Faculty
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Behavior
Daniel Blumstein
Professor
The evolution of behavior and the integration of behavior and conservation biology.
[email] [profile] [lab website]
Patricia Adair Gowaty
Distinguished Professor
Evolutionary ecology, evolution of behavior, sexual behavior, mating systems, sexual conflict, parental behavior, maternal effects, developmental plasticity, sex allocation, genetic parentage, ornithology
[email] [profile]
Gregory Grether
Professor
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
[email] [profile]
Peter Narins
Distinguished Professor
Auditory Behavior, Neurophysiology and Mechanics
[email] [profile]
Peter Nonacs
Professor and Department Chair
Behavioral ecology and social evolution, using both theoretical and experimental approaches.
[email] [profile] [lab website]
Noa Pinter-Wollman
Assistant Professor
The emergence of collective behavior from variation and interactions among system components.
[email] [profile][lab website]
Conservation Biology
Michael Alfaro
Professor
vertebrate diversification and macroevolution (especially coral reef fishes), functional and evolutionary morphology, comparative methods, phylogenetics
[email] [profile]
Paul Barber
Professor
Evolution of conservation of marine biodiversity, Coral reefs, Evolutionary and population genetics, Natural selection and adaptation.
[email] [profile] [lab website]
Daniel Blumstein
Professor
The evolution of behavior and the integration of behavior and conservation biology.
[email] [profile] [lab website]
Peggy Fong
Professor
Marine ecology of coastal ecosystems.
[email] [profile] [lab website]
Gregory Grether
Professor
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
[email] [profile] [lab web site]
Philip Rundel
Distinguished Professor
Adaptations of plants to environmental stress, focusing on mediterranean, desert, and tropical ecosystems; applications of environmental sensor arrays for ecological research
[email] [profile]
Lawren Sack
Associate Professor
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.
[email] [profile] [lab website]
H. Bradley Shaffer
Distinguished Professor
Evolutionary and conservation biology of amphibians and reptiles
[email] [profile] [lab website]
Thomas Smith
Professor
Evolutionary ecology, speciation, and conservation of vertebrates, especially in the tropics.
[email] [profile]
Victoria Sork
Professor and Dean of Life Sciences
Genetics and genomics of tree populations; molecular ecology of plants; conservation biology
[email] [profile] [lab website]
Robert Wayne
Professor
Application of molecular genetic techniques to questions in systematics, population genetics, sociobiology and conservation
[email] [profile] [lab website]
Ecology
Priyanga Amarasekare
Professor
Mechanisms of diversity maintenance in variable environments
[email] [profile] [lab website]
Peggy Fong
Professor
Marine ecology of coastal ecosystems.
[email] [profile] [lab website]
Nathan Kraft
Associate Professor
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.
[email] [profile] [lab website]
James Lloyd-Smith
Associate Professor
Ecological and evolutionary dynamics of infectious diseases; emerging pathogens and zoonoses; host population heterogeneities; integration of dynamics across scales.
[email] [profile] [lab website]
Glen MacDonald
Distinguished Professor
I am interested in the relationship between climatic variations and vegetation response at different spatial and temporal scales.
[email] [profile]
Philip Rundel
Distinguished Professor
Adaptations of plants to environmental stress, focusing on mediterranean, desert, and tropical ecosystems; applications of environmental sensor arrays for ecological research
[email] [profile]
Lawren Sack
Associate Professor
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.
[email] [profile] [lab website]
Van Savage
Professor
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
[email] [profile] [lab website]
H. Bradley Shaffer
Professor
Evolutionary and conservation biology of amphibians and reptiles
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Thomas Smith
Professor
Evolutionary ecology, speciation, and conservation of vertebrates, especially in the tropics.
[email] [profile]
Victoria Sork
Professor and Dean of Life Sciences
Genetics and genomics of tree populations; molecular ecology of plants; conservation biology
[email] [profile] [lab website]
Blaire Van Valkenburgh
Professor
Paleobiology, ecology, and functional morphology of vertebrates
[email] [profile] [lab website]
Felipe Zapata
Assistant Professor
Systematics and evolutionary biology; plant biology; quantitative taxonomy; macroevolution; phylogenetic comparative functional genomics; tropical biology
[email] [profile]
Evolutionary Biology
Michael Alfaro
Professor
vertebrate diversification and macroevolution (especially coral reef fishes), functional and evolutionary morphology, comparative methods, phylogenetics
[email] [profile]
Paul Barber
Professor
Evolution of conservation of marine biodiversity, Coral reefs, Evolutionary and population genetics, Natural selection and adaptation.
[email] [profile] [lab website]
Donald Buth
Professor
Ichthyology; parasitology, phylogenetic systematics, population structure of lower vertebrates
[email] [profile]
Patricia Adair Gowaty
Distinguished Professor
Evolutionary ecology, evolution of behavior, sexual behavior, mating systems, sexual conflict, parental behavior, maternal effects, developmental plasticity, sex allocation, genetic parentage, ornithology
[email] [profile]
Gregory Grether
Professor
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
[email] [profile] [lab web site]
David Jacobs
Professor
Evolution/Development of Invertebrate Body Plans, Paleobiology and Marine Speciation
[email] [profile] [lab website]
James Lloyd-Smith
Associate Professor
Ecological and evolutionary dynamics of infectious diseases; emerging pathogens and zoonoses; host population heterogeneities; integration of dynamics across scales.
[email] [profile] [lab website]
Kirk E. Lohmueller
Assistant Professor
Population genetics; Statistical methods in evolutionary and medical genetics; genetic variation data
[email] [profile] [lab web site]
Noa Pinter-Wollman
Assistant Professor
The emergence of collective behavior from variation and interactions among system components.
[email] [profile][lab website]
Karen Sears
Professor and Department Chair
Developmental and evolutionary biology of mammals
[email] [profile]
H. Bradley Shaffer
Professor
Evolutionary and conservation biology of amphibians and reptiles
[email] [profile] [lab website]
Thomas Smith
Professor
Evolutionary ecology, speciation, and conservation of vertebrates, especially in the tropics.
[email] [profile]
Victoria Sork
Professor and Dean of Life Sciences
Genetics and genomics of tree populations; molecular ecology of plants; conservation biology
[email] [profile] [lab website]
Blaire Van Valkenburgh
Professor
Paleobiology, ecology, and functional morphology of vertebrates
[email] [profile] [lab website]
Robert Wayne
Professor
Application of molecular genetic techniques to questions in systematics, population genetics, sociobiology and conservation
[email] [profile] [lab website]
Pamela Yeh
Assistant Professor
Adaptation to novel environments; evolution of drug resistance in bacteria; urban ecology and evolution
[email] [profile] [lab website]
Marine Biology
Michael Alfaro
Professor
vertebrate diversification and macroevolution (especially coral reef fishes), functional and evolutionary morphology, comparative methods, phylogenetics
[email] [profile]
Paul Barber
Professor
Evolution of conservation of marine biodiversity, Coral reefs, Evolutionary and population genetics, Natural selection and adaptation.
[email] [profile] [lab website]
Donald Buth
Professor
Ichthyology; parasitology, phylogenetic systematics, population structure of lower vertebrates
[email] [profile]
Peggy Fong
Professor
Marine ecology of coastal ecosystems.
[email] [profile] [lab website]
Malcolm Gordon
Professor
Comparative ecological physiology of lower vertebrates, with emphasis on fish locomotion
[email] [profile]
David Jacobs
Professor
Evolution/Development of Invertebrate Body Plans, Paleobiology and Marine Speciation
[email] [profile] [lab website]
James Lloyd-Smith
Associate Professor
Ecological and evolutionary dynamics of infectious diseases; emerging pathogens and zoonoses; host population heterogeneities; integration of dynamics across scales.
[email] [profile] [lab website]
Paleobiology
David Jacobs
Professor
Evolution/Development of Invertebrate Body Plans, Paleobiology and Marine Speciation
[email] [profile] [lab website]
Karen Sears
Professor and Department Chair
Developmental and evolutionary biology of mammals
[email] [profile]
Glen MacDonald
Distinguished Professor
I am interested in the relationship between climatic variations and vegetation response at different spatial and temporal scales.
[email] [profile]
Blaire Van Valkenburgh
Professor
Paleobiology, ecology, and functional morphology of vertebrates
[email] [profile] [lab website]
Robert Wayne
Professor
Application of molecular genetic techniques to questions in systematics, population genetics, sociobiology and conservation
[email] [profile] [lab website]
Plant Biology
Peggy Fong
Professor
Marine ecology of coastal ecosystems.
[email] [profile] [lab website]
Nathan Kraft
Associate Professor
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.
[email] [profile] [lab website]
Philip Rundel
Distinguished Professor
Adaptations of plants to environmental stress, focusing on mediterranean, desert, and tropical ecosystems; applications of environmental sensor arrays for ecological research
[email] [profile]
Lawren Sack
Associate Professor
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.
[email] [profile] [lab website]
Victoria Sork
Professor and Dean of Life Sciences
Genetics and genomics of tree populations; molecular ecology of plants; conservation biology
[email] [profile] [lab website]
Physiological Ecology
Malcolm Gordon
Professor
Comparative ecological physiology of lower vertebrates, with emphasis on fish locomotion
[email] [profile]
Nathan Kraft
Associate Professor
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.
[email] [profile] [lab website]
Philip Rundel
Distinguished Professor
Adaptations of plants to environmental stress, focusing on mediterranean, desert, and tropical ecosystems; applications of environmental sensor arrays for ecological research [email] [profile]
Lawren Sack
Associate Professor
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.
[email] [profile] [lab website]
Theory
Michael Alfaro
Professor
vertebrate diversification and macroevolution (especially coral reef fishes), functional and evolutionary morphology, comparative methods, phylogenetics
[email] [profile]
Priyanga Amarasekare
Professor
Mechanisms of diversity maintenance in variable environments
[email] [profile] [lab website]
James Lloyd-Smith
Associate Professor
Ecological and evolutionary dynamics of infectious diseases; emerging pathogens and zoonoses; host population heterogeneities; integration of dynamics across scales.
[email] [profile] [lab website]
Kirk E. Lohmueller
Assistant Professor
Population genetics; Statistical methods in evolutionary and medical genetics; genetic variation data
[email] [profile] [lab web site]
Peter Nonacs
Professor and Department Chair
Behavioral ecology and social evolution, using both theoretical and experimental approaches.
[email] [profile] [lab website]
Noa Pinter-Wollman
Assistant Professor
The emergence of collective behavior from variation and interactions among system components.
[email] [profile][lab website]
Van Savage
Professor
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
[email] [profile] [lab website]
Tropical Biology
Paul Barber
Professor
Evolution of conservation of marine biodiversity, Coral reefs, Evolutionary and population genetics, Natural selection and adaptation.
[email] [profile] [lab website]
Nathan Kraft
Associate Professor
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.
[email] [profile] [lab website]
Philip Rundel
Distinguished Professor
Adaptations of plants to environmental stress, focusing on mediterranean, desert, and tropical ecosystems; applications of environmental sensor arrays for ecological research
[email] [profile]
Lawren Sack
Associate Professor
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.
[email] [profile] [lab website]
Thomas Smith
Professor
Evolutionary ecology, speciation, and conservation of vertebrates, especially in the tropics.
[email] [profile]
Victoria Sork
Professor and Dean of Life Sciences
Genetics and genomics of tree populations; molecular ecology of plants; conservation biology
[email] [profile] [lab website]
Lecturers and Adjunct Faculty
Christy Brigham
Adjunct
Jon Keeley
Adjunct
Research ecologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, Western Ecological Research Center
Ecology of fire-prone ecosystems and alien plants that invade these systems.
[jkeeley@ucla.edu] [profile]
Brenda Larison
Adjunct
Jonathan Marcot
Adjunct
Barbara Natterson-Horowitz
Adjunct
Seth Riley
Associate Adjunct
Ecology and conservation of wildlife in fragmented urban landscapes.
[seth_riley@nps.gov] [profile]
Debra Shier
Adjunct
Behavioral Ecology and Conservation Biology
[dmshier@g.ucla.edu] [profile]
Xiaoming Wang
Adjunct
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.
[xwang@nhm.org] [profile]
Professors Emeriti
Clifford Brunk
Professor Emeritus
Molecular biological approaches to the study of evolution.
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Martin Cody
Professor Emeritus
Community structure, determinants of diversity, density and distribution, interspecific interactions and adaptive morpho
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Franz Engelmann
Professor Emeritus
Insect physiology, insect and invertebrate endocrinology.
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Elma Gonzalez
Professor EmeritaCell and molecular biology of calcification in coccolithophorid algae.
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William Hamner
Professor Emeritus
Behavior of oceanic animals, emphasizing in situ observations at sea.
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Henry Hespenheide
Professor Emeritus
The evolutionary ecology and biodiversity of Neotropical wet forest insects.
[email] [profile]
J. Lee Kavanau
Professor Emeritus
Origin, evolution, and functions of sleep; memory maintenance and mental disorders, early avian evolution
[email] [profile] [lab website]
Ken Nagy
Professor Emeritus
Ecological physiology of terrestrial vertebrates, especially desert reptiles.
[email] [profile]
Park Nobel
Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Plant physiological ecology, especially agaves and cacti
[email] [profile] [lab website]
Charles Taylor
Professor
avian bioacoustics; adaptive sensor arrays; artificial life
[email] [profile] [lab webpage] [project webpage]
[complete list of emeriti faculty]
Postdocs and Research Faculty
Jaime Diamond Ashander
Postdoc
[email]
Benny Borremans
Postdoc
[email]
Alexander Byers Brummer
Postdoc
[email]
Dylan Burge
Postdoc
[email]
Jeana Drake
Postdoc
[email]
Jonathan Drury
Postdoc
[email]
Mark Andrew Elvin
[email]
Emily Elizabeth Curd Guswa
Postdoc
Conducting Sampling, Dna Extraction, Sequencing And Analysis Of Environmental Dna Samples From Sediment And Soil In California
[email]
Christian Huber
Postdoc
Inference Of The Parameters Of The Distribution Of Fitness Effects Across Multiple Species And The Inference Of Dominance
[email]
Edmund Robert Hunt
Postdoc
[email]
Andrew Ring Kleinhesselink
Postdoc
[email]
Jennifer Ann Maier
Postdoc
[email]
Jeffrey P Maloy
Postdoc
Evan M Mccartney-melstad
Postdoc
[email]
Robert M Mcelderry
Postdoc
The Effect Of Temperature Variation On The Life History Traits, Fitness, And Population Dynamics Of Ectotherms
Julie Serena Miller
Postdoc
[email]
Alice Hermance B Mouton
Gene Expression Patterns In Dogs And Gray Wolves With An Emphasis On Expression Of Olfactory Genes
[email]
Bjorn Ostman
Postdoc
[email]
Katherine Prager
Researcher
Understanding The Dynamics Of Leptospirosis Interrogans Serovar Pomona In California Sea Lions
[email]
Breanna Putman
Postdoc
[email]
Erin C Riordan
Investigating Population Structure And Adaptation Using Human Population Genetic Data
Alex Dale Rygg
Postdoc
Computational Modeling Of Airflow And Olfaction In Models Of The Canine Nasal Cavity Reconstructed From Medial Image Data
[email]
Thiago Schiavo Mosqueiro
Postdoc
[email]
Peter Scott
Postdoc
[email]
Katherine Scranton
Postdoc
The Effect Of Temperature Variation And Community Dynamics
[email]
Yevgenya Shevtsov
Postdoc
Develop New Teaching Materials And Assessments Tools
[email]
Elif Tekin
Postdoc
[email]
Santiago Trueba-sanchez
Postdoc
[email]
Daniel Joseph Wieczynski
Postdoc
[email]
Biense Wielstra
Postdoc
Population Genetics Of European Newt Hybrid Zones As They Move Through Space And Time
[email]
Demian Alexander Willette
Research In The Areas Of Phylogeography And Genetic Connectivity Of Marine Species
[email]
Ying Zhen
Analysis Of Genomic Data In Non-model Systems In Africa
[email]