Lab Alumni

XIA Xue was a research associate in our group, for a year starting in October 2014. She received her Masters degree from the Restoration Ecology group at the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), in 2013, and also worked with Prof. Goodale at XTBG. In Guangxi, she studied the vocalizations of bird species in mixed-species flocks.  She now is working at a scientific magazine in Beijing.

Kasun ABEYSINGHE was a Masters student at XTBG, advised by Prof. YANG Xiao-dong, and co-advised by Prof. Goodale and also by Prof. QIU Guangle of the Institute for Geochemistry, CAS. His project involved measuring mercury levels in animals across a rice-based food web in mining and non-mining regions of Guizhou Province. He is currently working in Sri Lanka. His ResearchGate profile is at https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kasun_Abeysinghe.

GU Hao was a Research Associate in our lab in Guangxi University for two years from mid 2015 to mid 2017. Before that, he received his MSc from the Ecology and Evolution of Plant-Animal Interactions Group at XTBG, CAS; advised by CHEN Jin and co-advised by Prof. Goodale. As a MSc student, he analyzed the evolution of frugivore-fruiting tree networks, and conducted a playback experiment exploring the interaction of birds at mass-fruiting trees.

Rachakonda SREEKAR received his Masters degree in 2014 from XTBG, CAS, supervised by Prof. Rhett D. Harrison and also Prof. Goodale. The main objective of his Masters project was to evaluate the effects of hunting on vertebrate extirpations in Xishuangbanna, China. His recent work has focused on: 1) Bird species composition in an empty forest and the use of piecewise regression to detect thresholds in bird traits.  2) Hunter densities in Xishuangbanna and the use of flight initiation distance (FID) to measure hunting pressure.

Ari MARTÍNEZ was a postdoctoral fellow in our lab between January and July, 2017, until there was an opening in the Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow of the University of California, Berkeley, which allowed him to return to his home state.

Emilio PAGANI-NÚÑEZ, Postdoctoral Fellow (3/15-10/16). Emilio is a field ornithologist with broad interests in avian behavior, ecology and evolution. In Guangxi, he collected data on bird foraging behavior, morphology, and aggressiveness. He is currently Assistant Professor at Sun Yat-Sen University.  Explore his research at https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Emilio_Pagani-Nunez2 and he can be reached by e-mail at emipanu@outlook.com. 

Craig BARNETT, Associate Professor (7/15-2/16). Craig is an evolutionary biologist interested in using insect and avian models to test various hypotheses in behavioral ecology and evolutionary ecology. After working with us for half a year, he moved to a new position at Kyoto University, Japan, and we continue to collaborate on projects.

MO Guowei has been working with our group for two years, first as an undergraduate volunteer and then as research associate after receiving his BSc in June 2017. At Guangxi University, he majored in animal science and has a keen interest in birds. He was the Vice President of the Animal Protection Association of Guangxi University and is now an investigator with the Guilin Natural Observation Association. He can be reached at 775003593@qq.com.

ZHOU Wenjing started her postgraduate work in the Faculty of Forestry, Guangxi University in September 2015. She got her Bachelor’s degree in Ecology from the Institute of Applied Meteorology, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, in July 2015. Within our group, she was working on a project on how plant diversity is influenced by agricultural crop diversity, advised by Myung-bok Lee and Eben Goodale. She graduated from her Master in June 2018.  Her e-mail address is: 985683730@qq.com.

Myung-Bok LEE joined our group in June of 2015 as a research scholar. She received her PhD from the University of Georgia. Her postdoctoral fellowship was at Mississippi State University and University of Georgia.