Chelsea is a new PhD student in the Hobson Lab who started in January 2021. She earned her undergraduate degree at Mills College in Oakland, CA, where she studied behavioral ecology of California ground squirrels in Dr. Jenn Smith’s lab. Chelsea studied for a M.Sc. In Applied Animal Behaviour and Animal Welfare from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, U.K. For her capstone project she joined the Auersperg Lab at the Messerli Research Institute of the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna to study social cognition in Goffin cockatoos.

Chelsea’s plan for research in the Hobson Lab is to study the relationship between sociality and stress in Monk parakeets. She is interested in using the study of animal behavior to assess and improve animal welfare in scientific and evidence-based ways.

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Souvik Chakraborty

Graduate Assistant, Biological Sciences

chakras7@mail.uc.edu

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Ruma Chatterji

PhD Candidate, Biological Sciences

chattera@mail.uc.edu

Ruma Chatterji is a doctoral candidate in the Layne Lab-Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Cincinnati. Upon graduating with her master’s in biology from Texas A&M University- Corpus Christi, where she investigated memory mechanisms in Aplysia, her fascination with examining the role of memory in animal behavior propelled her to pursuing related research for her PhD. She is currently studying navigation mechanisms in fiddler crabs (Uca pugilator) and is investigating aspects of home vector memory subserving path integration, such as how the memory is stored and its duration.

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Bruna Ciuffa Maria

Graduate Assistant, Biological Sciences

ciuffaba@mail.uc.edu

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Asima Das

Graduate Assistant, Biological Sciences

das2am@mail.uc.edu

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Chandrima Das

Graduate Assistant, Biological Sciences

dasca@mail.uc.edu

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Xavier George Francis

Graduate Assistant, Biological Sciences

francixr@mail.uc.edu

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Cesar Gonzalez Zermeno

Graduate Assistant, Biological Sciences

Rieveschl Hall

513-556-9700

gonzalc8@mail.uc.edu

I'm pursuing my Master's at Dr. Noelia Lander's lab. My research focuses on cAMP-related genes in Trypanosoma cruzi, learning about the signaling pathways in this parasite that could aid in the development of new treatment options for Chagas disease.

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Aaron Angelo Hamrick

Graduate Assistant, Biological Sciences

hamricaa@mail.uc.edu

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Syeda Farjana Hoque

Graduate Assistant, Biological Sciences

hoquesa@mail.uc.edu

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Dilini Randima Rasanjali K Herath Mudiyanselage

Graduate Assistant, Biological Sciences

karunadi@mail.uc.edu

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Murukkuwadurage Ama Upeksha Upeksha Karunarathne

Graduate Assistant, Biological Sciences

karunamu@mail.uc.edu

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Deniz Korman

Graduate Assistant, Biological Sciences

kormandz@mail.uc.edu

Research interests: Sensory ecology, visual perception, functional morphology, computational modelling

Advisor: Dr. Nathan Morehouse (Morehouse Lab webpage)

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Olivia Renee Leek

Graduate Assistant, Biological Sciences

Rieveschl Hall

513-556-9700

leekoa@mail.uc.edu

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Isabella Marie Leisgang

Graduate Assistant, Biological Sciences

leisgaia@mail.uc.edu

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Mattea A Lewis

Graduate Assistant, Biological Sciences

lewis4ms@mail.uc.edu

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Abhinav Madabhushi

Graduate Assistant, Biological Sciences

madabhan@mail.uc.edu

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Augustus P McAnally

Graduate Assistant, Biological Sciences

mcanalap@mail.uc.edu

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Michael Spencer Meece

Graduate Assistant, Biological Sciences

meeceml@mail.uc.edu

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Stephanie A Meyers

Graduate Assistant, Biological Sciences

meyerss4@mail.uc.edu

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Amartya Tashi Mitra

Graduate Assistant, Biological Sciences

mitraat@mail.uc.edu

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Samuel Andrew Moore

Graduate Assistant, Biological Sciences

moore5s2@mail.uc.edu

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Danielle Newsome

Graduate Assistant, Biological Sciences

newsomde@mail.uc.edu

Danielle is a new graduate student who joined Dr Josh Gross's lab in fall 2023. She earned her undergraduate degree in biological sciences at the University of New Orleans in fall 2022. Her research interests there included genomic sequencing and diversity of Hawaiian Drosophila in Dr Joel Atallah's lab.

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Claire Lawrence O'Connell

PhD student Rieveschl Hall 837 , Biological Sciences

oconneca@mail.uc.edu

Behavioral ecology, social cognition, social relationships, social networks, dominance hierarchies
Advisor: Elizabeth Hobson
Hobson Lab website

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Kehinde Adewole Oniyide

Graduate Assistant, Biological Sciences

oniyidka@mail.uc.edu

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Kosisochukwu Dematus Onyeagba

Graduate Assistant, Biological Sciences

onyeagkd@mail.uc.edu

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Brian David Pack

Graduate Assistant, Biological Sciences

packbd@mail.uc.edu

Brian is a doctoral student in the School of Criminal Justice at the University of Cincinnati. Prior to his time at UC, he received a Master of Science in Criminal Justice and Criminology from the University of Missouri-Kansas City, and was also a police officer for the Overland Park, KS, Police Department for 10 years. Brian has taught a variety of classes in the School of Criminal Justice, and is also a part time crime analyst for the Cincinnati Police Department, working on their PIVOT program. He is also currently the Field Experience Coordinator for the CJ Undergraduate Program.

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