Lab PI
Joseph Hoyt Ph.D. – Assistant Professor in Biological Sciences at Virginia Tech. Completed B.T. at SUNY Cobleskill in 2008, M.S. from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 2014 and Ph.D. from the UCSC in 2017.
Graduate Students
Nichole Laggan – PhD student and NSF-GRFP fellow in Biological Sciences. Completed her B.S. from the University of Tampa in 2018.
Gaëlle Blanvillain – PhD student and NSF-GRFP/ Cunningham fellow in Biological Sciences. She completed her B.S. degree in Biology from the University of La Rochelle, France, a M.S. degree in Natural Resource Management from the University of Angers, France, and a M.S. in Marine Biology from the College of Charleston, SC
Chris Kailing – PhD student and NSF-GRFP/ McNair Scholar in Biological Sciences. He completed his B.S. in Wildlife Ecology from Northern Michigan University in 2019.
Dane Conley – Masters student in Biological Sciences. He completed his B.S. in Organismal Biology from Christopher Newport University in 2020.