Exciting news and awards
Dirzo Lab members had many exciting accomplishments over Spring 2021!
- Tyler McFadden successfully defended his PhD on June 7th and got a postdoc position in Stanford
- Jessica Martin successfully defended his PhD on June 1th and got a postdoc position in New Mexico State University
- Tyler McFadden got the Norman K. Wessells Award for Outstanding course/teaching assistant in Stanford Department of Biology
- Luísa Genes got the Stanford Department of Biology Excellence in Teaching Award
- Carl Risberg got the Earth Systems Science Award for Outstanding Research for his honors thesis “A Global Analysis of Non-Trophic Impact of Herbivores on Seedling Models Under Contrasting Levels of Defaunation
Luísa Genes
PhD Student
My research focuses on the conservation and restoration of species interactions in tropical terrestrial ecosystems. I am currently working in rainforests in Brazil and Costa Rica, studying how communities and plant-animal interactions reassemble through restoration and trophic rewilding. Before coming to Stanford, I’ve worked in the reintroduction of howler monkeys (Alouatta guariba) to Rio de… Read more
