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 updated 2_2019
Post-docs.
Graduate Students.
Jay Gallagher
MS Student in Ecology and Evolution
Expected 2020
Jay has a background in music and is combining his skills in audio engineering and his love of evolutionary biology to study the rapid evolution of sexual signaling in Pacific field crickets. #PurringCrickets
MS Student in Ecology and Evolution
Expected 2020
Jay has a background in music and is combining his skills in audio engineering and his love of evolutionary biology to study the rapid evolution of sexual signaling in Pacific field crickets. #PurringCrickets
Brooke Washburn
PhD Student in Ecology and Evolution
Expected 2023
Brooke earned her MS working on gene flow in riverine systems. She is currently reading broadly and thinking up super
cool PhD projects.
PhD Student in Ecology and Evolution
Expected 2023
Brooke earned her MS working on gene flow in riverine systems. She is currently reading broadly and thinking up super
cool PhD projects.
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.
Claudia Hallagan
MS Student in Ecology and Evolution
Expected 2019
Co-advised with Shannon Murphy
Claudia is investigating the fitness effects of advanced maternal age at mating for offspring and beyond, 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 advanced maternal age at mating for offspring and beyond, 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
E. Dale Broder (former postdoc)
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. She is now a faculty member at St. Ambrose University! 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. She is now a faculty member at St. Ambrose University! https://dalebroder.wordpress.com
Gabrielle Gurule-Small
MS Ecology and Evolution 2018
Gabby is interested in the role that behavioral ecology can play in conservation. Her MS thesis
investigated how anthropogenic road noise affects mate location and reproductive success in the Pacific
field cricket, Teleogryllus oceanicus.
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