Faculty Support: Christian Flynn
The Holford lab studies venoms and venomous animals as agents of molecular change and medicinal innovations. Specifically, I am interested in how venoms direct the evolution of organisms and how they can improve human lives...
Faculty Support: Patricia Cross-Fuentes
Our work focuses on the physiological and evolutionary dimensions of plant ecology that influence community assembly and ecosystem function. We are particularly interested in the genetic and evolutionary basis of...
Faculty Support: Erin Ciccone
Terrestrial ecosystems have a massive capacity to capture carbon and mitigate anthropogenic global change. However, the build-up of plant and soil carbon pools depends heavily on the ability of plants and their below-ground...
Faculty Support: Andrea Henderson
Research Interests
Biological - Our interests in biology are recent, and as a consequence somewhat desultory. A basic question is to understand "how things work" which leads naturally to physiology. We believe that a...
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...
The basic question I ask — why does the human body look and function the way it does— requires an evolutionary perspective because nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution. An evolutionary approach to human anatomy and physiology...
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: Jennifer Thomson
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...
Faculty Support: Jennifer Thomson
Individual animals with identical genomes, reared identically, nevertheless exhibit behavioral differences. This underpins our sense of individuality. Where these inter-individual differences arise in the causal cascade...
Faculty Support: Andra Hollis
Our research focuses on the comparative biomechanics of mammalian and avian locomotion. We study the neuromuscular control of movement during walking and running, as well as during flight. Our studies are motivated by...
