Evolution

Genome evolution, polyploidy, duplicate gene fates and evolution, evolution of gene regulation, transcriptomics, alternative splicing, non-coding RNAs

Molecular phylogenetic studies of fungi and evolution of fungal life history stategies.

Ecology and evolutionary biology; the distribution of biodiversity and the challenges posed to its conservation through recent changes to the environment.

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.

Early eukaryote evolution, molecular phylogeny, protistology.

Marine invertebrate zoology, protozoology, evolutionary morphology & phylogenetics.

Adaptation, Domestication, Crop Evolution, Hybridization, Speciation, Weed Evolution

Aquatic and Insect Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

• ​​We investigate the effect of changing environments on insect and aquatic communities
• We use field and laboratory experiments, syntheses of published literature, and natural history collections to investigate ecological and evolutionary responses to climate and habitat change
• Our work is grounded in ecological and evolutionary theory and we tackle both basic and applied questions