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Alison M. Bell Assistant Professor 439 Morrill Hall (217) 265-5469 |
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Intraspecific behavioral variation; ecological and evolutionary implications of behavioral syndromes in threespined sticklebacks; behavioral ecology. | |||
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Carla E. Caceres Professor 477B Morrill Hall (217) 244-2139 |
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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 17E Burrill Hall (217) 333-4245 |
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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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Zachary A. Cheviron Assistant Professor 433 Morrill Hall (217) 244-2787 |
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Evolutionary Physiology; Evolutionary, Functional, and Population Genomics; Adaptation to environmental stress in birds and mammals. |
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Arthur L. DeVries Professor 17C Burrill Hall (217) 333-4245 |
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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 233 Morrill Hall (217) 333-4199 |
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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 C. Fuller Professor |
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Animal behavior and its underlying neurological mechanisms; sexual selections and the evolution of mating systems; sensory bias model of sexual selection in killifish. | |||
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Jonathan D. Marcot Research Assistant Professor 665 Morrill Hall (217) 244-6826 |
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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 483 Morrill Hall (217) 244-6606 |
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Plant-animal interaction with an empasis 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 465 Morrill Hall (217) 244-7724 |
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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 Associate Professor 681 Morrill Hall (217) 244-6631 |
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Ant ecology and behavior; Biological invasions. | |||
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Patrick J. Weatherhead Professor 203A Shelford Vivarium (217) 244-0319 |
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Behavior, ecology, and conservation of snakes and birds. | |||
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Jeffrey D. Brawn Professor NRES, W-503 Turner Hall (217) 244-5937 |
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Conservation Biology; comparative population and community ecology of vertebrates, especially birds; tropical ecology; molecular evolutionary ecology. |
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Kathryn Clancy Assistant Professor Department of Anthropology |
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Human reproductive ecologist who specializes in women's health, endometrial function and evolutionary medicine. Dr. Clancy's work challenges assumptions about what constitutes normal reproductive physiology, and clinical threshold hypotheses regarding health. |
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David Enstrom Ornithologist, INHS |
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Sexual selection and mating systems in birds; evolution of bring plumage; hormonal mediation of plumage coloration and behavioral attractiveness. | |||
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Edward Heske Mammalian Ecologist, INHS |
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Population and community ecology of mammals; consequences of habitat fragmentation for mammaliam species diversity and population dynamics; mammalian social organization; desert rodent ecology; conservation biology. | ||||
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Kevin Johnson Affiliate 1816 S. Oak St., MC-652 (217) 244-9267 |
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Molecular systematics, host-parasite co-evolution, comparative approaches to studying the evolution of behavior in birds, co-speciation between birds and parasitic lice, population genetics of island biogeography | |||
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Ronald Larkin Wildlife Ecologist, INHS |
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Wildlife ecology in disturbed environments; avian migration, orientation, energetics, and communication; small-scale atmospheric motions and flying animals. | |||
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Ripan Malhi Assistant Professor, Anthropology |
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Integrates population genetics, phylogenetics, ancient DNA analysis, and field research in collaboration with Native American communities. Use of tools from molecular biology and population genetics; American Southwest and Central Mexico. | |||
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David Philipp Conservation Geneticist, INHS |
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Fish genetics and evolution; identification, characterization and conservation of fish stocks; evolution of structural and regulatory genes; behavioral genetics of fishes. | |||
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Christopher Phillips Herpetologist, INHS |
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Population genetics, population ecology, and systematics, especially as applied to amphibians, reptiles, and fishes; phylogeny estimation using molecular markers; conservation genetics. | |||
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David Wahl Fishery Biologist, INHS |
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Application of ecological principles to fisheries management; role of predators in controlling community dynamics; behavioral ecology of fishes; bioenergetic and bioeconomic modeling. | |||
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George Batzli Professor Emeritus |
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Population, community, and behavioral ecology of mammals; plant-animal interactions; nutritional ecology of herbivores; artic evology. | |||
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Edward Brown Associate Professor Emeritus |
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Lowell Getz Professor Emeritus |
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David Nanney Professor Emeritus |
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Lawrence Page Professor Emeritus (Affiliate) |
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Systematics, evolution, and ecology of North American freshwater fishes and crayfishes; natural areas. | ||||
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Gregory S. Whitt Professor Emeritus 469 Morrill Hall (217) 333-4645 |
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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. | |||