BIO 489: Research in Ecology and Evolution - Research Sponsors

FALL 2012 SEMESTER
Faculty Sponsor   Course   Sect.   Dept.   Research Interests
Gergen, John Peter   BIO 489   T01        
Gurevitch, Jessica   BIO 489   T02        Most work involves experimental investigation of fundamental ecological questions of plant populations and communities. Statistical applications in ecology, particularly in design and analysis of ecological experiments. Concerned with addressing questions of basic scientific interest, we have also attempted to connect basic research to issues with applied/ conservation relevance. 
Graham, Catherine   BIO 489   T03       Landscape and behavioral ecology, with emphasis on how human-altered landscapes affect ecological processes; and bioinformatics/ geographic information systems modeling to examine how current and historical environmental factors affect species distribution
Wiens, John   BIO 489   T04        Phylogenetic perspective applied to questions in evolution and ecology, using reptiles and amphibians as model systems. We also study theory and methods of systematics
    BIO 498   T05       TBD
Futuyma, Douglas (email)   BIO 489   T06       Research interests in evolution focus primarily on speciation and evolution of ecological interactions among species
Bell, Michael   BIO 489   T07       We study the causes of temporal and spatial variation using the threespine stickleback fish, Gasterosteus aculeatus, as a model. 
Akcakaya, Haluk   BIO 489   T08       Focus is on developing and applying quantitative methods to address questions in conservation biology and environmental risk assessment. 
Baines, Stephen   BIO 489   T09       Connections between ecosystem function and community structure, and how connections are influenced by environmental context and historical contingency 
Levinton, Jeffrey   BIO 489   T10        Broad interests in trophic ecology, functional morphology, soft-bottom benthic ecology, and evolutionary aspects of marine ecological processes. Also work in macroevolution, with most recent work engaged in timing radiation of animal phyla by means of molecular divergence estimates
Rohlf, F. James   BIO 489   T11        Applications of mathematical methods and (especially multivariate) statistics to problems in biology with emphasis on morphometrics and the theory of systematics
Rest, Joshua   BIO 489   T12        Relationship between variation in regulatory elements, variation in transcripts, and organismal fitness. We use bioinformatic analysis to generate predictions, which are validated experimentally in yeast
Davalos-Alvarez, Liliana   BIO 489   T13       Effects of environmental change on evolution and conservation
Eanes, Walter   BIO 489   T16       Population genetics and molecular evolution of Drosophila as a model. We are attempting to interface life history, populations genetics, pathway influences, and phenotypic effects of individual metabolic enzymes.  
    BIO 489   T17       TBD
Dykhuizen, Daniel   BIO 489   T18       Primary interest in experimental evolution is to understand the causes of natural selection. Recent work on population genetics of infectious disease bacteria
    BIO 489   T19       TBD
    BIO 489   T20       TBD
Ginzburg, Lev   BIO 489   T21       Principles involved in formulating equations for population and ecosystem dynamics. Recently focused on approach for modeling trophic interactions and theory of population cycles based on maternal effects. Second area of interest is applied ecology. Developing methodologies for ecological risk analysis based on stochastic models of population growth
Larson, Susan   BIO 489   T22       Primate and human anatomy, experimental functional morphology and biomechanics, human and primate evolution 
True, John    BIO 489   T23       Interests range from speciation to sexual selection to developmental genetics of phenotypic evolution
Conover, David   BIO 489   T24      

Ecology of fish, fisheries biology 
Padilla, Dianna   BIO 489   T25        Phenotypic plasticity; plant herbivore functional ecology; patterns of spread and impacts of invading species in aquatic ecosystems
Fleagle, John   BIO 489   T26       Primate evolution, behavior and ecology, primate anatomy 
Lopez, Glenn   BIO 489   T27   SoMAS   Marine benthic ecology, animal-sediment interactions 
    BIO 489   T28       TBD
Bingham, Paul   BIO 489   T29       Genetic control of development and gene expression in animals 
    BIO 489   T30       TBD 
Lynch, Heather    BIO 489   T31       Development and application of statistics and mathematics to conservation biology 
Collier, Jackie    BIO 489   T32      

Phytoplankton physiological ecology; Biocomplexity and microbial diversity; Planktonic ecosystem processes in marine, estuarine, and freshwater systems 
Sussman, Randall   BIO 489   T33       Fossil Record of Hominid Evolution, Ecology and Behavior of African Apes, Studies of Ape and Human Locomotion, Comparative Morphology 
Komatsu, David    BIO 489   T34      

Evaluation of the Calcitonin Receptor. Peptide (CRP) for treatment of osteoporosis. Understanding of the role of apoptosis in fracture repair. Testing the efficacy of PRP in accelerating. Tendon healing. Determination of the effects of methylphenidate on skeletal development
Wright, Patricia    BIO 489   T35       Best known for her 26-year study of social and family interactions of wild lemurs in Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar 

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