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Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology

Jeff Baguley - Marine community ecology, deep-sea biodiversity, biotic-abiotic interactions

Lee Dyer - Biodiversity and Chemical Ecology

Matt Forister - Specialization, speciation, insect ecology and phylogeography

Jack Hayes - Physiological ecology; evolution of physiological traits

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

Jennifer Hollander -Community ecology, plant-animal interactions

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

Dennis Murphy - Ecology Evolution and Conservation Biology

Mary Peacock - Population viability and Conservation Genetics

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

Elena Pravosudova - Behavioral ecology, avian biology

Joshua Stevenson - Plant structure and function

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

Alan DeQueiroz - Adjunct Research Professor, Population Biology

William Longland - Adjunct Professor, Wildlife Biology

Don Sada - Adjunct Professor, Hydrologic Science

Linda Zimmerman - Adjunct Assistant Professor, Conservation Biology
 

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

Charlotte Borgeson -

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

Thomas Kidd - Developmental Neurobiology

Grant Mastick - Developmental Neurobiology

Robert Mead - Developmental Biology particularly Patterning and Pattern Formation

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

Alexander van der Linden - Neuroethology and Genetics of C. elegans feeding behavior

Emeritus Faculty

Peter Brussard Professor Emeritus - Population and Conservation Biology

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

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

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

Carol Ort - Vice Provost and Professor Emerita - Cellular Neurobiology; University Administration; Student Advisement

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

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