If you a prospective grad student or postdoc interested in the Kikuchi lab, please contact me!

In your e-mail to me, please include this information:
- Your CV
- General questions of interest in biology that motivate you
- Why you are interested in our lab. Especially if you are a prospective grad student, this should have some details that evince familiarity with what we do.
- Project ideas or approaches you're keen on
David Kikuchi is Assistant Professor in the Department of Integrative Biology at Oregon State University.

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Shelby Lawson is a postdoctoral scholar interested in the relationship between innate and learned behaviors in birds. She earned her PhD from the University of Illinois in 2022.

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Alice Welch is pursuing her PhD on the behavioral ecology of threat recognition in birds. Her interests include avian biology, social learning, and the development of behavior. Alice received her BS from Oregon State in 2023, graduating Summa Cum Laude.

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Elena Gasiorowski began her PhD in the Kikuchi lab in 2024. Elena is fascinated by the colors of snakes (even if they are all brown)!

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Russell Campbell (NSF-GRFP fellow) started in the Kikuchi lab in 2024. Russell is studying the evolution of plumage coloration.

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Angela Zbaracki is an undergraduate researcher in the honors college writing her thesis on using DeepLabCut, a machine learning package, to analyze aspects of personality in juvenile red-winged blackbirds.
Grace Lum is an undergradate SURE fellow (Summer 2025) studying the development of behavior in house sparrows.
Kaelyn LaLonde is an honors thesis student studying the distribution of bird territory sizes across the Neotropics.

Alumni

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Eleanor Fraser did her honors thesis on the relationship between group behavior and individual personality in zebra finches.