Dr. Seanne Clemente
POSTDOCTORAL NETWORK | Global Change Center
Postdoctoral Associate
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Haldre Rogers
Department of Fish & Wildlife Conservation
srclemente@vt.edu
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Dr. Seanne Clemente is a Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation working in Dr. Haldre Rogers' research lab. His research is currently funded by an NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology.
Broadly, Seanne is interested in how plant secondary chemistry mediates interactions with animal pollinators and seed dispersers. In particular, his research focuses on how the chemical traits of fruits and flowers shape animal mutualist behavior and how mutualists in turn impact the expression of such traits. Seanne’s current postdoctoral work at Virginia Tech focuses on whether bird-dispersed fruiting plants alter the physiology and chemistry of their fruits when their animal mutualists have been extirpated from their environment.
Before joining Virginia Tech, Seanne completed a Ph.D. in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he studied how domestication alters the floral chemistry of cultivated crops and the role of secondary compounds in self-medication behaviors in bumble bees.
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