The Faculty and their Research
Christoph C. Adami
Professor; Ph.D., SUNY, Stony Brook, 1991.
Evolution of Behavior and Intelligence.
E-mail: adami at msu.edu
Gerard C. Adams
Associate Professor; Ph.D., California, Davis, 1981.
Plant pathology.
E-mail: gadams at msu.edu
Robert L. Anstey
Professor; Ph.D., Indiana, 1970.
Invertebrate paleobiology.
E-mail: anstey at msu.edu
James W. Atkinson
Professor; Ph.D., Emory, 1969.
Developmental and evolutionary biology.
E-mail: atkinso9 at msu.edu
Ted R. Batterson
Professor; Ph.D., Michigan State, 1980.
Limnology, tropical pond aquaculture.
E-mail: batters2 at msu.edu
James R. Bence
Associate Professor; Ph.D., California, Santa Barbara, 1985.
Quantitative fishery ecology.
E-mail: bence at msu.edu
George W. Bird
Professor (Emeritus); Ph.D., Cornell, 1966.
Nematology.
E-mail: birdg at msu.edu
Janette Boughman
Associate Professor; Ph.D., Maryland, 1997.
Behavioral and evolutionary ecology; mechanisms of speciation.
E-mail: boughman at msu.edu
Mary T. Bremigan
Associate Professor; Ph.D., Ohio State, 1997.
Aquatic ecology and fisheries management.
E-mail: bremigan at msu.edu
C. Titus Brown
Assistant Professor; Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 2006.
Genomics, evolution and development.
E-mail: ctb at msu.edu
Lars A. Brudvig
Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Iowa, 2007.
Restoration, landscape, and plant ecology.
E-mail: brudvig at plantbiology.msu.edu
Thomas M. Burton
Professor (Emeritus); Ph.D., Cornell, 1973.
Aquatic ecology.
E-mail: burtont at msu.edu
Kendra S. Cheruvelil
Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Michigan State, 2004.
Aquatic ecology, landscape limmology, exotic species, applied ecology, macrophytes.
E-mail: ksc at msu.edu
Anthony Cognato
Associate Professor; Ph.D. California, Berkeley, 1998.
Insect Systematics and Director of the A.J. Cook Arthropod Research Collection.
E-mail: cognato at msu.edu
April Harlin Cognato
Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Texas A&M, 2004.
Molecular evolution; quantitative phylogenetics.
E-mail: cognatoa at msu.edu
Jeffrey K. Conner
Professor; Ph.D., Cornell, 1987.
Evolutionary ecology, ecological genetics.
E-mail: conner at kbs.msu.edu
Thomas G. Coon
Professor; Ph.D., California, Davis, 1982.
Stream fishery ecology.
E-mail: coontg at msu.edu
Yuehua Cui
Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Florida, 2005.
Statistical genetics, bioinformatics, longitudinal data analysis.
E-mail: cui at stt.msu.edu
Frank B. Dazzo
Professor; Ph.D., Florida, 1975.
Microbial ecology, rhizobium-legume symbiosis.
E-mail: dazzo at msu.edu
Donald I. Dickmann
Professor (Emeritus); Ph.D., Wisconsin-Madison, 1969.
Ecology of fire and other disturbances; plant physiological ecology.
E-mail: dickman1 at msu.edu
Thomas Dietz
Professor and Director, Environmental Science and Policy Program; Ph.D.,California, Davis, 1979.
Human ecology and cultural evolution.
E-mail: TdietzVT at aol.com
Ian M. Dworkin
Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Toronto, 2004.
Genetic basis of phenotypic variation and evolution.
E-mail: idworkin at msu.edu
Fred C. Dyer
Chair, Zoology and Professor; Ph.D., Princeton, 1984.
Ethology and behavioral ecology.
E-mail: fcdyer at msu.edu
Diane Ebert-May
Professor; Ph.D., Colorado.
Science education; plant ecology.
E-mail: ebertmay at msu.edu
Heather L. Eisthen
Associate Professor; Ph.D., Indiana, 1992.
Neuroethology; evolutionary and developmental neurobiology.
E-mail: eisthen at msu.edu
Bryan K. Epperson
Professor; Ph.D., California, Davis, 1983.
Population genetics and molecular and forest genetics.
E-mail: epperson at msu.edu
Andrew O. Finley
Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Minnesota, 2006.
Methodology for monitoring and modeling environmental processes; Bayesian statistics; spatial statistics; and statistical computing.
E-mail: finleya at msu.edu
Maren L. Friesen
Assistant Professor; Ph.D., UC, Davis, 2008.
Legume-rhizobium symbiosis, ecological and evolutionary genomics, plant-microbiome interactions, coevolution.
E-mail: maren.l.friesen at gmail.com
Stuart H. Gage
Professor; Ph.D., Michigan State, 1974.
Insect population dynamics and human dimensions.
E-mail: gages at msu.edu
Thomas Getty
Professor; Ph.D., Michigan, 1980.
Behavioral ecology of vertebrates.
E-mail: getty at kbs.msu.edu
John P. Giesy
Professor (Emeritus); Ph.D., Michigan State, 1974.
Environmental toxicology.
E-mail: giesy at msu.edu
Frederick Gifford
Professor; Ph.D., Pittsburgh, 1984.
Philosophy of biology; ethical and social issues concerning science.
E-mail: gifford at msu.edu
Erik Goodman
Professor; Ph.D., Michigan, 1972.
Genetic algorithms and evolutionary computation.
E-mail: goodman at egr.msu.edu
Michael D. Gottfried
Associate Professor; Ph.D., Kansas, 1991.
Vertebrate paleontology.
E-mail: gottfrie at msu.edu
Matthew Grieshop
Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Kansas State, 2005.
Community and population ecology, animal behavior.
E-mail: grieshop at msu.edu
Katherine L. Gross
University Distinguished Professor; Ph.D., Michigan State, 1980.
Plant population and community ecology.
E-mail: kgross at kbs.msu.edu
Robert A. Haack
Adjunct Professor; Ph.D., Florida, 1984.
Plant-insect interactions; invasion ecology; conservation biology.
E-mail: haack at msu.edu
Donald J. Hall
Professor (Emeritus); Ph.D., Michigan, 1962.
Aquatic population and community ecology.
E-mail: donhall at msu.edu
Stephen K. Hamilton
Associate Professor; Ph.D., California, Santa Barbara, 1994.
Biogeochemistry and aquatic ecology.
E-mail: hamilton at kbs.msu.edu
James F. Hancock
Professor; Ph.D., California, Davis, 1977.
Physiological and evolutionary genetics of plants.
E-mail: hancock at msu.edu
Daniel Hayes
Associate Professor; Ph.D., Michigan State, 1990.
Fish community and population interactions.
E-mail: hayesdan at msu.edu
Richard W. Hill
Professor and Associate Chair, Zoology; Ph.D., Michigan, 1970.
Ecological Physiology; marine sulfur metabolism.
E-mail: hillr at msu.edu
Robert K. Hitchcock
Professor and Chair, Anthropology; Ph.D., New Mexico, 1982.
Development/applied anthropology, human ecology, human rights, Africa.
E-mail: hitchc16 at msu.edu
Kay E. Holekamp
Professor; Ph.D., California, Berkeley, 1983.
Behavioral ecology; ethology and behavioral endocrinology.
E-mail: holekamp at msu.edu
Zachary Huang
Associate Professor; Ph.D., Guelph, 1988.
Behavioral physiology, insect sociobiology.
E-mail: bees at msu.edu
Marianne Huebner
Associate Professor; Ph.D., Southern California, 1993.
Statistical Genetics, Microarray Analysis, Ecological Models, Biological Networks, Stochastic Differential Equations.
E-mail: huebner at stt.msu.edu
Rufus Isaacs
Associate Professor; Ph.D., Imperial College (London), 1994.
Entomology.
E-mail: isaacsr at msu.edu
Julius H. Jackson
Professor; Ph.D., Kansas, 1969.
Microbial physiology & genetics; bacterial gene & genome evolution.
E-mail: jhjacksn at msu.edu
Andrew M. Jarosz
Associate Professor; Ph.D., Purdue, 1984.
Evolutionary ecology of plant-pathogen interactions.
E-mail: amjarosz at msu.edu
Michael L. Jones
Professor; Ph.D., British Columbia, 1986.
Fish population dynamics and management.
E-mail: jonesm30 at msu.edu
Daniel E. Keathley
Professor, Horticulture; Ph.D., Ohio State, 1981.
Tissue culture and molecular genetics.
E-mail: keathley at msu.edu
Christopher Klausmeier
Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Minnesota, 2000.
Theoretical and aquatic ecology.
E-mail: klausme1 at msu.edu
Karen L. Klomparens
Dean, Graduate School, Assistant Provost and Professor; Ph.D., Michigan State, 1977.
Plant host/parasite relations, electron microscopy.
E-mail: kklompar at msu.edu
Michael J. Klug
Professor Emeritus; Ph.D., Iowa, 1969.
Microbial ecology, ecology of anaerobic bacteria.
E-mail: klug at kbs.msu.edu
Richard K. Kobe
Associate Professor; Ph.D., Connecticut, Storrs, 1995.
Forest ecology.
E-mail: kobe at msu.edu
Douglas A. Landis
Professor; Ph.D., North Carolina State, 1987.
Landscape ecology and biological control.
E-mail: landisd at msu.edu
Jennifer A. Lau
Assistant Professor; Ph.D., U. of California, Davis, 2005.
Evolution and community ecology.
E-mail: jenlau at msu.edu
Jay T. Lennon
Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Dartmouth College, 2004.
Microbial ecology.
E-mail: lennonja at msu.edu
Richard E. Lenski
Hannah Distinguished Professor of Microbial Ecology and Director, Ecology, Evolutionary Biology and Behavior Program; Ph.D., North Carolina, 1983.
Experimental evolution with microbes and digital organisms.
E-mail: lenski at msu.edu
Weiming Li
Associate Professor; Ph.D., Minnesota, 1994.
Fish chemoreception and chemical ecology.
E-mail: liweim at msu.edu
Catherine Lindell
Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Harvard, 1994.
Behavioral and landscape ecology.
E-mail: lindellc at msu.edu
Elena Litchman
Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Minnesota, 1997.
Ecology and evolution of phytoplankton, community ecology, aquatic ecology.
E-mail: litchman at msu.edu
Jianguo (Jack) Liu
Rachel Carson Chair in Ecological Sustainability and University Distinguished Professor; Ph.D., Georgia, 1992.
Systems modeling and simulation; biodiversity and ecosystem management.
E-mail: jliu at panda.msu.edu
Barbara L. Lundrigan
Associate Professor; Ph.D., Michigan, 1988.
Phylogenetics; evolution of behavior and morphology.
E-mail: lundriga at msu.edu
David W. MacFarlane
Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Rutgers, 2001.
Forest measurements and modeling.
E-mail: macfar24 at msu.edu
Carolyn M. Malmström
Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Stanford, 1997.
Ecosystem & landscape dynamics, restoration ecology, remote sensing.
E-mail: carolynm at msu.edu
Terence L. Marsh
Associate Professor; Ph.D., Massachusetts, Amherst, 1981.
Microbial community analysis.
E-mail: marsht at msu.edu
Brian A. Maurer
Associate Professor; Ph.D., Arizona, 1984.
Macroecology, biogeography, quantitative population and community ecology.
E-mail: maurerb at msu.edu
Deborah G. McCullough
Associate Professor; Ph.D., Minnesota, 1990.
Forest entomology, insect ecology.
E-mail: mccullod at msue.msu.edu
Philip K. McKinley
Professor; Ph.D., U. of Illinois, 1989.
Distributed computing; digital evolution; ecosystem monitoring.
E-mail: mckinle3 at msu.edu
Haddish Melakeberhan
Associate Professor; Ph.D., Simon Fraser, 1986.
Agricultural Nematology.
E-mail: melakebe at msu.edu
Richard W. Merritt
Professor; Ph.D., California, Berkeley, 1974.
Aquatic entomology and ecology.
E-mail: merrittr at msu.edu
Joseph Messina
Associate Professor; Ph.D., North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2001.
Spatial models, environment, applied climate change.
E-mail: jpm at msu.edu
Kelly F. Millenbah
Associate Professor; Ph.D., Michigan State University, 1997.
Restoration Ecology; Endangered Species Management.
E-mail: millenba at msu.edu
James R. Miller
Professor; Ph.D., Pensylvania State, 1975.
Behavioral and physiological aspects of insect ecology.
E-mail: miller20 at msu.edu
Gary G. Mittelbach
Professor; Ph.D., Michigan State, 1980.
Community ecology and aquatics.
E-mail: mittelbach at kbs.msu.edu
Cheryl A. Murphy
Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Louisiana State, 2006.
Environmental toxicology.
E-mail: camurphy at msu.edu
Peter G. Murphy
Professor; Ph.D., North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1970.
Plant ecology.
E-mail: murphyp at msu.edu
Patrick M. Muzzall
Professor; Ph.D., New Hampshire, 1978.
Parasitology.
E-mail: muzzall at msu.edu
Carlos D. Navarrete
Assistant Professor; Ph.D., California, Los Angeles, 2004.
Evolutionary psychology of morality and intergroup relations.
E-mail: cdn at msu.edu
Antonio A. Nunez
Associate Dean, Graduate School and Professor; Ph.D., Florida State 1977.
Biological rhythms, hormone and reproductive behaviors.
E-mail: nunez at msu.edu
Charles A. Ofria
Assistant Professor; Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 1999.
Evolution of biocomplexity, computational evolving systems.
E-mail: ofria at msu.edu
Nathaniel Ostrom
Professor; Ph.D., Newfoundland, 1992.
Biogeochemistry.
E-mail: ostromn at msu.edu
Peggy H. Ostrom
Professor; Ph.D., Newfoundland, 1990.
Biogeochemical cycling.
E-mail: ostrom at msu.edu
Jen Owen
Assistant Professor.
Ecology of infectious diseases, behavioral ecology, ecoimmunology.
E-mail: owenj at msu.edu
Scott Peacor
Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Michigan, 1992 & 2000.
Population & community ecology, ecological & ecosystem modeling, aquatic ecology.
E-mail: peacor at msu.edu
Robert T. Pennock
Professor, Lyman Briggs College; Ph.D., Pittsburgh. 1991.
Philosophy of biology; evolutionary computation; history & philosophy of science; science & values.
E-mail: pennock5 at msu.edu
William F. Porter
Boone and Crockett Chair of Wildlife Conservation; PhD., Minnesota, 1979.
Wildlife Ecology.
E-mail: porterw at anr.msu.edu
L. Alan Prather
Associate Professor and Director, MSU Herbarium; Ph.D., Texas at Austin, 1995.
Plant systematics and evolution of floral morphology.
E-mail: alan at msu.edu
Harold H. Prince
Professor (Emeritus); Ph.D., Virginia Polytechnic, 1968.
Avian ecology and behavior.
E-mail: hhprince at msu.edu
G. Philip Robertson
Professor; Ph.D., Indiana, 1980.
Ecosystem and agricultural ecology.
E-mail: robertson at kbs.msu.edu
Gary J. Roloff
Visiting Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Michigan State, 1994.
Ecological community responses to disturbances; landscape-level modeling, planning, and assessments.
E-mail: roloff at msu.edu
Joan B. Rose
Homer Nowlin Endowed Chair of Water Research; Ph.D., Arizona, 1985.
Environmental microbiology.
E-mail: rosejo at msu.edu
David E. Rothstein
Assistant Professor; Ph.D., University of Michigan 1999.
Ecosystem ecology.
E-mail: rothste2 at msu.edu
Tao Sang
Associate Professor; Ph.D., Ohio State, 1995.
Plant systematics and molecular evolution.
E-mail: sang at msu.edu
Orlando Sarnelle
Associate Professor; Ph.D., California, Santa Barbara, 1992.
Biological limnology, ecology.
E-mail: sarnelle at msu.edu
Norman J. Sauer
Professor; Ph.D., Michigan State, 1974.
Physical and forensic anthropology, human skeletal biology.
E-mail: nsauer at msu.edu
Douglas W. Schemske
Hannah Distinguished Professor; Ph.D., Illinois, 1977.
Speciation; mechanisms of adaptation.
E-mail: schem at msu.edu
Thomas Schmidt
Professor; Ph.D., Ohio State, 1985.
Microbial ecology and evolution.
E-mail: tschmidt at msu.edu
J. Mark Scriber
Professor; Ph.D., Cornell, 1975.
Evolutionary ecology of insect-plant interactions.
E-mail: scriber at msu.edu
Kim L. Scribner
Associate Professor; Ph.D., Georgia, 1992.
Population genetics, population ecology and conservation biology.
E-mail: scribne3 at msu.edu
Alexander Shingleton
Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Cambridge, 2001.
Ecological and evolutionary developmental biology.
E-mail: shingle9 at msu.edu
Shin-Han Shiu
Assistant Professor; Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2001.
Evolution of Genomes.
E-mail: shius at msu.edu
Laura Smale
Professor; Ph.D., California, Berkeley, 1987.
Animal behavior and its physiological substrates.
E-mail: smale at msu.edu
James J. Smith
Associate Professor; Ph.D., Michigan State, 1985.
Molecular systematics and evolution.
E-mail: jimsmith at msu.edu
Sieglinde S. Snapp
Associate Professor; California, Davis, 1991.
Managed ecosystems and agricultural ecology.
E-mail: snapp at msu.edu
Richard J. Snider
Professor; Ph.D., Michigan State, 1972.
Invertebrate zoology.
E-mail: snider at msu.edu
Patricia Soranno
Associate Professor; Ph.D., Wisconsin, Madison, 1995.
Limnology and ecosystem ecology.
E-mail: soranno at msu.edu
R. Jan Stevenson
Professor; Ph.D., Michigan, 1981.
Algal ecology; aquatic ecology; environmental science.
E-mail: rjstev at msu.edu
Nathan Swenson
Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Arizona, 2008.
Plant functional ecology and evolution, community ecology, tropical biology.
E-mail: swensonn at msu.edu
Zsofia Szendrei
Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Michigan State, 2005.
Insect ecology, chemical ecology, biocontrol.
E-mail: szendrei at msu.edu
Ralph E. Taggart
Professor; Ph.D., Michigan State, 1971.
Botany, paleobotany, palynology.
E-mail: taggart at msu.edu
William W. Taylor
Chairperson, Fisheries and Wildlife and Professor; Ph.D., Arizona State, 1978.
Fish population and community dynamics.
E-mail: taylorw at msu.edu
Frank W. Telewski
Professor; Ph.D., Wake Forest, 1983.
Developmental tree ecophysiology.
E-mail: telewski at msu.edu
James M. Tiedje
University Distinguished Professor; Ph.D., Cornell, 1968.
Microbial ecology.
E-mail: tiedjej at msu.edu
Richard E. Triemer
Chair, Plant Biology and Professor; Ph.D., North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1975.
Algal cell biology, phylogeny and systematics.
E-mail: triemer at msu.edu
Jean I. Tsao
Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Chicago, 2001.
Ecology and evolution of disease organisms.
E-mail: tsao at msu.edu
Sean A. Valles
Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Indiana University, 2010.
Philosophy of biology and medicine.
E-mail: valles at msu.edu
Juli Wade
Professor; Ph.D., Texas, Austin, 1992.
Sex differences in brain and behavior.
E-mail: wadej at msu.edu
C. Michael Wagner
Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Georgia, 2004.
Behavioral and community ecology of fishes.
E-mail: mwagner at msu.edu
Edward D. Walker
Professor; Ph.D., Massachusetts, 1984.
Medical entomology.
E-mail: walker at msu.edu
Michael B. Walters
Associate Professor; Ph.D., Minnesota.
Functional ecology of plants; forest community ecology.
E-mail: mwalters at msu.edu
Christopher M. Waters
Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Minnesota, 2002.
Evolution of cooperative behavior in bacteria.
E-mail: watersc3 at msu.edu
Patrick J. Webber
Professor (Emeritus); Ph.D., Queens University (Canada), 1971.
Community and landscape ecology.
E-mail: webber at msu.edu
Mark E. Whalon
Professor; Ph.D., Pennsylvania State, 1979.
Agricultural pest management.
E-mail: whalon at msu.edu
Barry L. Williams
Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Illinois, 2001.
Evolutionary biology and ecological genomics.
E-mail: barryw at msu.edu
Scott Winterstein
Associate Chair, Fisheries and Wildlife and Professor; Ph.D., New Mexico State, 1985.
Wildlife population dynamics.
E-mail: winterst at msu.edu
Catherine Yansa
Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Wisconsin, Madison, 2002.
Quaternary paleoenvironments; plant geography; people-environment; paleoethnobotany.
E-mail: yansa at msu.edu
