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Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology

Peter Brussard - Population and Conservation Biology

Jack Hayes - Physiological ecology; evolution of physiological traits

Guy Hoelzer - Organismal and molecular evolution, social behavior, molecular genetics and phylogenetic methods

Steve Jenkins - Behavioral ecology and population ecology particularly of mammals, plant-animal interactions and coevolution

Dennis Murphy - under construction

Mary Peacock - Population viability and Conservation Genetics

Vladimir Pravosudov - Animal behavior, behavioral ecology, cognitive ecology, neuroethology, behavioral endocrinology.

Richard Rust - Entomology, insect ecology, pollination biology, systematics of bees

Richard Tracy - Autecology, Desert Biology, Paleoecology, and Conservation Biology

Steve Vander Wall - Evolutionary ecology, community ecology, animal behavior, plant-animal interactions involving seed dispersal by seed-caching birds and mammals

David Zeh - Conservation genetics, intragenomic conflict, molecular evolution, sexual selection, speciation and tropical biology

Jeanne Zeh - Behavioral ecology, evolution of polyandry, intragenomic conflict, sexual selection, speciation and tropical biology

Associate and Adjunct Faculty

Michael Morrison - Adjunct Professor, Wildlife Biology

Alison Murray - Adjunct Professor, Molecular Microbial Ecologist

Don Sada - Adjunct Professor, Hydrologic Science
 

Cell and Molecular Biology

Ellen Baker - Cell and molecular biology, gene expression, regulation of messenger RNA stability and translation

Patricia Berninsone - Cell biology and genetics of protein glycosylation

Scott Clark - Genetics of axon guidance and neuronal polarity; regulation of Wnt signaling

Eileen Hickey - Emeritus Developmental Biology; post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression during cell proliferation and differentiation

Thomas Kidd - Developmental Neurobiology

Grant Mastick - Developmental Neurobiology

Ardythe McCracken - Professor Emeritus, Cellular molecular biology and genetics of protein secretion and intracellular protein trafficking in eukaryotic cells

Robert Mead - Developmental Biology particularly Patterning and Pattern Formation

Chi-Yun Pai - Chromatin organization, cell nuclear structure, regulation of eukaryotic gene expression

Baldev Vig - Professor Emeritus, Cytogenetics; human and medical genetics; mechanisms of chromosome migration, centrome and kinetochore structure and function

Lee Weber - Professor Emeritus Molecular Biology; structure and expression of human stress protein genes, function of the heat shock proteins in stress resistance

General Biology

Jeff Baguley - Assistant Professor

Charlotte Borgeson - Assistant Research Professor

Alan Gubanich - Professor Emeritus, Community ecology and behvioral ecology of birds

Jennifer Hollander - Assistant Professor

Elena Pravosudova - Assistant Professor; under construction

Carol Ort - Associate Professor; under construction



 

 

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