Adjunct/ Affiliate

Michael J. Braun, Adjunct Professor (Smithsonian Laboratory of Molecular Systematics); Ph.D., Louisiana State University Medical Center, 1983. Molecular approaches to evolutionary biology; recovering genetic information from ancient DNA; avian hybrid zones.

Denise L. Breitburg, Adjunct Professor (Smithsonian Environmental Research Center); Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara, 1984. Marine and estuarine ecology; relationship between behavior and community ecology; behavior and ecology of fishes.

D. Wayne Coats, Adjunct Professor (Smithsonian Environmental Research Center); Ph.D., University of Maryland, 1977. Protistology, with emphasis on ciliate and dinoflagellate ecology, structure and function, and taxonomy.

Charles Delwiche, Affiliate Associate Professor (joint appointment with Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, UMCP); Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1990. Plant molecular systematics and plastid evolution.

Robert J. Dooling, Affiliate Professor (Department of Psychology, UMCP); Ph.D., St. Louis University, 1975. Comparative psychoacoustics, hearing, vocal communication, and vocal learning in animals; hair cell regeneration and recovery of auditory function.

Robert Fleischer, Adjunct Professor, (National Zoo); Ph.D., University of Kansas, 1983. Evolutionary genetics, molecular genetics, ornithology.

Anson Hines, Adjunct Professor (Smithsonian Environmental Research Center); Ph.D., Berkeley, 1976. Ecology of marine and estuarine invertebrates; predator-prey interactions.

William Hodos, Affiliate Professor (Department of Psychology, UMCP); Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1960. Vision and visual system in birds; comparative neuroanatomy; evolution of brain and behavior; animal intelligence.

Fatimah Linda Jackson, Affiliate Professor (Department of Anthropology, UMCP); Ph.D., Cornell University, 1981; Human evolutionary biology; biological effects of cultural behaviors, especially dietary practices, on human biological diversity and microevolution.

Matthew W. Kelley, Adjunct Associate Professor, (National Institutes of Health); Ph.D., University of Virginia, 1993. Development of vertebrate auditory system, determination of cell fate, cellular patterning.

Devra G. Kleiman, Adjunct Professor, Ph.D., University College, London, 1969. Social, reproductive, and developmental behavior of mammals; mammalian mating systems, especially monogamy.

Cynthia F. Moss, Affiliate Professor (Department of Psychology, UMCP); Ph.D., Brown University, 1986; Comparative sensory physiology and behavior; auditory information processing in bats; psychophysical studies of spatial perception by sonar.

Steve Mount, Affiliate Associate Professor (Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, UMCP); Ph.D., Yale University, 1983. Pre-mRNA splicing signals.

Stephen J. O'Brien, Adjunct Professor (National Institutes of Health): Ph.D., Cornell University, 1971; Molecular genetics, population genetics, developmental and cell biology, immunology and reproductive physiology.

Christopher Platt, Adjunct Professor (National Institutes of Health); Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, 1972. Sensory physiology; vestibular system; fine structure; comparative physiology. 

David D. Yager, Affiliate Associate Professor (Department of Psychology, UMCP); Ph.D., Cornell University, 1989. Neuroethology and sensory biology; evolution of sensory systems; hearing in insects; CNS processing of auditory information.

Elizabeth Zimmer, Adjunct Associate Professor (Smithsonian Institution); Ph.D. Molecular systematics of plants, ribosomal DNA and angiosperm systematics.