Faculty Research Labs
AKÇAKAYA LAB
Our research focuses on developing and applying quantitative methods to address questions in conservation of biodiversity.
LEARN MOREBAINES LAB
Research focuses on the interplay between community structure and ecosystem function, influenced by environmental factors and historical events.
LEARN MOREDÁVALOS LAB
Our labs focus on mainly the Southern American region, with a emphasis on the Amazon Rainforest.
LEARN MORELYNCH LAB
The Lynch Lab is focused on the ecology and conservation biology of Antarctica by studying the dynamics of Antarctic wildlife.
LEARN MORENEHM LAB
The Biology Education Research Lab counducts research on human thinking and reasoning about foundational biological ideas to design effective learning environments.
LEARN MOREPADILLA LAB
The Padilla Lab conducts studies in Marine Biology, delving into topics such as phenotypic plasticity, functional ecology, and invasion ecology.
LEARN MOREREST LAB
The Rest Lab utilizes computation and experimentation to uncover patterns and processes in evolutionary genomics.
LEARN MORESMILEY LAB
The Smiley Lab uses fossil records to investigate diversity patterns and ecology, fucusing on small mammals and environments of the Cenozoic era.
LEARN MORETHACKER LAB
The Thacker Lab researches taxonomy, systematics, and the evolution of ecological interactions.
LEARN MORETITLE LAB
The Title Lab integrates geograpic distributions, phylogenies, and trait data to better understand global diversity patterns, and the processes that have generated them.
LEARN MORETRUE LAB
The True Lab is interested in the genetic and developmental basis of differences among related species and how natural and sexual seletion bring these differences about.
LEARN MOREVEERAMAH LAB
The Veeramah Lab focuses on evolutionary genomics and paleogenomics in addition to analyzing genmoic data from multiple time points to study evolution.
LEARN MOREVITEK LAB
The Vitek Lab bridges vertebrate morphology, paleontology, and evolution to understand how species survive on a constantly changing planet.
LEARN MOREWATSON LAB
The Costal Change Lab combines field and laboratory research with geospatial analysis and modeling to examine the impacts of environmental change to costal environments.
LEARN MOREWEISSMAN LAB
The Microbial Genomes and Metagenomes to Unravel Traits Lab studies environemtal genomic data to untangle the dense networks of interactions by which microbes produce community-level outputs relevant to ecosystem health
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