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: Tracy Barbaro
We study evolution, hybridization, and speciation - mainly in butterflies. Methods range from collecting trips in dugouts, field experiments in the Amazon rainforest, population genetic inferences about selection and gene...
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: 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: Meri Petollari
A major goal of evolutionary biology is to understand the process of speciation. Of particular interest is evaluating the role of natural selection in causing diverging populations to become species. Addressing these goals...
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...
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...
