Faculty Members in Evolution
| Name | Research abstract |
|---|---|
| Keith Adams |
Molecular and genomic evolution, genome duplication (polyploidy), duplicate gene 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 |
The Tseng lab investigates ecological and evolutionary responses of populations and communities to novel environments. We test and refine theory related to predator-prey dynamics, body size variation, intra- and interspecific competition, and the maintenance of genetic variation, using laboratory and field experiments with freshwater plant and animal communities. We also use museum collections to investigate long term patterns in organism phenotype. |
| Jeannette Whitton |
Plant molecular systematic and evolution; the evolution of asexual polyploid complexes in higher plants. |