Faculty Members in Evolution

Name	Research abstract
Keith Adams	Genome evolution, polyploidy, duplicate gene fates and evolution, evolution of gene regulation, alternative splicing, non-coding RNAs
Amy Angert	Plant evolutionary ecology; geographic range limits and rarity; population dynamics and community structure.
Mary Berbee	Molecular phylogenetic studies of fungi and evolution of fungal life history stategies.
Jonathan Davies	Ecology and evolutionary biology; the distribution of biodiversity and the challenges posed to its conservation through recent changes to the environment.
Naomi Fast	Genome evolution, spliceosomal intron evolution, parasitic adaptation - focusing on microsporidia, a highly derived group of parasitic fungi.
Sean Graham	Systematics and evolution of vascular plants, focusing on using DNA sequence data to infer relationships at deep and recent levels of seed plant, angiosperm and monocot phylogenetic history.
Patrick Keeling	Early eukaryote evolution, molecular phylogeny, protistology.
Brian Leander	Marine invertebrate zoology, protozoology, evolutionary morphology & phylogenetics.
Jae-Hyeok Lee	Life cycle transitions of sexual eukaryote; Molecular mechanisms of nutrient sensing in phototrophic eukaryotes; Ubiquitin-dependent mechansism for chloroplast quality control; Evolution of developmental/epigenetic mechanisms; Macroevolutionary transitions from prokaryotes to eukaryotes and from green algae to land plants; Mitigating climate change by engineering algae for efficient carbon capture and biofuel production.
Loren Rieseberg	Speciation, domestication, conservation biology, and weed evolution.
Michelle Tseng	We investigate processes that underlie population and community responses to changing environments. Our current focus is on understanding and predicting community-wide responses to warming. We develop and test broad conceptual frameworks using laboratory and field experiments with insects and plankton communities.
Jeannette Whitton	Plant molecular systematic and evolution; the evolution of asexual polyploid complexes in higher plants.