HONORS, FELLOWSHIPS,
GRANTS AND AWARDS

National Science Foundation Grant 2009-2012
"Selection in heterogeneous environments,
a multi-trait perspective," $325,394.

Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent)
Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2007-2009 (declined).

Bertha Morton Scholarship, University of Montana
Graduate School, $2000, 2007.

Outstanding Presentation Award, University of Montana
Graduate Student and Faculty Research Conference, 2005.

National Science Foundation Research Experience
for Undergraduates, supplement to grant of D.J. Emlen for
undergraduate intern to assist my work in Panama, $6000, 2005.

Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute,
$1000, 2005; $4850, 2004; $1138, 2004.

Smithsonian Graduate Student Fellowship, $3700, 2003.

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
Award Recipient, $121,500. 2003.

Sigma Xi Grant-in-Aid of Research, $300, 2003.

NSF EPSCoR Graduate Fellowship, 2001-2003.

Miller Lab, Spring 2009

From the left: Will Maxwell, Elisa Martinez, Stephanie Gillespie, Christine Miller, Chi Nguyen, Daniel Sasson, Bekah Zaiser, and Scarlett Tudor. Missing: Fae Nageon de Lestang.

Daniel Sasson and Scarlett Tudor are Ph.D. students in the Biology Department of UF and are working in the Miller lab to enhance their core dissertation research.

*Meet the Undergraduate Students working in the lab*

*Meet the Graduate Students working in the lab*

*Fun in the Miller Lab!*

Allison Bechard, Research Technician

Allison graduated from the University of Toronto in 2002, and then started work as an animal health/research technician in the neurobiology laboratory of Dr. John Roder (Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto). Her enthusiasm in this research environment, where she had the opportunity to behaviorally characterize mutant mice with the goal of developing new models of human disease, has contributed to six published papers and the discovery of a new candidate gene involved in learning and memory. However, a keen interest in understanding animal behaviour as a means to ensure and promote animal welfare took her to the University of Guelph in the fall of 2006 to work with Georgia Mason. Allison won an Animal Welfare Institute project grant and Ontario Graduate Scholarships for her graduate work investigating how the husbandry of laboratory mice affects adult levels of anxiety. Allison begins work with Christine Miller in December 2009. Welcome, Allison!