Faculty Support: Meri Petollari
The Albertin lab investigates the evolutionary and developmental bases of biological novelty using soft-bodied cephalopods (squid and octopus) as model systems. To enable this work, Carrie and her group have built new tools...
Faculty Support: Christian Flynn
The Holford lab studies venoms and venomous animals as agents of molecular change and medicinal innovations. Specifically, I am interested in how venoms direct the evolution of organisms and how they can improve human lives...
Faculty Support: Patricia Cross-Fuentes
Our work focuses on the physiological and evolutionary dimensions of plant ecology that influence community assembly and ecosystem function. We are particularly interested in the genetic and evolutionary basis of...
Faculty Support: Erin Ciccone
Terrestrial ecosystems have a massive capacity to capture carbon and mitigate anthropogenic global change. However, the build-up of plant and soil carbon pools depends heavily on the ability of plants and their below-ground...
Faculty Support: Tracy Barbaro
Our research examines how animals interact with the environment and each other to affect ecosystem processes at landscape scales. We draw on the fields of community and ecosystem ecology, animal behavior, and remote sensing...
Faculty Support: Melinda Peterson
The main goal of my research is to better understand the substantial extinct biodiversity of invertebrate metazoans that first appeared and rapidly diversified during the Paleozoic Era, the period of time comprising...
Faculty Support: Maggie Starvish
Research in our lab addresses the behavioral ecology of insects. We combine molecular systematics, field ecology, laboratory experiments and specimen-based museum surveys to analyze the ecology and evolution of symbiotic...
Faculty Support: Patricia Fuentes-Cross
All animals begin life as totipotent zygotes, single cells that have the capacity to produce all the tissues of the adult animal. This totipotency becomes restricted over time, with embryonic cells becoming...
Faculty Support: Andrea Henderson
Research Interests
Biological - Our interests in biology are recent, and as a consequence somewhat desultory. A basic question is to understand "how things work" which leads naturally to physiology. We believe that a...
Faculty Support: Meri Petollari
Ecological dynamics of terrestrial plant communities and ecosystems; biosphere-atmosphere interactions; mechanistic models of animal movement.
