Results for "evolution"

Projects

Animal Adolescence

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What is adolescence and what animals have it?

People have been studying primates in the wild for a good portion of the last century. Now there is a lot of information out there, giving…

Evolutionary variation in genes, brains and behaviors

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The Phelps lab is broadly interested in animal social behavior, its brain mechanisms, and how those mechanisms evolve. We do a variety of work ranging from mechanisms of gene regulation to the fitness consequences of…

Evolution of a Social Decision-Making Network

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We have reconstructed the evolution of a neural social decision-making network across vertebrates and found that gene expression profiles in these behaviorally relevant brain regions are remarkably conserved. Our…

Faculty

Brett J Baker

Affiliated Departments:
Integrative Biology, Marine Science
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I primarily use genomics, transcriptomics, and proteomics to understand how microbial communities persist in nature. My group primarily focused on the microbial ecology of marine sediments and the deep sea. We also…

Jeffrey E Barrick

Affiliated Departments:
Chemistry and Biochemistry
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The Barrick lab studies evolution in action using experiments with bacteria, molecules, and digital organisms. We are interested in understanding how mutations that affect different cellular processes can promote and…

Christopher Bell

Affiliated Departments:
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
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Vertebrate paleontology, osteology, skeletal anatomy, and systematics of lizards, snakes, and turtles; fossil lizards; Natural History Museum science

Nichole Bennett

Affiliated Departments:
School of Biological Sciences, Integrative Biology
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Impact of climate change on species' interactions.

David Cannatella

Affiliated Departments:
Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies, Integrative Biology, School of Biological Sciences
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Reptile and amphibian biodiversity and evolution.
Phylogenomics and phylogeny of amphibians.
Biogeography and biodiversity of Latin America.
Evolutionary morphology of amphibians.
Acoustic…

Z. Jeffrey Chen

Affiliated Departments:
Molecular Biosciences, School of Biological Sciences
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Dr. Chen studies genetic and epigenetic mechanisms for gene expression changes in plant polyploids and hybrids

Molly Cummings

Affiliated Departments:
School of Biological Sciences, Integrative Biology
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Dr. Cummings is interested in understanding what drives the divergence in animal vision and visual signaling systems. A central goal of her research is to understand the interplay of environmental variation on…

Arturo De Lozanne

Affiliated Departments:
Molecular Cell and Developmental Biology
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Professor DeLozanne is interested in defining the molecular basis of the lysosomal disorder known as the Chediak-Higashi Syndrome. This disease is caused by mutations in a very large gene and result in the loss of a…