People
2026 Course Faculty
- Peter Beerli (Co-Director)
- Joseph Bielawski
- Jeremy Brown
- Belinda Chang
- Scott Edwards
- Laura Eme
- Mandev Gill
- Tracy Heath
- Lacey Knowles
- Laura Kubatko
- Emily Jane McTavish
- Corrie Moreau
- Claudia Solís-Lemus (Director)
- Megan Smith
- David Swofford
- Rosana Zenil-Ferguson
2026 Teaching Assistants
2026 Course Assistant
2026 Participants
| Name | Institution |
|---|---|
| Chethana Adikari Mudiyanselage | University of Texas Arlington |
| Juan Pablo Aguilar Cabezas | Hampton University |
| Srishti Arya | Natural History Museum |
| Emily Baker | University of Sheffield |
| Ashlynn Bruder | Vanderbilt University |
| Brian Burnes | Mississippi University for Women |
| Yvonne Cariño | University of Texas Arlington |
| Nicolas Castillo Rodriguez | University of Kentucky |
| Anu Chandrasekhar | University of Texas Arlington |
| Xinmin Chang | Cornell University |
| Cherith Chen | Stanford University |
| Jing-Xuan Chen | Zhejiang University |
| Isabelle Danforth | Virginia Institute of Marine Science |
| Joee Denis | Cornell University |
| Alissa Doucet | University of Chicago |
| Kaan Eskut | University of Kentucky |
| Shayla Ferreiro-Luce | Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission |
| Sonali Garg | University of Florida |
| Tife Giwa | Oregon State University |
| Noah Greenman | University of Maryland |
| Janani Hariharan | Bucknell University |
| Xinyi He | Zhejiang University |
| Tyler Imfeld | Xavier University |
| Deborah Kang | National University of Singapore |
| Libby Kramer | Ohio University |
| Xuyu Liu | Ohio State University |
| Angel Lopez Banda | Arizona State University |
| Esther Okamoto | Caltech |
| Lausanne Lee Oliver | George Washington University |
| Ruth Percino-Daniel | El Colegio de la Frontera Sur |
| Nuria Ramirez | Georgia State University |
| Jamie Ramirez | Northern Arizona University |
| Edison Rea | University of Kentucky |
| Pedro Romero Tena | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique |
| Calvin Runnels | Johns Hopkins University |
| Alex Rurik | Middle Tennessee State University |
| Maria Belen Salinas | Syracuse University |
| Khan Shametov | University of Kansas |
| Meg Sporre | University of Michigan |
| Austin Tang | Texas Tech University |
| Ram Vijendran | Iowa State University |
| Jiayang Wang | University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| Yifan Wang | Florida State University |
| Yunqing Yu | James Hutton Institute |
| Levana Zhang | Columbia University |
Former 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 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 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, University of Connecticut
- Marcus W. Fedarko, University of Maryland