Bryan McLean (PI)
Bryan is an Assistant Professor at UNC-Greensboro (since Fall 2019). He earned a PhD at University of New Mexico (2017) and was an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at the Florida Museum of Natural History (2017-2019). He is interested in understanding patterns of phenotypic and life history evolution in mammals in the context of past and present environmental change.
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Bryan is an Assistant Professor at UNC-Greensboro (since Fall 2019). He earned a PhD at University of New Mexico (2017) and was an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at the Florida Museum of Natural History (2017-2019). He is interested in understanding patterns of phenotypic and life history evolution in mammals in the context of past and present environmental change.
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Amanda Weller
Amanda is a PhD student in the Department of Biology (since Fall 2020). She earned a B.S. in Biology at Ohio State University - Lima. Amanda is interested in mammal evolution, ecology, and biogeography (especially of Palearctic mammals) with an emphasis on effects of climate change and conservation applications.
Amanda is a PhD student in the Department of Biology (since Fall 2020). She earned a B.S. in Biology at Ohio State University - Lima. Amanda is interested in mammal evolution, ecology, and biogeography (especially of Palearctic mammals) with an emphasis on effects of climate change and conservation applications.
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Anna Mellis
Anna is a Masters student in the Department of Biology (since Fall 2019). She earned a B.S. in Biology at Western Carolina University with a concentration in ecology and evolution (2018). Anna is interested in the behavior and ecology of mammals, and mammal-ectoparasite dynamics. She is also a soccer player and a huge soccer fan!
Anna is a Masters student in the Department of Biology (since Fall 2019). She earned a B.S. in Biology at Western Carolina University with a concentration in ecology and evolution (2018). Anna is interested in the behavior and ecology of mammals, and mammal-ectoparasite dynamics. She is also a soccer player and a huge soccer fan!
Olivia Chapman
Olivia is an MS student in the Department of Biology (since Fall 2020). She is from Ann Arbor, Michigan, and earned a B.S. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Michigan (2019). She is interested in mammal ecology and evolution, loves to travel, and often reads Stephen King novels in her spare time.
Olivia is an MS student in the Department of Biology (since Fall 2020). She is from Ann Arbor, Michigan, and earned a B.S. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Michigan (2019). She is interested in mammal ecology and evolution, loves to travel, and often reads Stephen King novels in her spare time.
We are building our colony!
The McLean lab is recruiting graduate students at the Masters and PhD levels to work on integrative projects in mammalian trait evolution, life history response to climate change, and host-parasite community complexity.
- Life history response to global change -
We are combining historic data streams (e.g., museum specimens) with new field surveys and collections to understand environment-life history dynamics and the potential for change in key life history traits (reproduction, phenology, body size and shape) through time. This research is highly integrative, and we value students with broad interests in natural history, mammalogy, specimen-based research, and biodiversity data analysis.
- Mammal-parasite networks -
We are investigating community ecology of paired mammalian-parasite systems. We are especially interested in investigating the phylogeny, structure, and complexity of mutli-host, multi-parasite networks and working to understand their responses to past and present environmental change. Students will develop projects within one of the ecological contexts we work in, including: the Southern Appalachians, Great Basin Desert, and Gobi Desert (Mongolia).
