Who we are — Cheviron Lab @ THE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA

Current Members

Zac Cheviron, PI

Zac sends emails.

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Schuyler Liphardt (Postdoc, co-mentored with Good Lab)

Sky is working on the genomics aspects of extreme altitude adaptation in Andean rodents.

Nathanael Herrera (Postdoc, co-mentored with Good Lab)

Nat is working on the evolutionary genomics of high altitude adaptation in deer mice in the Rocky Mountains and leaf-eared mice in the Andes.

Keely Corder, PhD Student, EE

Keely is interested in the role of mito-nuclear coadaptation in aerobic performance in high-elevation deer mice. Keely is supported on DoD graduate fellowship.

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Ryan Mahar, Lab Manager

Ryan has expertise in ecophysiology and biophysical modeling. He recently completed his MS degree in the lab looking the causes of elevational range shifts in small mammal communities in the Rocky Mountains

Laura Blumensaadt (PhD Student, EE)

Laura is interested in ecotoxicology and evolutionary adaptation to heavy metal contamination associated with hard rock mining in deer mice.

Linnea Schaefer (PhD Student, EE)

Linnea is interested in the impacts of wildfire on avian communities in the western US.

Collaborators And Affiliated Labs

Campbell-Station Lab - Princeton University

Carling Lab - University of Wyoming

Good Lab - University of Montana

Lovette Lab - Cornell University

McClelland Lab - McMaster University

Rice Lab - Lehigh University

Scott Lab - McMaster University

Senner Lab - University of South Carolina

Storz Lab - University of Nebraska

Taylor Lab - University of Colorado, Boulder

Velotta Lab - University of Denver

vonHoldt Lab - Princeton University

Woods Lab - University of Montana

Gone but not forgotten...

Ana Paula Assis (Postdoc 2022, now assistant Professor, Universidade de São Paulo)

Kate Wilsterman (Postdoc 2019 - 2022, now assistant professor, Colorado State University)

Rena Schweizer (Postdoc 2017 - 2023, now computational biologist, USDA)

Cole Wolf (PhD, 2022, now postdoc University of Wisconsin)

Jon Velotta (Postdoc 2015-2020, now assistant professor, University of Denver)

Maria Stager (MS 2014, PhD 2020, now assistant professor, UMass Amherst)

Nathan Senner (Postdoc 2016 - 2019, now assistant professor, UMass Amherst)

Nicholas Sly (PhD 2019, Research Scientist Cornell Lab of Ornithology)

Shane Campbell-Staton (postdoc 2015 - 2018, now assistant professor, Princeton)

Phred Benham (PhD 2018, now postdoc, UC Berkeley)

Henry Pollock (PhD 2015, now postdoc, University of Illinois)