Tenured and Tenure-Track Faculty

Araneda, Ricardo, Assistant Professor. Neuromodulation and sensory physiology of the olfactory system; mechanisms underlying the processing of olfactory information in the context of behavior.

Bely, Alexandra, Associate Professor. Evolution of regeneration and segmentation mechanisms in annelids; asexual reproduction; animal body plan evolution.

Borgia, Gerald, Professor. Evolution of mate choice; social structure and patterns of aid-giving behavior; sociobiology.

Butts, Daniel, Assistant Professor. 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.

Carleton, Karen, Associate Professor. Evolution of visual systems, visual communication and speciation, phototransduction, sensory genomics.

Carr, Catherine, Professor. Cellular mechanisms of sound localization in birds; evolution of the auditory system.

Cohen, Avis, Professor (Joint Appointment with Institute for Systems Research). Motor physiology and control; neuromorphic engineering; computational neuroscience with an emphasis on systems of coupled oscillators.

Colombini, Marco, Professor [and Affiliate of Chemistry & Biochemistry]. Structure and mode of action of membrane transport systems; molecular basis for voltage control of channel-forming proteins.

Cummings, Michael, Associate Professor. Molecular evolution, bioinformatics, computational biology.

Dudash, Michele R., Associate Professor. Plant population biology; inbreeding depression; mating system evolution.

Fagan, William , Professor. Conservation Biology, Community Ecology, Theoretical Ecology.

Fenster, Charles B., Professor. Plant evolution biology; mating systems; epistasis.

Haag, Eric S., Associate Professor. Molecular and functional evolution of nematode sexdetermination genes.

Higgins, William J. , Associate Professor. Neuromodulation; opiate receptors; intercellular communication among unicellular organisms.

Inouye, David W., Professor and Director of Graduate Studies. Plant demography; plant-ant mutualisms; behavior and ecology of bumblebees; pollination biology.

Jeffery, William R., Professor. Evolution of developmental mechanisms in chordates.

Kanold, Patrick, Assistant Professor. 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.

Kocher, Thomas D., Professor. Molecular evolution, population genetics, evolution of development, genetics of speciation, evolution of sex determination.

Lips, Karen, Associate Professor, Director of the CONS graduate program. Neotropical Amphibian Ecology.

Machado, Carlos A., Associate Professor. Evolutionary genetics and genomics, the process of species divergence, plant-insect coevolution.

Payne, Richard, Professor. Mechanisms of visual excitation in photoreceptors by injecting messenger molecules into cells and monitoring intracellular calcium release and the activity of ionic channels.

Popper, Arthur N., Professor. Function, development and evolution of T6 auditory system in non-mammalian vertebrates.

Quinlan, Elizabeth, Associate Professor. Development of the vertebrate visual system, cellular and molecular basis of learning and memory.

Reaka, Marjorie L., Professor, Director of Departmental Honors Program. Coral reef ecology; ecology and behavior of mantis shrimp; evolutionary ecology of life-history patterns in Crustacea.

Simon, Jonathan, Associate Professor (joint appointment with Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering). Neural processing, auditory computation, neurophysiology.

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

Sukharev, Sergei, Professor [and Affiliate of Chemistry & Biochemistry]. Molecular mechanisms of mechanosensation; mechano-activated ion channels, their structure and mechanisms of gating by membrane stretch.

Via, Sara, Professor. Evolutionary biology, evolutionary and ecological genetics, coevolution, population biology.

Wilkinson, Gerald S., Professor and Chair. Behavioral ecology and evolution; social behavior and communication in bats; sexual selection and morphological evolution in stalk-eyed flies.