Robert Bagchi
Associate Professor
Research Interests: The processes that maintain biodiversity in natural ecosystems (particularly in the tropics); how human activity might affect this biodiversity; the role of biodiversity in the provision of ecosystem functions/services
James Bernot
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: The evolution of parasitism; parasitic copepod evolution, host-associations, systematics, taxonomy, and morphology; crustacean genomics and phylogeny
Daniel Bolnick
Professor
Research Interests: Evolution and ecology of variation within species; evolutionary immunology; host-parasite co-evolution; speciation. I combine observational natural history with experiments, theory, and genomics.
Andrew Bush
Professor
Research Interests: Paleobiology, including Phanerozoic trends in ecospace utilization and biodiversity; gradient analyses of patchy paleoecologic distributions; and stratigraphy and extinction in the Late Devonian of the Appalachian Basin
John Cooley
Visiting Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Speciation and mating system evolution; song evolution and genetic boundaries in North American periodical cicadas and New Zealand cicadas
Miranda Davis
Associate Professor in Residence
Research Interests: Wildlife population dynamics and the ecological interactions among large mammal populations; how large mammal populations (specifically carnivores, ungulates) coexist and how these communities can be managed and conserved in the face of rapid environmental change in a human-dominated world
Pamela Diggle
Professor and Department Head
Research Interests: Effects of genotype, environment, and ontogenetic history on the development and evolutionary diversification of plant phenotypes
Chris Elphick
Professor
Research Interests: Avian conservation ecology, especially in coastal and farmland settings; habitat loss, climate change, large-scale conservation planning
Michael Finiguerra
Associate Professor in Residence
Research Interests: Evolutionary ecology of zooplankton, specifically how stressors can affect ecological interactions and evolutionary trajectories; pedagogical approaches to teaching science to undergraduates
Adam Fry
Lecturer
Research Interests: Avian population genetics and phylogeography; genetics of host-endosymbiont coevolution, particularly the Wolbachia-Drosophila association; identifying best practices in university-level pedagogy
Nicole Fusco
Assistant Professor in Residence
Research Interests: Urban ecology and evolution, with a specific focus on how urban development affects genetic connectivity & evolution of native species in cities. Biology, Ecology, Evolution, Genetics, Zoology, Anatomy & Physiology
Carlos Garcia-Robledo
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Evolutionary ecology of plant-insect interactions; adaptation to novel environments (e.g., novel hosts, climate change), molecular biology, insect physiology, demography
Bernard Goffinet
Professor
Research Interests: Systematics of bryophytes and lichenized fungi; evolution of spore dispersal mechanisms and breeding systems in mosses; evolution of multiple symbioses and photomorphism in lichens
Susan Herrick
Assistant Professor in Residence
Research Interests: Behavioral ecology and herpetology, particularly interested in social behavior and interspecific interactions; spatial and acoustic interactions between breeding ranid frogs
Karolina Heyduk
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Evolution of plant adaptations to abiotic stress; evolution of CAM photosynthesis; plant ecophysiology; comparative genomics
Elizabeth Jockusch
Professor and Associate Department Head
Research Interests: Phenotypic evolution; particularly evolution of development and evolution of phenotypic plasticity in basal insects and salamanders; systematics
Sarah Knutie
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Disease ecology of birds and amphibians; host-microbe interactions; ecotoxicology; invasive species biology; behavioral ecology
Colin Kremer
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Interactions between ecology, evolution, and physiology in variable and changing environments, using math, statistics, and experiments involving phytoplankton
Louise Lewis
Professor
Research Interests: Systematics and evolution of green algae, especially terrestrial forms; phylogeny of basal green plants; diversity of desert algae
Paul Lewis
Professor
Research Interests: Phylogenetic theory and methodology; statistical phylogenetics with an emphasis on Bayesian phylogenetics; marginal likelihood estimation; estimating information content
Gene Likens
Distinguished Research Professor
Research Interests: Long-term, multidisciplinary studies of forest, stream and lake ecosystems in the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest in the White Mountains of New Hampshire.
Yang Liu
Assistant Research Professor
Research Interests: Bryophyte phylogeny, and evolution of organelle genomes
Edward McAssey
Assistant Professor in Residence
Research Interests: Local adaptation and population genomics in plants; Hybridization and speciation; Photosynthetic evolution; Biology education
Cory Merow
Assistant Research Professor
Research Interests: Ecological modeling; maximum entropy methods; Bayesian methods; community ecology; plant demography; the Cape Floristic Region; invasive species
Margaret Rubega
Professor
Research Interests: Avian functional and evolutionary morphology, especially of feeding structures; feeding mechanics; functional aspects of behavior; ecology; conservation biology
Kurt Schwenk
Professor
Research Interests: Functional and evolutionary morphology of tetrapod vertebrates, especially feeding and chemoreception in lizards and snakes
Jeff Seemann
Professor
Research Interests: Plant responses to the environment from the level of genes to ecosystems, with a focus on photosynthesis, the global carbon cycle, and the responses of terrestrial ecosystems to rising atmospheric CO2
Mark Urban
Professor
Research Interests: Community ecology; eco-evolutionary dynamics; microgeographic adaptation; global climate change; metacommunity ecology
David Wagner
Professor
Research Interests: Systematics; phylogenetics, especially of the Lepidoptera; insect behavior and ecology; invertebrate conservation
Jill Wegrzyn
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Scientific databasing and visualization; machine learning; semantic web; ontologies; computational biology; plant genomics; comparative genomics
Yaowu Yuan
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Genetics, development, and evolution of phenotypic diversity; genetics of adaptation and speciation; plant-pollinator interactions; transposable elements and plant genomics; plant molecular systematics