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

Jesse Garrett-Larsen
Ph.D. Student
Research interests: ecoimmunology, behavioral ecology, disease ecology, and conservation biology

Alicia Surratt
Ph.D. Student
(co-advised by Dr. Leah Johnson)
Research Interests: host-pathogen interaction, animal physiology, modeling and statistics for disease ecology
Junior Lab Members

Emmy
(daughter of Dana Hawley)
Research interests: geology, astronomy, architecture, electrical engineering

Ari
(daughter of Dana Hawley)
Research interests: fashion, puffin nest site selection

Adrian
(son of Anna Pérez Umphery)
Research interests: natural history of the Hundred Acre Wood and movement dynamics of ceiling fans

Amalia
(daughter of Alicia Surratt)
Research interests: bayesian hierarchical modelling of the factors impacting cheek chubbification in human infants
Lab Mascots

Luna Hawley
Research interests: haute cuisine, evolution of coprophagy, pig farming for optimal bacon production, game theory models of dog disobedience

Winnie Surratt
Research interests: haute cuisine, evolution of coprophagy, pig farming for optimal bacon production, game theory models of dog disobedience

Maia Surratt
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
Research interests: Virginia Tech women’s basketball, biomechanics of ceiling locomotion