Faculty Members in Evolution

Name	Research abstract
Keith Adams	Genome evolution, 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.
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 are fascinated with the natural world around us and how this world will look in the future, in light of ongoing habitat and climate change. We study the evolutionary and ecological processes that help or hinder responses to changing environments. We test ecological and evolutionary theory using laboratory and field experiments with aquatic plankton communities, insects, and parasites.
Jeannette Whitton	Plant molecular systematic and evolution; the evolution of asexual polyploid complexes in higher plants.