Our Faculty Grid below is a great resource to start your search for a graduate advisor. The Grid indicates which faculty are recruiting for the upcoming cycle. The list is updated between June 1 and October 15 every year. If there are no faculty recruiting in your interest area, please revisit us between June 1 and October 15 for an updated list.
Check out each person’s research area, website, and availability below. You can also see all our official faculty bios on the website here. Have some fun exploring the research opportunities here and choose a few advisors that could be a great fit for you!
1 | First Name | Last Name | Accepting students for Fall cohort? | Expertise | Website | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2 |  | William | Adams | Not accepting students for Fall 25 | Plant ecophysiology; structure/function of leaves | Professor Bio https://www.colorado.edu/ebio/william-adams-iii |
3 |  | Lisa | Corwin | Not accepting students for Fall 25 | Biology education; psychosocial outcomes; assessment of course-based undergraduate research experiences | REACH Lab Website http://thereachlab.org/ |
4 |  | Kendi | Davies | Not accepting students for Fall 25 | Effects of multiple disturbances on biodiversity; forest fragmentation experiment; Australia; fire; climate change; invertebrates; forest | Davies Lab Website https://www.colorado.edu/lab/davies/ |
5 |  | Laura | Dee | Accepting students for Fall 25, email me | Nature's contributions to people, causal inference, conservation science, and biodiversity-ecosystem functioning, community-engaged scholarship | Dee Lab Website http://lauraedee.com/ |
6 |  | Barbara | Demmig Adams | Not accepting students for Fall 25 | Photosynthesis; plant ecology and physiology; photoprotection; biofuels | Professor Bio https://www.colorado.edu/ebio/barbara-demmig-adams |
7 |  | Nancy | Emery | Not accepting students for Fall 25 | Evolutionary ecology; population biology | Emery Lab Website https://www.colorado.edu/lab/emery/ |
8 |  | Luke | Evans | Accepting students for Fall 25, email me | Behavioral; quantitative; statistical genetics | Evans Statistical Genetics Lab Website https://www.colorado.edu/lab/evans/ |
9 |  | Noah | Fierer | Maybe for Fall 25, email me | Microbial ecology; soil ecology; microbiomes | Fierer Lab Website http://fiererlab.org/ |
10 |  | Mike | Gil | Not accepting students for Fall 25 | Community; behavioral; theoretical ecology | Gil Lab Website https://gillab.org/ |
11 |  | Eve-Lyn | Hinckley | Accepting students for Fall 25 (PhD only),email me | Ecosystem biogeochemistry | Hinckley Lab Website https://enviro-biogeochemistry.weebly.com/ |
12 |  | Pieter | Johnson | Accepting students for Fall 25, email me | Disease ecology; marine biology; aquatic sciences | Johnson Lab Website http://www.johnsonlaboratory.com/ |
13 |  | Nolan | Kane | Accepting students for Fall 25, email me | Genomics; bioinformatics; speciation; hybridization; sustainable agriculture | Kane Lab Website https://nkane.weebly.com/index.html |
14 |  | Patrick | Kociolek | Maybe for Fall 25, email me | Taxonomy; systemics | Professor Bio https://www.colorado.edu/ebio/patrick-kociolek |
15 |  | Jingchun | Li | Maybe for Fall 25, email me | Biodiversification; symbiosis; invertebrates; evolutionary biology | Li Lab Website https://jingchunli.weebly.com/ |
16 |  | Erin | Manzitto-Tripp | Not accepting students for Fall 25 | Plant systematics | The Tripp Report https://tripp-report.com/ |
17 |  | Andrew | Martin | Not accepting students for Fall 25 | Biology education; intersections between conservation biology, law and JEDI | Martin Lab Website https://martincolorado.weebly.com/ |
18 |  | Andrew | McAdam | Not accepting students for Fall 25 | Natural selection; adaptation; quantitative genetics; social evolution; plasticity | McAdam Lab Website http://www.mcadamlab.ca/ |
19 |  | Christy | McCain | Accepting students for Fall 25, email me | Animal community ecology; biodiversity; climate change biology; montane ecology | McCain Mountain Lab Website https://spot.colorado.edu/~mccainc/ |
20 |  | Valerie | McKenzie | Not accepting students for Fall 25 | Parasitology; host-associated microbes; disease ecology | McKenzie Lab Website https://mckenzielab.com/ |
21 |  | Dan | Medeiros | Maybe (for Fall 25, Ph.D. only),email me | Evolutionary developmental biology; vertebrate evolution; evolution of gene regulation | Medeiros Lab Website https://www.colorado.edu/lab/medeiros/ |
22 |  | Brett | Melbourne | Accepting quantitative students for Fall 25 via IQBiology, email me. | Biodiversity, extinction, climate change, ecological models, data science | Melbourne Lab Website https://www.colorado.edu/lab/melbourne/ |
23 |  | Isabella | Oleksy | Maybe (for Fall 25, MA only),email me | Ecosystem ecology; biogeochemistry; aquatic ecology; limnology | Mountain Limnology Lab Website https://www.mountainlimnologylab.com/ |
24 |  | Alisha | Quandt | Not accepting students for Fall 25 | Mycology; host-microbe interactions; comparative genomics; microbial diversity | Quandt Lab Website https://quandtmycology.weebly.com/ |
25 |  | Sammy | Ramsey | Yes, email me | Symbiosis; pollinator health; invasive species ecology; superorganism biology | Ramsey Lab Website https://www.drsammy.online/ |
26 |  | Julian | Resasco | Accepting students for Fall 25, email me | Community ecology; landscape ecology; spatial ecology; conservation biology | Resasco Lab Website https://www.colorado.edu/lab/resasco/ |
27 |  | Rebecca | Safran | Accepting students for Fall 25, email me | Speciation; evolutionary ecology; population genomics; science communication | Safran Lab Website http://www.safran-lab.com/ |
28 |  | Steven | Schmidt | Accepting students for Fall 25, email me | Extremophiles; microbial ecology; biogeochemistry; cryobiosphere | Alpine Microbial Observatory https://alpinemicrobialobservatory.weebly.com/ |
29 |  | Stacey | Smith | Not accepting students for Fall 25 | Molecular phylogenetics; plant trait evolution | Smith Lab Website https://www.colorado.edu/smithlab/ |
30 |  | Ryan | St Laurent | Accepting students for Fall 25, email me | Insect-plant interactions; phylogenetics; systematics, taxonomy | Professor Bio https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ryan-St-Laurent |
31 |  | David | Stock | Not accepting students for Fall 25 | Genetics; development; evolution of fishes | Professor Bio https://www.colorado.edu/ebio/david-w-stock |
32 |  | Katharine | Suding | Not accepting students for Fall 25 | Plant community ecology; restoration ecology; diversity; species interactions; plant-soil feedbacks | Suding Lab Website https://www.sudinglab.org/join-in |
33 |  | Scott | Taylor | Accepting students for Fall 25, email me | Hybridization; speciation; anthropogenic change; population genomics | Taylor Lab Website https://www.colorado.edu/lab/taylor/ |
34 |  | Merritt | Turetsky | Accepting students for Fall 25, email me | Ecosystem ecology; disturbance ecology including wildfire, carbon and nutrient biogeochemistry | Professor Bio https://www.colorado.edu/rasei/merritt-turetsky |