Museum of Comparative Zoology

Faculty Support: Maggie Starvish

Research in our lab addresses the behavioral ecology of insects. We combine molecular systematics, field ecology, laboratory experiments and specimen-based museum surveys to analyze the ecology and evolution of symbiotic...

Faculty Support: Meri Petollari

Ecological dynamics of terrestrial plant communities and ecosystems; biosphere-atmosphere interactions; mechanistic models of animal movement.

Faculty Support: Tracy Barbaro

My scholarly interests are focused on assessing the link between form and function of the vertebrate musculoskeletal system – especially with respect to muscle-skeletal interactions during feeding and locomotor behaviours in...

Faculty Support: Kathleen McCloskey

Andy Knoll is broadly interested in the evolution of life, the evolution of Earth surface environments, and the relationships between the two. He is particularly interested in Archean and Proterozoic paleontology and...

Faculty Support: Maggie Starvish

Biorobotics and structure, function, and evolution of vertebrates, particularly fishes. Current studies include (1) research on a variety of fish robotic models, and (2) investigation of the biomechanics of aquatic...

Faculty Support: Amie Jones

My lab and I work on the evolution of interactions between different kinds of tiny consumers, especially beetles and other arthropods, and their much larger hosts, such as plants or large animals. We use phylogenetics to...

Faculty Support: Bridget Power

My primary research focuses on the evolution and biogeography of invertebrate animals and in the use of museum specimens for genomic research. In the lab we use genomic and morphological data from living and extinct animals...