People

Contact Info

Principal Investigator: Charlyn Partridge, PhD

Email: partridc@gvsu.edu

Phone: 616-331-3989

Address: 740 W. Shoreline Dr., Muskegon, MI 49441

Technicians

Syndell Parks, MSc

Graduate Students

MSc Student: Keely Dunham; Thesis: Evaluating the impacts of hemlock woolly adeglid on native biodiversity in Michigan’s hardwood forests.

Current Undergraduate / Summer Students

Kathryn (Kate) Geller (GVSU): Exploring differential gene expression of baby’s breath seedlings from sand dunes and sagebrush steppe environments. Monitoring hemlock woolly adelgids. 3D printing expert.

Elliot Fair (GVSU): Exploring the genetic structure of wild rice populations throughout Michigan. Population assessment of lake sturgeon

Colleen McClure (GVSU): Monitoring hemlock woolly adelgid throughout Michigan’s coastal hemlock forests.

Gabriella Loisch (GVSU): Monitoring hemlock woolly adelgid throughout Michigan’s coastal hemlocks. Assessing eDNA degradation rates

Carly Thayer (MCC): Monitoring hemlock woolly adelgid throughout Michigan’s coastal hemlocks. Assessing eDNA degradation rates

Jim Switzer-Moe (MCC): Monitoring hemlock woolly adelgid throughout Michigan’s coastal hemlocks. Population assessment of lake sturgeon

2023 Summer Team: (L to R) Colleen McClure, Gabriella Loisch, Elliot Fair, Jim Switzer-Moe, Kelly Dunham, Carly Thayer, Kate Geller

Lab Alumni (Graduate Students)

 

MSc Student: Maggie Petersen
Thesis: Examining the impact of microplastic pollution on the health of aquatic wildlife
Completed July 2022
Where is she now: Great Lakes Environmental Center
MSc Student: Meg Sanders
Thesis: Developing novel molecular detection techniques for Hemlock Woolly Adeglid (Adelges tsugae)
Completed December 2021
Where is she now: Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources; Forestry Services
MSc Student: Sarah Lamar
Thesis: Invasive history of baby’s breath (Gypsophila paniculata) throughout North America.
Completed July 2019
Where is she now: Finishing her PhD at the University of Victoria – Wellington in New Zealand
MSc Student: Hailee Leimbach-Maus
Thesis: Genetic analysis of invasive baby’s breath populations in the northwest Michigan dunes system.
Completed July 2018.
Where is she now: Dept. of Biology – Eastern Washington University

Lab Alumni (Undergraduate Students)

Cianna Quattrin (GVSU Summer Student): Monitoring hemlock woolly adelgid throughout Michigan’s coastal hemlock forests.

Carlin Moore (GVSU Research Student): Exploring the genetic structure of wild rice populations throughout Michigan.

Leona Addie (GVSU-AWRI Summer Student Intern): Identification of fungal infections in western US G. paniculata populations.

Alex Florian (GVSU-S3 scholar): Influence of alternative reproductive tactics on population growth estimates of invasive round gobies.

Steve Smit (CIGLR Summer Research Fellow): Relationship between genetic diversity and presence of alternative reproductive tactics in round gobies.

Alexis Hoskins (AWRI-GVSU Student Intern, 2018): Population genetics of wild lupin across Michigan.

Marisa Yang (REU Student, 2017): Genetic characterization of different  G. paniculata color morphs in Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (check out Marisa’s recently accepted paper on the publications tab).

Emily Dusicska (AWRI-GVSU Student Intern, 2017): Development of Microcystis spp. standards for qPCR targeting the 16S, mycD, and PC operon.

McKenna Burns (REU Student, 2016): Characterization of seed development of G. paniculata in Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore.

Matt Kienitz (AWRI-GVSU Student Intern, 2016): Assessment of G. paniculata in Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore .

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