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Dr. David Murray-Stoker

Assistant Professor of Biology


Office: Lakeview Discovery and Science Center 135F
Biology
College of Arts & Sciences
DavidMurray-Stoker@clayton.edu
Phone: (678) 466-4787

Biography

I am a community and evolutionary ecologist with a passion for teaching and getting students involved in the process of science. My research primarily investigates how urbanization affects the ecology and evolution of species interactions, using white clover-rhizobia-herbivore interactions as a model. I am also keenly interested in the assembly and diversity of communities, particularly in freshwater ecosystems.

Education

Ph D, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, 2024

BS, Ecology, University of Goergia, 2016

Intellectual Contributions

David Murray-Stoker, Laura J Rossi, Marc T J Johnson, Diversity and assembly of the microbiome of a leguminous plant along an urbanization gradient, Oikos – 2025

David Murray-Stoker, Marc T J Johnson, Mosaic of local adaptation between white clover and rhizobia along an urbanization gradient, Journal of Ecology – 2024

David Murray-Stoker, Marc T J Johnson, Ecological consequences of urbanization on a legume-rhizobia mutualism, Oikos – 2021

David Murray-Stoker, Kelly M Murray-Stoker, Fan Peng Kong, Fathima Amanat, Environmental filtering and habitat (mis)matching of riverine invertebrate metacommunities, Journal of Biogeography – 2022

David Murray-Stoker, Kelly M Murray-Stoker, Consistent metacommunity structure despite inconsistent drivers of assembly at the continental scale, Journal of Animal Ecology – 2020

Contracts, Grants, and Sponsored Research

David Murray-Stoker, College of STEM Mini-Grant, Clayton State University, Clayton State University, 1000, Funded –  December 2 2025 to June 1 2026

Presentations

Paul Melvin, David Murray-Stoker, Clint Edmunds, Vivian Padin-Irizarry, Clayton State University Action Plan Summer 2025, 2025 SERP IV - PULSE Workshop August 5 2025

David Murray-Stoker, Kelly M Murray-Stoker, Fan Peng Kong, Fathima Amanat, Environmental filtering and habitat (mis)matching of riverine invertebrate metacommunities, Annual Meeting of the Society for Freshwater Science 2025

Christoph Richter, David Murray-Stoker, Michelle den Hollander, Lowering barriers without scaffolds: how to introduce ecology students to hypotheses and R, Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America 2024

David Murray-Stoker, James S Santangelo, Marta Szulkin, Marc T J Johnson, Quantifying urban environmental gradients across varying climates on a global scale, Joint Meeting of the Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution and the Ecological Society of America 2022

David Murray-Stoker, Marc T J Johnson, Ecological consequences of urbanization on a legume-rhizobia mutualism., Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America 2021

Service to the University & University System of Georgia

University, NISS Outreach and Communication Committee, Committee Member –  Fall 2025 to Present

Department, Curriculum Committee, Committee Member –  Fall 2025 to Present

Department, Lab Safety Committee, Committee Member –  Fall 2025 to Present

Department, Social Activity Committee, Committee Member –  Fall 2025 to Present

Department, Canadian Union of Public Employees 3902, Other –  September 2021 to August 2022

Service to the Profession

Reviewer, Journal Article January 2025 to December 2025

Teaching Interest

General Biology
Ecology
Evolution
Plant Biology & Physiology
Invertebrate Biology & Physiology
Experimental Design and Statistics
Human Anatomy and Physiology

Research Interest

Community Ecology
Evolutionary Ecology
Species Interactions
Urbanization