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
Pamela Diggle
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
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
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 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
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