Univesity of Maryland: Department of Biology

ECOLOGY, EVOLUTION AND BEHAVIOR  

Gerald Borgia, Professor; Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1978. Evolution of mate choice; social structure and patterns of aid-giving behavior; sociobiology.

Michael J. Braun, Adjunct Professor (Smithsonian Laboratory of Molecular Systematics); Ph.D., Louisiana State University Medical Center, 1983. Molecular approaches to evolutionary biology; recovering genetic information from ancient DNA; avian hybrid zones.

Denise L. Breitburg, Adjunct Professor (Smithsonian Environmental Research Center); Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara, 1984. Marine and estuarine ecology; relationship between behavior and community ecology; behavior and ecology of fishes.

Karen Carleton, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., University of Colorado, 1987. Evolution of visual systems, visual communication and speciation, phototransduction, sensory genomics.

Cristian I. Castillo-Davis, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Harvard University, 2003. The genetic basis of phenotypic change, the evolution of gene regulation and gene networks, computational biology and statistics.

D. Wayne Coats, Adjunct Professor (Smithsonian Environmental Research Center); Ph.D., University of Maryland, 1977. Protistology, with emphasis on ciliate and dinoflagellate ecology, structure and function, and taxonomy.

Michael P. Cummings, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Harvard University, 1992. Molecular evolution, bioinformatics, computational biology.

Charles Delwiche, Affiliate Associate Professor (joint appointment with Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, UMCP); Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1990. Plant molecular systematics and plastid evolution.

James M. Dietz, Professor; Ph.D., Michigan State University, 1981. Behavioral ecology and conservation biology of neotropical mammals.

Michele R. Dudash, Associate Professor; Ph.D., University of Illinois at Chicago, 1987. Plant population biology; inbreeding depression; mating system evolution.

William Fagan, Associate Professor; Ph.D., University of Washington, 1996. Conservation Biology, Community Ecology, Theoretical Ecology.

Charles B. Fenster, Associate Professor; Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1988. Plant evolution biology; mating systems; epistasis

Robert Fleischer, Adjunct Professor, (National Zoo); Ph.D., University of Kansas, 1983. Evolutionary genetics,molecular genetics, ornithology.

Irwin N. Forseth, Jr., Associate Professor; Ph.D., University of Utah, 1982. Plant physiological ecology; heliotropism; nitrogen metabolism.

Douglas E. Gill, Professor; Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1971. Population dynamics; evolution of life-history parameters; host-parasite coevolution; plant-animal interactions.

Matthew P. Hare, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., University of Georgia, 1996. Population and conservation genetics of marine organisms, invasion biology, phylogeography, and host-parasite co-evolution.

Richard Highton, Professor Emeritus; Ph.D., University of Florida, 1956. Systematics and molecular evolution of plethodontid salamanders.

Anson Hines, Adjunct Professor (Smithsonian Environmental Research Center); Ph.D., Berkeley, 1976. Ecology of marine and estuarine invertebrates; predator-prey interactions.

David W. Inouye, Professor; Ph.D., University of North Carolina, 1976. Plant demography; plant-ant mutualisms; behavior and ecology of bumblebees; pollination biology.

Fatimah Linda Jackson, Affiliate Professor (Department of Anthropology, UMCP); Ph.D., Cornell University, 1981; Human evolutionary biology; biological effects of cultural behaviors, especially dietary practices, on human biological diversity and microevolution.

Devra G. Kleiman, Adjunct Professor (National Zoo); Ph.D., University College, London, 1969. Social, reproductive, and developmental behavior of mammals; mammalian mating systems, especially monogamy.

Thomas D. Kocher, Professor: Ph.D., University of Colorado, 1986; Molecular evolution, population genetics, evolution of development, genetics of speciation, evolution of sex determination.

Carlos A. Machado, Associate Professor; Ph.D., University of California, Irvine, Ph.D., 1998. Evolutionary genetics and genomics, the process of species divergence, plant-insect coevolution.

Steve Mount, Affiliate Associate Professor (Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, UMCP); Ph.D., Yale University, 1983. Pre-mRNA splicing signals.

Stephen J. O'Brien, Adjunct Professor (National Institutes of Health): Ph.D., Cornell University, 1971; Molecular genetics, population genetics, developmental and cell biology, immunology and reproductive physiology.

Kennedy Paynter, Research Associate Professor and Director, MEES Graduate Program; Ph.D., Iowa State University, 1985. Invertebrate biology; comparative physiology; biochemistry; restoration ecology.

Marjorie L. Reaka-Kudla, Professor; Ph.D., Berkeley, 1975. Coral reef ecology; ecology and behavior of mantis shrimp; evolutionary ecology of life-history patterns in Crustacea.

Kerry L. Shaw, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Washington University in St. Louis, 1993. Genetics, behavior and ecology of speciation; molecular genealogies of species groups; genetics and evolution of behavior and mating systems; sexual selection in insects.

Sarah A. Tishkoff, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Yale University, 1996. Human evolutionary genetics; the genetic basis of human disease.

Sara Via, Professor; Ph.D., Duke University, 1983. Evolutionary biology, evolutionary and ecological genetics, coevolution, population biology.

Gerald S. Wilkinson, Professor; Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, 1984. Behavioral ecology and evolution; social behavior and communication in bats; sexual selection and morphological evolution in stalk-eyed flies.

Elizabeth Zimmer, Adjunct Associate Professor (Smithsonian Institution); Ph.D. Molecular systematics of plants, ribosomal DNA and angiosperm systematics.