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What We Do

The Kartzinel Lab at Brown University fosters exchanges between ecologists and biomedical scientists who share interests in our environment

We combine field ecology, molecular biology, and bioinformatics to understand food webs, biodiversity, and global change

We are pioneering the next wave of innovative molecular approaches to tangibly advance the conservation wildlife and wild places

We vary in the degree to which we emphasize fundamental research vs. applied conservation, but we all meaningfully engage with at least one conservation organization through our work

We welcome interest from those who may wish to join our efforts

Featured Research

Yellowstone bison during the fall migration and breeding season
Yellowstone National Park
Elegant fat-tailed mouse opossum, Thylamys elegans, being handled for routine ecological monitoring
Fray Jorge National Park
Elephant baby with family at Mpala Research Centre, Laikipia, Kenya
Savanna Ecology & Conservation
Veterinarians and students evaluate South American coati, Nasua nasua, for the presence of parasites at HelmCamp 2025
Molecular Parasitology of Wildlife

Current & Recent Grants

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  • NSF DEB-2046797. CAREER: Experimental tests of competition and facilitation among migratory large herbivores from Yellowstone National Park
  • NSF DEB-2026294. Collaborative Research: LTREB: Experimental determination of trophic dynamics and energy flows in a semiarid habitat in Chile.
  • NSF OIA-2033823. RII Track-4: Collaborative partnerships at the cusp of wildlife ecology and molecular biology
  • ​NSF DEB-1930820. Collaborative Research: Testing predictions of the core-satellite and resource-breadth hypotheses in small mammal communities: field tests of a macroecological pattern. 
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  • NPS Cooperative Research and Trainings Program P22AC00332. Training youth to evaluate dietary overlap of large herbivores using DNA barcoding​
  • NPS Cooperative Research and Trainings Program P23AC00378. Training youth to evaluate dietary overlap of large herbivores using DNA barcoding
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  • NIH Subaward R01DK128611. Using DNA sequencing to assess dietary species richness.
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  • RI DEM Cooperative Agreement: Carrying out a population genetics analysis of diamondback terrapins in Rhode Island and surrounding regions

Additional Significant Supporters

We have been fortunate to receive multiple seed awards and Voss research fellowships from the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society. Students and postdocs have also been very successful earning external honors and awards for their work in the lab from the American Philosophical Society, American Society of Mammalogists, Animal Behavior Society, Diamondback Terrapin Working Group, EEOB, Ford Foundation, Fulbright Foundation, IBES, Merdeka Award, NOAA, NSF, National Scientific and Technical Research Council of Argentina, PacBio, Rufford Foundation, Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, Sophie Danforth Conservation Biology Fund, and the Swedish Research Council.

Dr. Tyler Kartzinel
Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology
Institute at Brown for Environment and Society
Brown University
​Address: 85 Waterman Street, Providence, Rhode Island 02912 USA
Office: 246(B)
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​Phone: 1-401-863-5851
tyler_kartzinel[at]brown.edu
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