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: 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: Tracy Barbaro
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...
Wendy manages all content of the department print and web publications, social networking applications, and other online communications. She designs and produces newsletters, press releases, news stories, promotional brochures, event materials, and...
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...
