External Advisory Board Directory
Vanessa Ezenwa
Ph.D., Professor
University of Georgia, 191 Ecology Building, 140 E. Greent Street, Athens, GA 30602
College of Veterinary Medicine
Odum School of Ecology & Dept. of Infectious Diseases
David Lucero
Associate Director of Informatics
Bronx RHIO
1776 Eastchester Rd, The Bronx, NY 10461
Sandra L. Petersen
Ph.D., Associate Dean & Professor
University of Massachusetts, 240 Thatcher Road, LSL Room N 231, Amherst, MA 01003-9298
Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences in Molecular Neuroendocrinology of Reproduction
Director of the Northeast Alliance for Graduate Education
Rebecca Sharp
MBA, MPA, Chief Operating Officer
IDinsight
785 Market Street, Suite 200, San Francisco, CA 94103
Sam Rosenblatt
Cohort 1
Computer Science
Advisor: Laurent Hebert-Dufresne
Hobbies: Podcasts, board and card games
Areas of Expertise and/or Research
Networks, contagion, public health, hidden populations, noisy data, ecology
Contact
Email: Samuel.F.Rosenblatt@uvm.edu
Website(s): Laboratory for Structure and Dynamics
Natalia Aristizábal
Cohort 1
Natural Resources
Advisor: Taylor Ricketts
Hobbies: Hiking, socializing in outdoor environments
Areas of Expertise and/or Research
Biodiversity conservation, landscape ecology, ecosystem services, climate change adaptation, agroecology, bees, GIS
Contact
Email: Natalia.Aristizabal@uvm.edu
Website(s): Taylor Ricketts Lab
Emily Beasley
Cohort 1
Biology
Advisor: Nicholas Gotelli
Hobbies: Reading, bread making (sometimes at the same time)
Areas of Expertise and/or Research
Quantitative ecology, hierarchical systems, and Bayesian statistics; especially as applied to small mammal and ectoparasite communities
Contact
Email: emily.beasley@uvm.edu
Website(s): Nicholas J. Gotelli Lab
Anoob Prakash
Cohort 1
Plant Biology
Advisor: Stephen Keller
Hobbies: Illustrating, reading, basketball, staring into space
Areas of Expertise and/or Research
Population genetics, landscape genetics, climate change, forest fragmentation, local adaptation
Contact
Email: Anoob.Prakash@uvm.edu
Website(s): Keller Lab ~ Ecological Genomics
Brittany Verrico
Cohort 1 - Ambassador
Plant Biology
Advisor: Stephen Keller
Hobbies: Photography, hiking, cooking, creative writing, Magic: The Gathering
Areas of Expertise and/or Research
Population genetics, ecological genomics, evolutionary biology, forest tree responses, climate change
Contact
Email: Brittany.Verrico@uvm.edu
Website(s):Keller Lab ~ Ecological Genomics
Baxter Worthing
Cohort 1
Plant Biology
Advisor: Stephen Keller
Hobbies: Skiing, hiking, juggling
Areas of Expertise and/or Research
Computational biology, ecological genomics, transcriptomics, climate change, forest trees
Contact
Website(s): Keller Lab ~ Ecological Genomics