Graduate Students
Paul Bump
Ph.D. Student in Biology, admitted Summer 2016
Paul Bump is an explorer of the small and squishy. His research in strange, enigmatic, marine invertebrates hopes to unlock secrets around basic biological processes and provide novel perspectives to advance fundamental cell biology research. He currently studies how an organism can build two wildly different bodies during its life while having access to the same genetic information. While puzzling, the process of indirect development, with distinct larval and adult body plans, is the most common developmental strategy in many animals. His research involves studying the metamorphosis of (...)
Email: paulbump@stanford.edu
Paul's Website
James Fahlbusch
Ph.D. Student in Biology, admitted Autumn 2018
Student Employee, Hopkins Marine Station
Email: musculus@stanford.edu
Maurice Codespoti Goodman
Ph.D. Student in Biology, admitted Autumn 2018
Email: goodman3@stanford.edu
William Taylor Gough
Ph.D. Student in Biology, admitted Autumn 2017
The margin between life and death is defined by an animal’s ability to navigate its environment and find food. For his PhD thesis work, Will Gough has been using biologging tags to study how locomotion and feeding kinematics scale with body size up to and including whales - the largest animals that have ever lived. Insights from this work will help us understand how these species move within and reacts to their local environment and give us a more complete picture of their physiology and energetic demands. As we move forward into the Anthropocene, these answers could help us develop more (...)
Email: wgough@stanford.edu
Richard Grewelle
Ph.D. Student in Biology, admitted Autumn 2016
Richard Grewelle is a current PhD student motivated to understand ecological and evolutionary underpinnings of wildlife disease systems. Prior research areas involve bioinformatics, phylogenetics, and disease ecology. Although with previous experience in terrestrial diseases, including Y. pestis (plague), Richard pursues marine disease ecology due to the lack of knowledge surrounding systems we hardly encounter. Marine diseases present significant challenges to not only biologists; they may devastate fragile ecosystems supporting fisheries or providing ecological services. Richard works (...)
Email: regrew@stanford.edu
Christopher Knight
Ph.D. Student in Biology, admitted Autumn 2019
My research will focus on linking ocean and human health by considering how human activity impacts marine ecosystems and the services they provide such as nutrition and livelihoods. Additionally, I am interested in exploring solutions to create equitable and sustainable seafood production. I plan to employ a combination of field ecology, social science, and meta-analyses to contribute to the burgeoning field of planetary health.
Email: cjknight@stanford.edu
Elora H. López-Nandam
Affiliate, Hopkins Marine Station
Elora López-Nandam is a Ph.D. candidate in Biology at Stanford University. She uses genomics to address questions about the ecology, evolution, and conservation of marine life. Her research spans a wide range of topics, including coral bleaching recovery in American Samoa, somatic mutations in very long-lived organisms, and the effects of nuclear radiation on wildlife at Bikini Atoll, a former nuclear testing site in the Marshall Islands. López-Nandam's first research expedition to Bikini Atoll was featured on the PBS documentary series Big Pacific in June 2017. Her research projects have (...)
Chloe Mikles
Ph.D. Student in Biology, admitted Autumn 2020
Student Employee, Law Instructional Support
Email: csmikles@stanford.edu
Krti Tallam
Ph.D. Student in Biology, admitted Autumn 2020
Krti is broadly interested in the ecology of environmental diseases, as they link to climate and anthropogenic stressors. She studies coastal and oceanic environmental diseases that have links to human, terrestrial, and aquatic systems. Krti utilizes computer vision / deep learning, artificial intelligence, and field experiments for her work, and is interested in long-term implications for planetary health and environmental justice.
Email: ktallam7@stanford.edu
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Nia Symone Walker
Ph.D. Student in Biology, admitted Autumn 2017
I am a 4th year PhD Candidate at Stanford University under the mentorship of Dr. Stephen Palumbi, based at Hopkins Marine Station in Monterey, CA.
Email: niasw@stanford.edu
