Faculty
Faculty Directory
Nancy Aguilar-Roca
Associate Teaching Professor
School of Biological Sciences
Email: nmaguila@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-3632
PhD, University of California, San Diego, 2000
Biology Education Research, Comparative Physiology (adaptation to hypoxia, evolution of air-breathing).
Steven Allison
Professor
School of Biological Sciences
Email: allisons@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-2341
Microbial enzymes, theoretical ecology, and biogeochemistry.
Manny Azizi
Associate Professor
School of Biological Sciences
Email: eazizi@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-7414
Muscle physiology.
Matthew Bracken
Professor
School of Biological Sciences
Email: mbracke1@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-6976
Causes and consequences of changes in biodiversity;
community and ecosystem ecology.
Adriana Briscoe
Professor
School of Biological Sciences
Email: abriscoe@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-1118
Evolution of sensory systems.
Nancy T. Burley
Professor
School of Biological Sciences
Email: ntburley@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-5440
Behavioral ecology; sexual selection, social organization and
communication.
Diane Campbell
Distinguished Professor
School of Biological Sciences
Email: drcampbe@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-2242
Evolution in natural plant populations;
plant-pollinator interactions.
AAAS Fellow
Kwasi Connor
Assistant Professor
School of Biological Sciences
Email: kmconnor@uci.edu
Integrative Biology, Physiological Ecology, Marine Environmental
Biology, Aging Biology.
Monica Daley
Professor
School of Biological Sciences
Email: madaley@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-6654
Comparative neuromuscular physiology and biomechanics of animal movement.
J.J. Emerson
Associate Professor
School of Biological Sciences
Email: jje@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-9527
Evolution of genetic novelty: copy number variation,
gene duplication, sex chromosome evolution and the evolution
of gene expression.
Celia Faiola
Associate Professor
School of Biological Sciences
Email: cfaiola@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-2061
Secondary Organic Aerosol Formation and Chemical Composition.
Steven Frank
Distinguished Professor
School of Biological Sciences
Email: safrank@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-2244
Evolutionary genetics, host-parasite interactions.
Ana Elisa Garcia-Vedrenne
Assistant Teaching Professor
School of Biological Sciences
Email: anaeg3@uci.edu
Biology education research, equity and diversity in science, parasite ecology, environmental DNA
Brandon Gaut
Distinguished Professor
School of Biological Sciences
Email: bgaut@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-2564
Phylogenetic analysis; molecular evolution.
AAAS Fellow
Donovan German
Associate Professor
School of Biological Sciences
Email: dgerman@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-5368
Ecological and nutritional physiology.
Tobin J. Hammer
Assistant Professor
School of Biological Sciences
Email: hammert@uci.edu
Gut microbiomes, evolution of symbiosis, insect ecology
James Hicks
Professor
School of Biological Sciences
Email: jhicks@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-6386
Comparative physiology of circulation and gas exchange;
activity physiology.
AAAS Fellow
Bradley Hughes
Associate Teaching Professor
School of Biological Sciences
Email: bhughes@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-2359
Comparative physiology and science education.
Travis Huxman
Chair and Professor
School of Biological Sciences
Email: thuxman@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-2594
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
Assistant Professor
School of Biological Sciences
Email: jblamb@uci.edu
Oceans and Public Health, Marine Disease and Urban Ecology,
Conservation Biology, Ecosystem Services.
Grace Yuh Chwen Lee
Assistant Professor
School of Biological Sciences
Email: grylee@uci.edu
Genome evolution, Population genetics, Genomics, Epigenetics.
Anthony Long
Professor
School of Biological Sciences
Email: tdlong@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-2562
Quantitative and population genetics. Evolutionary Genetics.
Catherine Loudon
Teaching Professor
School of Biological Sciences
Email: cloudon@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-0371
Biomechanics and insect physiology.
Center for Organismal Biology.
Deborah Lutterschmidt
Associate Professor
School of Biological Sciences
Email: dil@uci.edu
Environmental physiology, Behavioral endocrinology, and Comparative neurobiology.
Christopher M. Martinez
Assistant Professor
School of Biological Sciences
Email: cmmarti6@uci.edu
Form, function, and motion diversity in fishes.
Adam Martiny
Professor
School of Biological Sciences
Email: amartiny@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-9713
Microbial ecology, genomics, and physiology
(Split appointment with Earth System Science).
Jennifer Martiny
Professor
School of Biological Sciences
Email: jmartiny@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-0487
Community ecology, microbial diversity, and global change biology.
Ecological Society of America Fellow.
American Academy of Microbiology Fellow.
Chancellor’s Fellow.
Matt McHenry
Professor
School of Biological Sciences
Email: mmchenry@uci.edu
Phone: 949-302-7325
Hydrodynamics and mechanoreception of aquatic animals.
Kailen Mooney
Professor
School of Biological Sciences
Email: mooneyk@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-7852
Community ecology, evolutionary ecology, community genetics, plant-insect interactions.
Jessica Pratt
Associate Teaching Professor
School of Biological Sciences
Email: jdpratt@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-1082
Conservation Biology, Restoration Ecology, Plant-Insect Interactions, Conservation & Sustainability Education Research.
José Ranz Navalpotro
Associate Professor
School of Biological Sciences
Email: jranz@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-9071
Comparative genomics and evolution of the expression network.
Maria Rebolleda-Gomez
Assistant Professor
School of Biological Sciences
Email: mreboll1@uci.edu
Microbial ecology and evolution; experimental evolution; microbial metabolism; evolution of novelty; eco-evolutionary dynamics
Alejandra Rodriguez Verdugo
Assistant Professor
School of Biological Sciences
Email: alejanr1@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-3120
Microbial evolution, evolutionary community ecology, individuality in bacteria.
Cascade Sorte
Associate Professor
School of Biological Sciences
Email: csorte@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-6971
Global change ecology; marine ecophysiology; invasion biology.
Celia Symons
Assistant Professor
School of Biological Sciences
Email: csymons@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-5927
Aquatic ecology, evolutionary ecology, community ecology and global change biology.
Kevin Thornton
Professor
School of Biological Sciences
Email: krthornt@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-0614
Comparative genomics and population genetics.
Kathleen Treseder
Howard A. Schneiderman Endowed Chair and Professor
School of Biological Sciences
Email: treseder@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-6006
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.
Ecology
Steven Allison
Peter Bowler
Matthew Bracken
Nancy Tyler Burley
Diane Campbell
Celia Faiola
Travis Huxman
Joleah Lamb
Adam Martiny
Jennifer Martiny
Kailen Mooney
Jessica Pratt
Ann Sakai
Cascade Sorte
Kathleen Treseder
Stephen Weller
Evolutionary Genetics
John Avise
Adriana Briscoe
J.J. Emerson
Steven Frank
Brandon Gaut
Grace Yu Chwen Lee
Anthony Long
Lawrence Mueller
José Ranz
Alejandra Rodriguez Verdugo
Michael Rose
Kevin Thornton
Organismal Biology
Nancy Aguilar-Roca
Manny Azizi
Petter Bowler
Matthew Bracken
Nancy Burley
Adriana Briscoe
Diane Campbell
Kwasi Connor
Monica Daley
Donovan German
James Hicks
Travis Huxman
Catherine Loudon
Deborah Lutterschmidt
Matt McHenry
Kailen Mooney
Ann Sakai
Cascade Sorte
Stephen Weller
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 R. Atsatt, PhD
Professor Emeritus, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
School of Biological Sciences
Email: peter.atsatt@uci.edu
John C Avise, PhD
Professor Emeritus, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
School of Biological Sciences
Email: javise@uci.edu
Albert F. Bennett, PhD
Professor Emeritus, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
School of Biological Sciences
Email: abennett@uci.edu
Rudi Berkelhamer, PhD
Professor Emerita, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
School of Biological Sciences
Email: rcberkel@uci.edu
Peter A. Bowler, PhD
Professor Emeritus, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
School of Biological Sciences
Email: pabowler@uci.edu
Timothy J. Bradley, PhD
Professor Emeritus, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
School of Biological Sciences
Email: tbradley@uci.edu
Robin N. Bush, PhD
Professor Emerita, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
School of Biological Sciences
Email: rmbush@uci.edu
Lynn Carpenter, PhD
Professor Emerita, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
School of Biological Sciences
Michael T. Clegg, PhD
Professor Emeritus, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
School of Biological Sciences
Email: mclegg@uci.edu
Bradford A. Hawkings, PhD
Professor Emeritus, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
School of Biological Sciences
Email: bhawkins@uci.edu
George L. Hunt,Jr, PhD
Professor Emeritus, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
School of Biological Sciences
Email: glhunt@uci.edu
Harold Koopowitz, PhD
Professor Emeritus, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
School of Biological Sciences
Email: hkoopowi@uci.edu
Richard E. MacMillen, PhD
Professor Emeritus, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
School of Biological Sciences
Email: remacmill@uci.edu
Laurence Mueller
Professor
School of Biological Sciences
Email: ldmuelle@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-4744
Theoretical and empirical studies of density-dependent natural selection.
AAAS Fellow
Michael Rose
Distinguished Professor
School of Biological Sciences
Email: mrrose@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-8121
Evolution of life histories and genetic systems.
AAAS Fellow
Ann K. Sakai, PhD
Professor Emerita, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
School of Biological Sciences
Email: aksakai@uci.edu
Arthur E. Weis, PhD
Professor Emeritus, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
School of Biological Sciences
Email: aeweis@uci.edu
Stephen G. Weller, PhD
Professor Emeritus, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
School of Biological Sciences
Email: sgweller@uci.edu
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