Faculty

Core, Associate and Adjunct Faculty

Core Faculty are members of the Graduate Faculty at Texas A&M University. Core faculty teach EEB module courses and also serve as committee chairs for EEB students. A list of faculty research themes can be found here and are also listed under each core faculty member’s interest in the list below. Other information about Core Faculty can be found in the bylaws.

Associate Faculty

Associate Faculty are members of the Graduate Faculty at Texas A&M University, but they cannot serve as committee chairs for EEB students. Other information about Associate Faculty can be found in the bylaws.

Name	Title	Dept	Interest
Alvard, Michael S.	Associate Professor	Anthropology	Evolution of human behavior
Andersson, Leif	Professor	Veterinary Integrative Biosciences	Genome biology and evolutionary biology
Cairns, David	Professor	Geography	Landscape ecology and ecosystem modeling
Coulson, Robert	Professor	Entomology	Activities and impacts of insects and other taxa in forest, prairie, and savanna landscapes
Criscitiello, Michael	Professor	Veterinary Pathobiology	Evolutionary genetics of immune function
de Figueiredo, Paul	Associate Professor	Microbial Pathogenesis & Immunology, College of Medicine	Microbiology, cell biology, and genetics to develop novel biotechnologies and elucidate the molecular dynamics of living systems.
Lafon, Charles W.	Professor	Geography	Assessment and monitoring of patterns and trends in biodiversity
Lockless, Steve	Associate Professor	Biology	Information processing in biological systems
Oswald, John D.	Professor	Entomology	Systematics and evolution of insects
Sansom, Roger	Associate Professor	Philosophy	Integrating evolution and development
Schartl, Manfred	Visiting Professor	Biology	Evolutionary genomics and evolution of sex determination and sex chromosomes in fish; cancer genetics and genomics
Selig, Keegan	Assistant Professor	Anthropology	Evolutionary ecology, phylogenetics & comparative biology
Thakar, Heather	Assistant Professor	Anthropology	Evolutionary and Ecological Theory, Coastal and Island Archaeology, Environmental Archaeology, Foraging and Proto-agricultural Societies
Thornton, Daniel	Professor	Oceanography	Ecology of nutrient cycling in coastal systems
Tice, Michael	Associate Professor	Geology & Geophysics	Early evolution of microorganisms and metabolisms
Walton, Jay	Professor Emeritus	Mathematics	Modeling spatial ecology and structured populations
Wilkinson, Heather H.	Professor	Plant Pathology & Microbiology	Evolution of microbial genes, genomes and communities
Williams, Tiffani	Associate Professor	Computer Science & Engineering	Computational biology and phylogenetic inference
Winking, Jeffrey	Associate Professor	Anthropology	Evolutionary ecology of human behavior

Adjunct Faculty

Adjunct Faculty may co-advise students and serve on student committees, provided they are appointed to the TAMU graduate faculty. Other information about Adjunct Faculty can be found in the bylaws.

Name	Title	Institution	Interest
Delmore, Kira	Associate Professor	Columbia University	Adaptation, speciation, behavior
Kitchen, Sheila	Assistant Professor	Stony Brook University	Molecular Ecology, evolutionary genomics, aquatic symbioses
Meik, Jesse	Assistant Professor	Tarleton State University	Ecology, comparative evolution biology
Moran, Rachel	Assistant Professor	University of Chicago	Behavioral research with genomic technologies to understand the adaptive and mechanistic underpinnings of species diversification
Rosenthal, Gil	Professor	University of Padova, Italy CICHAZ, Co-Director	Mate choice and evolutionary genetics in fish hybrid zones
Song, Hojun	Director of Biocollections & Professor	Arizona State University	Insect systematics; phylogenetics of orthopteran insects; phenotypic plasticity; character evolution

Core, Associate and Adjunct Faculty

Jaime Alvarado-Bremer

Sanjay Antony-Babu

Anna Armitage

Giri Athrey

Ian Ausprey

David Bapst

Perry Barboza

Spence Behmer

Christina Belanger

Heath Blackmon

Donald Brightsmith

Chris Butler

James Cai

Claudio Casola

Thomas Chappell

Kevin Conway

Charles Criscione

Brian Davis

Darryl de Ruiter

Eric Duell

Rusty Feagin

Lee Fitzgerald

Courtney Fitzpatrick

Vivienne Foroughirad

Masami Fujiwara

Katy Gonder

Jacquelyn Grace

Sharon Gursky

Gabriel Hamer

Sarah Hamer

Anjel Helms

J. Aaron Hogan

Luis Hurtado-Clavijo

Wenzhe Jiao

Tammi Johnson

Phillip Kaufman

Alex Keene

Michelle Lawing

Jessica Light

Christopher Marshall

Mariana Mateos

Raul Medina

Christine Merlin

Maria Pia Miglietta

Erick Motta

William Murphy

Felicity Newell

Judit Penzes

Alan Pepper

Josh Perkin

Antonietta Quigg

Juliana Rangel

Anne Raymond

Antonio M.M. Rodrigues

Daniel Roelke

William Rogers

Anja Schulze

Michael Smotherman

Daniel Spalink

Marie Strader

Amanda Stronza

Greg Sword

Aaron Tarone

Jeffery Tomberlin

Joseph Veldman

Gary Voelker

Jason West

Mary Wicksten

Brad Wilcox

Kirk Winemiller

X. Ben Wu

Jessica Yorzinski

Associate Faculty

Adjunct Faculty