Faculty Members in Evolution
| Name | Research abstract |
|---|---|
| Keith Adams |
Genome evolution, polyploidy, duplicate gene fates and evolution, evolution of gene regulation |
| 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.
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| Patrick Keeling |
Early eukaryote evolution, molecular phylogeny, protistology. |
| Brian Leander |
Marine invertebrate zoology, protozoology, evolutionary morphology & phylogenetics. |
| Jae-Hyeok Lee |
Molecular genetics of sexual development in green algae, focusing on gene regulatory networks and cell wall assembly; Phylogenomics study of developmental mechanisms for the evolution of land plants from their green algal ancestors; Genetic engineering of 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. |