Core Faculty by Research Themes
Alphabetical listing of all faculty
Population and Quantitative Genetics is the study of genetic differences within and between populations and assessment of variability of continuous phenotypes.
| Name | Title | Dept | Interest |
| Alvarado-Bremer, Jaime |
Associate Professor | Marine Biology | Conservation and population genetics of large pelagic fishes |
| Athrey, Giri | Assistant Professor | Poultry Science | Quantitative genetics and functional genomics, birds and disease vectors |
| Blackmon, Heath | Assistant Professor | Biology | Evolutionary genomics, quantitative genetics, character evolution, and applied phylogenetics |
| Cai, James | Assistant Professor | Veterinary Integrative Biosciences | Evolutionary biology and physiology, with emphasis on evolution of complex phenotypes |
| Criscione, Charles | Associate Professor | Biology | Population genetics of metazoan parasites |
| Delmore, Kira | Assistant Professor | Biology | Speciation, hybrid zones, and seasonal migration |
| Eytan, Ron | Assistant Professor | Marine Biology | Evolutionary genetics, molecular systematics, and speciation in marine fishes |
| Hurtado, Luis | Associate Professor | Wildlife & Fisheries Sci | Evolutionary origins, patterns and maintenance of biodiversity |
| Katju, Vaishali | Associate Professor | Veterinary Integrative Biosciences | Comparative evolutionary genomics; deleterious and compensatory mutations; evolution of eukaryotic genomes; evolution of reproductive incompatibility; experimental evolution; gene duplication and the origin of novel genes |
| Light, Jessica | Associate Professor | Wildlife & Fisheries Sci | Evolutionary and ecological assessments of host-parasite associations |
| Linderholm, Anna | Assistant Professor | Anthropology | Ancient DNA, dog domestication, adaptation to environmental change, environmental reconstructions in prehistory |
| Mateos, Mariana | Associate Professor | Wildlife & Fisheries Sci | Evolution of host-symbiont associations and phylogeography of freshwater organisms |
| Pepper, Alan | Associate Professor | Biology | Phenotypic plasticity and adaptive evolution in terrestrial plants |
| Rangel, Juliana | Assistant Professor | Entomology | Population, disease and reproductive biology of honey bees |
| Samollow, Paul | Professor | Veterinary Integrative Biosciences | Conservation genetics, evolution of genome structure and function, and epigenetics of heteriochiasmy |
| Slotman, Michel | Associate Professor | Entomology | Evolutionary genetics and genomics of disease transmitting mosquitoes |
| Spalink, Daniel | Assistant Professor | Ecosystem Sci & Mgmt | Plant systematics and biogeography |
| Sword, Gregory | Professor | Entomology | Insect, plant & microbial ecology |
| Tarone, Aaron | Assistant Professor | Entomology | Genomic studies of development and population biology in flies |
| Vargo, Ed | Professor and Endowed Chair | Entomology | Urban and structural entomology |
