Robin Tinghitella
Assistant Professor
Department of Biological Sciences
University of Denver, CO 80208
Office: Boettcher West 243
Lab: Boettcher West 13
Office Phone: 303-871-3658
Email: robin.tinghitella@du.edu
CV: Tinghitella_CV_December 2018
Post-docs.
E. Dale Broder
Ph.D. Colorado State University, 2016
Dale has broad interests that include animal behavior, evolution, and fisheries biology as well as science communication and education. Her biological research investigates the role that phenotypic plasticity plays in the evolutionary process, and I have explored a variety of traits such as mating behavior, learning, genitalia, handedness, and metabolism. She continued her science education research as a postdoctoral fellow in IRISE (Interdisciplinary Research Incubator for the Study of inEquality) exploring how authentic science and dissemination shape scientific self-efficacy and participation in STEM for underrepresented students. https://dalebroder.wordpress.com
Ph.D. Colorado State University, 2016
Dale has broad interests that include animal behavior, evolution, and fisheries biology as well as science communication and education. Her biological research investigates the role that phenotypic plasticity plays in the evolutionary process, and I have explored a variety of traits such as mating behavior, learning, genitalia, handedness, and metabolism. She continued her science education research as a postdoctoral fellow in IRISE (Interdisciplinary Research Incubator for the Study of inEquality) exploring how authentic science and dissemination shape scientific self-efficacy and participation in STEM for underrepresented students. https://dalebroder.wordpress.com
Graduate Students.
Whitley Lehto
PhD Student in Ecology and Evolution
Expected 2019
http://watchwhitleyscience.weebly.com/
Whitley is fascinated by the evolutionary developmental biology of behavioral phenotypes. More specifically, she is interested in the potential for ecologically relevant parental effects to influence mate preferences and mate choice.
PhD Student in Ecology and Evolution
Expected 2019
http://watchwhitleyscience.weebly.com/
Whitley is fascinated by the evolutionary developmental biology of behavioral phenotypes. More specifically, she is interested in the potential for ecologically relevant parental effects to influence mate preferences and mate choice.
Gabrielle Gurule-Small
MS Student in Ecology and Evolution
Expected 2018
Gabby is interested in the role that behavioral ecology can play in conservation. Her MS thesis
investigates how anthropogenic road noise affects mate location and reproductive success in the Pacific
field cricket, Teleogryllus oceanicus.
Claudia Hallagan
MS Student in Ecology and Evolution
Expected 2019
Co-advised with Shannon Murphy
Claudia is investigating the fitness effects of female age at mating, using the Pacific field cricket,
Teleogryllus oceanicus as a model system.
MS Student in Ecology and Evolution
Expected 2019
Co-advised with Shannon Murphy
Claudia is investigating the fitness effects of female age at mating, using the Pacific field cricket,
Teleogryllus oceanicus as a model system.
Clara Jenck
MS Student in Ecology and Evolution
Expected 2019
Co-advised with Tom Quinn
clarajenck.weebly.com
Clara is investigating population genomics of freshwater threespine sticklebacks from WA and OR as part
of a large project investigating how male competition and sexual signal change influence speciation.
MS Student in Ecology and Evolution
Expected 2019
Co-advised with Tom Quinn
clarajenck.weebly.com
Clara is investigating population genomics of freshwater threespine sticklebacks from WA and OR as part
of a large project investigating how male competition and sexual signal change influence speciation.
Jake Wilson
MS Student in Ecology and Evolution
Expected 2019
Co-advised with Shannon Murphy
Jake is investigating fitness effects of female age a mating, with a particular focus on how maternal age
impacts sons' reproductive success.
MS Student in Ecology and Evolution
Expected 2019
Co-advised with Shannon Murphy
Jake is investigating fitness effects of female age a mating, with a particular focus on how maternal age
impacts sons' reproductive success.
Undergraduate Students.
- Dalton Larrinaga
- Grace Fierle
- Emma Phillips
- Kyle Robrock*^
- Aimee Molloy
- Joey Fisher*^
- Emrys Andromeda-Focht*
- Annie Halseth
- Rebecca Hollmann@
- Ian Moffit
- Sophie Fitzgerald*
- Josie Evans*^
- Josie Boynton*^
- Brian Oberlies*^
- Makenzie Day
17. Clara Jenck*^@
18. Aaron Sexton
19. Lukas Sloan*^
20. Brian Ketterman*^
21. V. Faith Lierheimer*^#@~
22. Angus Kitchell*^
23. Jolysa Gallegos*^
24. Anne Bowen*^~
25. Ambree Campbell
26. Madison Heller
27. Caroline Smith
28. Elizabeth Pepper
29. Gui Zheng*
30. Chloe Pepke
31. Adam Begeman
32. Lauren Tyree
33. Jared Smith
34. Miranda Fleishhacker
35. Morgan Ziegler
36. Bailey Rojewsky
37. Kallie Feldhaus*^@#
38. Sophia Anner*^
39. Kathryn Ziegner
40. Austin Adams
41. Madie Sweet
42. Abby Horton
43. Laura Braun
44. Adam Begeman
45. Kirsten Fetrow*@^#
* Grant received
# Co-authored publication
^ Presentation at internal meeting
@Presentation at regional, national, or international meeting
~ Thesis or research award
A few of our amazing lab alumni.
Ross Minter
MS Ecology and Evolution 2015
Ross completed his thesis on the roles of male and female cognition in mate choice in threespine sticklebacks.
Now: Lab Tech UC Denver
Kyle Robrock
BA Ecology and Biodiversity BA GIS 2017 Now: DU swimming coach! 
Brian Ketterman
BS Biology and Psychology 2016 Honors Thesis Student Now: Medical School at Duke 
Faith Lierheimer
BS Biology 2016 Honors Thesis Student Now: Working outside of science |
Aaron Sexton
BS Ecology and Biodiversity 2017 Now: PhD student at U of Louisville 
Becca Hollmann
BS Biology 2013 MS, UC Denver 2017 
Gus Kitchell
BS Ecology and Biodiversity 2016 Honors Thesis Student Now: Environmental Consultant |
Jolysa Gallegos
BS Biology and Psychology 2015
Honors Thesis Student
MS, Colorado State Univ 2016
Now: Medical School at Rocky Vista
BS Biology and Psychology 2015
Honors Thesis Student
MS, Colorado State Univ 2016
Now: Medical School at Rocky Vista
