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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Anna Mellis
Anna is a Masters student in the Department of Biology (Fall 2019) and earned her 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. She is also a soccer player and a huge soccer fan!
Anna is a Masters student in the Department of Biology (Fall 2019) and earned her 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. She is also a soccer player and a huge soccer fan!
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).
