Faculty Support: Melinda Peterson
Natural selection and other evolutionary forces leave characteristic signatures in the genetic variation within populations. My group uses a combination of theoretical and experimental approaches to study how this genetic...
Faculty Support: Melinda Peterson
We study the evolutionary biology of birds and relatives, combining field, museum and genomics approaches to understand the basis of avian diversity, evolution and behavior. Our guiding approaches include population...
Faculty Support: Amarilis Castro
Germ cells play a unique role in gamete production, heredity and evolution. Germ cells are likely also the closest wild type in vivo equivalent to laboratory-maintained stem cells. To understand the mechanisms that specify...
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: Amarilis Castro
My research focuses on the organismic interfaces between developmental, phylogenetic and evolutionary biology. Armed with hypotheses of relationships among clades, I seek to explore how patterns of morphology, anatomy and...
Faculty Support: Jennifer Thomson
We study how marine organisms “make a living” in the ocean, especially in the deep sea and extreme environments. For example, we study the novel biochemical capabilities of marine microbes that live within animals...
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...
Faculty Support: Erin Ciccone
Because I am theorist, my research is wide and varied. I work on everything from maternal-fetal conflict in human pregnancy to the evolution of plant life cycles. I have a particular interest in genetic conflicts within...
Faculty Support: Bridget Power
My laboratory focuses on the interface between evolutionary biology and genomics. The main goal is to understand the processes by which organisms evolve, integrated systems change through time, and new species come into being...
Faculty Support: Amarilis Castro
Professor Michele Holbrook studies the physics and physiology of vascular transport in plants with the goal of understanding how constraints on the movement of water and solutes between soil and leaves influences ecological...
