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Faculty Accepting Students

Faculty Member
Research Interest

Andrew Baldwin

Environmental Science and Technology

Wetland plant ecology, with emphasis on seed banks and seed dispersal; wetland restoration

Alexa Bely

Biology

Evolution of regeneration and segmentation mechanisms in annelids; asexual reproduction; animal body plan evolution

Gerald Borgia  

Biology

Evolution of mate choice; social structure and patterns of aid-giving behavior; sociobiology 

Cristian Castillo-Davis

Biology

The genetic basis of phenotypic change, the evolution of gene regulation and gene networks, computational biology and statistics

Todd Cooke  

Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics

Comparative analysis of developmental mechanisms in green plants

Michael Cummings

UMAICS & Biology

Molecular evolution, bioinformatics, and computational biology

Michele Dudash  

Biology

Plant population biology; plant-pollinator interactions; evolution of plant mating systems and life-history strategies; conservation and restoration biology

Charles Fenster  

Biology

Evolutionary process, evolutionary genetics, plant-pollinator interactions

Dan Gruner

Entomology

Biodiversity; community ecology; food webs and trophic interactions; invasion ecology

Fatimah Jackson  

Anthropology

Effects of specific human cultural behaviors, particularly dietary practices, on human biological diversity and human microevolution; patterns of genetic variation between Africa and the African Diaspora

Thomas Kocher

Biology

Evolution of African cichlid fishes

Stephen Mount  

Cell Biology and Molecular
Genetics

How multicellular organisms accomplish the correct processing of RNA from protein-coding genes 

Maile Neel

Plant Science & Landscape Architecture & Entomology

Conservation ecology, conservation genetics, reserve selection and design, landscape ecology

Leslie Pick

Entomology

Evolution and function of Hox genes as regulators of the animal body plan; Insulin receptor regulation in the CNS; Drosophila  pattern formation during embryogenesis

Jeffrey Shultz

Entomology

Evolutionary morphology and phylogeny of arthropods, especially arachnids; Mating systems in harvestmen

Gerald Wilkinson  

Biology

Behavioral ecology and evolution; social behavior and communication in bats; sexual selection and evolution in stalk-eyed flies
Adjunct Faculty
Research Interest 

Arlin Stoltzfus

Center for Advanced Research in Biotechnology, UMBI

Molecular evolution, bioinformatics, and evolutionary genetics

Faculty Possibly Accepting Students

Faculty Member
Research Interest

Karen Carleton

Biology

Evolution of vision and visual communication

William Fagan

Biology

Conservation biology, community ecology, theoretical ecology

Eric Haag

Biology

Evolution of development and sex

Mary Ann Ottinger

Animal and Avian Sciences

Neuroendocrine regulation of endocrine and behavioral aspects of reproduction, with emphasis on the avian system 

Paula Shrewsbury  

Entomology

Integrated Pest Management (IPM) of insect pests of ornamental plants and turfgrass 
Adjunct Faculty
Research Interest 

Robert Fleischer  

Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History - Genetics Laboratory

Evolutionary genetics, molecular genetics, ornithology 

Faculty Not Accepting Students

Faculty Member
Research Interest

Pedro Barbosa  

Entomology

Insect community ecology

Robert Denno  

Entomology

Population dynamics; life history evolution; tri-trophic level interactions; community ecology; plant-herbivore interactions

 








 

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