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Faculty Member
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Research Interest
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Andrew Baldwin
Environmental Science and Technology |
Wetland plant ecology, with emphasis on seed banks and seed dispersal; wetland restoration |
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Pedro
Barbosa
Entomology |
Insect community ecology |
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Alexa
Bely
Biology |
Evolution of regeneration and segmentation mechanisms
in annelids; asexual reproduction; animal body plan evolution |
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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 |
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Catherine
Carr
Biology |
Cellular mechanisms of sound localization in
birds; evolution of the auditory system |
Cristian Castillo-Davis
Biology |
The genetic basis of phenotypic change, the evolution of gene regulation and gene networks, computational biology and statistics |
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Plant Sciences & Landscape Architecture |
Systematics and evolution of fungi |
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Janet
Chernela
Anthropology |
Indigenous environmental education,
ecotourism, community-level conservation, and policy development
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Todd
Cooke
Cell
Biology and Molecular Genetics |
Comparative analysis of developmental
mechanisms in green plants |
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Michael
Cummings
UMAICS
& Biology |
Molecular evolution, bioinformatics, and computational
biology
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Lindley Darden
Philosophy |
Reasoning strategies in molecular biology; The concept of mechanism in biolog; Experimental strategies for discovering mechanisms |
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Ruth
DeFries
Geography |
Land cover and land use change; ecosystem services; remote sensing |
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Charles
Delwiche
Cell
Biology and Molecular Genetics |
Phylogeny and evolution of algae |
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Jim
Dietz
Biology |
Behavioral ecology and conservation biology
of neotropical mammals |
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Galen Dively
Professor Emeritus
Entomology |
Integrated pest management, effects of trans- genic crops on
target and nontarget species |
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Michele
Dudash
Biology |
Plant population biology; plant-pollinator interactions; evolution of plant mating systems and life-history strategies; conservation and restoration biology |
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William
Fagan
Biology |
Conservation biology, community ecology, theoretical ecology |
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Charles
Fenster
Biology |
Evolutionary process, evolutionary genetics, plant-pollinator interactions |
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Irwin
Forseth
Biology |
Plant physiological ecology; heliotropism; nitrogen metabolism |
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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 |
|
Eric
Haag
Biology |
Evolution of development and sex |
David
Hawthorne
Entomology |
Interaction of genetic and ecological forces and the evolutionary
consequences of those interactions |
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Richard
Highton
Professor Emeritus
Biology |
Systematics and molecular evolution of plethodontid
salamanders |
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David
Inouye
Biology |
Plant demography; plant-ant mutualisms; behavior and ecology
of bumblebees; pollination biology; ecological effects of climate change |
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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 |
|
Bruce
James
Environmental Science & Technology |
Ecosystem function, natural resource conservation, agricultural
production, and environmental quality |
|
William
Jeffery
Biology |
Evolution of developmental mechanisms in chordates |
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Thomas Kocher
Biology |
Evolution of African cichlid fishes |
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 |
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Charles
Mitter
Entomology |
Phylogenetic approach to understanding the extraordinary diversity
of insect-plant interactions |
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Cynthia
Moss
Psychology |
Understanding auditory information processing
and sensorimotor integration in vertebrates |
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Stephen Mount
Cell
Biology and Molecular Genetics |
How multicellular organisms accomplish the correct processing
of RNA from protein-coding genes |
|
Maile
Neel
Plant Science & Landscape Architecture & Entomology |
Conservation ecology, conservation genetics,
reserve selection and design, landscape ecology |
|
Mary Ann
Ottinger
Animal and Avian
Sciences |
Neuroendocrine regulation of endocrine and behavioral aspects
of reproduction, with emphasis on the avian system |
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Margaret
Palmer
Entomology |
Hydrodynamics and dispersal of aquatic invertebrates;
stream ecology and marine benthic ecology |
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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 |
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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. |
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Karen
Prestegaard
Geology |
Sediment transport and depositional processes in mountain gravel-bed
streams |
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Michael
Raupp
Entomology |
Mechanisms by which plants escape attack from
herbivorous insects |
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Marjorie
Reaka
Biology |
Dynamics of coral reef communities |
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James
Reggia
Computer Science |
Neural Modeling, artificial intelligence,
cellular automata, Evolutionary Computation |
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Paula
Shrewsbury
Entomology |
Integrated Pest Management (IPM) of insect
pests of ornamental plants and turfgrass |
|
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 |
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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 |
|
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 |
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David Yager
Psychology |
Auditory systems in insects; behaviors related to hearing, especially predator-prey interactions; neuroethology |
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Research Interest
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Jon
Ballou
National Zoological
Park |
Genetic management of small populations, including reintroduction
programs; pedigree analysis; fitness effects of inbreeding and outbreeding |
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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 |
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Allen
Collins
National
Systematics Laboratory
NMNH/NOAA |
Documenting and understanding
the origin of the biodiversity of cnidarians and sponges |
William DiMichele
National Museum of Natural History |
Fossil plants of late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic age (240-350 million years old); Paleoecology and evolutionary biology |
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Jay
Evans
USDA Beltsville Agricultural
Research Center (BARC) |
Insect comparative genomics and host-parasite interactions |
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Robert
Fleischer
Smithsonian
National Museum of Natural History - Genetics Laboratory |
Evolutionary genetics, molecular genetics,
ornithology |
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Anson
Hines
Smithsonian
Environmental Research Center |
Ecology of marine and estuarine invertebrates; predator-prey
interactions |
Thomas Holtz
Geology |
coming soon... |
Gene Hunt
National Museum of Natural History |
Morphologic evolution in deep-sea Ostracoda; Variation and phenotypic evolution; Analytical methods in paleontology |
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Devra
Kleiman
National Zoological
Park |
Social and reproductive behavior of mammals, especially monogamy; conservation biology, especially reintroduction programs; planning and evaluation of conservation programs |
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Peter
Marra
Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center
at the National Zoological Park
|
Population, behavioral and conservation ecology of vertebrates |
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Stephen
O'Brien
Laboratory
of Genomic Diversity |
Molecular genetics, population genetics, developmental
and cell biology, immunology and reproductive physiology |
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 |
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 |
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Arlin Stoltzfus
Center for Advanced Research
in Biotechnology, UMBI |
Molecular evolution, bioinformatics, and evolutionary genetics |
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Kaci
Thompson
College of Chemical and Life Sciences &
Conservation and Research Center |
Mammalian behavioral development; social influences
on reproductive physiology |
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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 |
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Elizabeth
Zimmer
Smithsonian Laboratory
of Analytical Biology |
Molecular systematics of plants, ribosomal
DNA and angiosperm systematics |
