Our Team
Melina Kozanitas Ph.D (Post-Doc): [email protected]
Research Interests: fire ecology, succession, restoration, fungi, plant pathology


Raphaela Buzbee (Ph.D student):
Research Interests: Plant diversity, global change, climate impacts, restoration
Kyle Rosenblad (Ph.D student): [email protected]
Research Interests: conservation, biogeography, macroecology, climate change, islands, forests

Jashvina Devadoss (PhD. student): [email protected]
Research Interest: community ecology, plant ecophysiology, climate change, remote sensing
Undergraduates
The Ackerly lab brings in undergraduate students
via the Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship Program (URAP)
Past Lab Members:
- Rob Skelton (Post-doc, 2017-2019, Berkeley)
- Matthew Kling (PhD 2020, Post-doc 2020-2021)
- Rachael Olliff Yang (Ph.D. 2021)
- Prahlad Papper (PhD. 2021)
- Andrew Weitz (Ph.D. 2018, Berkeley)
- Meagan Oldfather (PhD. 2018 Berkeley)
- Suzana Alcantara (Post-doc, 2013-2014)
- Niels Anten (Post-doc 1997-2000, Stanford)
- Enric Battlori (Post-doc, 2013-2014)
- Radika Bhaskar (Ph.D. 2006, Stanford)
- Kjell Bolmgren (Post-doc 2006-2008, Berkeley)
- Will Cornwell (Ph.D. 2006, Stanford; Post-doc 2009-2010, Berkeley)
- Peter Cowan (Ph.D. 2010, Berkeley)
- Chris DiVittorio (Ph.D. 2014, Berkeley):
- Nancy Emery (Post-doc 2007-2008, Berkeley)
- Ginger Jui (M.S. 2012, Berkeley)
- Steve Kembel (Post-doc 2007-2008, Berkeley)
- Charley Knight (Ph.D. 2001, Stanford)
- Nathan Kraft (Ph.D. 2008, Post-doc 2009, Berkeley)
- Erin Kurten (Ph.D. 2010, Stanford)
- Laura Lopez-Hoffman (Ph.D. 2003, Stanford)
- Blair McLaughlin (Post-doc, 2013-2014, Berkeley)
- Naia Morueta-Holme (Post-doc, 2014-2016)
- Reto Nyffeler (Post-doc 2000-2001, Stanford)
- Meagan Oldfather (Ph.D., 2018, Berkeley)
- Katherine Preston (Post-doc 1998-2001, Stanford)
- Nishi Rajakaruna (Post-doc 2003-2004, Stanford)
- Aaron Ramirez (Ph.D. 2015, Berkeley)
- Erin Riordan (Post-doc 2014-2016, Berkeley)
- Jessica Ruvinsky (Ph.D. 2004 Stanford)
- Sam St. Clair (Post-doc 2005-2007, Berkeley)
- Risa Sargent (Post-doc 2006-2007, Berkeley)
- Isabel Schroeter (Lab Technician, 2015-2018)
- Dylan Schwilk (Ph.D. 2002, Post-doc 2003, Stanford)
- Seema Sheth (Post-doc, 2015-2017)
- Stephanie Stuart (Ph.D. 2011 Berkeley)
- Erika Sudderth (Post-doc 2007-2009, Berkeley)
- Stephanie Swarbreck (Post-doc 2005-2010, Berkeley)
- Reyes Tirado (Post-doc 2003-2005, Berkeley)
- Ted Wong (Ph.D. 2001, Stanford)
- Amy Zanne (Post-doc 2005-2008, Berkeley)
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Lab Visitors:
- Taryn Fuentes, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (2019)
- Miguel Martinez-Ramos, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (2000-2001, 2011-2012)
- Michael Donoghue, Yale Univ. (2001-2002)
- Bill Graves, Iowa State Univ. (2004-2005)
- Hans de Kroon, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands (2007)
- Gudrun Kadereit, Universitat Mainz, Germany (2009)
- Susana Maza, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (2013)
- Andreas Hamman, Univ. of Alberta (2013)
- Marcos Carlucci, Univ. Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (2013-2014)