Current members

Daijiang Li

Daijiang Li

PI. Quantitative Ecologist. Interested in how global changes have and will affect ecological communities. Assistant professor at the Department of Botany , University of Wisconsin-Madison
Cleber Ten Caten

Cleber Ten Caten

Postdoc. Cleber is interested in the distribution of biodiversity patterns across geographic and environmental space.
Ming Ni

Ming Ni

Postdoc. Ming studies on biological invasions, plant spatial distributions and migration, and rewilding. He enjoys reading, hiking and many things.
Pu Yan

Pu Yan

Postdoc. Pu focuses on the impacts of environmental change on ecological communities and the consequences for ecosystem functioning. He enjoys basketball, swimming, hiking, and reading.
Nevyn Neal

Nevyn Neal

PhD student. Nevyn’s research revolves around applying Deep Learning to Ecology and Evolution data. Nevyn has a passion for music, video games, and spending quality time with his two dogs.
You?

You?

We are always looking for motivated and talented people to join our team. See the join us page for more information. Feel free to contact me through ✉️ to discuss ideas.

Lab Alumni

Postdoctoral fellows:

  • Flavia Montaño, Postdoc, 2021-2023. Position after leaving the lab: Assistant Professsor, LSU
  • Pablo Moreno Garcia, Postdoc, 2022-2025. Position after leaving the lab: Postdoc, Université de Caen Normandie
  • Yu (Grant) Liu, Postdoc, 2023-2025. Position after leaving the lab: Postdoc, Purdue University

Graduate students:

  • Evelin Reyes, PhD student, 2021-2024. Position after leaving the lab: Graduate student, LSU
  • Rohit Jha, PhD student, 2022-. Position after leaving the lab: Co-advised graduate student, LSU

Undergraduate students and Research Associate:

  • Matthew Blanchard, Research Associate, 2020-2021
  • Emily Ramos, Undergraduate student, 2023-2023
  • Sydne Martin, Undergraduate student, 2023-2023
  • Karma Sampson, Undergraduate student, 2023-2023
  • Ariel Mata, Undergraduate student, 2022-2024
  • Grace Harden, Undergraduate student, 2022-2023
  • Quynh (Tina) Nguyen, Undergraduate student, 2022-2023
  • Alexis Benoit, Undergraduate student, 2021-2022
  • Sofia Darst, Undergraduate student, 2021-2022
  • Sarah Degeyter, Undergraduate student, 2021-2022
  • Harroop Bedi, Undergraduate student, 2021-2021

Lab Pictures

2024/05/10 Last lab meeting of spring 2024. Front row left to right: Flavia Montaño, Evelin Reyes, Pablo Moreno, Evelin Reyes, Grant Liu. Back row left to right: Daijiang Li, Gaurav Kandlikar, Rohit Jha, Richard Ita. Missing in the picture: Nevyn Neal, Airel Mata.

2023/12/05 Last lab meeting of fall 2023. Left to right: Pablo Moreno, Evelin Reyes, Daijiang Li, Flavia Montaño, Gaurav Kandlikar, Grant Liu, Rohit Jha.

2023/12 End of semester lunch gathering. Clockwise from bottom left: Flavia Montaño, Rohit Jha, Evelin Reyes, Richard Ita, Grant Liu, Daijiang Li, Pablo Moreno, Gaurav Kandlikar.

2023/07 A lab lunch to celebrate Emily's succesful REU summer. Left to right: Ariel Mata, Tina Nguyen, Emily Ramos, Daijiang Li, Pablo Moreno, Evelin Reyes, Grant Liu.

2023/05/05 group picture. Left to right: Ariel Mata, Sydne Martin, Tina Nguyen, Daijiang Li, Rohit Jha, Pablo Moreno, Evelin Reyes, Flavia Montaño.

2023/04/25 Louisiana swamp tour with air boat during the Phenobase project annual meeting at LSU.