Evolutionary Developmental Biology Faculty

We seek to understand how changes in developmental programs have shaped the evolution of morphological diversity.  Evolutionary developmental biology (EDB, but often called “Evo-Devo”) integrates traditional research on organismal evolutionary biology (systematics, paleontology, and comparative anatomy) with molecular embryology, genetics and genomics. EDB is a thriving new sub-discipline of biology with its own questions, approaches and methods. The field seeks to forge a unifying integration of genomic, developmental, organismal, population, paleontological and natural selection approaches to evolutionary change.