Graduate School Bulletin

Faculty of Graduate Program in Ecology and Evolution

Distinguished Professors

Futuyma, Douglas Emeritus. Ph.D., 1969, University of Michigan: speciation, evolution of ecological interactions among species.

Gurevitch, Jessica Emeritus Ph.D., 1982, University of Arizona: Evolutionary ecology of plant populations and communities; plant physiological ecology.

Levinton, Jeffrey S. Emeritus Ph.D., 1971, Yale University: Marine benthic ecology; population genetics of bivalve mollusks; paleoecology.

Professors

Akcakaya, H. Resit Ph.D., 1989, Stony Brook University: Applied ecology; conservation biology; population dynamics; landscape ecology. Davalos, Liliana Ph.D., 2004, Columbia University; Conservation biology, climate change, phylogeny.

Balazsi, Gabor. Ph.D., 2001, University of Missouri at St. Louis; synthetic gene circuits as research tools in the fields of evolution, development, and cancer.

Davalos, Liliana Ph.D., 2004, Columbia University; Conservation biology, climate change, phylogeny.

Gobler, Christopher. Ph.D., 1999, Stony Brook University: Coastal ecosystem ecology, climate change, harmful algal blooms, phytoplankton, ocean acidification, effects of multiple stressors on coastal marine resources, aquatic biogeochemistry.

Koenig, Andreas3 Ph.D., 1992, Georg-August University: Primate behavioral ecology, social evolution.

Lynch, Heather Ph.D., 2006, Harvard University: Development and application of statistics.

Nehm, Ross Ph.D., 1998, University of California-Berkeley: Science education, evolution education, cognition.

Padilla, Dianna K. Ph.D., 1987, University of Alberta, Canada: Phenotypic plasticity, plant-herbivore functional ecology, ecology of invading species.

Thacker, Robert W. Ph.D., 1995, University of Michigan: Systematics, phylogenetics and ecology.

Wright, Patricia3 Ph.D., 1985, City University of New York: Primates and tropical conservation

Associate Professors

Baines, Stephen B. Ph. D., 1993, Yale University-New Haven; Aquatic ecosystem ecology, biogeochemistry of carbon and trace elements, plankton ecology, stoichiometry.

Collier, Jackie2 Ph.D., 1994, Stanford University: Microbial ecology.

Graham, Catherine7 Ph.D., 2003, University of Missouri – St. Louis: Landscape and behavioral ecology.

Markham, Catherine3 Ph.D., 2012, Princeton University: Behavioral ecology; maternal care; spatial ecology; wild primates

Peterson, Bradley J. 2 Ph.D., 1998, Dauphin Island Sea Lab/University of South Alabama: community ecology of seagrass dominated ecosystems.

Rest, Joshua Ph.D., 2004, University of Michigan: Evolutionary genomics.

Smaers, Jeroen B.3 Ph.D., 2010, University of Cambridge, UK: Brain evolution, phylogenetic comparative methodology, macroevolutionary morphology.

Thorne, Lesley2 Ph.D., 2010, Duke University: Bio-physical and trophic interactions in marine ecology.

True, John Ph.D., 1995, Duke University: Evolutionary and developmental genetics of color patterning in Drosophila.

Twiss, Katheryn C. 3 Ph.D., 2003, University of California at Berkeley; Archaeology, Human-Animal Interactions

Veeramah, Krishna R. Ph.D., 2008, University College London: Primate comparative genomics, genetic basis of epilepsy.

Volkenborn, Nils2 Ph.D., 2005, University of Bremen, Germany: Benthic ecology, sediment biogeochemistry.

Watson, Elizabeth, Ph.D., 2006, University of California, Berkeley: impact of climate and anthropogenic change to coastal watersheds and habitats

Assistant Professors

D’Andrea, Rafael. PhD. 2016, University of Michigan: Community ecology, theoretical ecology, species coexistence

McClenachan, GiovannaM2 Ph.D., Louisiana State University: drivers of coastal change, to track transitions in structure and function of ecosystems and societies with disturbances such as storms, floods, and climate change

Munch, Stephan6 Ph.D., 2002, University at Stony Brook: Evolutionary ecology of growth and life history traits, Evolution in harvested populations, Applied population dynamics modeling, Mathematical modeling and statistics

Smiley, Tara M. Ph.D., 2016, University of Michigan: Paleobiology, biogeography, stable isotope ecology

Title, Pascal O. PhD., 2018, University of Michigan: Macroevolution, macroecology, species distribution modeling

Vitek, Natasha Ph.D., 2019, University of Florida: Vertebrate paleontology, evolution, scaling of variation.

Weissman, Jackie Lee Ph.D., 2019, University of Maryland College Park: Microbial ecology & evolution, (meta)genomics, bioinformatics, computational biology

Assistant Research Professors

Martins, Dino8 Ph.D., 2011, Harvard University: interactions between species, insects and plants, vectors and hosts and parasites

1) Department of Anatomical Sciences

2) School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences

3) Department of Anthropology

4) Department of Biochemistry

5) Brookhaven National Laboratory

6) University of California, Santa Cruz

7) Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL

8) Turkana Basin Institute