People
Current Lab Members
Graduate Students – Ph. D. Candidates
Research Topic (Funding sources)
Kate LangwigFactors influencing bat species susceptibility to white-nose syndrome (WNS); how variation in host susceptibility and seasonal prevalence of WNS affects transmission and spread of the disease(Bat Conservation International, National Science Foundation) |
Elizabeth Braun de TorrezEcology, roosting and foraging behavior, and ecosystem services of North American bats in a pecan agroecosystem.(BU Dean’s Assistantship, Bat Conservation International, NSF). |
Nathan FullerThe impact of wing damage caused by white-nose syndrome in Myotis lucifugus; Collective behavior and computer vision analysis of large groups of bats using thermal imaging.(National Science Foundation, National Speleological Society, Bat Conservation International) |
Pablo JarrinPhylogeography and ecology of neotropical cloud forest bats.(Fulbright Foundation, ASM, Latin American Fund and Grant-in-Aid of Research, and BU’s CECB). |
Susan W. MurrayEcology and behavior of cryptic species of Rhinolophidae in Malaysia. (BU’s CECB, Bat Conservation International, NSF DDIG) |
Aryn WilderGene flow in little brown myotis (Myotis lucifigus); geographic spread of White-nose Syndrome among ittle brown myotis and overlapping species. (Morris Animal Foundation). |
Current Post-doctoral Scholars
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Winifred Frick
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Robert Hodgkison
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Christopher S. Richardson
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Former Students (1974 – 2010)
Former Ph.D. Students
Research Topic (Funding sources)
Peter V. August. 1981.Population and community ecology of small mammals in northern Venezuela (Smithsonian Institution Graduate Fellowship) |
Christopher D. Burnett. 1981.Ecogeographic variation in the morphology of the big brown bat, Eptesicus fuscus (NSF DDIG) |
Edythe L.P. Anthony. 1982.Pituitary cytology of the little brown bat, Myotis lucifugu (NSF Graduate Fellowship). |
Holly M. Stack. 1985.Energetics of reproduction in the big brown bat, Eptesicus fuscus (NSF, Sigma Xi). |
Marty S. Fujita. 1986.A latitudinal comparison of growth and development in the little brown bat, Myotis lucifugus, with implications for geographic variation in adult morphology (NSF DDIG, ASM, and AMNH). |
Allen Kurta. 1986.Insulation, thermoregulation, and metabolic rates of the little brown bat (Myotis lucifugus) under simulated roost conditions (Sigma Xi, Theodore Roosevelt Fund, ASM, NSF). |
Armando Rodríguez-Durán. 1990.Physiological ecology of three species of neotropical bats living in hot caves (Puerto Rican Minority Scholarship Grant). |
April A. Stern. 1995.Maternal investment in the greater spear-nosed bat, Phyllostomus hastatus (NSF Graduate Fellowship, Dissertation Improvement Grant, and The Lubee Foundation, Inc.). |
Ruth C.B. Utzurrum. 1998.Feeding ecology and energetics of three pteropodid bats in the Philippines. (World-Wildlife Fund–U.S., Chicago Zoological Society, MacArthur Foundation, and Lubee Foundation). |
D. Scott Reynolds. 1998.Variation in life-history traits in the little brown bat, Myotis lucifugus (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) (ASM, Bat Conservation International, and Theodore Roosevelt Fund). |
Johanna M. Bloss. 2000.Chemical ecology of bats (National Institutes of Health, The Lubee Foundation, Inc., Theodore Roosevelt Fund, and NSF–Dissertation Improvement Grant; AAUW Fellowship). |
Tigga Kingston. 2000.Community structure of bats in dipterocarp forests of Malaysia (The Lubee Foundation, Inc.). |
Jay F. Storz. 2000.Genetic structure and social evolution in an Old-World tent-making bat, Cynopterus sphinx (AMNH, Theodore Roosevelt Fund, The Lubee Foundation, ASM, and National Geographic Society, and NSF). |
Wendy R. Hood. 2000.Maternal investment in the big brown bat, Eptesicus fuscus (Lubee Foundation, Inc., ASM, Smithsonian Institution, Sigma Xi, and AMNH–Theodore Roosevelt Fund). |
Robert Hodgkison. 2001.Roosting and feeding ecology of an Old-World plant-visiting bat, Balionycteris maculata. (Lubee Foundation, Inc. and Bat Conservation International). |
Suzanne L. Nelson. 2002.Nutritional ecology of Old-World fruit bats: A test of the calcium-constraint hypothesis (Luis F. Bacardi Graduate Fellowship, The Lubee Foundation, Inc., and the Disney Wildlife Conservation Fund) |
Lizabeth Southworth. 2004.Calcium metabolism and vitamin-D in cave-dwelling bats (Sigma Xi; BU’s CECB). |
Polly Campbell. 2005.Evolution and Ecology of Southeast Asian fruit bats in the genus Cynopterus (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae) (The Lubee Bat Conservancy, the Disney Wildlife Conservation Fund, National Geographic Society). |
Gloriana Chaverri. 2006.Ecological correlates of social strategies in the Neotropical tent-making bat Artibeus watsoni. (ASM, The Conservation Food and Health Foundation, BU’s CECB). |
Christopher S. Richardson. 2006.Intraspecific variation in metabolism and thermoregulation in Eptesicus fuscus (AMNH–Theodore Roosevelt Fund, American Society of Mammalogists, and Sigma Xi). |
Jason W. Horn. 2007.Nightly and seasonal behavior of bats in the aerosphere assessed with thermal imaging and NEXRAD Doppler RADAR. (NSF). |
John Benjamin Rinehart. 2007.Roosting ecology of Neotropical tent-making bats. (BU’s CECB). |
Mariana Muñoz-Romo. 2008.The importance of chemical signals in the mating strategies of bats. (Fulbright Foundation, BU’s CECB Assistantship). |
Louise Allen. 2009.Stress, reproduction and immunity in bridge- and cave-roosting Brazilian free-tailed bats (Tadarida brasiliensis). (NSF, American Society of Mammalogists). |
Marianne Moore 2010Interactions between immune function, stress physiology, pathogen exposure and environmental contaminants in temperate bat species.(NSF DDIG, Bat Conservation International, Biodiversity Research Institute). |
![]() Jonathan Reichard 2010Thermal energetics and climate space of Brazilian free-tailed bats, Tadarida brasiliensis.(NSF, Research Assistantship). |
Former Post-Doctoral Scholars
David Byman (1981-1982)
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Gary P. Bell (1985-1987)
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Tolibjon Khabilov (1997-1998)
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Noga Kronfeld-Schor (1998-1999)
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Christian Voigt (1998-2000)
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DeeAnn Reeder (2001-2004)
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Nickolay Hristov (2004-2008)
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Daniel Riskin (2006-2008)
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![]() Jason W. Horn (2007-2008)
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Marianne Moore 2010Interactions between immune function, stress physiology, pathogen exposure and environmental contaminants in temperate bat species.(NSF DDIG, Bat Conservation International, Biodiversity Research Institute). |
M. A. Students (Research)
- Ralph Hamill. 1974. Uptake of radionuclides by a population of woodchucks in the vicinity of a nuclear reactor.
- Jamed G. Hallett. 1976. Space utilization in two sympatric murid rodents, Peromyscus leucopus and Clethrionomys gapperi.
- Edythe L.P. Anthony. 1976. Feeding strategies of the little brown bat, Myotis lucifugus in New Hampshire.
- Elizabeth M. Howell. 1977. Potential biases in small mammal density estimates caused by differential trappability and chemical signals.
- William T. Rumage, III. 1978. Food consumption and nightly dispersal of little brown bats, Myotis lucifugus.
- Marylou A. Tracy. 1978. Ecology and life history of the bat flea Mysodopsylla insignis.
- Robin F. Bernath. 1978. Structure and dynamics of arthropod communities of bat guano deposits in buildings.
- Karen M. Hoying. 1983. Growth and development of the eastern pipistrelle bat, Pipistrellus subflavus.
- Carlos Díaz. 1986. Folivory in the Jamaican fruit bat, Artibeus jamaicensis.
- Anne P. Brooke. 1988. Natural history of the Honduran white bat, Ectophylla alba, in Costa Rica.
- Janey Winchell. 1990. Roosting ecology and time-budgets of the eastern pipistrelle, Pipistrellus subflavus.
- Helen M. Papadimitrou. 1994. Ontogenetic changes in mineralization of the wing skeleton in the Mexican free-tailed bat, Tadarida brasiliensis.
- Jennifer Newmark. 1998. Isolation calls of young Pteropus vampyrus facilitate mother-infant reunions (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae).
- Jason W. Horn. 1998. Individual variation in nightly time budgets of the little brown bat, Myotis lucifugus.
- Jamie Bender. 2000. Effects of ectoparasite loads on metabolic rates in Phyllostomus elongatus.
- Pablo Jarrín. 2004. Geographical and interespecific variation of highland and lowland species of the Genus Sturnira (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) in Ecuador: A morphometric approach.