Faculty Research Interests
| Jeanne Altmann Professor Emeritus |
Life history approaches to behavioral ecology; non-experimental research design; behavioral aspects of conservation; relationships among behavior, physiology, social structure and genetic structure in primates and small mammals. |
| Stuart A. Altmann Lecturer with Rank of Professor |
Behavioral ecology: foraging behavior and diet selection, mating systems, social structure, spatial deployment, behavioral adaptations, models of behavioral adaptations and social processes. |
| Peter Andolfatto Assistant Professor |
Population genetics of Drosophila and butterflies; the impact of natural selection on genome diversity and evolution; mapping gene expression divergence to nucleotide divergence in non-coding DNA; how genetic recombination structures genomic variation. |
| John Bonner Professor Emeritus |
The evolution of development, with a special interest in the social amoebae (cellular slime molds). |
| Iain D. Couzin Professor |
Understanding collective behavior; how large-scale biological patterns result from the actions and interactions of individual components of a system; self-organised pattern formation in a wide range of biological systems, including ants, fish schools, bird flocks, locust / cricket swarms and human crowds. |
| Andrew P. Dobson Professor |
Conservation biology and disease control; population dynamics and coevolution of parasites and their hosts; population dynamics and life-history strategies of birds, primates, and elephants. |
| Asif Ghazanfar EEB Associate Faculty Associate Professor Psychology |
How adaptive behavior arises through the interactions within the brain, and between the brain, the body and the environment. |
| James L. Gould Professor UG Dept. Representative |
Animal behavior; communication, navigation, behavioral ecology, sexual selection, and learning. |
| Andrea Graham Assistant Professor |
Research focuses on how parasites interact with the vertebrate immune system to ultimately understand how natural selection has shaped strategies for both host defense and parasite transmission. |
| B. Rosemary Grant Lecturer & Senior Research Biologist Emeritus |
Evolutionary ecology, natural and sexual selection; evolutionary consequences of hybridization, genetic and cultural transmission of traits in the speciation process of Darwin's finches. |
| Peter R. Grant Professor Emeritus |
Ecology, evolution, and behavior; speciation, competition, and the direct study of natural selection in populations. |
| Bryan Grenfell Professor, Acting Director of Graduate Studies |
Population biologist, focusing in particular on the dynamics and control of infectious diseases by combining the development of theory with analyses of empirical data sets from a range of diseases, including measles, rotavirus and influenza. |
| Lars O.Hedin Professor UG Dept. Representative |
Ecosystem analysis, with emphasis on the emergence and maintenance broad-scale patterns in the cycling of nutrients and trace gases. |
| Henry S. Horn Professor |
Adaptive patterns of ecology and social behavior in birds and butterflies; forest succession; dynamics of landscape and of productivity; adaptive patterns of morphology, spatial distribution, and dispersal in trees; local conservation. |
| Leonid Kruglyak Professor |
Population genetics, intraspecific genetic variation, genetic basis of complex phenotypic variation, regulatory variation and genetics of gene expression in model systems, signatures of natural selection. |
| Laura F. Landweber Professor |
Molecular evolution, genome evolution, the origin of genetic systems; noncoding RNAs and RNA-mediated epigenetic inheritance |
| Simon A. Levin Professor |
Dynamics of populations and communities; spatial heterogeneity and problems of scale; evolutionary ecology; theoretical and mathematical ecology; biodiversity and ecosystem processes. |
| Alan Mann EEB Associate Faculty Professor of Anthropology |
Paleoanthropology; human evolution |
| Robert M. May Visiting Professor Professor, Oxford University, UK |
Causes, consequences, and magnitude of biological diversity; mathematical models (in collaboration with clinical and laboratory researchers) of the population dynamics of the immune system; transmission of, and defenses against, viral infections and other disturbances in complex networks (including ecological food webs, infectious diseases, and IT systems). |
| Stephen W. Pacala Professor |
Population biology and community ecology of plants; theoretical and mathematical ecology; global interactions among the biosphere, atmosphere, and hydrosphere. |
| Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe EEB Associate Faculty Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering |
Surface hydrology; Hydroclimatology; Fluvial and river basin geomorphology; Dynamics of fractal processes; Ecohydrology; Analysis and modeling of space-time rainfall fields. |
| Daniel I. Rubenstein Professor & Department Chair |
Behavioral ecology: effect of environmental variation and individual differences on social structure and behavioral relationships within a population; fieldwork with horses, zebras, fish, spiders, and insects; conservation biology. |
| William Schlesinger Visiting Professor President, Institute of Ecosystem Studies |
Global change ecology; climate change; desertification. Researches the link between environmental chemistry and global climate change. |
| Bess B. Ward EEB Associate Faculty Professor, Geosciences |
Biological oceanography, marine microbiology. |
| David S. Wilcove Professor |
Behavioral monitoring, endocrinology and metabolic measurements to understand causal connection between life history and the underlying physiology. |
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