Evolution, Ecology & Organismal Biology: Faculty Listing

Faculty Listing

Participating faculty by respective track:
               Evolutionary Biology, Ecology, or Physiology

Participating faculty by last name:
               A-C     D-G     H-L     M-R     S-Z

EEOB Faculty Listing

	Allen, Edith Professor of Botany and Plant Sciences	Plant ecology, restoration ecology: Effects of nitrogen deposition on native plant communities, restoration of native vegetation, importance of mycorrhizal fungi in native plant communities. Top
	Allen, Michael Professor of Biology, Professor of Plant Pathology, Director of the Center for Conservation Biology	Regulation of community and ecosystem processes by soil organisms with special emphasis on mycorrhizal fungi. Global change dynamics and structure of undisturbed areas; conservation and restoration of native ecosystems. Top
	Anderson, Kurt Assistant Professor of Biology	Quantitative population, community, and applied ecology with an emphasis on modeling spatial dynamics. Responses of organisms to spatial variation in streams and rivers, modeling spatially explicit consumer-resource interactions in terrestrial and aquatic systems, and data-driven modeling for conservation. Top
	Baldwin, James Professor of Nematology	Nematode evolution and exploration of relationships between morphological and molecular evolution through comparative reconstruction and developmental biology of character rich nematode structures. Top
	Carde, Ring Distinguished Professor of Entomology	Chemical cues insects use to find and identify resources. Mechanisms and evolutionary forces mediating odor-mediated behaviors, including the chemistry and variation in these odors, how wind disperses odor plumes, role of plume structure in orientation, and the inputs modulating the orientation maneuvers used to locate odor sources. Top
	Cardullo, Richard Professor of Biology	Biophysics and physiology of fertilization, focusing on molecular interactions between sperm and egg: characterization of egg-associated proteins with complementary receptors on the sperm surface, dynamics of the sperm plasma membrane during fertilization, initiation and characterization of signal transduction pathways leading to the exocytosis of the acrosomal vesicle from sperm. Top
	Chappell, Mark Professor of Biology	Evolutionary and ecological physiology using a variety of organisms ranging from insects to birds and mammals. Major research topics include adaptation to temperature and high altitude, limits to energy metabolism, and the energy costs of activity in ecologically-relevant contexts. Top
	DeLey, Paul Associate Professor of Nematology	Ecology, phylogeny and taxonomy of nematodes, with particular emphasis on the behavioral, molecular and morphological differences between closely related species. Top
	Droser, Mary Professor of Earth Sciences	Evolutionary paleoecology, ichnology, the Pre-Cambrian-Cambrian Ordovician radiations, Phanerozoic trends in ecospace utilization, Cambrian and Ordovician of the Great Basin. Top
	Ellstrand, Norm Professor of Botany & Plant Sciences	The significance of gene flow as an evolutionary force. Applied plant population genetics: (a) gene flow and hybridization as factors in the evolution of increased invasiveness, (b) consequences of unintentional gene flow from domesticated plants to their relatives, and (c) positive and negative impacts of genetically engineered crops, especially with regard to unintentional transgene flow. Top
	Fairbairn, Daphne Professor of Biology	Evolutionary biology, with emphasis on quantitative genetics, migration, natural selection, mating behavior, and sexual selection and sexual dimorphism in size and morphology. Top
	Garland, Theodore, Jr. Professor of Biology	Evolutionary biology and physiology, with emphasis on the evolution of complex phenotypes; experimental evolution of running behavior and performance in mice; development and application of phylogenetic comparative methods to a variety of evolutionary questions; developoment of free software; lizard and snake locomotor physiology and behavioral ecology. Top
	Gatesy, John Associate Professor of Biology	Biodiversity and the evolutionary processes that produce it; phylogenetic reconstruction, the inferences that can be made using modern systematic techniques, and development of new methods for the analysis of comparative data. Top
	Hammond, Kim Professor of Biology, EEOB Program Director and Director of the Natural Reserve System for UCR	Animal physiological ecology and evolutionary physiology, especially the manner in which individuals or species use variation in anatomical and physiological capacities to meet diverse environmental demands. Top
	Hare, Dan Professor of Entomology, Graduate Advisor for Continuing Students	Evolution and ecology of plant-herbivore and plant-herbivore-natural enemy interactions. Top
	Hayashi, Cheryl Professor of Biology	The evolution of spider silks across many levels of biological integration, from the molecular genetics of silk genes to protein sequences of different types of silk to biomechanical and functional properties of the final product. Top
	Heraty, John Professor of Entomology	Morphological and molecular systematics of Chalcidoidea cladistic methodology; biological control evolutionary biology. Top
	Higham, Timothy Assistant Professor of Biology	How animals function mechanically and physiologically in their environments, with emphasis on the biomechanics, muscle physiology and functional morphology of locomotion and feeding in vertebrates. Since physiological mechanisms have been modified over major evolutionary transitions in vertebrate ecology, mechanical analyses are coupled with evolutionary and ecological perspectives.
	Hughes, Nigel Professor of Earth Sciences	Field and specimen based approaches to questions of evolutionary mechanism in the early Phanerozoic. Trilobite paleobiology. Lower Paleozoic paleogeography and tectonics (particularly the early Paleozoic history of India and the peri-Gondwanan region), shape restoration of deformed fossils, trace fossil paleobiology, and clastic sedimentology/stratigraphy. Top
	Hyman, Bradley Professor of Biology	The molecular basis of diversity in structure, genetic organization, and replication in animal mitochondrial DNAs. Recent work has focused on mitochondrial DNA recombination, gene amplification and rearrangements in the nematode family Mermithidae, obligate parasites of arthropods. These mitochondrial DNAs appear to undergo "real-time" rearrangement, generating a large array of polymorphic mitochondrial haplotypes. Top
	Jenerette, Darrel Assitant Professor of Botany and Plant Science	Ecological scaling coupled biogeochemical cycles, terrestrial-aquatic linkages, ecosystem responses to altered precipitation regimes, societal-biophysical interactions. Top
	Lee, Sang-Hee Associate Professor of Anthropology	Evolution of human morphological variation, and how different mechanisms (such as taxonomy, sex, age, and time) explain what is observed in fossil data. Top
	Maduro, Morris Associate Professor of Biology	Developmental mechanisms of cell fate specification in the nematode C. elegans., particularly the regulatory gene network that specifies the embryonic mesoderm and endoderm precursor cells. The regulators MED-1 and MED-2 function together with the evolutionarily conserved Wnt pathway to specify these cells. Current work involves understanding the molecular basis for Wnt/MED-1,2 activity and elaborating the mesoderm gene network. Top
	Maslov, Dmitri Associate Professor of Biology	Mitochondrial gene expression in kinetoplastid protozoa, including molecular biology; evolution and parasitology; evolution of kinetoplast DNA and RNA editing; and biodiversity of trypanosomatids, using molecular phylogenetic tools. Top
	Nunney, Len Professor of Biology	Population and evolutionary genetics, with an emphasis on the application of basic theory to practical problems. Projects include: the population genetics of small conserved populations, the population genetics of cancer, detecting adaptation using genomic data, molecular evolution of Xylella fastidiosa, the role of genetic trade-offs in life history evolution. Top
	Paine, Tim Professor of Entomology	Biology and ecology of introduced insects in urban environments; interactions of host suitability, host species susceptibility, and natural enemies on insect population biology; pheromone communication systems of bark beetles; interactions between mycorrhizal fungus colonization of plants and the herbivore populations, and the influence of ozone and nitrogen deposition on arthropod communities associated with black oak, ponderosa pine, and bracken fern. Top
	Razak, Khaleel A. Assistant Professor of Psychology	Development of auditory and visual systems, vocalization processing, sound localization and echolocation behaviors, visual motion processing. Top
	Redak, Rick Professor of Entomology	Plant-insect interactions, conservation biology, community ecology, pest management of commercial floricultural and ornamental plants. Top
	Regan, Helen Associate Professor of Biology	Quantitative conservation ecology and probabilistic risk assessment, mathematical treatments of uncertainty and decision-making techniques to address conservation management issues. Top
	Reznick, David Professor of Biology	Process of evolution by natural selection explored from an experimental perspective, testing evolutionary theory in natural populations. Guppies from the Caribbean Island of Trinidad are the primary study system, with particular emphasis on the role of predation in the evolution of life history traits, the rate of evolution under natural selection, and the evolution of aging. Top
	Roff, Derek Professor of Biology	Theoretical and empirical studies of population and quantitative genetics, life-history, and the importance of trade-offs in shaping life history evolution. Current research focuses on insects (especially the importance of trade-offs in determining the evolution of wing dimorphism in various species of crickets) as model systems. Top
	Rotenberry, John Professor of Biology, Emeritus	Community ecology and conservation biology, particularly how environmental factors interact to determine community composition. Research has focused on communities in semi-arid shrubsteppe habitat, with emphasis on birds, shrubs, and arthropods; annual plants and their pollinators in old-field ecosystems; and conservation biology of vertebrates from a landscape ecological perspective. Top
	Sachs, Joel Assistant Professor of Biology	Evolution and ecology of symbiotic microbes, evolution of beneficial bacteria & origins of harmful strains, the evolution and breakdown of mutualistic interactions. Top
	Saltzman, Wendy Associate Professor of Biology, Graduate Advisor for Recruitment and Admissions	Behavioral endocrinology, especially the bidirectional interactions between hormones and social behavior in mammals. Research emphases include regulation of fertility and endocrine function by the social environment, and interactions between stress and reproductive behaviors. Top
	Santiago, Louis Associate Professor of Botany and Plant Sciences	Employ a variety of plant physiological techniques, stable isotopes, modeling, phylogenetic analyses, and statistical approaches to understand the ecological implications of the connection between plants and their environment. Top
	Springer, Mark Professor of Biology	Molecular evolution and molecular systematics, with an emphasis on the use of molecules to unravel mammalian evolutionary history. Examples include: phylogenetic relationships among the orders of mammals, mammalian molecular clocks, the biogeographic history of mammals in relation to plate tectonic events, reconstructing character transformations for key innovations in mammalian history, the evolution of bats, including the origin of echolocation. Top
	Stouthamer, Richard Professor of Entomology	Symbionts and sex ratio distortion in insects; the use of molecular techniques to study population genetics, identification of cryptic species, biotypes and their origin. Top
	Walton, Bill Professor of Entomology	IPM of vector and pest arthropods particularly mosquitoes, biogeography of freshwater flora and fauna, trophic interactions of freshwater food webs. Top
	White, Bradley Assistant Professor of Entomology	Genomics of malaria mosquitoes with an emphasis on understanding the genetic basis of medically-relevant phenotypic diversity. Population, ecological, and quantitative genomics approaches are combined with field work and experimental genetics to connect genotype to phenotype and investigate the origin and maintenance of functional nucleotide polymorphisms. Top
	Zuk, Marlene Professor of Biology, Adjunct Faculty	Behavioral ecology, with emphasis on on sexual selection and the effects of parasites on mate choice and the evolution of secondary sex characters; more generally, the influence of parasites on host ecology and behavior. Examination of conflicting selection pressures on song structure in a Pacific field cricket subject to an acoustically-orienting parasitoid fly, and the evolution of disease resistance using a variety of cricket species which differ in male mating effort. Top