Hawley Lab Members
Dr. Dana Hawley
Principal Investigator
Research interests: ecology and evolution of wildlife diseases, animal behavior, ecological immunology
Dr. Anna Pérez-Umphrey
Postdoctoral Scholar
Research interests: conservation genetics, disease ecology, and wildlife biology
Dr. Kelley Langhans
Postdoctoral scholar
(co-advised by Dr. Ashley Dayer)
Research Interests: conservation biology, human dimensions of wildlife, landscape ecology
Marissa Langager
Ph.D. Candidate
Research interests: social behavior and disease ecology
Sara Teemer Richards
Ph.D. Student
Research interests: behavioral ecology, disease ecology, and conservation biology
Jesse Garrett-Larsen
Ph.D. Student
Research interests: ecoimmunology, behavioral ecology, disease ecology, and conservation biology
Alicia Arneson
Ph.D. Student
(co-advised by Dr. Leah Johnson)
Research Interests: host-pathogen interaction, animal physiology, modeling and statistics for disease ecology
Riley Meyers
MS student
Research Interests: Disease ecology, behavioral ecology, human-wildlife interactions, and conservation ecology
Tope Oduyelu
Post-baccalaureate scholar, VT PREP program
Research interests: livestock health and nutrition, dairy science
Junior Lab Members
Emmy
(daughter of Dana Hawley)
Research interests: geology, astronomy, architecture, electrical engineering
James
(son of Dana Hawley)
Research interests: pathogen spillover at the human-domestic animal interface
Lab Mascots
Luna Hawley Spotila
Research interests: haute cuisine, evolution of coprophagy, pig farming for optimal bacon production, game theory models of dog disobedience
Pico Richards
Research Interests: physiology of long walks, dog treat nutrition
Winnie Arneson
Research interests: human nutrition, psychology of emotional manipulation
Maia Arneson
Research interests: soil science, geology, Newtonian mechanics of squeaky ball flight
Orfeo Langhans
Research interests: mechanics of biting, insect flight patterns, baroque opera
Georgia Hawley Spotila
Research interests: Virginia Tech women’s basketball, biomechanics of ceiling locomotion