|
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 |