Biology
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Our faculty are interested in a wide range of organisms and research areas. They have received funding from the John Templeton Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and other prestigious funding agencies and foundations.
Areas of Research include:
- Animal behavior
- Bioinformatics
- Cell biology
- Development
- Ecology
- Evolution
- Genetics
- Marine biology
- Molecular biology
- Molecular evolution/systematics
- Neuroscience
- Physiology
- Population biology
- Signal Transduction
Submissions from 2023
Diverse Marine T4-like Cyanophage Communities Are Primarily Comprised of Low-Abundance Species Including Species with Distinct Seasonal, Persistent, Occasional, or Sporadic Dynamics, Emily Dart, Jed A. Fuhrman, and Nathan A. Ahlgren
Comparative Genomic Analysis of 31 Phytophthora Genomes Reveals Genome Plasticity and Horizontal Gene Transfer, Brent A. Kronmiller, Nicolas Feau, Danyu Shen, Javier F. Tabima, Shahin S. Ali, Andrew D. Armitage, Felipe Arredondo, Bryan A. Bailey, Stephanie R. Bollmann, Angela Dale, Richard J. Harrison, Kelly Hrywkiw, Takao Kasuga, Rebecca McDougal, Charlotte F. Nellist, Preeti Panda, Sucheta Tripathy, Nari M. Williams, Wenwu Ye, Yuanchao Wang, Richard C. Hamelin, and Niklaus Grünwald
Evolution of chemical-cue-mediated antipredator behavior in threespine stickleback populations experiencing northern pike predation, Dale R. Stevens, Melissa A. Graham, Christina I. Bardjis, Susan A. Foster, John A. Baker, and Kaitlyn A. Mathis
Integrating environmental complexity and the plasticity-first hypothesis to study responses to human-altered habitats, Dale R. Stevens, Matthew Wund, and Kaitlyn B. Mathis
Faculty Work from 2016
Supplemental material for Reich 2016, Deborah Robertson, Hannah G. Reich, and Gretchen Goodbody-Gringley