
Faculty
Faculty Directory

Nancy Aguilar-Roca
Biology Education Research, Comparative Physiology
(adaptation to hypoxia, evolution of air-breathing).

Steven Allison
Microbial enzymes, theoretical ecology, and biogeochemistry.

Manny Azizi
Muscle physiology.

Peter Bowler
Conservation and restoration biology.

Matthew Bracken
Causes and consequences of changes in biodiversity;
community and ecosystem ecology.

Adriana Briscoe
Evolution of sensory systems.
AAAS Fellow

Nancy Tyler Burley
Behavioral ecology; sexual selection, social organization and
communication.

Diane Campbell
Evolution in natural plant populations;
plant-pollinator interactions.
AAAS Fellow

Kwasi Connor
Integrative Biology, Physiological Ecology, Marine Environmental
Biology, Aging Biology.

Monica Daley
Comparative neuromuscular physiology and biomechanics of animal movement.

J.J. Emerson
Evolution of genetic novelty: copy number variation,
gene duplication, sex chromosome evolution and the evolution
of gene expression.

Celia Faiola
Secondary Organic Aerosol Formation and Chemical Composition.

Steven Frank
Evolutionary genetics, host-parasite interactions.

Brandon Gaut
Phylogenetic analysis; molecular evolution.
AAAS Fellow

Donovan German
Ecological and nutritional physiology.

Tobin J. Hammer
Gut microbiomes, evolution of symbiosis, insect ecology

James Hicks
Comparative physiology of circulation and gas exchange;
activity physiology.
AAAS Fellow

Bradley Hughes
Comparative physiology and science education.

Travis Huxman
Physiological Ecology, Plant Ecology, Ecohydrology,
Global Change Biology.
Ecological Society of America Fellow
Director, Center for Environmental Biology

Sarah Kimball
Ph.D., University of California, Irvine, 2007
community ecology, restoration ecology, conservation biology, global change biology, increasing diversity in ecology

Joleah Lamb
Oceans and Public Health, Marine Disease and Urban Ecology,
Conservation Biology, Ecosystem Services.

Grace Yuh Chwen Lee
Genome evolution, Population genetics, Genomics, Epigenetics.

Anthony Long
Quantitative and population genetics. Evolutionary Genetics.

Catherine Loudon
Biomechanics and insect physiology.
Center for Organismal Biology.

Deborah Lutterschmidt
Environmental physiology, Behavioral endocrinology, and Comparative neurobiology.

Christopher M. Martinez
Form, function, and motion diversity in fishes.

Adam Martiny
Microbial ecology, genomics, and physiology
(Split appointment with Earth System Science).

Jennifer Martiny
Community ecology, microbial diversity, and global change biology.
Ecological Society of America Fellow.
American Academy of Microbiology Fellow.
Chancellor’s Fellow.

Matt McHenry
Hydrodynamics and mechanoreception of aquatic animals.

Kailen Mooney
Community ecology, evolutionary ecology, community genetics, plant-insect interactions.

Lawrence Mueller
Theoretical and empirical studies of density-dependent natural selection.
AAAS Fellow

Jessica Pratt
Conservation Biology, Restoration Ecology, Plant-Insect Interactions, Conservation & Sustainability Education Research.

José Ranz
Comparative genomics and evolution of the expression network.

Maria Rebolleda-Gomez
Microbial ecology and evolution; experimental evolution; microbial metabolism; evolution of novelty; eco-evolutionary dynamics

Alejandra Rodriguez Verdugo
Microbial evolution, evolutionary community ecology, individuality in bacteria.

Michael Rose
Evolution of life histories and genetic systems.
AAAS Fellow

Cascade Sorte
Global change ecology; marine ecophysiology; invasion biology.

Celia Symons
Aquatic ecology, evolutionary ecology, community ecology and global change biology.

Kevin Thornton
Comparative genomics and population genetics.

Kathleen Treseder
Ecosystem ecology, global change biology, and microbial biogeochemistry.
AAAS Fellow
Ecological Society of America Fellow
Faculty in EEB have 3 different research focuses. Click on the icon below to learn more or find a quick list of faculty in each group below. Note some faculty may be found in more than one group.

Alan Barbour
Population biology of infectious diseases
(Joint appointment with Microbiology & Molecular Genetics and Medicine).

Michael Goulden
Ecosystem ecology; plant physiological ecology; micrometeorology
(Joint appointment with Earth System Science)

Mahtab Jafari
Impact of Botanical Extracts on Longevity and Health Span, anti-aging
Pharmacology, and Preventative Medicine
(Joint appointment with Pharmaceutical Sciences).

Chenyang Sunny Jiang
Aquatic microbiology and ecology
(Joint appointment with Environmental Health, Science & Policy).

Katherine Mackey
(Joint appointment with Earth System Science).
Interested in understanding how photosynthesis shapes, and is shaped by, biological, chemical, and physical processes in the ocean

James Randerson
Global carbon and nutrient cycles, fires, atmospheric trace gases, and biosphere-atmosphere interactions
(Joint appointment with Earth System Science).

Dominik Wodarz
Theoretical biology of cancer, infectious diseases, and immunology.

Guiyun Yan
Ecology and genetics of malaria
(Joint appointment with Public Health).
Peter Atsatt, 1966 – 1994
Albert Bennett, 1974 – 2013
Rudi Berkelhamer, 1993 – 2014
Timothy Bradley, 1979 – 2018
Robin Bush, 1990 – 2018
Lynn Carpenter, 1972 – 2010
Michael Clegg, 2004 – 2014
Bradford Hawkins, 1994 – 2017
George Hunt, 1970 – 2005
Harold Koopowitz, 1968 – 2005
Richard MacMillen, 1968 – 1992
Arthur Weis, 1988 – 2007
James David Bever, 1998 – 2000
Natalia Komarova, 2004 – 2005
Diane Pataki, 2004 – 2012
Sergio Rasmann, 2013 – 2014
Robert Reed, 2007 – 2012
Katharine Suding, 2003 – 2009
Adam Summers, 2001 – 2009
Neil Tsutsui, 2003 – 2007
Douglas Wallace, 2002 – 2010
Dominik Wodarz, 2004 – 2019