation
![Maia Maia](/content/biol_vt_edu/en/faculty/hawley/hawley_lab_members/_jcr_content/content/vtmulticolumn_811582350/vt-items_0/adaptiveimage.img.jpg/1701192003204.jpg)
Maia Arneson
Research interests: soil science, geology, Newtonian mechanics of squeaky ball flight
![Orfeo Orfeo](/content/biol_vt_edu/en/faculty/hawley/hawley_lab_members/_jcr_content/content/vtmulticolumn_1080257868/vt-items_0/adaptiveimage.img.jpg/1701192130035.jpg)
Orfeo Langhans
Research interests: mechanics of biting, insect flight patterns, baroque opera
![Georgia Georgia](/content/biol_vt_edu/en/faculty/hawley/hawley_lab_members/_jcr_content/content/vtmulticolumn_782970221/vt-items_0/adaptiveimage.img.jpg/1701192220193.jpg)
Georgia Hawley Spotila
Research interests: Virginia Tech women’s basketball, biomechanics of ceiling locomotion