Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Faculty

Professors Adjuncts Lecturers Emeriti Postdocs and Research Faculty

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

Elsa Ordway

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.

Lecturers

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

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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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