Study organisms:
 birds
insects
mammals
microbes (viruses, bacteria, protozoans)
plants
Birds
Dr. Alexander Badyaev
Evolutionary biology; behavioral ecology; developmental plasticity in evolution of morphology and behavior; evolution of life histories; sexual selection; functional and physiological ecology.
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Dr. John Pepper
Evolutionary dynamics, particularly multilevel selection, the evolution of cooperation, evolvability, and transitions in individuality. Social behavior, conflict and communication.
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Insects Dr. Judith L. Bronstein
Evolution and ecology of mutualisms; plantinsect interactions, especially obligate relationships.
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Dr. Goggy Davidowitz
Ecological development, regulation of phenotpic plasticity, life history evolution, plant-insect interactions, physiological ecology, insect endocrinology, ecological distribution of environmental variability
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Dr. Anna Dornhaus
Behavioral ecology, biology of animal group living (sociobiology), ecology and evolution of collective organisation, complex systems, theoretical biology, self-organization in biology.
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Dr. Carlos Machado
Evolutionary genetics and genomics; plant-insect coevolution.
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Dr. Therese Markow
Evolutionary biology, population genetics, Drosophila, reproductive isolation, ecology, population biology, biological stoichiometry.
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Dr. Nancy A. Moran
Evolutionary biology; molecular evolution; endosymbiosis; insects and bacteria.
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Dr. Daniel Papaj
Behavioral ecology; function and evolution of learning; plantinsect interactions.
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Mammals Dr. Alexander Badyaev
Evolutionary biology; behavioral ecology; developmental plasticity in evolution of morphology and behavior; evolution of life histories; sexual selection; functional and physiological ecology.
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Dr. Michael W. Nachman
Population and evolutionary genetics; chromosomal evolution; speciation; mammalian evolution.
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Dr. John Pepper
Evolutionary dynamics, particularly multilevel selection, the evolution of cooperation, evolvability, and transitions in individuality. Social behavior, conflict and communication.
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Dr. Michael Rosenzweig
Evolutionary ecology; patterns of species diversity; theory and mechanisms of habitat selection and population dynamics; structure of mammalian communities.
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Microbes Dr. C. William Birky, Jr.
Mechanics of molecular evolution; transmission genetics; asexual organisms and organelle genes.
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Dr. Jeremaiah Hackett
Endosymbiosis and evolution of photosynthesis, ecology and physiology of harmful algae, genomics and genome evolution.
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Dr. Joanna Masel
Evolution of evolvability, evolutionary
capacitors, yeast prion PSI, theoretical population genetics, comparative
genomics, evolution of canalization, bioinformatics, systems biology,
evolution of transcriptional networks.
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Dr. Richard E. Michod
Theoretical population biology; evolution of cooperation, evolution of sex, evolutionary transitions in complexity, evolution and development of multicellularity and sex in Volvocalean green algae, philosophy of biology.
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Dr. Nancy A. Moran
Evolutionary biology; molecular evolution; endosymbiosis; insects and bacteria.
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Dr. Howard Ochman
Evolution and adaptation of microbial genomes. Microbial interactions with hosts, Evolution of genome contents and organization, Experimental evolution, Metagenomic analysis of microbial communities.
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Dr. Matthew Sullivan
Co-evolution of microbe and virus (phage) in ‘wild’ populations; viral impacts on global biogeochemistry; population genomics; prokaryote and viral genome evolution; single-cell genomics/transcriptomics and physiology; model-system based experimental hypothesis testing.
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Dr. Michael Worobey
Molecular evolution of viruses and bacteria.
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Plants
Dr. Judith L. Bronstein
Evolution and ecology of mutualisms; plantinsect interactions, especially obligate relationships.
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Dr. Peter Chesson
Theory of maintenance of species diversity, community dynamics in variable environments, effects of scale on dynamics and ecosystem functioning, competition and host-parasitoid interactions, life-history evolution, terrestrial plant ecology, marine community ecology, ecology of invasions.
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Dr. Brian J. Enquist
Plant functional and physiological ecology; macroecology and biogeography; allometry and biological scaling; the evolution of form and function in biology.
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Dr. Travis Huxman
Plant physiological ecology, plant evolution and global change.
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Dr. Carlos Machado
Evolutionary genetics and genomics; plant-insect coevolution.
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Dr. Daniel Papaj
Behavioral ecology; function and evolution of learning; plantinsect interactions.
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Dr. Robert Robichaux
Plant conservation biology; plant evolutionary biology.
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Dr. Scott Saleska
Biogeochemical ecology: how climate interacts with plant physiology, demography, and ecological processes to influence or control biogeochemical cycling from local to global scales.
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Dr. Michael Sanderson
Phylogenetic biology; bioinformatics and computational biology; plant systematics and evolution
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Dr. D. Lawrence Venable
Plant population biology of plant life histories, reproductive ecology, dispersal, dormancy, species coexistence, and population dynamics.
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