Faculty

Research Interests: Ecology and evolution of insect-plant interactions

Research Interests: Evolutionary Developmental Biology

Research Interests: Cell migration in Developmental systems

Research Interests: Evolutionary Genomics

Research Interests: Evolution of plant development; Molecular evolution

Research Interests: Regulation of Plant Morphogenesis During Growth & Development

Research Interests: Plant ecology, biogeography and evolution

Research Interests: Circadian Rhythms, Reproduction, and Seasonal Changes in Brain Function

Research Interests: Microbial cellular and community networks; influence of environmental change on the evolution of molecular processes; systems biology; bioinformatics

Research Interests: Biogeography and spatial ecology of terrestrial plant invasions

Research Interests: Evolutionary consequences of interactions between behavior, morphology and the environment

Research Interests: Carbon cycling in northern wetlands

Research Interests: Statistical theory, methods and applications, Quantitative ecology

Research Interests: Acoustic communication in birds

Research Interests: Evolutionary genomics of adaptation and divergence in wild, weedy and crop plant species

Research Interests: Muscle mechanics and modeling in human motor performance

Research Interests: Biomechanics and Behavior of Migratory Fishes; Bioengineering of Fish Passage Structures

Research Interests: Marine global change ecology and the dynamics of predator-prey interactions

Research Interests: Reproductive behavior of birds and fishes

Research Interests: Statistical methods in genomics and bioinformatics

Research Interests: Epidemiology, ecology and sustainable management of plant diseases

Research Interests: Ecology and evolutionary diversity of neotropical freshwater fishes, particularly within the Amazon River

Research Interests: Fish conservation, recreational fisheries, sustainable aquaculture

Research Interests: Community ecology and physiology of soil microbes, climate change, plant-soil interactions

Research Interests: Quantitative ecology, population dynamics, applied ecology

Research Interests: Molecular evolution; comparative & statistical approaches to molecular & genome evolution

Research Interests: Population dynamics and biological control of invasive forest insects

Advisor: Benjamin Letcher

Research Interests: Agroecology, applied ecology, pollinator health, invertebrate monitoring

Research Interests: Network Analysis of Acoustic Telemetry

Research Interests: Quantitative Evolutionary Cell Biology

Research Interests: Integrative ecological physiology of birds, energetics, water balance, bird migration

Research Interests: How plants respond to climate change, and physiological processes underpinning how plants interact with the changing climate around them

Research Interests: Genomics, Evolution, Bioinformatics

Research Interests: Human and comparative physiology, neuroscience, endocrinology, herpetology, conservation biology, and behavioral biology

Research Interests: Biomechanics and neuromuscular control of vertebrate locomotion

Research Interests: Wildlife ecology and conservation

Research Interests: Fish behavior and migration; fish passage

Research Interests: Plant-microbe interactions, biogeochemistry, ecosystem response to change, sustainable agriculture

Research Interests: Biocultural evolution of the genus Homo, functional morphology and biomechanics of the appendicular skeleton, paleoecology, forager ecology, Old World prehistory, Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene ecology, bone mass and physical activity.

Research Interests: Evolutionary forces that shape systems of inheritance and disease transmission

Research Interests: Spread dynamics, impacts, and lag times in invasion ecology, as well as metacommunity dynamics, particularly for plants and herbivores.

Research Interests: Animal Behavior, Vertebrate Ecology, and Conservation Biology

Research Interests: Functional Morphology, Evolution, and Behavioral Ecology

Research Interests: Animal behavior, especially perception, learning, and social behavior

Research Interests: Molecular and cellular mechanisms of vertebrate retinal development and retinal disease.

Research Interests: Evolutionary genetics, evolution of development

Research Interests: Ecosystems, modeling, tagging, movement, trophic dynamics, diadromous, marine, fisheries, historical ecology

Research Interests: Comparative biology of primates and other mammals

Research Interests: The general research objective in our lab is to understand the neural and physiological systems that the brain and body use to protect us from harm and adapt to changes in the environment. We focus on biological rhythms, stress, immunology, and metabolism

Research Interests: Developmental neurobiology; axon guidance and forebrain patterning

Research Interests: Genome evolution and biodiversity studies of microbial eukaryotes

Research Interests: Neuroethology, central pattern generators, single neuron RNA-seq, developmental neuroscience, evolution of neural circuits, molluscan systems

Research Interests: Terrestrial Ecosystem Ecology; Climate Change Biology; Soil Ecology; Biogeochemistry

Research Interests: Wildlife ecology and conservation

Research Interests: Conservation genomics and ecophysiology in marine and freshwater ecosystems

Research Interests: Statistical Theory and Methods

Research Interests: Micropaleontology, Biostratigraphy, Paleoceanography

Research Interests: Urban and suburban ecology, wildlife conservation, and citizen science

Research Interests: Population ecology of stream fishes

Research Interests: Plant systematics, biogeography and ecology

Research Interests: Fungal comparative genomics, eukaryotic genome evolution and organism adaptation

Research Interests: Aboveground carbon consequences of future land use in New England, Carbon accounting of timber from current harvest trends in Massachusetts, Modeling direct and indirect impacts of forest insects and pathogens, and Inclusive pedagogy in quantitative undergraduate biology

Research Interests: Environmental Physiology of Fish

Research Interests: Ecology and evolution of plant reproductive systems, molecular phylogenetic systematics, population and evolutionary genetics, hybridization and speciation

Research Interests: Climate change ecology, montane and boreal wildlife, and decision analysis and translational ecology for climate adaptation

Research Interests: Ecology and conservation biology of stream fishes and invertebrates

Research Interests: Evolution of alternative genetic systems; evolution of host range; scale insect systematics

Research Interests: Behavior of microtines and primates

Research Interests: Microbial ecology of terrestrial and aquatic environments

Research Interests: Visual and acoustic communication in mammals

Research Interests: Mechanisms and evolution of vertebrate behavior, bioacoustics

Research Interests: Evolutionary biology; hybridization, introgression & speciation; ecological genetics; evolution of regulatory genetic pathways; computer and mathematical modeling; invasion and range expansion; insects, especially butterflies and moths

Research Interests: Evolution and development, history of evolutionary theory

Research Interests: Neural basis of behavior

Research Interests: Molecular Evolution and Population Genomics of Arthropod-borne Microbial Pathogens

Research Interests: Phylogeography of New England amphibians and reptiles

Research Interests: Freshwater ecology, fish and macroinvertebrates, urban ecology, conservation

Research Interests: Social behavior and communication of cetaceans (whales and dolphins)

Research Interests: Plant ecology, plant diversity, invasive plants, climate change

Research Interests: Nutrition, human milk, gut microbiome, systems biology, host-microbe interactions/co-evolution, translational research

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Research Interests: Evolution of menopause

Research Interests: Conservation biology, physiological ecology and biostatistics

Research Interests: Ecology and evolution of marine predator-prey interactions

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Research Interests: Climate change impacts on coastal biodiversity and trophic relationships

Research Interests: Plant Ecology, Invasive Plants, Biological Responses to Global Change

Research Interests: Behavior and physiology of flies especially of the adult crop organ and the mechanisms regulating filling and depletion

Research Interests: Effects on behavior by environmental xenobiotics with endocrine disruptive properties

Research Interests: Foraging behavior; Territoriality; Intra- and Interspecific competition; Resource partitioning; Mutualism; Coevolution;
Sexual dimorphisms and polymorphisms

Research Interests: Molecular genetic approaches to studying mechanisms of metal ion homeostasis in plants

Research Interests: Urban ecology, human-environment interactions, animal behavior

Research Interests: Landscape ecology, spatial ecology, wildlife conservation and management, structured decision-making