|
Faculty Member |
Research Interest |
| Gerald
Borgia
Biology |
Evolution of mate choice;
social structure and patterns of aid-giving behavior;
sociobiology |
| Catherine
Carr
Biology |
Cellular mechanisms of sound localization
in birds; evolution of the auditory system |
| Jim
Dietz
Biology |
Behavioral ecology
and conservation biology of neotropical mammals |
| David
Inouye
Biology |
Plant demography, plant-ant mutualisms, behavior and ecology
of bumblebees, pollination biology, ecological effects of climate change |
| Cynthia
Moss
Psychology |
Understanding auditory
information processing and sensorimotor integration in
vertebrates |
| Mary
Ann Ottinger
Animal
and Avian Sciences |
Neuroendocrine regulation of endocrine
and behavioral aspects of reproduction, with emphasis
on the avian system |
| Arthur
Popper
Biology |
Basic structure and
function of the auditory system in vertebrates, with particular
interest in the ear of fishes and its sensory hair cells. |
| James
Reggia
Computer
Science |
Neural Modeling, artificial intelligence,
cellular automata, Evolutionary Computation |
Frank Siewerdt
Animal and Avian Sciences |
Quantitative and population genetics, conservation genetics, selection theory, genetic improvement of farm animals, applied statistical methods and experimental designs for the biological sciences |
Daphne Soares
Biology |
Evolution of sensory neural codes, constraints involved in modifying neural circuits that underlie behavior |
| William
Stricklin
Animal
and Avian Sciences |
Role of animal behavior in food animal
production systems and animal welfare |
| Barbara
Thorne
Entomology |
Social insect biology, genetics, and evolution |
| Gerald
Wilkinson
Biology |
Behavioral ecology
and evolution; social behavior and communication in bats;
sexual selection and evolution in stalk-eyed flies |
| David Yager
Psychology |
Auditory systems in insects; behaviors related to hearing, especially predator-prey interactions; neuroethology |
|
Adjunct Faculty Member |
Research Interest |
| Anson
Hines
Smithsonian
Environmental Research Center |
Ecology of marine and estuarine invertebrates;
predator-prey interactions |
| Devra
Kleiman
National
Zoological Park |
Social and reproductive behavior of mammals, especially monogamy; conservation biology, especially reintroduction programs; planning and evaluation of conservation programs |
| Peter
Marra
Smithsonian Migratory
Bird Center at the National
Zoological Park |
Population, behavioral and conservation ecology of vertebrates |
| Kaci
Thompson
College of Chemical and Life Sciences &
Conservation and Research Center |
Mammalian behavioral
development; social influences on reproductive physiology |
|
Faculty Member |
Research Interest |
Andrew Baldwin
Environmental Science and Technology |
Wetland plant ecology, with emphasis on seed banks and seed dispersal; wetland restoration |
| Pedro
Barbosa
Entomology |
Insect community ecology |
| Jim
Dietz
Biology |
Behavioral ecology
and conservation biology of neotropical mammals |
|
Galen Dively
Professor Emeritus
Entomology |
Integrated pest management, effects of
trans- genic crops on target and nontarget species |
| Michele
Dudash
Biology |
Plant population biology; plant-pollinator interactions; evolution of plant mating systems and life-history strategies; conservation and restoration biology |
| William
Fagan
Biology |
Conservation biology, community ecology,
theoretical ecology |
| Charles
Fenster
Biology |
Evolutionary process, evolutionary genetics, plant-pollinator interactions |
| Irwin
Forseth
Biology |
Plant physiological ecology; heliotropism;
nitrogen metabolism |
| Douglas
Gill
Biology |
Population dynamics;
evolution of life-history parameters; host-parasite coevolution;
plant-animal interactions |
Dan Gruner
Entomology |
Biodiversity; community ecology; food webs and trophic interactions; invasion ecology |
| David
Inouye
Biology |
Plant demography; plant-ant mutualisms; behavior and ecology
of bumblebees; pollination biology; ecological effects of climate change |
| Bruce
James
Environmental Science & Technology |
Ecosystem function,
natural resource conservation, agricultural production,
and environmental quality |
Bill
Lamp
Entomology |
Herbivore impact and plant tolerance in crop-insect systems; aquatic entomology and ecology |
Paul Leisnham
Environmental Science and Technology |
Population and community ecology of disease-vector mosquitoes; how key vectors are affected by environmental changes |
Karen Lips
Biology |
Conservation and ecology of amphibians and reptiles; emerging infectious disease and global change |
| Maile
Neel
Plant Science & Landscape Architecture & Entomology |
Conservation ecology, conservation genetics,
reserve selection and design, landscape ecology |
| Margaret
Palmer
Entomology |
Hydrodynamics and dispersal
of aquatic invertebrates; stream ecology and marine benthic
ecology |
| Karen
Prestegaard
Geology |
Sediment transport and depositional processes
in mountain gravel-bed streams |
| Michael
Raupp
Entomology |
Mechanisms by which
plants escape attack from herbivorous insects |
| Marjorie
Reaka
Biology |
Dynamics of coral reef communities |
| Paula
Shrewsbury
Entomology |
Integrated Pest Management (IPM) of insect
pests of ornamental plants and turfgrass |
| Eugene
Small
Biology |
Ultrastructural morphology
and comparative morphogenesis within the Ciliophora; ciliate
ecology and life history |
| Barbara
Thorne
Entomology |
Social insect biology, genetics, and evolution |
| Sara
Via
Biology & Entomology |
Evolutionary biology,
evolutionary and ecological genetics, coevolution, population
biology |
| Ronald Weiner
Professor Emeritus
Cell
Biology and Molecular Genetics |
How procaryotes adhere to and colonize
marine surfaces |
| Gerald
Wilkinson
Biology |
Behavioral ecology
and evolution; social behavior and communication in bats;
sexual selection and evolution in stalk-eyed flies |
|
Adjunct Faculty Member |
Research Interest |
| Anson
Hines
Smithsonian
Environmental Research Center |
Ecology of marine
and estuarine invertebrates; predator-prey interactions
|
Gene Hunt
National Museum of Natural History |
Morphologic evolution in deep-sea Ostracoda; Variation and phenotypic evolution; Analytical methods in paleontology |
Conrad Labandeira
National Museum of Natural History |
Plant-insect herbivore and coevolutionary associations in the fossil record; early evolution of terrestrial ecosystems; effects on insect herbivores and pollinators of the angiosperm radiation |
| Peter
Marra
Smithsonian Migratory
Bird Center at the National
Zoological Park |
Population, behavioral and conservation ecology of vertebrates |
Cynthia Parr
UMIACS, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, UMBC |
Evolutionary ecology; ornithology; biological information visualization; bioinformatics |
John Sauer
USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center |
Population Ecology; Survey Design and Analysis; Development of Statistical Methods for Estimation of Population Change; Ecological Modeling; Avian Ecology |
| Scott
Wing
Department
of Paleobiology
NMNH |
Climatic and floral changes
across the Paleocene/Eocene boundary; abundance and diversity
of angiosperms in the Late Cretaceous; fossil plant assemblages |
|
Faculty Member |
Research Interest |
|
Alexa
Bely
Biology |
Evolution of regeneration and segmentation
mechanisms in annelids; asexual reproduction; animal body
plan evolution |
|
Gerald
Borgia
Biology |
Evolution of mate choice; social structure
and patterns of aid-giving behavior; sociobiology |
Karen Carleton
Biology |
Evolution of vision and visual communication |
Cristian Castillo-Davis
Biology |
The genetic basis of phenotypic change, the evolution of gene regulation and gene networks, computational biology and statistics |
|
Plant Sciences & Landscape Architecture |
Systematics and evolution of fungi |
|
Todd
Cooke
Cell
Biology and Molecular Genetics |
Comparative analysis of developmental mechanisms
in green plants |
|
Michael
Cummings
UMAICS
&
Biology |
Molecular evolution, bioinformatics, and
computational biology
|
|
Lindley Darden
Philosophy |
Reasoning strategies in molecular biology; The concept of mechanism in biolog; Experimental strategies for discovering mechanisms |
|
Charles
Delwiche
Cell
Biology and Molecular Genetics |
Phylogeny and evolution of algae |
|
Michele
Dudash
Biology |
Plant population biology; plant-pollinator interactions; evolution of plant mating systems and life-history strategies; conservation and restoration biology |
|
Charles
Fenster
Biology |
Evolutionary process, evolutionary genetics, plant-pollinator interactions |
|
Eric
Haag
Biology |
Evolution of development and sex |
David
Hawthorne
Entomology |
Interaction of genetic and ecological
forces and the evolutionary consequences of those interactions |
|
Richard
Highton
Professor Emeritus
Biology |
Systematics and molecular evolution of
plethodontid salamanders |
|
Fatimah
Jackson
Anthropology |
Effects of specific human cultural behaviors,
particularly dietary practices, on human biological diversity
and human microevolution; patterns of genetic variation
between Africa and the African Diaspora |
|
William
Jeffery
Biology |
Evolution of developmental mechanisms
in chordates |
Thomas Kocher
Biology |
Evolution of African cichlid fishes |
Paul Leisnham
Environmental Science and Technology |
Population and community ecology of disease-vector mosquitoes; how key vectors are affected by environmental changes |
Karen Lips
Biology |
Conservation and ecology of amphibians and reptiles; emerging infectious disease and global change |
Carlos Machado
Biology |
Evolutionary genetics and genomics of species divergence; plant-insect coevolution
|
|
Charles
Mitter
Entomology |
Phylogenetic approach to understanding
the extraordinary diversity of insect-plant interactions |
|
Stephen Mount
Cell
Biology and Molecular Genetics |
How multicellular organisms accomplish
the correct processing of RNA from protein-coding genes |
|
Leslie
Pick
Entomology |
Evolution and function of Hox genes as
regulators of the animal body plan; Insulin receptor regulation
in the CNS; Drosophila pattern formation
during embryogenesis |
|
Marjorie
Reaka
Biology |
Dynamics of coral reef communities |
|
James
Reggia
Computer
Science |
Neural Modeling, artificial intelligence,
cellular automata, Evolutionary Computation |
|
Jeffrey
Shultz
Entomology |
Evolutionary morphology and phylogeny of arthropods, especially arachnids; Mating systems in harvestmen |
Frank Siewerdt
Animal and Avian Sciences |
Quantitative and population genetics, conservation genetics, selection theory, genetic improvement of farm animals, applied statistical methods and experimental designs for the biological sciences |
Daphne Soares
Biology |
Evolution of sensory neural codes, constraints involved in modifying neural circuits that underlie behavior |
Jiuzhou Song
Animal & Avian Sciences |
Bioinformatics, statistical genomics, biopathway analysis, gene regulatory network |
|
Barbara
Thorne
Entomology |
Social insect biology, genetics, and evolution |
|
Sara
Via
Biology
& Entomology |
Evolutionary biology, evolutionary and
ecological genetics, coevolution, population biology |
|
Gerald
Wilkinson
Biology |
Behavioral ecology and evolution; social
behavior and communication in bats; sexual selection and
evolution in stalk-eyed flies |
David Yager
Psychology |
Auditory systems in insects; behaviors related to hearing, especially predator-prey interactions; neuroethology |
|
Adjunct Faculty Member |
Research Interest |
|
Jon
Ballou
National
Zoological Park |
Genetic management of small populations,
including reintroduction programs; pedigree analysis;
fitness effects of inbreeding and outbreeding |
Michael
Braun
National Museum of Natural History |
Molecular evolutionary genetics; molecular phylogenetics of birds; speciation; dynamics of hybrid zones; genetic structure of populations; Neotropical ornithology |
|
Allen
Collins
National
Systematics Laboratory
NMNH/NOAA |
Documenting and understanding the origin
of the biodiversity of cnidarians and sponges |
|
Jay
Evans
USDA Beltsville
Agricultural Research Center (BARC) |
Insect comparative genomics and host-parasite interactions |
|
Robert
Fleischer
Smithsonian
National Museum of Natural History - Genetics Laboratory |
Evolutionary genetics, molecular genetics,
ornithology |
Thomas Holtz
Geology |
Vertebrate paleobiology; phylogeny and functional anatomy of dinosaurs, with focus of Theropoda; ecomorphology of terrestrial vertebrate predators; Mesozoic paleobiogeography |
Gene Hunt
National Museum of Natural History |
Morphologic evolution in deep-sea Ostracoda; Variation and phenotypic evolution; Analytical methods in paleontology |
Conrad Labandeira
National Museum of Natural History |
Plant-insect herbivore and coevolutionary associations in the fossil record; early evolution of terrestrial ecosystems; effects on insect herbivores and pollinators of the angiosperm radiation |
|
Stephen
O'Brien
Laboratory
of Genomic Diversity |
Molecular genetics, population genetics,
developmental and cell biology, immunology and reproductive
physiology |
Benjamin Rosenthal
Animal Parasitic Diseases Laboratory
USDA |
Molecular systematics and comparative population genetics of parasitic organisms that threaten food safety and security |
|
Arlin Stoltzfus
Center for Advanced
Research in Biotechnology, UMBI |
Molecular evolution, bioinformatics,
and evolutionary genetics |
Hans Sues
National Museum of Natural History |
Evolutionary morphology and phylogeny of Mesozoic terrestrial vertebrates, especially archosaurian reptiles and non-mammalian synapsids; changes in continental ecosystems through time. |
|
Scott
Wing
Department
of Paleobiology
NMNH |
Climatic and floral changes across the
Paleocene/Eocene boundary; abundance and diversity of
angiosperms in the Late Cretaceous; fossil plant assemblages |
|
Elizabeth
Zimmer
Smithsonian
Laboratory of Analytical Biology |
Molecular systematics of plants, ribosomal
DNA and angiosperm systematics |
|
Faculty Member |
Research Interest |
Cristian Castillo-Davis
Biology |
The genetic basis of phenotypic change, the evolution of gene regulation and gene networks, computational biology and statistics |
|
Plant Sciences & Landscape Architecture |
Systematics and evolution of fungi |
|
Todd
Cooke
Cell
Biology and Molecular Genetics |
Comparative analysis of developmental mechanisms
in green plants |
|
Michael
Cummings
UMAICS
&
Biology |
Molecular evolution,
bioinformatics, and computational biology
|
|
Charles
Delwiche
Cell
Biology and Molecular Genetics |
Phylogeny and evolution of algae |
|
Richard
Highton
Professor Emeritus
Biology |
Systematics and molecular
evolution of plethodontid salamanders |
Karen Lips
Biology |
Conservation and ecology of amphibians and reptiles; emerging infectious disease and global change |
|
Charles
Mitter
Entomology |
Phylogenetic approach to understanding
the extraordinary diversity of insect-plant interactions |
|
Marjorie
Reaka
Biology |
Dynamics of coral reef
communities |
|
Jeffrey
Shultz
Entomology |
Evolutionary morphology and phylogeny of arthropods, especially arachnids; Mating systems in harvestmen |
|
Eugene
Small
Biology |
Ultrastructural morphology
and comparative morphogenesis within the Ciliophora; ciliate
ecology and life history |
Jiuzhou Song
Animal & Avian Sciences |
Bioinformatics, statistical genomics, biopathway analysis, gene regulatory network |
|
Ronald Weiner
Professor Emeritus
Cell
Biology and Molecular Genetics |
How procaryotes adhere to and colonize
marine surfaces |
|
Adjunct Faculty Member |
Research Interest |
Michael
Braun
National Museum of Natural History |
Molecular evolutionary genetics; molecular phylogenetics of birds; speciation; dynamics of hybrid zones; genetic structure of populations; Neotropical ornithology |
|
Allen
Collins
National Systematics Laboratory
NMNH/NOAA |
Documenting and understanding the origin
of the biodiversity of cnidarians and sponges |
Thomas Holtz
Geology |
Vertebrate paleobiology; phylogeny and functional anatomy of dinosaurs, with focus of Theropoda; ecomorphology of terrestrial vertebrate predators; Mesozoic paleobiogeography |
Cynthia Parr
UMIACS, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, UMBC |
Evolutionary ecology; ornithology; biological information visualization; bioinformatics |
Benjamin Rosenthal
Animal Parasitic Diseases Laboratory
USDA |
Molecular systematics and comparative population genetics of parasitic organisms that threaten food safety and security |
Hans Sues
National Museum of Natural History |
Evolutionary morphology and phylogeny of Mesozoic terrestrial vertebrates, especially archosaurian reptiles and non-mammalian synapsids; changes in continental ecosystems through time. |
|
Scott
Wing
Department
of Paleobiology
NMNH |
Climatic and floral changes
across the Paleocene/Eocene boundary; abundance and diversity
of angiosperms in the Late Cretaceous; fossil plant assemblages |
|
Elizabeth
Zimmer
Smithsonian
Laboratory of Analytical Biology |
Molecular systematics of plants, ribosomal
DNA and angiosperm systematics |
