EEB Faculty, Joint Faculty, and Research Scientists

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Dr. Badyaev, Alexander
Associate Professor
Office: BSW 424  626-8830
Lab: BSW 425  621-4005
abadyaev@email.arizona.edu - website - Bio
Associate Professor; Ph.D., University of Montana 1999. Evolutionary biology and behavioral ecology, especially in natural bird populations.

Dr. Birky, Jr., C. William
Professor (Emeritus)
Office: BSW 318  626-6513
Lab: BSW 327  
birky@email.arizona.edu - website - Bio
Professor, Emeritus; Ph.D., Indiana University 1963. Mechanics of molecular evolution; transmission genetics; asexual organisms and organelle genes.

Dr. Bronstein, Judith L.
Professor
Office: BSW 418  621-3534
Lab: BSW 409  621-3534
judieb@email.arizona.edu - website - Bio
Professor; Ph.D., Michigan, 1986. Evolution and ecology of mutualisms; plant­insect interactions, especially obligate relationships.

Dr. Chesson, Peter L.
Professor
Office: BSW 218  626-1451
Lab: BSW 101  621-1889
pchesson@email.arizona.edu - website - Bio
Professor; PhD University of Adelaide, South Australia 1978 Theory of maintenance of species diversity, community dynamics in variable environments, effects of scale on dynamics and ecosystem functioning, competition and host-parasitoid interactions, life-history evolution, terrestrial plant ecology, marine community ecology, ecology of invasions.

Dr. Cockrum, Lendell E.
Professor (Emeritus)
Office:    
Lab:   
cockrum@email.arizona.edu - -
Professor, Emeritus

Dr. Davis, Russell
Professor (Emeritus)
Office: BSE   
Lab:   
sidner@u.arizona.edu - -
Professor, Emeritus

Dr. Dornhaus, Anna
Assistant Professor
Office: BSW 231  626-5565
Lab: BSW 235  626-5565
dornhaus@email.arizona.edu - website - Bio
Assistant Professor; PhD, University of Wuerzburg, Germany 2002 Behavioral ecology; evolutionary biology; interplay of ecological and evolutionary processes; theoretical biology; mathematical and computational modeling; complex systems; collective behavior and emergence; organization and mechanisms to create adaptive group behavior; social insects.

Dr. Enquist, Brian J.
Associate Professor
Office: BSW 422  626-3329
Lab: BSW 221  626-3336
benquist@email.arizona.edu - website - Bio
Associate Professor, PhD. University of New Mexico 1998. Plant functional and physiological ecology; Macroecology and Biogeography; Allometry and biological scaling; The evolution of form and function in biology.

Dr. Ferriere, Regis
Associate Professor
Office: BSW 408  621-7517
Lab:   
regisf@email.arizona.edu - - Bio
Associate Professor PhD, Paris, 1995. Interplay of ecological and evolutionary processes. Mathematical modelling and applications to the evolution of behavioral and life-history traits.

Dr. Hackett, Jeremiah
Assistant Professor
Office: BSW 336  621-7514
Lab: BSW 119  621-7514
hackettj@email.arizona.edu - website - Bio
Assistant Professor; Ph.D. Genetics, University of Iowa 2005 Endosymbiosis and evolution of photosynthesis, ecology and physiology of harmful algae, genomics and genome evolution.

Dr. Huxman, Travis E.
Associate Professor
Office: BSW 414  621-8220
Lab: BSW 431  621-8220
huxman@email.arizona.edu - website - Bio
Associate Professor; PhD. Biology, Univerrsity of Nevada, Las Vegas 2000. I am a broadly trained plant physiological ecologist who is interested in plant evolution and global change.

Dr. Kidwell, Margaret G.
Regents' Professor (Emerita)
Office: BSW 116  
Lab:   
mgkaz@comcast.net - - Bio
Regents' Professor, Ph.D., Brown University 1973. Evolutionary genetics; transposable elements in Drosophila; insect disease vectors.

Dr. Machado, Carlos A.
Assistant Professor
Office: BSW 320  626-8155
Lab: BSW 317  626-7009
cmachado@email.arizona.edu - website - Bio
Assistant Professor; Ph.D., UC Irvine 1998. Evolutionary Genetics and Genomics; Plant-Insect Coevolution

Dr. Markow, Therese A.
Regents' Professor
Office: BSW 416  621-3323
Lab: BSW 136/8  626-2772
tmarkow@arl.arizona.edu - website - Bio
Regents' Professor, Director of Center for Insect Science; Ph.D., Arizona State University, 1974 Evolutionary biology, population genetics, Drosophila, reproductive isolation, ecology, population biology, biological stoichiometry.

Dr. Masel, Joanna
Assistant Professor
Office: BSW 508  626-9888
Lab: BSW 121  626-1727
masel@email.arizona.edu - website - Bio
Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Oxford University, 2000 Evolutionary biology, theoretical biology, mathematical biology, evolutionary capacitors, evolution of evolvability, yeast prions, heat shock protein, population genetics, bioinformatics, transcriptional regulators.

Dr. Mead, Albert R.
Professor (Emeritus)
Office:    
Lab:   
mead@u.arizona.edu - -
Professor, Emeritus

Dr. Mellor, Robert S.
Associate Professor (Emeritus)
Office: BSE 1C  
Lab:   
atinsley@ag.arizona.edu - -
Professor, Emeritus

Dr. Michod, Richard E.
Professor
Office: BSW 410  621-7517
Lab: BSW 413  621-1844
michod@u.arizona.edu - website - Bio
Professor; Ph.D., University of Georgia, 1978. Population biology; evolution of cooperation and sex using mathematical and experimental approaches; philosophy of biology.

Dr. Moran, Nancy A.
Regents Professor
Office: LSS 327A  621-3581
Lab: LSS 204  626-8344
nmoran@u.arizona.edu - website - Bio
Regents' Professor; Joint Appointment - Department of Entomology, Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1982. Evolutionary biology; molecular evolution; endosymbiosis; insects and bacteria.

Dr. Nachman, Michael W.
Professor
Office: BSW 334  626-4595
Lab: BSW 333  626-4747
nachman@u.arizona.edu - website - Bio
Professor; Curator of Mammals; Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1990. Population and evolutionary genetics; chromosomal evolution; speciation; mammalian evolution.

Dr. Ochman, Howard
Professor
Office: LSS 233  626-8355
Lab: LSS 204  626-8344
hochman@email.arizona.edu - website - Bio
Professor; Ph.D., Biology, University of Rochester, 1983 Evolution and adaptation of microbial genomes. Microbial interactions with hosts, Evolution of genome contents and organization, Experimental evolution, Metagenomic analysis of microbial communities.

Dr. Papaj, Daniel R.
Professor
Office: BSW 514  621-8988
Lab: BSW 507  621-8988
papaj@u.arizona.edu - website - Bio
Professor; Ph.D., Duke University, 1984. Behavioral ecology; function and evolution of learning; plant­insect interactions.

Dr. Pepper, John W.
Assistant Professor
Office: BSW 326  626-0440
Lab: BSW 118  626-0440
jpepper1@email.arizona.edu - website - Bio
Assistant Professor; Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1996 Evolutionary dynamics, particularly multilevel selection, the evolution of cooperation, evolvability, and transitions in individuality. Social behavior, conflict and communication.

Dr. Robichaux, Robert H.
Distinguished Professor
Office: BSW 420  621-3458
Lab:   
robichau@u.arizona.edu - - Bio
Distinguished Professor; Ph.D., University of California, Davis 1980 Plant conservation biology; plant evolutionary biology.

Dr. Rosenzweig, Michael L.
Professor
Office: BSW 321E  621-7296
Lab: BSW 321  
scarab@email.arizona.edu - website - Bio
Professor; Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania 1966. Evolutionary ecology; patterns of species diversity; theory and mechanisms of habitat selection and population dynamics; structure of mammalian communities.

Dr. Russell, Stephen M.
Associate Professor (Emeritus)
Office: BSE 115B  
Lab:   
srussell@u.arizona.edu - -
Associate Professor, Emeritus

Dr. Saleska, Scott
Assistant Professor
Office: BSW 510  626-1500
Lab: BSW 102  626-5838
saleska@email.arizona.edu - website - Bio
Assistant Professor; PhD 1998, University of California - Berkeley Biogeochemical ecology: how climate interacts with plant physiology, demography, and ecological processes to influence or control biogeochemical cycling from local to global scales.

Dr. Sanderson, Michael
Professor
Office: BSW 412  626-6848
Lab: BSW 419  626-8660
sanderm@email.arizona.edu - website - Bio
Professor; Ph.D., Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona 1989 Phylogenetic biology; bioinformatics and c omputational biology; plant systematics and evolution

Dr. Schaffer, William M.
Professor
Office: BSE 215  621-7295
Lab: BSE 215  621-7295
wms@u.arizona.edu - website - Bio
Professor; Ph.D., Princeton University 1972. Nonlinear dynamics of biological systems.

Dr. Sullivan, Matthew B.
Assistant Professor
Office: LSS 246  626-6297
Lab: LSS 203/7  626-6297
mbsulli@email.arizona.edu - website - Bio
Assistant Professor; PhD. Biological Oceanography, MIT/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 2004 Co-evolution of microbe and virus (phage) in ‘wild’ populations; viral impacts on global biogeochemistry; population genomics; prokaryote and viral genome evolution; single-cell genomics/transcriptomics and physiology; model-system based experimental hypothesis testing.

Dr. Thomson, Donald A.
Professor (Emeritus)
Office: BSE 1  
Lab: BSE 1  
dat@u.arizona.edu - - Bio
Professor Emeritus; Ph.D., Hawaii, 1963. Community structure of coral reef fishes; stability, diversity, and conservation of marine communities following disturbances

Dr. Venable, D. Lawrence
Professor
Office: BSW 504  621-5956
Lab: BSW 501  621-4022
venable@email.arizona.edu - website - Bio
Professor; Ph.D.,University of Texas, 1979. Plant population biology of plant life histories, reproductive ecology, dispersal, dormancy, species coexistence, and population dynamics.

Dr. Walsh, J. Bruce
Professor
Office: BSW 322  621-1915
Lab:   
jbwalsh@u.arizona.edu - website - Bio
Professor; Ph.D., University of Washington (Seattle), 1983. Population and quantitative genetics; genome evolution; macroevolution.

Dr. Worobey, Michael
Assistant Professor
Office: BSW 324  626-3456
Lab: BSW 401  621-4881
worobey@email.arizona.edu - - Bio
Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Oxford University, 2001 Molecular evolution of viruses and bacteria.