The Faculty and their Research
Research Areas -- Evolution
Core EEBB faculty
Christoph C. Adami
Evolution of Behavior and Intelligence.
Robert L. Anstey
Invertebrate paleobiology.
James W. Atkinson
Developmental and evolutionary biology.
Janette Boughman
Behavioral and evolutionary ecology; mechanisms of speciation.
C. Titus Brown
Genomics, evolution and development.
Anthony Cognato
Insect Systematics and Director of the A.J. Cook Arthropod Research Collection.
April Harlin Cognato
Molecular evolution; quantitative phylogenetics.
Jeffrey K. Conner
Evolutionary ecology, ecological genetics.
Ian M. Dworkin
Genetic basis of phenotypic variation and evolution.
Fred C. Dyer
Ethology and behavioral ecology.
Heather L. Eisthen
Neuroethology; evolutionary and developmental neurobiology.
Bryan K. Epperson
Population genetics and molecular and forest genetics.
Thomas Getty
Behavioral ecology of vertebrates.
Michael D. Gottfried
Vertebrate paleontology.
Katherine L. Gross
Plant population and community ecology.
James F. Hancock
Physiological and evolutionary genetics of plants.
Kay E. Holekamp
Behavioral ecology; ethology and behavioral endocrinology.
Zachary Huang
Behavioral physiology, insect sociobiology.
Andrew M. Jarosz
Evolutionary ecology of plant-pathogen interactions.
Jennifer A. Lau
Evolution and community ecology.
Richard E. Lenski
Experimental evolution with microbes and digital organisms.
Barbara L. Lundrigan
Phylogenetics; evolution of behavior and morphology.
Brian A. Maurer
Macroecology, biogeography, quantitative population and community ecology.
Philip K. McKinley
Distributed computing; digital evolution; ecosystem monitoring.
Cheryl A. Murphy
Environmental toxicology.
Carlos D. Navarrete
Evolutionary psychology of morality and intergroup relations.
Charles A. Ofria
Evolution of biocomplexity, computational evolving systems.
Robert T. Pennock
Philosophy of biology; evolutionary computation; history & philosophy of science; science & values.
L. Alan Prather
Plant systematics and evolution of floral morphology.
Tao Sang
Plant systematics and molecular evolution.
Douglas W. Schemske
Speciation; mechanisms of adaptation.
Thomas Schmidt
Microbial ecology and evolution.
J. Mark Scriber
Evolutionary ecology of insect-plant interactions.
Kim L. Scribner
Population genetics, population ecology and conservation biology.
Alexander Shingleton
Ecological and evolutionary developmental biology.
Shin-Han Shiu
Evolution of Genomes.
James J. Smith
Molecular systematics and evolution.
Nathan Swenson
Plant functional ecology and evolution, community ecology, tropical biology.
Jean I. Tsao
Ecology and evolution of disease organisms.
Christopher M. Waters
Evolution of cooperative behavior in bacteria.
Barry L. Williams
Evolutionary biology and ecological genomics.
Catherine Yansa
Quaternary paleoenvironments; plant geography; people-environment; paleoethnobotany.
Additional faculty
Thomas Dietz
Human ecology and cultural evolution.
Maren L. Friesen
Legume-rhizobium symbiosis, ecological and evolutionary genomics, plant-microbiome interactions, coevolution.
Donald J. Hall Aquatic population and community ecology.
Julius H. Jackson
Microbial physiology & genetics; bacterial gene & genome evolution.
Norman J. Sauer Physical and forensic anthropology, human skeletal biology.
Ralph E. Taggart
Botany, paleobotany, palynology.
Richard E. Triemer
Algal cell biology, phylogeny and systematics.
