Sonia Altizer, Associate Professor

Ecology and evolution of animal-parasite interactions; host behavior in the transmission of infectious diseases; significance of infectious diseases for wildlife conservation and the ecology and behavior of monarch butterflies. View site ›

Michael Arnold, Professor

Evolutionary significance of genetic exchange; effects of hybridization in natural populations of plants and animals. View site ›

Brian Binder, Associate Professor

Ecology and physiology of marine pico-phytoplankton; regulation of growth in cyanobacteria; application of flow cytometry to problems in marine microbial ecology. View site ›

James (Jeb) Byers, Associate Professor

John M. Burke, Associate Professor

Evolutionary genetics; molecular evolution; genomics. View site ›

James (Jeb) Byers, Associate Professor

Ecology and evolution of biological invasions; influences of parasites on marine systems; effects of ecosystem engineers; retention and spread of populations in advective environments. View site ›

Shu-Mei Chang, Associate Professor

Evolutionary Ecology of flowering plants; Plant mating system evolution. View site ›

Jeffrey Dean, Professor

Investigations of tree growth, develop and environmental responses using biochemical, molecular genetic and genomic approaches.
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Lisa Donovan, Professor

Plant evolutionary ecophysiology, adaptations to stress. View site ›

John Drake, Assistant Professor

Population biology of zooplankton in temporary ponds.  Species richness, mechanisms for coexistence, and balance between colonization and extinction in metacommunities. View site ›

Kelly Dyer, Assistant Professor

Molecular evolution and evolutionary genetics, in particular genetic conflict, sex chromosome evolution, genetics of adaptation and speciation, and host-parasite interactions. View site

Mark Farmer, Professor

Protist systematics, cell evolution, and flagellar development. View site ›

Byron Freeman, Senior Public Service Associate

Ecology, distribution and abundance of endemic southeastern freshwater fishes; systematics and and taxonomy of freshwater fishes.View site ›

Kamal J.K. Gandhi, Assistant Professor

Insect-plant interactions; forest entomology; insect community ecology; invasion dynamics of exotic insects; effects of landscape-level disturbances on forest insects. View site ›

Dave Hall, Assistant Professor

Experimental evolution in budding yeast. Mathematical models of evolution. View site ›

John L. Gittleman, Dean and Professor of Ecology

Interests are in large-scale questions that relate to the origins, patterns and mechanisms of differences between species. View site ›

Dave Hall, Assistant Professor

Experimental evolution in budding yeast. Mathematical models of evolution. View site ›

Jim Hamrick, Professor

Genetics and Evolution of Natural Plant Populations. View site ›

Sonia M. Hernandez, Assistant Professor

Wildlife diseases; wildlife health; effects of disease on wildlife conservation; conservation medicine; anthropogenic effects on wildlife disease dynamics. View site ›

Samantha Joye, Professor

Biogeochemical cycling of nutrients in aquatic systems (saline lakes, coastal environments, deep ocean sediments). Biogeochemical and molecular ecological dynamics of microbial community composition and microbial activity. View site ›

Jim Leebens-Mack, Assistant Professor

Phylogentics, genetics of diversification including speciation; molecular basis of adaptation; evolutionary genomics; evolution of plant reproduction; organismal and molecular coevolution. View site ›

Russell L. Malmberg, Professor

Bioinformatics of non-coding RNAs and gene family evolution;

Evolutionary genetics of Sarracenia (Pitcher plant) species. View site ›

Rodney Mauricio, Associate Professor

Ecological genetics of plants; invasive plants; genetics of adaptation. View site ›

Douglas Menke, Assistant Professor

Developmental regulation of gene expression; evolution of vertebrate morphology.

Andrew Park, Assistant Professor

Transient evolution of pathogens. Evolutionary processes involved in cross-species transmission. Evolutionary constraints in viral epidemiology. View site ›

Daniel Promislow, Professor

Host-parasite interactions in Drosophila, evolution of aging, biological networks, evolutionary theory. View site ›

Richard P. Shefferson, Assistant Professor 

Life histories and ecology of long-lived plants and fungi. Evolutionary ecology of major symbioses, particularly mycorrhizae. View site ›

Kathrin Stanger-Hall, Assistant Professor

Signal evolution in fireflies (Lampyridae); research in undergraduate education in the sciences. View site ›

S. Mark Tompkins, Assistant Professor

Transmission and pathogenicity of zoonotic influenza virus infection and development of vaccination and the prevention and treatment of viral infections.  View site ›

Dorset W. Trapnell, Assistant Dean

Evolutionary ecology of natural plant populations.   View site ›

John Wares, Assistant Professor

Ecological genetics of natural populations. View site ›

Patricia L. Yager, Associate Professor

Marine microbial ecology and biogeochemistry; climate change. View site ›

Shaying Zhao, Assistant Professor

Cancer genomics; human junk DNA; henomic instability. View site ›