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Lora Richards
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Associate Professor
Scientific Co-Director Hitchcock Chemical Ecology Center
Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology Graduate Program
Department of Biology
University of Nevada, Reno


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Current Lab Members 
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Ericka Kay : Co-advised PhD student 
Ericka is interested in phytochemically mediated interactions between industrial hemp and its herbivore community with a focus on the synergistic effects of complex mixtures of plant defense. 
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Devon Picklum  - PhD student
Devon studies how plant-insect interactions are mediated by floral traits (eg. color and chemistry) in Sierra Nevada and Great Basin wildflowers.

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Ari Grele  - PhD student
Ari is interested in how floral nectar chemistry can impact plant fitness and pollinator diversity, and how abiotic and biotic factors may influence these interactions in native Nevadan and Californian milkweed species.​

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Abby Jarrett- PhD student
Abby's research will broadly focus on disturbance ecology, asking questions about how Traditional Indigenous Knowledge (TIK) influences plant community assembly and phytochemical diversity. Experiments will take place in Ecuador with Kichwa and Wao-speaking communities, where they will help me study their garden systems, called "chakras," an early agroforestry method practiced by Indigenous communities across the Amazon Basin.

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Haley Dole - PhD student
Haley is researching how plant ontogeny and environmental factors influence the phytochemistry of a tropical pepper plant (Piper kelleyi), while also exploring how this phytochemical variation predicts and maintains the high diversity of specialist caterpillars (Eois spp.) feeding on the pepper plant.


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Past Undergraduates 
Jasmine Lam                                                  Patrick Voss                                                  Isabel Piccinini
Isabelle Dalla                                                Rayan Laique                                               Paola Miramontes 

Lab ALumni 

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Matt Paulsen - MS 2019 and Lab Technician
Starting Physical Therapy graduate program in Summer 2022
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Elle Horwath - Undergraduate
Starting the Ecology, Evolution and Behavior PhD program at Boise State University in Fall 2022
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Kaitlin Ochsenrider - Visiting Postdoc (Boise State)
Currently a Teaching Postdoc fellow in the Chemistry Dept. at UNR​
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