Faculty Support: Amy Stepsis
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. My...
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: Tracy Barbaro
Our research examines how animals interact with the environment and each other to affect ecosystem processes at landscape scales. We draw on the fields of community and ecosystem ecology, animal behavior, and remote sensing...
Faculty Support: Meri Petollari
Ecological dynamics of terrestrial plant communities and ecosystems; biosphere-atmosphere interactions; mechanistic models of animal movement.
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: 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: 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: Bridget Power
Our research on plant diversity integrates the disciplines of systematics, paleobiology, evolution, ecology, and molecular biology. One major theme that unites these disciplines is phylogenetic theory, which we apply to...
