2026 Course Faculty

Peter Beerli, Florida State University

Joseph Bielawski, Dalhousie University

Jeremy Brown, Louisiana State University

Belinda Chang, University of Toronto

Scott Edwards, Harvard University

Laura Eme, University Rhode Island

Mandev Gill, University of Georgia

Tracy Heath, Iowa State University

Lacey Knowles, University of Michigan

Laura Kubatko, Ohio State University

Emily Jane McTavish, University of California-Merced

Corrie Moreau, Cornell University

Claudia Solís-Lemus, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Megan Smith, Mississippi State University

David Swofford, Duke University

Rosana Zenil-Ferguson, University of Kentucky

2026 Course TAs

Joshua Justison (lead TA), University of Wisconsin

Analisa Milkey, University of Connecticut

Hanon McShea, University of California, San Francisco

Thao Nguyen, Iowa State University

2026 Course Assistant

Anne Smith

Former recent faculty

Cécile Ané, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Minh Quang Bui, Australian National University

Mario dos Reis, Queen Mary University London

Casey Dunn, Yale University

Deren Eaton, Yale University

Ben Evans, McMaster University

Joseph Felsenstein, University of Washington

David Hillis, University of Texas

Mark Holder, University of Kansas

John Huelsenbeck, University of California-Berkeley

Emilia Huerta-Sanchez, Brown University

Michael Landis, Washington University in St. Louis

Paul Lewis, University of Connecticut

Conor Meehan, Institute of Tropical Medicine

William Pearson, University of Virginia

Antonis Rokas, Vanderbilt University

Edward Susko, Dalhousie University

David Weisrock, University of Kentucky

Rachel Williams, Duke University

Anne Yoder, Duke University

Derrick Zwickl, University of Arizona

Former recent TAs

Sungsik (Kevin) Kong (lead TA), Brown University

Bruno do Rosario Petrucci, Iowa State University

Adetunji “Teejay” Adesina, University of Colorado Boulder

Blake Fauskee, Duke University

Jordan Satler (lead TA), Ohio State University

Kate Taylor, University of Maryland

Áki Láruson (Lead TA), University of Iceland

Deise Gonçalves, Department of Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin

George Tiley, Duke University

Peter Larsen, University of Minnesota

Walker Pett, Iowa State University

Ben Liebeskind, University of Texas, Austin

Nicholas Meyerson, University of Colorado Boulder

Noor White, National Eye Institute, National Science Foundation

April Wright, Southeastern Louisiana University

Former Recent Course Assistants

Caitlin Randall, Louisiana State University

Camryn Ford, The Ohio State University

Elena Korte, University of Connecticut

Alyssa McGurer, University of Connecticut

Marlene Abouaassi

Marcus W. Fedarko