Tenured/Tenured-Track

Ibrahim Z. Ades, Associate Professor; Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles, 1976. Regulatory processes that govern eukaryotic cell development.

Ricardo C. Araneda, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1997. Neuromodulation and sensory physiology of the olfactory system; mechanisms underlying the processing of olfactory information in the context of behavior.

Alexandra E. Bely, Assistant Professor;Ph.D., State University of New York-Stony Brook, 1999. Evolution of regeneration and segmentation mechanisms in annelids; asexual reproduction; animal body plan evolution.

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

Dan Butts, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2000. Information processing in the visual pathway in the context of natural vision; role of time in the sensory coding; relationships between observable single-neuron physiology and system-level function.

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

Catherine E. Carr, Professor; Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, 1984. Cellular mechanisms of sound localization in birds; evolution of the auditory system.

Cristian I. Castillo-Davis, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Harvard University, 2003. The genetic basis of phenotypic change, the evolution of gene regulation and gene networks, computational biology and statistics.

Avis H. Cohen, Professor; Ph.D., Cornell University, 1977. Motor physiology and control; neuromorphic engineering; computational neuroscience with an emphasis on systems of coupled oscillators.

Marco Colombini, Professor; Ph.D., McGill University, 1974. Structure and mode of action of membrane transport systems; molecular basis for voltage control of channel-forming proteins.

Michael P. Cummings, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Harvard University, 1992. Molecular evolution, bioinformatics, computational biology.

James M. Dietz, Professor; Ph.D., Michigan State University, 1981. Behavioral ecology and conservation biology of neotropical mammals.

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

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

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

Irwin N. Forseth, Jr., Associate Professor; Ph.D., University of Utah, 1982. Plant physiological ecology; heliotropism; nitrogen metabolism.

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

Eric S. Haag, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Indiana University, 1997. Molecular and functional evolution of nematode sex determination genes. 

William J. Higgins, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Florida State University, 1973. Neuromodulation; opiate receptors; intercellular communication among unicellular organisms.

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

William R. Jeffery, Professor; Ph.D., University of Iowa, 1971. Evolution of developmental mechanisms in chordates.

Patrick Kanold, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 2000. Mechanisms and circuits involved in the maturation of the cortical circuitry, development of patterned projection in the brain and the relation of synaptic maturation to critical periods, and development of the central auditory system.

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

Hey-Kyoung Lee, Associate Professor; Ph. D., Brown University, 1997. Cellular/molecular mechanisms of synaptic plasticity underlying memory formation; synaptic function in mouse models of Alzheimer's disease.

Karen R. Lips, Associate Professor, Ph.D, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, 1995. Neotropical Amphibian Ecology.

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

J. Dennis O'Connor, Professor; Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1968. Developmental biology and the mode of action of steroid hormones.

Richard Payne, Professor; Ph.D., Australian National University, 1982. Mechanisms of visual excitation in photoreceptors by injecting messenger molecules into cells and monitoring intracellular calcium release and the activity of ionic channels.

Arthur N. Popper, Professor; Ph.D., CUNY Graduate Center, 1969. Function, development and evolution of T6 auditory system in non-mammalian vertebrates.

Elizabeth Quinlan, Associate Professor; Ph.D., University of Illinois at Chicago, 1993. Development of the vertebrate visual system, cellular and molecular basis of learning and memory.

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.

Jonathan Simon, Assistant Professor (joint appointment with Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering); Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara, 1990. Neural processing, auditory computation, neurophysiology.

Daphne Soares, Assistant Professor; Evolution of the nervous system and behavior of a model fish, Astyanax fasciatus, using molecular, cellular and genetic approaches.

Sergei Sukharev, Professor; Ph.D., Moscow State University, 1987. Molecular mechanisms of mechanosensation; mechano-activated ion channels, their structure and mechanisms of gating by membrane stretch.

Sara Via, Professor; Ph.D., Duke University, 1983. Evolutionary biology, evolutionary and ecological genetics, coevolution, population biology.

Gerald S. Wilkinson, Professor and Chair; 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.