Rebecca Best: Canadian Fulbright Student. Photo taken Feb 16, 2008 Quail Ridge: Pop Bio recruitment weekend.
Pop Bio Faculty Directory
Faculty who are members of the Center for Population Biology will automatically be members of the Population Biology Graduate Group. These select faculty epitomize the tight intellectual focus of our program with their excellence in research and academic distinction.
College of Biological Sciences: Distinguished Faculty
Below is an alphabetical listing of our current faculty. For your convenience, we also have a listing of Faculty by Research Specialty.
Welcome to our newest members: Dr. Graham Coop and Dr. Marissa Baskett!
Name |
Contact Information |
Research Interest |
Department Affiliation |
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mlbaskett |
Theoretical population, community, and evolutionary ecology applied to conservation biology, particularly in marine systems. |
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djbegun |
Drosophila Evolutionary Genetics. |
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mborgerhoffmulder |
Human behavioral ecology relating to life history, conservation, and global patterns of cultural variation. |
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lwbotsford |
Theoretical and applied population dynamics involving age, size, and spatial structure. Fisheries, population viability analysis. |
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tmcaro |
Antipredator strategies in birds and mammals, methods of conserving tropical diversity, behavioral ecology, conservation biology. |
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gmcoop |
Population and evolutionary genetics. |
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hvcornell |
Community ecology, species diversity and its determinants at different spatial scales. |
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jaeisen |
Phylogenomics and the origin of novelty in microorganisms; endosymbioses; microbial communities; metagenomics; extremophiles. |
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Eviner, Valerie |
veviner |
Plant-soil interactions; effective management of invasions, restoration, biogeochemical cycling, global change, grazing systems, and sustainable agriculture. |
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jrgriesemer |
History, philosophy and social studies of biology: models and practices in museum-based natural history, lab-based ecology, units and levels of inheritance and selection in evolutionary biology, and visual representation in embryology and genetics. |
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rkgrosberg |
Behavioral, ecological, cellular, developmental, and genetic mechanisms. |
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spharrison |
Ecology, conservation biology, natural history. |
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amhastings |
Theoretical ecology; population and mathematical biology. |
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rkarban |
Population regulation of animal species and the interactions between herbivores and their host plants. |
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akopp |
Molecular genetic mechanisms of evolution. |
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chlangley |
Population genetics and molecular evolution. |
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splawler |
Aquatic ecology especially mosquitoes, other aquatic insects and amphibians; experimental studies of food webs and population dynamics, ecosystem subsidy. |
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mcelreath |
Cultural evolution, theoretical evolutionary ecology, evolution of social behavior |
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dbneale |
The function of genes in forest trees and tree breeding technologies. |
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gpatricelli |
Animal communication and sexual selection. |
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brannala |
Mathematical aspects of population genetics, phylogenetic inference, and human genetics |
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kjrice |
Population biology and conservation biology of native and invasive plant species using ecological, genetic, and physiological techniques. |
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jarosenheim |
Behavioral, evolutionary, population, and community ecology. |
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edsanford |
Experimental biogeography and the potential impacts of climate change on natural communities. |
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twscjpemer |
Ecology, island biogeography and natural selection. |
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sschreiber |
Theoretical ecology, mathematics: community structure, population dynamics, and evolutionary processes. |
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mwschwartz |
Plant community ecology. Conservation biology. |
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hbshaffer |
Systematics, population and ecological genetics, and conservation biology of amphibians and reptiles. |
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amshapiro |
Evolution, ecology, phylogeny, and biogeography of the pierid butterflies. Evolution of seasonality. Insect-host plant interactions. Phenotypic plasticity and canalization. |
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asih |
Evo/Ecol impacts of behavior, including effects of predation risk on mating and sexual selection, behavioral traits associated with biological invasions, and effects of trait syndromes on antipredatory behavior and cannibalism. |
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jjstachowicz |
Population and community ecology of seaweeds and marine invertebrates; Species Invasions; Ecological consequences of species and genetic diversity. |
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mlstanton |
Population biology of plants and ants; consequences of genetic variation within and among populations; adaptation in response to edaphic heterogeneity (e.g. soil types), mutualist "partners" and natural enemies; dynamics of multi-species mutualisms. |
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systrauss |
How species evolve as a consequence of community membership (their complex interactions with co-occurring species); direct and indirect effects (through pollinators) of herbivory on male and female plant fitness. |
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drstrong |
Trophic ecology. Ecology and evolution of insect-plant interactions. Soil ecology, natural enemy, and salt-marsh ecology. Biological control of weeds. |
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catoft |
Population biology of desert perennial shrubs and insects, including spatial structure and demography. Evolution of mating systems using several species of the bee-fly and wasp as model systems. Plant succession, using a demographic approach, on saline alkaline desert lakebeds. Conservation biology of parrots. |
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mturelli |
Theoretical population and quantitative genetics, speciation, and population biology of Drosophila, especially cytoplasmic incompatibility. |
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vermeij |
History of organisms and their enemies through time, biotic interchange today and in the geological past, molluscan biology and functional morphology; relationship between macroeconomics and evolution. |
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pcwainwright |
Vertebrate evolution. Functional morphology/biomechanics. Ecological physiology. |
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psward |
Systematics and evolutionary biology of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). |
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tpyoung |
Management, conservation, and restoration of human-dominated landscapes, and to the maintenance of biodiversity. |