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Schal Lab:
Urban Entomology, Chemical Ecology, Insect Behavior & Physiology

Schal Lab Members

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Coby Schal

Blanton J. Whitmire Distinguished Professor

919-515-1821
Madhavi Kakumanu

Senior Research Scholar

Juliet Ochola

Postdoctoral Research Scholar

Ayako Wada-Katsumata

Principal Research Scholar

Rick Santangelo

Lab Manager & Research Specialist

919-515-1820
Elizabeth Wiles

PhD Candidate, NSF Graduate Fellow

Amy Zheng

PhD student

Anastasia Smith

Undergraduate student

Recent 5 years Lab Members

Saveer Ahmed

Postdoctoral Research Scholar, 2022

Aaron Ashbrook

Postdoctoral Research Scholar, 2022

Johanna Elsensohn

PhD, 2021, IGERT Fellow

María González-Morales

PhD, 2022, DoD SMART Fellow

Jeremy Gutierrez

MS, 2025

Jamora Hamilton

PhD, 2021, NSF Graduate Fellow

Eduardo Hatano

Postdoctoral Research Scholar, 2020

Chris Hayes

PhD, 2024

Mauri Hickin

PhD, 2022

Charles Kwadha

Postdoctoral Research Scholar, 2025

Min Li

Visiting Professor (Tianjin Normal University. Tianjin, China), 2020

Samantha McPherson

PhD, 2022

Previous Lab Members

Masters StudentsDoctoral StudentsPostdoctoral and sabbatical researchersTechnicians
1. Stephen Racioppe1. Alan Smith1. Lakshmi Hazarika1. Edina Burns
2. Grzegorz Buczkowski2. Robert Hamilton2. Tae Soo Chon2. Jinping Sun
3. Mark Clark3. Ann-Shyn Chiang3. Russ Jurenka3. Bridget Deasy
4. Richard Cooper4. Dangsheng Liang4. Michal Gadot4. Jason Herber
5. Jonathan Crissman5. Daniel Stout Jr5. Sung Sik Han5. Jane Bachmann
6. Xiaoping Gu6. Robert Kopanic Jr6. Ann-Shyn Chiang 
7. Dangsheng Liang7. Hugh Young7. Dangsheng Liang 
8. Gregory Williams8. Glenn Holbrook8. Gwen Pearson 
9. Ann Carr9. Godfrey Nalyanya9. Clyde Moore (deceased) 
10. Jeremy Gutierrez10. J. Chad Gore10. Veeresh Sevala 
 11. Dorit Eliyahu11. Glenn Holbrook 
 12. Nicole Benda12. Ludek Zurek 
 13. Elsa Youngsteadt13. Kellie Robinson-Redding 
 14. Adrienn Uzsák14. César Gemeno 
 15. Virna Saenz15. Yongliang Fan 
 16. Yvonne Matos16. Dmitry Mukha 
 17. Colin Funaro17. Jody Chase 
 18. Michael Fisher18. Patricia Juarez 
 19. Zachary DeVries19. Anne Genevieve Bagneres 
 
20. Astrid Groot
 
 
21. Gary Brookhart
 
 
22. Johanna Elsensohn		22. Ning Xu
 
 
23. Alvaro Romero
 
24. Samantha McPherson		24. Alonso Suazo
 
 
25. Mauri Hickin 25. Loganathan Ponnusamy
 
 
26. María A. González-Morales		26. Satoshi Nojima
 
 
27. Chris Hayes		27. Warren Booth
 
 
 
28. Jan Buellesbach
 
 
 
29. Katalin Böröczky
 
 
 
30. Joakim Bang
 
31. Emily Kuhns
32. Jian-yu Deng
33. Alexis Barbarin
34. Aya Yanagawa
35. Jeremy Heath
36. Michiel van Wijk
37. Yang Liu
38. Shiyong Yang
39. Zachary DeVries
40. Jing Tao
41. Fan Zhang
42. Min Li
43. Eduardo Hatano
44. Aaron Ashbrook
45. Saveer Ahmed
46. Charles Kwadha