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Alison M. Bell
Assistant Professor
alisonmb@life.uiuc.edu
Intraspecific behavioral variation; ecological and evolutionary implications of behavioral syndromes in threespined sticklebacks; behavioral ecology.
Jeffrey D. Brawn
Professor
jbrawn@uiuc.edu
Conservation biology; comparative population and community ecology of vertebrates,  especially birds; tropical ecology; statistical ecology; molecular evolutionary ecology. 
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Carla E. Cáceres
Associate Professor 
caceres@life.uiuc.edu
Population, community and evolutionary ecology; life-history evolution; ecology of infectious disease; limnology.
C.-H. Christina Cheng
Associate Professor
c-cheng@uiuc.edu
Molecular evolution of fish antifreeze protein genes, particularly evolutionary origins and molecular mechanisms of new gene genesis; temporal relationship between evolution of antifreeze function and paleobiogeography of polar regions; evolution of the marine species flock of Antarctic Notothenioid fishes; molecular cytogenetics of Antarctic notothenioids and northern cod fishes. Field research in Antarctica and the Arctic.
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Arthur L. DeVries 
Professor 
adevries@staff.uiuc.edu
Antarctic and Arctic fish biology: Cold adaptation and biological antifreeze systems; ecological and evolutionary physiology; life histories of Antarctic notothenioid fish; expression of antifreeze proteins during development; protein structures and molecular mechanisms of antifreeze function. Field research in Antarctica and the Arctic. 
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  Thomas H. Frazzetta
Professor 
tomfrazz@life.uiuc.edu
Evolutionary mechanisms of complex adaptive systems; interaction of population biology with morphology, paleontology, and development; functional morphology and biomechanics of vertebrate skeleto-muscular systems. 
Rebecca Fuller
Assistant Professor
fuller@life.uiuc.edu
Animal behavior and its underlying neurological mechanisms; sexual selection and the evolution of mating systems; sensory bias model of sexual selection in killifish.
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Kim Hughes
Associate Professor
kahughes@life.uiuc.edu
Life-history evolution, sexual selection, genetics of sperm competition and aging, conservation genetics
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Jonathan Marcot
Research Assistant Professor
jmarcot@life.uiuc.edu
Biologic diversification, particularly morphologic, molecular and taxonomic evolution of fossil and living artiodactyl mammals; Paleontology; Evolution of biologic complexity; Phylogenetic methods
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Ken N. Paige 
Professor and Head
k-paige@staff.uiuc.edu
Plant-animal interactions with an emphasis on understanding the phenomenon of overcompensation from ecological, physiological, genetic and evolutionary perspectives; conservation biology; evolutionary ecology. 
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Karen E. Sears
Assistant Professor
ksears@life.uiuc.edu
Evolutionary developmental biology, particularly combining paleontology, developmental biology and genetics to examine the developmental mechanisms that drive morphologic diversification in mammals.
Andrew V. Suarez
Assistant Professor
avsuarez@life.uiuc.edu
Invasive species, notably causes and consequences of invasion of natural areas by the Argentine ant.
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Patrick Weatherhead
Professor 
pweather@uiuc.edu
Behavior, ecology, and conservation of snakes and birds
  Gregory S. Whitt 
Professor 
g-whitt@staff.uiuc.edu
Evolutionary genetics and phylogenetic relationships of fishes. Isozymes and other molecular characters used to investigate evolutionary relationships and to infer patterns of gene structural and regulatory evolution. Biochemical genetics and evolution of teleosts. 
Carl R. Woese 
Professor
carl@phylo.life.uiuc.edu 
Evolutionary biology: bacterial phylogeny; the problem of the universal ancestor; structure of the ribosome; genome sequencing; the origin of life.
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