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Graduate
The Chadwick Laboratory
Lab Alumni
Kathy Morrow
- Degree: PhD - Biology
- Research: Effects of Macroalgae on Coral-Microbial Associates on
Caribbean Coral Reefs
- Current Position: Post-doc w/ David Bourne @ the Australian
Institute of Marine Science (AIMS), Townsville
Joe Szczebak
- Degree: MSc - Biology
- Research: Nocturnal Ecophysiology of the Anemonefish Mutualism:
Patterns of Oxygen Consumption and Symbiont Behavior
- Current Position: Something Fishy, Inc. - Aquarium and Waterscape
Design and Installation (RI)
Benjamin Titus
- Degree: MSc - Biology
- Research: Effects of habitat variation on reproductive strategies
of the corkscrew anemone Bartholomea annulata on Caribbean
coral reefs
2011
Brianna Dailey
- Research: A tale of two anemones: Host preference and
intraspecific competition influence the population dynamics of the
Red Sea anemonefish Amphiprion bicinctus
Erik Brush
- Research: Antipreditory behavior and cues for visual recognition
used by the two-band anemonefish Amphiprion bicinctus toward an
anemone predator, the butterfly fish Chaetodon fasciatus
Jaclyn Wilson
- Research: Reactions to predatpry fish models by the
anemoneshrimps Periclimenes pedersoni and P. yucatanicus
Lauren Gentry
- Research: Effects of predation risk on habitat use by
anemoneshrimp
2011
Undergraduate
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Lindsay Huebner
- Degree: MSc - Biology
- Research: The role of host sea anemones in the cleaning mutualism
between anemoneshrimp and client fishes.
Stanton Belford
- Research: Population dynamics of anemonefishes, host anemones,
and zooxanthellae in a multi-level obligate mutualism.
- Current Position: MSc Education, Auburn University
2010
Amelia Lott
- Research: Patterns of growth and social hierarchy in anemonefish
Shatara McNeil
- Research: Anti-predator behavior of adult and juvenile anemonefish
(Amphiprion bicinctus)
Erik Brush
- Research: Colors, shapes, and patterns: visual cues used in
predator recognition for Amphiprion bicinctus
2010
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Keren-Or Amar
- Degree: PhD
- Research: Fitness effects of chimera formation in stony corals
- Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Hebrew University of
Jerusalem
2009
Andrew Whatley
- Research: How visual cues affect the dance bout of anemonefish
Amphiprion bicinctus
Katie Hodges
- Research: Metabolic rates of the anemonefish Amphiprion bicinctus
as affected by chemical releasers of the anemone Entacmaea
quadricolor
Meredith Schneider
- Research: Affects of the symbiotic relationship of the sea anemone
Entacmaea quadricolor and anemonefish Amphiprion bicinctus on
respiration rates
Chris Matthews
- Research: Effects of food availability on the signaling behavior of
cleaner shrimp
Trey Spearman
- Research: Growth rates of the anemonefish Amphiprion bicinctus as
affected by environmental factors
2009
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Mike Nelson
- Degree: MSc - Marine Biology
- Research: Population dynamics modeling of the corkscrew sea
anemone Bartholomea annulata on Caribbean coral reefs
- Current Position: Private High School Teacher, FL
Baraka Kuguru
- Degree: PhD
- Research: Ecology and physiology of Red Sea corallimorpharians
- Current Position: Fisheries Biologist, Government of Tanzania
2008
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2008
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Modi Roopin
- Degree: MSc - Marine Biology
- Research: Symbiotic benefits to sea anemones from the metabolic
byproducts of anemonefish
- Current Position: Doctoral Student, Bar Ilan University, Israel
2007
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Barack Gunzer
- Degree: MSc
- Research: Survival and regeneration of branching corals following
skeletal breakage on Red Sea reefs
- Current Position: Head of Business Development, The Green Way
Ltd., Tel Aviv, Israel
2005
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Osnat Chomsky
- Degree: PhD
- Research: Population genetics and ecology of the sea anemone
Actinia equina on the Mediterranean coast of Israel
- Current Position: Postdoctoral fellow, Israel Oceanographic
Institute, Haifa
Einat Lapid
- Degree: MSc
- Research: Aggressive behavior of brain corals: Induced development
and ecological impacts of sweeper tentacles
- Current Position: Doctoral student, Australia
2004
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Jeffrey Wielgus
- Degree: PhD
- Research: Estimation of ecological and economic damage of
anthropogenic coral reef stressors in the Gulf of Eilat
- Current Position: Natural Resource Economist, Ocean Conservancy,
St. Petersburg, FL
- Website
2003
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Dalit Porat
- Degree: MSc
- Research: Effects of symbiotic clownfish Amphiprion bicinctus on
host sea anemones Entacmaea quadricolor on coral reefs at Eilat
- Current Position: Research Technician, Bar Ilan University, Israel
David Glassom
- Degree: PhD
- Research: Reproductive ecology and reef dynamics: A study on
corals at Eilat, northern Red Sea
- Current Position: Assistant Professor, University of KwaZulu-Natal,
South Africa
2002
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David Zakai
- Degree: MSc
- Research: Aspects of skeletal damage and reproduction in reef-
building corals: Biological impacts of intensive diving tourism on
coral reefs
- Current Position: Red Sea Biologist, Israel Nature and Parks
Authority
Michael Spiegel
- Degree: MSc
- Research: Sexual and asexual reproduction in the corallimorpharian
Discosoma (=Rhodactis) rhodostoma in the northern Red Sea
- Current Position: Electronics Technician
Oren Levi
- Degree: MSc
- Research: Behavior of tentacle expansion and contraction in corals
- Current Position: Assistant Professor, Bar Ilan University, Israel
1998
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Olivia Langmead
- Degree: MSc
- Research: Interspecific competition in the tropical corallimorpharian
Rhodactis rhodostoma (Ehrenberg): Deployment of specialized
marginal tentacles
- Current Position: Postdoctoral fellow, University of Newcastle,
United Kingdom
Dalit Mohar
- Degree: MSc
- Research: Patterns of sedimentation on coral reefs at Eilat and
effects on coral growth and energy reserves
- Current Position: Public Educator, Marine Pollution Center, Israeli
Ministry of the Environment
1997
William Montgomery
- Research: Respiration rates of the anemone Entacmaea quadricolor
Morgan McMillan
- Research: Growth rates and color changes of the anemonefish
Amphiprion bicinctus
Jennifer Williams
- Research: Growth rates and bulb production of the sea anemone
Entacmaea quadricolor
Katie Hodges
- Research: Fixed Action patterns found in the dance bout of the
anemonefish Amphiprion bicinctus
Meredith Schneider
- Research: Giant sea anemone and anemonefish respiration rates
Haley Astin
- Research: Growth trends in anemonefish
Kelly Ervin
- Research: Techniques in the spawning and larval rearing of the
anemonefish Amphiprion bicinctus
Nanette E. Chadwick | (334) 844-8184 | Chadwick@auburn.edu
Department of Biological Sciences | 101 Rouse Life Sciences Building | Auburn University | Auburn, Alabama 36849 USA