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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. |
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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
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Population,
community and evolutionary ecology; life-history evolution; ecology of
infectious disease; limnology. |
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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. |
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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. |
| H
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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 |
| M
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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
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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. |
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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 |
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Gregory S. Whitt
Professor
g-whitt@staff.uiuc.edu
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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. |
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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. |
