Evolutionary Biology Faculty Listing
Sonia Altizer, Associate Professor, Ecology. Ecological and evolutionary interactions between hosts and parasites. Wyatt Anderson, Alumni Foundation Distinguished Professor, Genetics; Member, National Academy of Sciences. Population genetics, molecular evolution, mating behavior Drosophila species. Jonathan Arnold, Professor, Genetics. Genome evolution, complex genetic networks, statistical genetics. Michael Arnold, Professor, Genetics (associated faculty, Plant Biology, Ecology). Natural hybridization and speciation. Jeff Bennetzen, Norman and Doris Giles Professor of Genetics, Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar. Genome evolution, transposable elements. John Burke, Associate Professor of Plant Biology. Plant evolutionary biology. Shumei Chang, Associate Professor, Plant Biology. Plant mating system evolution. Celeste Condit, Distinguished Research Professor, Speech Communication. Rhetorical analysis, role of public address in process of social change and stability, human reproduction, impact of genetic technology. Kelly Dawe, Professor, Georgia Research Alliance Lars G. Ljungdahl Distinguished Investigator, Plant Biology and Genetics. Meiotic drive and chromosome structure in maize. Katrien Devos, Associate Professor, Plant Biology and Crop and Soil Science. Genome evolution, cereal genetics and comparative genome analysis in wheat, pearl millet and finger millet. Lisa Donovan, Professor, Plant Biology. Plant evolutionary ecophysiology. Kelly Dyer, Assistant Professor, Genetics. Evolutionary conflict. Mark Farmer, Professor and Head, Cellular Biology; Director, Center for Ultrastructural Research. Evolution of the eukaryotic cell using protists as model systems. Susan Goldstein, Professor and Head, Geology (associated faculty, Marine Sciences). Benthic foraminifera, comparative life cycles, morphogenesis, paleobiology, paleoecology. David Hall, Assistant Professor, Genetics. Theoretical populations genetics, chromosome evolution, experimental evolution. James Hamrick, Regents Professor, Plant Biology (associated faculty, Ecology, Forest Resources, Genetics). Plant evolutionary biology, genetic structure, gene flow, conservation genetics. Steven Holland, Professor, Geology (associated faculty, Marine Sciences). Stratigraphic paleontology, community, evolution, extinction. Jessica Kissinger, Associate Professor, Genetics, Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases. Parasite genomics, biology of genome evolution. Edward Larson, Richard B. Russell Professor, History; Darling Professor of Law, Pepperdine University. WInner, 1998 Pulitzer Prize in History. Legal, historical and social issues relating to life sciences. James Leebens-Mack, Assistant Professor, Plant Biology. Plant systematics, plant-pollinator coevolution, evolutionary genomics. Russell Malmberg, Professor, Plant Biology (associated faculty, Genetics and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology). Molecular evolution, bioinformatics, epistasis, origin of land plants. Rodney Mauricio, Associate Professor, Genetics (associated faculty, Plant Biology). Ecological genetics, invasive species, molecular ecology, plant-animal interactions, complex traits, QTL mapping. Richard Meagher, Distinguished Research Professor, Genetics. Plant gene families, regulation, macroevolution, actin & profilin, heavy metals. David Moeller, Assistant Professor, Genetics. Ecological genetics and molecular evolution. Albert Parker, Professor, Geography. Biogeography. Kathleen Parker, Professor, Geography. Biogeography. Andrew Paterson, Distinguished Research Professor, Crop and Soil Sciences, Plant Biology and Genetics. Crop plant genomics and genome evolution, comparisons of crop genomes with their wild relatives, sequencing sorghum as a representative. Daniel Promislow, Professor, Genetics. Aging, behavioral ecology, quantitative genetics, Drosophila, comparative methods in evolution. Pejman Rohani, Professor, Ecology. Ecology and epidemiology, population dynamics, insect-host-parasitoid interactions. Kenneth Ross, Professor, Entomology (associated faculty, Genetics). Social insects, social evolution, gene flow, speciation, selection, behavior genetics. Paul Schliekelman, Associate Professor, Statistics (associated faculty, Genetics). Statistical genomics, population genetics. Michael Strand, Distinguished Research Professor, Entomology, Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases (associated faculty, Genetics). Parasite-host interactions, life history evolution and arthropod development, behavioral ecology. Sally Walker, Professor, Geology (associated faculty, Marine Sciences). Mutualism, symbiosis, how taphonomy affects evolutionary systems, diversity in deep sea, predation in the fossil record. John Wares, Assistant Professor, Genetics. History of populations and species in a genealogical context. Molecular ecology, marine conservation genetics. Susan Wessler, University of Georgia Foundation Chair in the Biological Sciences, Plant Biology (associated faculty, Genetics). Member, National Academy of Sciences. Transposable elements, evolution of gene expression, maize, rice, flowering plants, transcription regulation, translational control, retrotransposons. |