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Welcome! We aim to be one of the best integrative biology departments in the country. Our faculty, students, and postdoctoral scholars are engaged in research and teaching at the crest of modern biology using a diversity of organisms and modern approaches to gain the widest possible perspectives on biological organization and function. Evolution provides a unifying theme for the department, with research foci in biophysics, sensory neuroscience, developmental biology, evolutionary genetics, behavioral ecology, conservation biology.
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Featured Faculty Member
Dr. Sean Carroll
We seek to understand, in general, the relative contributions of different mechanisms – gene co-option, gene duplication and loss, regulatory and protein sequence changes – to the evolution of different kinds of traits. Our research has focused on the evolution of morphological traits in animals, and more recently, on biochemical novelties such as the evolution of snake venom.
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We seek to understand, in general, the relative contributions of different mechanisms – gene co-option, gene duplication and loss, regulatory and protein sequence changes – to the evolution of different kinds of traits. Our research has focused on the evolution of morphological traits in animals, and more recently, on biochemical novelties such as the evolution of snake venom.
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