Past USF Graduate Students

Kyle Mara

- Evolution of the Hammerhead Cephalofoil: Shape Change, Space Utilization, and Feeding Biomechanics in Hammerhead Sharks (Sphyrnidae). Ph.D., August 2010.
-Current position: Biology Post Doc, Temple University, PA

Andrey Castro

-Use of molecular tools on surveys of genetic variation and population structure in three species of sharks. Ph.D., April 2009.
-Current position: Professor, Universidade Federal de São João del Rei, Brazil

Lisa Whitenack

-The biomechanics and evolution of shark teeth. Ph.D., December 2008.
-Current position: Visiting Assistant Professor, Allegheny College, PA

John Tyminski

-Androgen receptors in the bonnethead shark (Sphyrna tiburo): cDNA cloning and tissue-specific expression in the male reproductice tract. M.S., August 2007.
-Current position:

Daniel R. Huber

-Cranial biomechanics and feeding performance of elasmobranch fishes. Ph.D., August 2006.
-Current position: Assistant Professor, University of Tampa, FL

Dayv Lowry

-The early ontogeny of feeding in two shark species: developmental aspects of morphology, behavior, and performance. Ph.D., December 2005.
-Current position: Forage Fish Research Biologist, Washington Dept. of Fish and Wildlife

Angela Collins

-An examination of the diet and movement patterns of the Atlantic cownose ray Rhinoptera bonasus within a southwest Florida estuary. MS, July 2005.
-Current Position: Assistant Research Scientist, FWC/ Fish and Wildlife Research Institute

Alpa P. Wintzer

-Behavioral and morphological consequences of rearing Florida largemouth bass Micropterus salmoides floridanus. MS, July 2004.
-Current Position: Post doctoral at University of California Davis

 

Mason Dean

-Kinematics and functional morphology of the feeding apparatus of the lesser electric ray, Narcine brasiliensis. MS, August 2003.
-Current Position: Post doctoral Fellow at Max Planck Institute, Germany

 

Michael Matott

-An examination of modulation of feeding behaviour in the nurse shark Ginglymostoma cirratum (Bonaterre 1788). MS, April 2003.
-Current Position: Ph.D. program at University of South Florida, Multidisciplinary Biomedical Sciences

 

Heather T. Porter

-A comparison of feeding kinematics of three ram-feeding fishes: Florida gar (Lepisosteus platyrhincus), redfin needlefish (Strongylura notata), and great barracuda (Sphyraena barracuda). MS, May 2002.
- Director of Winemaking, Porter Family Vineyards

Gaddy T. Bergmann

-Trophic ecomorphology of the nonindigenous Mayan cichlid 'Cichlasoma (Nandopsis)' urophthalmus (Gunther 1862) in southern Florida. MS, May 2002.
-Current Position: Research Microbiologist, Accelr8 Technology Corporation, Denver CO.

 

Desireé E. Sasko

-The prey capture behavior and kinematics of the cownose ray Rhinoptera bonasus. MS, December 2000.
-Current Position: Marine biology instructor at The Dillon School, Wellington, FL

 

Molly A. Edmonds

-Prey capture kinematics of the horn shark, Heterodontus francisci. MS, April 1999.

-Current Positions: currently works for a Christian conservation organization authoring a book on birds

 

Michael P. Robinson

-Patterns of growth and the effects of scale on the feeding kinematics of the nurse shark, Ginglymostoma cirratum . MS, March 1999.
-Current Position: Lecturer, Univeristy of Miami, Coral Gables, FL

 

J. Todd Streelman

-Nuclear DNA evolution in labroid fishes. Ph.D. December, 1998 (Co-chair with S. Karl)
-Current Position: Associate Professor of Biology, Georgia Tech

 

Karen L. Overholtzer

-Feeding ecology and related social behaviors in mixed-species aggregations of juvenile parrotfishes in the Florida Keys. M.S. August, 1997.
-Current Position: Director of Science for the Communication Partnership for Science and the Sea at Oregon State University

 

Cheryl D. Wilga

-Evolution of feeding mechanisms in elasmobranchs: a functional morphological approach. Ph.D. December, 1997.
Current Position: Professor of Biology, University of Rhode Island

 

Roldan Munoz

-Social behavior and foraging ecology of Sparisoma aurofrenatum and S. chrysopterum (Pisces: Scaridae) in the Florida Keys. M.S. June 1996.
-Current Position: Research Fishery Biologist at NOAA National Ocean Service, Beaufort, North Carolina

 

Patricia Hernandez

-Ontogenetic scaling of oral jaw crushing performance in the sheephead, Archosargus probatocephalus (Teleostei, Sparidae): Trophic consequences of differential performance. M.S. July 1994.
-Current position: Associate Professor in Biology, George Washington University

 

Kari B. Clifton

-Ecomorphological relationships of five species of labrids (Labridae, Teleostei) in a coral reef community. M.S. August 1993.
-Current Position: Research Fellow, College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic

 

Bradley Eggold

-Ontogenetic dietary shift and morphological correlates in striped mullet, Mugil cephalus L.. M.S. Sept. 1990.
-Current Position: Southern Lake Michigan Fisheries Supervisor, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources