 | Linda Amaral Zettler
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Department of
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| | David Baier
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Department of
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 | Mark Bertness
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Department of
My research is focused on understanding the organization and dynamics of natural communities. I use manipulative field experiments in marine shoreline communities to examine how patterns in natural communities are generated and maintained. I also have a long-standing interest in elucidating the role played by positive interactions in natural community organization and incorporating positive interactions into the mindset of community ecologists. |
 | Elizabeth Brainerd
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Department of
Biomechanics and Evolutionary Morphology
Professor Brainerd and her research group combine anatomical studies of the musculoskeletal system with principles and techniques from engineering to understand the mechanical basis of movement in animals. Current projects include: biomechanics of the temporomandibular joint, muscle architecture, intercostal muscle function, and the development of a new imaging technology, X-ray Reconstruction of Moving Morphology (XROMM). |
| | Linda Deegan
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Department of
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| | Hugh Ducklow
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Department of
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 | Casey Dunn
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Department of
The Dunn Lab investigates how evolution has produced a diversity of life. We primarily focus on form (i.e. morphology), and are interested in learning about both the actual history of life on Earth and general properties of evolution that have contributed to these historical patterns. The type of questions the Dunn Lab asks require field (mostly marine), laboratory, and computational work. |
 | Erika Edwards
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Department of
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 | Stephen Gatesy
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Department of
My research is directed at understanding the evolution of the vertebrate locomotor system. More specifically, I am interested in the functional consequences of changing morphology as seen in the fossil record. The majority of my work focuses on bipedal locomotion and the evolution of flight in carnivorous dinosaurs, including birds. |
| | Anne Giblin
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Department of
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 | George Goslow
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Department of
Biology 181, Human Morphology. A double credit, cadaver-based course taught primarily to first-year medical students and graduate students from a number of disciplines. Dissection and exploration constitute a large component of this team-taught course.
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 | Steven Hamburg
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Department of
Environmental Studies, Center for
My lab group focuses on the effects of disturbance on forest structure and function with particular emphasis on: effects of typhoons on sub tropical forests; effects of forest cutting on Ca biogeochemistry; effects of land-use history on carbon storage; and climate change impacts on temperate forests. I am also involved in supporting the development of long-term ecological research internationally, as well as development of climate change mitigation policies in both the public and private sector. |
| | John Hobbie
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Department of
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| | Julie Huber
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Department of
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 | Joshua Idjadi
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Department of
Dr. Idjadi's research is focused on the causes and consequences of coral reef decline and recover. He also studies the mechanisms that underlie coral species diversity. |
| | Fred Jackson
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Department of
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 | Christine Marie Janis
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Department of
My research focuses on the patterns of Tertiary fossil mammal evolution, of both morphological change through time and community structure (i.e., ungulates, or hoofed mammals), and the effects of environmental and climatic changes. Of special interest is the evolution of the North American Miocene savanna faunas.
Another focus correlates morphology relative to behavior in living and fossil mammals (i.e., craniodental morphology relative to diet and limb anatomy relative to locomotion). |
 | Heather Leslie
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Department of
Environmental Studies, Center for
Prof. Leslie is interested in the ecological and social processes that link people and marine ecosystems, and how to more effectively integrate science into marine policy and management. Her research areas include coastal ecology, the design and evaluation of marine conservation and management strategies, and human-environment interactions. |
| | David Mark Welch
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Department of
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| | Jerry Melillo
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Department of
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| | Keith Metzger
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Department of
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 | Douglass Morse
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Department of
My primary research interests focus on the relationship between foraging theory, sexual selection, and lifetime fitness. I concentrate on the crab spider Misumena vatia, a sit-and-wait predator on flowers, for this work, but have also used birds, bumblebees, and other insects. My present book, "Predator Upon a Flower", synthesizes these long-term efforts. A more recent interest focuses on four-trophic-level systems and the role that indirect effects may play in structuring communities. |
| | Christopher Neill
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Department of
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| | Christopher Organ
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Department of
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| | Bruce Peterson
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Department of
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 | Stephen Porder
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Department of
Environmental Change Initiative
Environmental Studies, Center for
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| | Sohini Ramachandran
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Department of
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 | David Rand
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Department of
Professor David Rand is interested in how natural selection acts on genes and genomes. One major focus of his research is how the mitochondrial genome and its interactions with the nuclear genome influence animal performance, evolutionary fitness, and aging. A second major interest is how thermal selection influences the genetic composition of populations. The goals of this work are to identify the genetic interactions that allow organisms to adapt to environmental heterogeneity. |
| | Edward Rastetter
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Department of
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| | Dale Ritter
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Department of
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 | Thomas Roberts
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Department of
My research uses the tools of biomechanics and functional morphology to study how animals move. Among vertebrates, the mechanical behavior of muscles, tendons, and bones is quite conserved at the tissue and cellular levels. The diversity of locomotor performance results in large part from the arrangement and interaction of these components. I investigate the integrated function of muscles, tendons, and skeletal lever systems to better understand the evolution of musculoskeletal design. |
 | Osvaldo Sala
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Department of
Environmental Change Initiative
I have explored several topics throughout my career from water controls on carbon and nitrogen dynamics in arid and semi-arid ecosystems to the consequences of changes in biodiversity on the functioning of ecosystems, including the development of biodiversity scenarios for the next 50 years. I am particularly interested in working with scenarios as a way of simplifying, understanding, and communicating the complex relationships that emerge from the study of social-ecological systems. |
 | Dov Sax
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Department of
Environmental Studies, Center for
My research examines 1) species invasions and 2) the response of species to climate change, with a particular emphasis on understanding and preventing species extinctions. My research on species invasions spans from local-scale studies on exotic species impacts to broad patterns of invasions across entire continents and on islands worldwide. My climate change research focuses on how species will shift their geographic distributions with changing conditions. I am also evaluating 'adaptation' strategies to climate change that can help prevent extinctions, such as the strategy of managed relocation (aka assisted colonization). |
 | Johanna Schmitt
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Department of
Environmental Studies, Center for
Environmental Change Initiative
My lab is interested in the adaptive evolution of developmental, physiological, and life history traits in natural plant populations. We use quantitative genetics, QTL mapping, and association studies of candidate loci to examine the genetic basis of natural variation in ecologically important traits in Arabidopsis thaliana. We also measure natural selection on these traits and the loci underlying them in the field by experimentally manipulating environments, phenotypes, and genotypes. |
| | Gaius Shaver
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Department of
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| | Katherine Smith
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Department of
I am broadly interested in conservation biology, global change ecology, public health and environmental policy. Much of my research focuses on emerging infectious disease, their implications for human health and native wildlife. I am particularly interested in zoonoses - infectious agents shared between animals and humans, their global distribution, and how practices such as wildlife trade facilitate their emergence around the world. |
| | John Stinchcombe
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Department of
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 | Sharon Swartz
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Department of
My primary research interest is the function and evolution of the vertebrate skeletal system. I seek to better understand and interpret the tremendous diversity and range of adaptation in design of vertebrate, particularly the mammalian skeletons. |
| | Jianwu Tang
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Department of
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 | Marc Tatar
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Department of
I study life history evolution with an emphasis on senescence. Senescence intrigues because it seems counter-intuitive to the process of natural selection. How can physiological and demographic functions deteriorate with age in the face of selection that relentlessly increases mean fitness? And, how has evolution led to the tremendous variation in life span we observe among individuals, species and taxa? The solutions to these questions lie in understanding the way selection acts on age-structured populations, and in discovering how gene expression affects fitness. My research uses multiple approaches to develop a basic understanding of the genetics, mechanisms and evolution of senescence. |
| | Joseph Vallino
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Department of
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 | Jonathan Waage
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Department of
I have focused on the evolutionary and ecological determinants of reproductive behavior in damselflies and dragonflies. I have studied the adaptive patterns of pair-forming, territorial, mating and postcopulatory behavior.
Both sexes contribute DNA to offspring, but females often make additional contributions that differentially influence the success of their offspring. I been exploring the origins and consequences of these asymmetric influences over reproduction by females. |
 | Daniel Weinreich
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Department of
Professor Weinreich is interested in how genetic novelty fuels evolution by natural selection. Using tools from computer science and mathematics he models the evolutionary consequences of various patterns of interaction within the genome. This motivates complementary experimental work using techniques of molecular biology and microbiology to measure patterns of interaction within genes and genomes of bacteria and bacteriophage. This experimental work in turn drives novel theory. |
| | Jennifer Wernegreen
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Department of
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 | Jon Witman
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Department of
My research is directed toward understanding the dynamics of populations and communities living in marine hard substrate habitats. Our lab is conducting research focused around three themes: 1) physical forcing of marine benthic ecosystems, 2) studies on the origin vs. the maintenance of pattern, and 3) marine biodiversity. How community structuring processes vary with scale is a consideration that pervades all aspects of our research. |
