Undergraduate and Graduate Student Publications

William & Mary's strong research tradition leads to a large number of undergraduate students and Master’s students who co-author published research in refereed science journals. Over a typical five-year period, over 150 W&M students have co-authored over 100 articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals read by scientists all over the world. Real research leads to real impacts! For more comprehensive lists of publications, see individual faculty web pages.

Biology Department Refereed Publications with Student Authors 2024-2025

Faculty co-authors in bold
Undergraduate*
Graduate student**
Postdoc student***

Kalytiak-Davis, A.* and J.D. Allen. 2024. Settlement preferences and post-settlement cannibalism in the seastar Asterias forbesi. Accepted at Biological Bulletin. Cover Article
*Simsek, Y.K., **Tofil, H.P., *Rosenthal, M.I., **Evans, R.M., *Danielski, C.L., *Beasley, K.E.,
*Alsayed, H., *Shapira, M.E., *Strauss, R.I., **Wang, M., Roggero, V.R., Allison, L.A. (2024)
Nuclear receptor corepressor 1 levels differentially impact the intracellular dynamics of
mutant thyroid hormone receptors associated with Resistance to Thyroid Hormone
syndrome. Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology 594, 112373.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mce.2024.112373, PMID: 39299378
*French, L.C., M.A. Jusino, R.M. Chambers, and J. Skelton. 2024. Community structure
and functional diversity of aquatic fungi are correlated with water quality:
Insights from multi-marker analysis of environmental DNA (eDNA) in a coastal
watershed. Environmental DNA 6: e576. https://doi.or
*Ambrose, C., *A. DeCesare, and R.M. Chambers. 2024 In Press. Population demographics
of native red-bellied cooters and invasive red-eared sliders in a Virginia lake.
Chelonian Conservation and Biology. https://bioone.org/journals/chelonian-conservation-and-biology/volume-23/issue-1/CCB-1587.1/Population-Demographics-of-Native-Red-Bellied-Cooters-and-Invasive-Red/10.2744/CCB-1587.1.full
*Ormiston, Z.E. & Cristol, D.A. Are golf courses good or bad for birds: a synthetic review. 2024. Landscape and Urban Planning 235:105221. doi:10.1016/j.landurbplan.2024.105221
*Wolf, S., Woodruff, M., Chang van Oordt, M., Clotfelter, E., Cristol, D.A. Derryberry, E., Ferguson, S., Stanback, M., Taff, C., Vitousek, M., Westneat, D., Rosvall, K. Among-population variation in telomere regulatory proteins and their potential role as hidden drivers of intraspecific variation in life history. 2024. Animal Ecology. doi:10.1111/1365-2656.14071
*Phillips, G.E. & Cristol, D.A. 2024. Mechanisms of deer (Cervidae) impacts on birds: a comprehensive review. Conservation Biology 290:110454
Dalgleish, HJ, AAR Kula,*** SS Yair,* I Munkres,** J Mutterperl,* S Struckman,* MD
LaMar. In press. 2024. Herbivory as a continuous state variable in an IPM: Increasing
herbivory decreases population growth of Asclepias syriaca through its effects on
clonal reproduction. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution & Systematics.
Harmony J. Dalgleish, Abigail A. R. Kula, *Sivan S. Yair, **Ivan Munkres, *Joshua Mutterperl, *Soren Struckman, and Drew LaMar, Herbivory as a continuous state variable in an IPM: Increasing herbivory decreases population growth of Asclepias syriaca through its effects on clonal reproduction. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 62 (2024): 125779, doi: 10.1016/j.ppees.2024.125779
Haines, A.M., D. Costante**, C. Freed*, G. Achayaraj*, L. Bleyer*, C. Emeric*, L.A. Fenton*, L. Lielbriedis*, E. Ritter*, G.I. Salerni*, C.R. Stieha, R.E. Isdell, and M. Leu. 2024. The impact of invasive alien species on threatened and endangered species: A geographic perspective. Wildlife Society Bulletin 2024;e1552. https://doi.org/10.1002/wsb.1552
Bingham, A.**, Sur, A., Shaw, L.B., Murphy, H.A. (2024) The effect of recognition on competition
among clones in spatially structured microbial communities. PLoS One. 19(3):e0299546.
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0299546
Dana L Willner, Sudip Paudal**, Andrew D Halleran*, Grace E Solini,* Veronica Gray*, Margaret S Saha,Transcriptional dynamics during Rhodococcus erythropolis infection with phage WC1 BMC Microbiology 2024 Apr 1;24(1):107.doi: 10.1186/s12866-024-03241-4
Sudip Paudel,** Michelle Yue,* Rithvik Nalamalapu*, Margaret S. Saha, (2024). Deciphering the Calcium Code: A Review of Calcium Activity Analysis Methods Employed to Identify Meaningful Activity in Early Neural Development, Biomolecules 14(1) 2024 Jan 22;14(1):138.
Kate B.R. Carline, Megan S. Fleeharty, Lin Fang, Mahima Shijo, Mitchell K. Doherty, Zoe A, Riddick, Marcus O. Royster, Amiyah R Stukes, Bilalay V. Tchadi, Alana N. Thomas*, Kurt E. Williamson and Margaret S. Saha (2024) Sequence analysis of Discoknowium, an A5 mycobacteriophage. Microbiology Resource Announcements, Dec.2023, Vol 13(1)
Gillings, M. M.**, Ton, R. Harris, T.**, Swaddle, J.P., Taylor, M. P. and Griffith, S. C. 2024. House
sparrows as sentinels of childhood lead exposure. Environmental Science and Technology, 58,
10028-10040. DOI:10.1021/acs.est.4c00946
DiLiberto, J. F.**, Griffith, S. C., Hall, C. J.*, Mendelsohn, A. S.* and Swaddle, J. P. 2024. Exposure to sublethal concentrations of lead (Pb) affects ecologically relevant behaviors in house sparrows (Passer domesticus). Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology.
DOI:10.1007/00244-024-01-62-0
Hawkins, C. E.**, Pantel, J. H., Palia, S. T.*, Folks, C. C.* and Swaddle, J. P. 2024. Zebra finches
increase social behavior in traffic noise: Implications for urban songbirds. Acta Ethologica.
DOI:10.1007/s10211-023-00434-4
Rinehart, L**, Stewart, W*, Luffman*, N, Wawersik, M, Kerscher, O. (2024) Chigno/CG11180 and SUMO are Chinmo-interacting proteins with a role in Drosophila testes somatic support cells. PeerJ. 2024 – PMID: 38495765