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Samantha Brunner earned a B.S. in Wildlife Ecology from the University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point in 2014 and a Ph.D. in Zoology from the University of British Columbia in 2022. Her doctoral research focused on population genetics and host-parasite interactions in tropical social spiders. Following her Ph.D., she held a postdoctoral position at McGill University, where she worked with the Canadian Institute of Ecology and Evolution and the Living Data Project. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife at Michigan State University. At MSU, her research is primarily centered on investigating management interventions that impact the population structure of invasive sea lamprey. This includes studying changes in the effective number of breeders, the size of sibling groups, and the spatial distribution of larval sea lamprey within streams. Her work contributes to the Supplemental Controls program, a multi-agency collaborative effort to assess the impacts of experimental sea lamprey management.
Department of Psychology