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Dr. Phoebe Edwards, Principal Investigator
Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology (EEOB) I am an integrative biologist with interests in endocrinology, environmental programming, social behavior, and population dynamics. I did my undergraduate degree at Case Western Reserve University, and then began field research working with wild small mammal populations as a Ph.D. student in the Boonstra lab at University of Toronto. I did my postdoc in the Holmes lab at University of Toronto, researching the weird and wonderful naked mole-rat. During my postdoc, I worked with the Reproductive Sciences group at the Toronto Zoo using non-invasive endocrine measures to study species of conservation interest. Now, I am a faculty member at Iowa State University integrating this type of work to study how different environments in Iowa (natural, agricultural, urban) alter small mammal physiology and population processes. |
Graduate students
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Yining Fu, PhD student
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology graduate program Yining completed her undergraduate degree at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, as well as a semester abroad at UC Davis, where she studied primate behavior. Her PhD work focuses on phenotypic and epigenetic changes in response to human-modified environments in wild mice. |
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Tayah Lande, MS student
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology graduate program co-advised with Dr. Mike Rentz, Department of Natural Resource Ecology and Management (NREM) Tayah did her undergraduate degree in Animal Ecology at Iowa State University, and is now researching behavior and space use in small mammals across environment types in Iowa. |
Undergraduate students
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Danielle Nagaito
Undergraduate Research Assistant Fall 2025 |
Olivia Lamb
BIOL 4990 - Undergraduate Research Fall 2025 |
Preethika Naveen
BIOL 4900 - Independent Study Fall 2025 |
Elizabeth Gbagbo
BIOL 2990 - Intro to Undergraduate Research Fall 2025 |
Joseph Matland
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Summer 2025
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Summer 2025
Collaborators
Dr. Rudy Boonstra, University of Toronto
DNA methylation signatures in red-backed voles from Yukon population cycles
Dr. Melissa Holmes, University of Toronto
DNA methylation signatures of social role in naked mole-rats
Dr. Vincent Viblanc, Institut Pluri-Disciplinaire Hubert Curien
Social and environmental stress indices in Columbian ground squirrels
Dr. Madan Oli, University of Florida
Density-dependent influences on vole population demography
Dr. Rudy Boonstra, University of Toronto
DNA methylation signatures in red-backed voles from Yukon population cycles
Dr. Melissa Holmes, University of Toronto
DNA methylation signatures of social role in naked mole-rats
Dr. Vincent Viblanc, Institut Pluri-Disciplinaire Hubert Curien
Social and environmental stress indices in Columbian ground squirrels
Dr. Madan Oli, University of Florida
Density-dependent influences on vole population demography
