Research
The Department of Biology is actively engaged in research, including faculty and students at the graduate and undergraduate level.
Symposia
Students at the undergraduate and graduate level within the Department of Biology have the opportunity to participate in the Office of Research Symposia each year, sharing posters highlighting their research, internships or field courses.
Faculty Labs
| Lab Website | Focus | Contact |
|---|---|---|
| Aquatic Biogeochemistry Lab | Ecosystem Approaches to Understand and Protect Freshwaters | Dr. Michelle Baker |
| Beckman Lab | Seedscape Ecology | Dr. Noelle Beckman |
| Bobeck Lab | The Neurobiology of Pain, Tolerance, and Addiction | Dr. Erin Bobeck |
| Borghi Lab | Flower Metabolomics | Dr. Monica Borghi |
| Demard Lab | Biology and Management of Arthropod Pests in Horticultural Crops | Dr. Emilie Demard |
| Freeman Lab | Oxytocin, Vasopressin, and the Comparative Neurobiology of Social Behavior | Dr. Sara Freeman |
| French Lab | Population Monitoring and Physiological trade-offs; Population Physiology and Genomics; Ecoimmunology; Ecotourism and Anthropogenic Disturbance | Dr. Susannah French |
| Gompert Lab | N/A | Dr. Zach Gompert |
| Goodman Lab | Disease Ecology, Animal Behavior, Wildlife, Social Behavior, Host-Parasite Interactions | Dr. Graham Goodman |
| Hanifin Lab | Chemical ecology and functional genomics/genetics of coevolutionary interactions | Dr. Charles Hanifin |
| Jones Lab | Bioinspired Materials: A Common Thread | Dr. Justin A. Jones |
| Kapheim Lab | Behavioral and Evolutionary Genetics of Sociality in Bees | Dr. Karen Kapheim |
| Mora Mitchell Lab | Craniofacial & Developmental Biology | Dr. Jennyfer Mora Mitchell |
| Mundim Lab | Ecology of above and below ground multi-species interactions | Dr. Fabiane Mundim |
| Nischwitz Lab | Plant Pathology | Dr. Claudia Nischwitz |
| Pitts Lab | Phylogenetics and Systematics of Aculeate Hymenoptera and Applied Mathematical Education for Life Science Majors | Dr. James Pitts |
| Robinson Lab | Patterns and causes of ecological variation; native plant and insect community ecology; plant-herbivore/pollinator/microbe interactions; impacts of environmental stress on ecological function. | Dr. Moria Robinson |
| Rothfels Lab | Interested in phylogenetics theory and practice; plant systematics; reticulate evolution; fern biology; polyploidy. | Dr. Carl Rothfels |
| Rushworth Lab | Evolutionary ecology, genetics, and speciation of plants | Dr. Cathy Rushworth |
| Saarman Lab | Species Location & Variation Across Space in Genetic Diversity/Phenotypic Traits that Allow Species to be Successful in their Environment | Dr. Norah Saarman |
| Sadler-Pitts Lab | Phylogenomics of Aculeate Hymenoptera | Dr. Emily Sadler-Pitts |
| Savitzky Lab | Chemical Ecology and Evolutionary Morphology of Amphibians and Reptiles | Dr. Al Savitzky |
| Schaeffer Lab | Basic and Applied Ecology of Plant-Microbe-Insect Interactions | Dr. Robert Schaeffer |
| Smith Lab | Evolution and ecology of insect societies, especially ants | Dr. Chris R. Smith |
| Takemoto Lab | Microbial Natural Products Labs | Dr. Jon Takemoto |
| von Dohlen Lab | Phylogenetics and Genomics of Insects and their Symbionts | Dr. Carol von Dohlen |
| Wei Lab | Fungal-plant interactions, fungicide resistance, mycoviruses as biological control agent | Dr. Wei Wei |
| Weinstein Lab | The ecology of host symbiont interactions | Dr. Sara Weinstein |
| Williams Lab | Chemical Ecology and Wildlife Ecology | Dr. Becky Williams |
| Wilson Lab | N/A | Dr. Joseph Wilson |