Faculty Support: Meri Petollari
The Albertin lab investigates the evolutionary and developmental bases of biological novelty using soft-bodied cephalopods (squid and octopus) as model systems. To enable this work, Carrie and her group have built new tools...
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: Melinda Peterson
The main goal of my research is to better understand the substantial extinct biodiversity of invertebrate metazoans that first appeared and rapidly diversified during the Paleozoic Era, the period of time comprising...
Faculty Support: Patricia Fuentes-Cross
All animals begin life as totipotent zygotes, single cells that have the capacity to produce all the tissues of the adult animal. This totipotency becomes restricted over time, with embryonic cells becoming...
Faculty Support: Erin Ciccone
My lab is very broadly interested in the evolution of floral morphology. We use molecular, morphological, and phylogenetic approaches to study how flowers have changed over the course of evolutionary time. Research projects in...
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: 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: 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: Bridget Power
Prof. Hanken utilizes laboratory-based analyses and field surveys to examine morphological evolution, developmental biology and systematics. Active areas of research include the developmental basis of morphological novelty...
Faculty Support: Tracy Barbaro
Our research focuses on understanding how variation is generated and maintained in natural populations. In particular, we are interested in understanding both the proximate (i.e., molecular, genetic and developmental...
