Results for "biology"

Projects

Investigating Jamaican terrestrial vertebrate paleontology: colonization, extinction, and resilience

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This project aims to disentangle biotic and abiotic factors contributing to extinction, colonization, and persistence dynamics in terrestrial ecosystems of Jamaica by utilizing the recent (Quaternary) fossil record.…

Insects and their bacterial symbionts

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Nancy Moran's lab is seeking reliable undergraduate research assistants to help with experimental studies of insects and their bacterial symbionts. Please find the announcements below, and direct any questions to…

Faculty

Brandon Emilio Campitelli

Affiliated Departments:
College of Natural Sciences
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Genotyping, Selection, Genetics, Phenotyping, Quantitative Genetics, PCR, DNA, DNA Sequencing, Population Genetics, Genomics, Molecular Markers, Genetic Diversity, Genetic Analysis, Molecular Population Genetics,…

Caroline Farrior

Affiliated Departments:
Integrative Biology
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Dr.Farrior's research is motivated by a desire to understand the interacting mechanisms that drive variation in plant communities across environmental gradients. She works to scale across individual-level, community-…

Antonio Gonzalez

Affiliated Departments:
School of Biological Sciences, College of Natural Sciences
Research Interests:

Natural Sciences: Biological sciences

Gustavo Ochoa

Affiliated Departments:
School of Biological Sciences
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Natural Sciences: Biology

Emily Porter

Affiliated Departments:
Cockrell School of Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Electromagnetic-based medical technologies; impedance and dielectric properties of biological tissues; microwave radar and antenna arrays.

Adrianne Rosales

Affiliated Departments:
Cockrell School of Engineering, Chemical Engineering
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We study and develop dynamic polymer systems to engineer complex biological microenvironments. In processes such as disease or tissue development, there is an active interplay between cells, the extracellular matrix…

Devarajan Thirumalai

Affiliated Departments:
Chemistry and Biochemistry, College of Natural Sciences
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Thirumalai’s research is primarily theoretical at the interfaces of chemistry, physics, and biology.
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