Faculty Leadership
Karen Sears | EEB Department Chair |
Greg Grether | Vice Chair of Personnel |
Nathan Kraft | Vice Chair of Graduate Studies |
Lawren Sack | Vice Chair of Undergraduate Studies |
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Professors
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Michael Alfaro | vertebrate diversification and macroevolution (especially coral reef fishes), functional and evolutionary morphology, comparative methods, phylogenetics |
Priyanga Amarasekare | Mechanisms of diversity maintenance in variable environments |
Paul Barber | Evolution of conservation of marine biodiversity, Coral reefs, Evolutionary and population genetics, Natural selection and adaptation. |
Daniel Blumstein | The evolution of behavior and the integration of behavior and conservation biology. |
Donald Buth | Ichthyology; parasitology, phylogenetic systematics, population structure of lower vertebrates |
Shane Campbell-Staton | Rapid evolution and adaptation; human-altered environments and climate change; physiology; functional genomics |
Robert Eagle Tripati | |
Peggy Fong | Marine ecology of coastal ecosystems. |
Nandita Garud | Population genetics; evolution in natural populations with a current focus on the microbiome. |
Gregory Grether | Causes and consequences of aggression and reproductive interference between species; character displacement; species recognition; evolution of coloration; the role of phenotypic plasticity in evolution; animal behavior |
David Jacobs | Evolution/Development of Invertebrate Body Plans, Paleobiology and Marine Speciation |
Nathan Kraft | Plant community ecology, with an emphasis on functional and phylogenetic approaches to understanding community assembly and species coexistence; tropical forest dynamics; biogeography and the assembly of regional biotas. |
Colin Kremer | Marine & freshwater microbial ecology; theoretical ecology; linking organismal physiology to population, community, & ecosystem dynamics; effects of global change, especially temperature; eco-evolutionary dynamics |
James Lloyd-Smith | Ecological and evolutionary dynamics of infectious diseases; emerging pathogens and zoonoses; host population heterogeneities; integration of dynamics across scales. |
Kirk Lohmueller | Population genetics; Statistical methods in evolutionary and medical genetics; genetic variation data |
Glen MacDonald | Glen M Sproul dit MacDonald works on issues of climate change and ecological and societal responses. |
Peter Nonacs | Behavioral ecology and social evolution, using both theoretical and experimental approaches. |
Noa Pinter-Wollman | The emergence of collective behavior from variation and interactions among system components. |
Lawren Sack | Ecology and physiology of plant species coexistence. Hydraulics of plant water transport. Evolution and functional consequences of diversity in leaf size, shape and venation. Forest dynamics and ecohydrology. Conservation physiology. |
Van Savage | Effects of climate on ecological systems; species interactions; evolutionary dynamics; mathematical biology; biological scaling in relation to thermal responses, vascular systems, sleep, and tumor growth |
Barney Schlinger | Steroid hormone synthesis and action in birds; hormonal control of brain and behavior in tropical bird species |
Karen Sears | Developmental and evolutionary biology of mammals |
H. Bradley Shaffer | Population biology, landscape ecology, and conservation genomics of reptiles and amphibians, particularly in California |
Thomas Smith | Evolutionary ecology, speciation, and conservation of vertebrates, especially in the tropics. |
Victoria Sork | Ecological, evolutionary, and conservation genomics of tree populations; evolutionary biology and conservation science of oaks; phylogeography; hybridization and introgression; molecular ecology of pollen and seed dispersal. |
Morgan Tingley | Effects of global change on biodiversity; hierarchical modeling; fire and Californian wildlife; ornithology; conservation. |
Tina Treude | |
Robert Wayne | Application of molecular genetic techniques to questions in systematics, population genetics, sociobiology and conservation |
Pamela Yeh | Adaptation to novel environments; evolution of drug resistance in bacteria; urban ecology and evolution |
Felipe Zapata | Systematics and evolutionary biology; plant biology; quantitative taxonomy; macroevolution; phylogenetic comparative functional genomics; tropical biology |
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Incoming Professors
Adjuncts
Christy Brigham | |
Gary Bucciarelli | |
Jon Keeley | Ecology of fire-prone ecosystems and alien plants that invade these systems. |
Rachel Kennison | |
Benjamin Knowles | I am a viral ecologist whose research focuses on whether viruses choose to kill or parasitize their hosts, what drives this decision, and what its outcomes are from molecular to global scales. |
Brenda Larison | |
Jonathan Marcot | |
Barbara Natterson | |
Rachel Prunier | |
Seth Riley | Ecology and conservation of wildlife in fragmented urban landscapes. |
Debra Shier | Behavioral Ecology and Conservation Biology |
Xiaoming Wang | My current researches have two broad focuses: 1, evolution, systematics, and phylogeny of fossil carnivorans (meat-eating mammals) in Cenozoic and. 2, Geology and vertebrate paleontology of Tibetan Plateau. |
Professors Emeriti
Clifford Brunk | Molecular biological approaches to the study of evolution. |
Martin Cody | Community structure, determinants of diversity, density and distribution, interspecific interactions and adaptive morpho |
Franz Engelmann | Insect physiology, insect and invertebrate endocrinology. |
Elma Gonzalez | Cell and molecular biology of calcification in coccolithophorid algae. |
Malcolm Gordon | Comparative ecological physiology of lower vertebrates, with emphasis on fish locomotion |
Patty Gowaty | Evolutionary ecology, evolution of behavior, sexual behavior, mating systems, sexual conflict, parental behavior, maternal effects, developmental plasticity, sex allocation, genetic parentage, ornithology |
William Hamner | Behavior of oceanic animals, emphasizing in situ observations at sea. |
Henry Hespenheide | The evolutionary ecology and biodiversity of Neotropical wet forest insects. |
Steve Hubbell | Community ecology; biodiversity |
Ken Nagy | Ecological physiology of terrestrial vertebrates, especially desert reptiles. |
Peter Narins | Auditory Behavior, Neurophysiology and Mechanics |
Park Nobel | Plant physiological ecology, especially agaves and cacti |
Philip Rundel | Adaptations of plants to environmental stress, focusing on mediterranean, desert, and tropical ecosystems; applications of environmental sensor arrays for ecological research |
Charles Taylor | avian bioacoustics; adaptive sensor arrays; artificial life |
Blaire Van Valkenburgh | Paleobiology, ecology, and functional morphology of vertebrates |
Richard Vance | Marine, Theoretical, and Restoration Ecology |
Eduardo Zeiger | Plant physiology and photobiology; with emphasis in stomatal function. |
Cheryl Ann Zimmer | Population ecology of marine organisms, especially the role of hydrodynamic processes |
Richard Zimmer | Ecology and sensory biology of aquatic organisms; chemical signals and communication |
Postdocs and Research Faculty
Eric J Caldera | |
Mark Andrew Elvin | |
Sorel T Fitz-Gibbon | Genome Sequence Of P. Aerophilium |
Ana E Garcia Vedrenne | |
Emily Elizabeth Curd Guswa | Conducting Sampling, Dna Extraction, Sequencing And Analysis Of Environmental Dna Samples From Sediment And Soil In California |
Sarah Jacobs | |
Andrew Ring Kleinhesselink | |
Natalie Jewel Lemanski | |
Jennifer Ann Maier | |
Jeffrey P Maloy | |
Evan M Mccartney-Melstad | |
Julie Serena Miller | |
Portia Mae Mira | |
Maura Palacios Mejia | |
Katherine Prager | Understanding The Dynamics Of Leptospirosis Interrogans Serovar Pomona In California Sea Lions |
Alexa Aline Sadier | |
Peter Scott | |
Satoshi Tomano | |
Daniel Joseph Wieczynski |
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