Dartmouth College
Assistant Professor
Will has recently moved to a lecturer position at Dartmouth College and is maintaining an undergraduate-focused research program investigating the interaction of abiotic, ecological, and genetic forces that drive life cycle evolution, particularly in clonal marine organisms.
Josh Bliss
Master's Student (2023 - current)
Thesis project: Seasonal patterns of asexual and sexual reproduction in Aiptasiogeton eruptaurantia (red spot anemone), a species that uses pedal laceration
Jami Citko
-
Undergraduate Researcher (BS Dec 2024)
Project: Measuring the geographic scale at which inbreeding and outbreeding depression influence mating success in the hermit-crab-encrusting hydrozoan Hydractinia symbiolongicarpus
Abi Millholland
-
Undergraduate Researcher (BS Dec. 2024)
Lab Technician (Spring 2025)
Project: Developing microsatellite genetic markers and measuring population genetic structure of Hydractinia symbiolongicarpus across the Mid-Atlantic range
Brandon Lewis
-
Undergraduate Researcher (BS expected 2025)
Projects:
-
Comparing the growth rate and reproductive output of three co-occuring anemone species
-
Immortal Kombat: Measuring the effect of intra- and inter-specific competition on growth rate and reproduction among four co-occuring anemones that differ in reproductive mode
-
Influence of salinity on growth and reproduction of co-occuring anemones species
Sydney Bayne
-
Undergraduate Researcher
Projects:
-
Immortal Kombat: Measuring the effect of intra- and inter-specific competition on growth rate and reproduction among four co-occuring anemones that differ in reproductive mode
-
Influence of conspecific proximity on movement rates in two species of sea anemone with differing tolerance of conspecifics
Grace Curran
-
Undergraduate Researcher
Projects:
-
Immortal Kombat: Measuring the effect of intra- and inter-specific competition on growth rate and reproduction among four co-occuring anemones that differ in reproductive mode
-
Animal care
Luca Caccamese
-
Undergraduate Researcher (2022 - 2024)
Non-thesis master's student
Projects:
-
Fat n' happy: the influence of food quality, light, and temperature on body size and gametogenesis in
Diadumene lineata -
Animal care
Jayden Steward
-
Undergraduate Researcher (BS 2024)
Projects:
-
Fat n' happy: the influence of food quality, light, and temperature on body size and gametogenesis in
Diadumene lineata -
The relationship between hermit crab shell characteristics and Hydractiniid hydroid colonization patterns in the Mid-Atlantic
Yuridia Gonsalez
-
Undergraduate Researcher (BS 2024)
Projects:
-
Variation in hydroid colony morphology by population origin, shell type, and local population density in Hydractinia symbiolongicarpus
Troy Stern
-
Undergraduate Researcher (BS 2024)
Projects:
-
Fat n' happy: the influence of food quality, light, and temperature on body size and gametogenesis in
Diadumene lineata -
Animal care
Additional lab members
Chloe Trinh
Fall 2023
-
Developing a histology protocol for investigating the role of apoptosis in anemone fission
Ben Lazoff
Fall 2024 - Spring 2025
-
Identifying spawning conditions for podocoryna in the lab
Adriana Garcia Galaviz
Spring 2023
-
Fat n' happy: the influence of food quality, light, and temperature on body size and gametogenesis in Diadumene lineata
Trinity Mays
Fall 2022 - Spring 2024
-
Animal care
-
Developing culturing protocols for an anemone-associated protozoan
-
Developing a histology protocol for investigating the role of apoptosis in anemone fission​
Kristine Shell
Spring 2023 - Fall 2023
-
Collecting and preserving hydroid tissue samples for future genetic analyses