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Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior

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Our groups study practical and theoretical aspects of the conservation of species, and conduct long-term studies of interactions between species, the impact of climate change and of natural disasters.

Faculty & Research Interests

Alexandra E. Bely, Associate Professor; Ph.D., State University of New York-Stony Brook, 1999. Evolution of regeneration and asexual reproduction; integrative biology of freshwater annelids​.

Gerald Borgia, Professor; Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1978. Evolution of mate choice; social structure and patterns of aid-giving behavior; sociobiology.

Emily Bruns, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., University of Minnesota. E
cological and evolutionary dynamics of infectious disease in natural populations.

Karen Carleton, Professor; Ph.D., University of Colorado, 1987. Evolution of visual systems, visual communication and speciation, phototransduction, sensory genomics.

Sean Carroll, Balo-Simon Professor; Ph.D.. E
volution of morphological traits in animals.
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Michael P. Cummings, Professor; Ph.D., Harvard University, 1992. Molecular evolution, bioinformatics, computational biology.

Michele Dudash, Professor Emerita; Ph.D., University of Illinois at Chicago, 1987. 
Plant population biology; inbreeding depression; mating system evolution.​

William Fagan, Distinguished University Professor; Ph.D., University of Washington, 1996. Conservation Biology, Community Ecology, Theoretical Ecology.

Charles Fenster, Professor Emeritus; Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1988. 
Plant evolution biology; mating systems; epistasis. 

Heidi Fisher,
Assistant Professor; 
Ph.D., Boston University, 2006. Sexual selection, evolutionary genetics, sperm biology

Douglas E. Gill, Professor Emeritus; Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1971. Population dynamics; evolution of life-history parameters; host-parasite coevolution; plant-animal interactions.

Richard Highton, Professor Emeritus; Ph.D., University of Florida, 1956. Systematics and molecular evolution of plethodontid salamanders.

David W. Inouye, Professor Emeritus; Ph.D., University of North Carolina, 1976. Plant demography; plant-ant mutualisms; behavior and ecology of bumblebees; pollination biology. 


Philip Johnson, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2009. 

Scott Juntti,
William J. Higgins Assistant Professor; Ph.D., University of California, San Fransico.

Thomas D. Kocher, Professor: Ph.D., University of Colorado, 1986; Molecular evolution, population genetics, evolution of development, genetics of speciation, evolution of sex determination.

Karen R. Lips, Professor ; Ph.D, University of Miami, 1995.  

Carlos A. Machado, Professor; Ph.D., University of California, Irvine, Ph.D., 1998. Evolutionary genetics and genomics, the process of species divergence, plant-insect coevolution.   

Kennedy Paynter, Associate Research Professor and Director, MEES Graduate Program; Ph.D., Iowa State University, 1985. Invertebrate biology; comparative physiology; biochemistry; restoration ecology.

Marjorie L. Reaka, Professor; Ph.D., Berkeley, 1975. Coral reef ecology; ecology and behavior of mantis shrimp; evolutionary ecology of life-history patterns in Crustacea.

Gerald S. Wilkinson, Professor and Associate Dean; Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, 1984. Behavioral ecology and evolution; social behavior and communication in bats; sexual selection and morphological evolution in stalk-eyed flies.

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