Ecology and Evolution Research Sponsors

FALL 2012 SEMESTER
Faculty Sponsor   Course   Sect.   Fall '12 Crs #   Research Interests
Akcakaya, Haluk   BIO 489   T08   80125   Focus is on developing and applying quantitative methods to address questions in conservation biology and environmental risk assessment. 
Baines, Stephen   BIO 489   T09   83325   Connections between ecosystem function and community structure, and how connections are influenced by environmental context and historical contingency 
Bell, Michael   BIO 489   T07   76831   We study the causes of temporal and spatial variation using the threespine stickleback fish, Gasterosteus aculeatus, as a model. 
Davalos-Alvarez, Liliana   BIO 489   T13   83327   Effects of environmental change on evolution and conservation
Dykhuizen, Daniel   BIO 489   T18   80126   Primary interest in experimental evolution is to understand the causes of natural selection. Recent work on population genetics of infectious disease bacteria
Eanes, Walter   BIO 489   T16   76833   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.  
Futuyma, Douglas (email)   BIO 489   T06   82487   Research interests in evolution focus primarily on speciation and evolution of ecological interactions among species
Ginzburg, Lev   BIO 489   T21   80128   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
Graham, Catherine   BIO 489   T03   80736   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
Gurevitch, Jessica   BIO 489   T02    76830   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. 
Levinton, Jeffrey   BIO 489   T10    76832   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
Lynch, Heather   BIO 489   T31   80134   Ecology and conservation with a focus on long-term monitoring, quantitative modeling, and statistical analysis of avian communities. 
Padilla, Dianna   BIO 489   T25    76836   Phenotypic plasticity; plant herbivore functional ecology; patterns of spread and impacts of invading species in aquatic ecosystems
Rest, Joshua   BIO 489   T12    83326   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
Rohlf, F. James   BIO 489   T11    80138   Applications of mathematical methods and (especially multivariate) statistics to problems in biology with emphasis on morphometrics and the theory of systematics
True, John   BIO 489   T23   80129   Interests range from speciation to sexual selection to developmental genetics of phenotypic evolution
Wiens, John   BIO 489   T04    80737   Phylogenetic perspective applied to questions in evolution and ecology, using reptiles and amphibians as model systems. We also study theory and methods of systematics

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