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Colin Orians
Professor
Plant ecology; Plant-herbivore interactions BA, Earlham College, PhD, The Pennsylvania State University
Email: colin.orians@tufts.edu
Current students
Alexandra Thorn
Theoretical and empirical studies of vascular constraints to nitrogen and carbon transport in plants.
PhD candidate
Email: alexandra.thorn@tufts.edu
Minda Berbeco
Quantifying carbon sequestration capacity of Massachusetts forests.
PhD candidate
Email: minda.berbeco@tufts.edu
Colleen Butler

Physiological ecology of green roofs.
PhD candidate
Email: Colleen_M.Butler@tufts.edu

Tegan Morton

Evolutionary ecology of the invasive weed garlic mustard
PhD candidate
Email: Tegan.Morton @tufts.edu

Former Students
Benjamin Babst

Dynamic plant responses to herbivory.
PhD candidate
Email: bababst@mtu.edu
Current Position: Post-doc at University of Georgia
Tara Bledsoe
Resource transport in plants: Do source-sink interactions break down vascular constraints? MS 2005
Email: tara_bledsoe@yahoo.com
Current Position: Farm Manager
Megan Griffiths
Salt spray effects on rare New England coastal sandplain heathland plant communities. PhD, 2003
Email: griffithsme@ukzn.ac.za
Current Position: Post-doc at KwaZulu-Natal, S. Africa


Mark Fields
Induction of specific and discrete phytochemical responses in willow.
MS, 2003
Email: mark.fields@earthlink.net
Current Position: Technical Services Representative Associates of Cape cod, Inc.
Steven Lower
The effects of soil nutrients and water on the suitability of silky willow for the imported willow leaf beetle. PhD, 2002
Email: slower@ucdavis.edu
Current Position: Portland, OR
Stephen Craine
Dynamics of pitch pine (Pinus rigida) invasion of coastal plain pondshore communities. MS, 2002
Email: stevecraine@yahoo.com
Current Position: Freelance medical/technical writer
Current and Former Research Associates and Visiting Scientists
Coco Gomez (2008 - )
Resource dynamics in response to herbivore cues
Post-doctoral researcher
Email: Sara.Gomez@tufts.edu 		cocl
Vit Gloser (2003-2005)
Visting Scientist
Masaryk University
Czech Republic
Email: vit.gloser@tufts.edu
Amy Zanne (2003-2005)
Research Associate PhD, 2003, Univeristy of Florida
Email: aezanne@gmail.com
Margret van Vuuren (2000-2002)
Research Associate
Email: m.vanvuuren@attbi.com
Positions Available
Applications from prospective graduate students are currently being accepted.

Tufts Undergraduate researchers (*co-authors on papers or talks)

Nathan Alden*, Susan Anderson, Marcelo Ardón*, Katie Bond, Margaux Birdsall, Daniel Brady, Keryn Bromberg, Joseph Cosman, Eric Erkenbrack, Alex Escobar, Mary Gantz, Mara Gittleman, Ben Hagopian, Nancy Harris*, Daniel Lutz, Mun Kim, Joshua King, Sheril Kirshenbaum*, Matthew Kron, Sylvie Krinsky, Katherine Libera*, Claire Margerison, Basma Mohammad*, Robert Moore, Adrianna Muir*, Vinaya Pai, Margot Paisley, Jason Pomerleau*, Timothy Reluga, Caroline Roma, Rachel Samburg, Tracey Samko, Carl Sciortino, Monisha Sharma*, Matilda Singleton, Sigrid Smith*, Adam Steinbrenner, Kate Sweeney*, Betsy Verhoeven, Vincent von Vordzogbe, Adam Welland, Shantelle Wright*