SBE - Faculty Members
Faculty
| Name | Degree | Research Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Alyokhin, Andrei | Ph.D. 1998 University of Massachusetts, Amherst | Insect behavior and ecology, integrated pest management, biological control |
| Annis, Seanna L. | Ph.D. 1995 University of Guelph | Physiological, molecular, and field studies of fungal pathogens of plants and animals |
| Ashworth, Sharon | Ph.D. 1998 Purdue University | Cellular, biochemical and molecular analysis of the actin cytoskeleton in response to renal ischemia. |
| Atkins, Lynn | M.S. 2000 University of Maine | |
| Campbell, Christopher S. | Ph.D. 1980 Harvard University | Plant systematics, molecular phylogeny, reproductive biology, and quantitative morphology |
| Cronan, Christopher | Ph.D. 1978 Dartmouth College | Biogeochemistry; plant ecology; ecosystem ecology; land use planning |
| Dastoor, Farahad | Ph.D. 1999 Univ. of British Columbia | Mollusc/algal chloroplast symbiosis and microbial gene organization, structure, and expression |
| De los Reyes, Benildo G. | Ph.D. 1999 Oklahoma State University | Functional and comparative genomics of low temperature stress tolerance in plants; genetic network modeling; stress response signaling |
| Dowse, Harold B. | Ph.D. 1971 New York University | Genetic and molecular analysis of cardiac pacemakers; biology of cellular oscillators; mathematical analysis and modeling of biological systems |
| Drummond, Francis | Ph.D. 1986 University of Rhode Island | Insect quantitative ecology, pest management, population dynamics, simulation modeling, biostatistics, pollination ecology |
| Elskus, Adria | Ph.D. 1992 Boston University | Aquatic toxicology, biomarkers of exposure and effect, development of chemical tolerance, fish health |
| Glanz, William E. | Ph.D. 1977 University of California, Berkeley | Community and foraging ecology and social behavior of mammals and birds; evolution and biogeography of North and South American rodents |
| Groden, Eleanor | Ph.D. 1988 Michigan State University | Insect ecology, insect pathology, and biological control |
| Hall, Jeffrey | Ph.D. 1971 University of Washington | Drosophila neurobiology |
| Hart, David | Ph.D. 1979 University of California - Davis | Watershed science and management |
| Henry, Clarissa | Ph.D. 2000 University of Washington | Cell and molecular biology of segmentation and muscle development in Zebrafish |
| Holberton, Rebecca | Ph.D. 1991 State University of New York, Albany | The endocrine basis of bird ecology and behavior; reproductive biology, bird migration and conservation |
| Hunter, Susan J. | Ph.D. 1980 Pennsylvania State University | Cell biology and physiology of bone cells and developing extracellular matrix; role of growth factors in skeletal physiology |
| Jellison, Jody | Ph.D. 1983 Oregon State University | Biochemical characterization of wood decay; metal metabolism in fungi; fungal physiology; bioremediation |
| Kass, Leonard J. | Ph.D. 1980 University of Illinois | Neurophysiology of sensory and motor systems; biological rhythms; cellular neurobiology of vision; gene expression in frog oocytes |
| Kinnison, Michael T. | Ph.D. 1999 University of Washington | Microevolution, aquatic ecology, population and conservation genetics; fish ecology (including salmonids) |
| Longcore, Joyce E. | Ph.D. 1991 University of Maine | Chytridiomycete systematics and phylogeny; chytrid pathogen of amphibians |
| Olsen, Brian | Ph.D. 2007, Virginia Tech | Avian ecology, behavior, demography, mating systems, and life history evolution |
| Ringo, John M. | Ph.D. 1973 University of California, Davis | Genetic analysis of reproductive behavior and cardiac rhythms |
| Saros, Jasmine | Ph.D. 1999 Lehigh University | Paleolimnology, phytoplankton ecology, lake ecosystem response to global change |
| Schwintzer, Christa | Ph.D. 1969 University of Michigan | Biology of Frankia, a nitrogen-fixing actinomycete, and physiological plant ecology with emphasis on nitrogen fixing and wetland plants |
| Simon, Kevin | Ph.D. 2000 Virginia Tech | Ecology of streams and groundwater ecosystems |
| Stubbs, Constance S. | Ph.D. 1992 University of Maine | Pollination ecology, lichenology, mycology |
| Tavantzis, Stellos | Ph.D. 1980 Pennsylvania State University | Molecular genetics of virulence in plant pathogenic fungi; biological control of fungal plant pathogens |
| Tracewski, Kevin | M.S. 1981 University of New Hampshire | |
| Tyler, Mary S. | Ph.D. 1975 University of North Carolina | Developmental biology; organogenesis; and the creation of multimedia educational materials in development. |
| Tyler, Seth | Ph.D. 1975 University of North Carolina | Invertebrate biology; electron and fluorescence microscopy; phylogeny of lower invertebrates; meiofauna |
| Vadas, Robert | Ph.D. 1968 University of Washington | Marine and algal ecology; recruitment; plant-herbivore and predator-prey interactions |
Cooperating Faculty
| Name | Degree | Research Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Brawley, Susan H. | Ph.D. 1978 University of California, Berkeley | Marine algae: developmental biology and physiology of fertilization; marine ecology; environmental control of reproduction |
| Bray, William O. | Ph.D. 1981 University of Missouri | Mathematics: Classical analysis, harmonic analysis |
| Bushway, Alfred | Ph.D. 1978 Purdue University | Nutrition: Natural-products metabolism |
| Bushway, Rodney | Ph.D. 1977 Texas A&M University | Nutrition: Pesticide detection, natural toxicants |
| Dieffenbacher-Krall, Ann | Ph.D. 1998 Univ. Maine | paleoecology, climate change |
| Dill, Jim | Ph.D. 1979 Purdue University | Integrated pest management of vegetable and small fruit crops |
| Greenwood, Michael S. | Ph.D. 1969 Yale University | Tree physiology and improvement |
| Hiebeler, David | Ph.D. 2001 Cornell University | Mathematical population ecology, complex adaptive systems, modeling |
| Hutchinson, Keith W. | Ph.D. 1974 University of Wisconsin, Madison | Molecular genetics of growth and development, genome flux |
| Jagels, Richard | Ph.D. 1968 University of Illinois | Forest ecology: autecological effects on structure of woody plants |
| Kornfield, Irv | Ph.D. 1974 SUNY, Stony Brook | Population biology, speciation theory, molecular systematics |
| Lambert, David H. | Ph.D. 1979 Pennsylvania State University | Plant Science: Molecular biology of host-pathogen interactions; diseases of horticultural crops |
| Lindsay, Sara | Ph.D. 1994 Univ. South Carolina | |
| Livingston, William H. | Ph.D. 1985 University of Minnesota | Plant physiology: disease, ectomycorrhizal, and ethylene effects on growth of conifers |
| McCleave, James D. | Ph.D. 1967 Montana State University | Migratory and transport mechanisms of fishes; fisheries oceanography |
| Rawson, Paul | Ph.D. 1996 University of South Carolina | Quantitative and population genetics of marine invertebrates, molecular evolution |
| Rhymer, Judith | Ph.D. 1988 Florida state Univ. | Conservation genetics, conservation biology, population biology |
| Rosenwasser, Alan M. | Ph.D. 1980 Northeastern Univ. | Behavioral neuroscience, chronobiology, and animal models of psychiatric disorder |
| Shick, J. Malcolm | Ph.D. 1974 Texas A&M University | Ecological physiology of marine invertebrates; biology of symbiotic cnidarians; UV photobiology and oxidative stress |
| Sidell, Bruce D. | Ph.D. 1975 University of Illinois | Physiology and biochemistry of fishes, mechanisms of metabolic compensation to environmental variables in fishes, physiology of Antarctic fish species |
| Steneck, Robert S. | Ph.D. 1983 Johns Hopkins University | Ecology and evolutionary biology of benthic marine algae, invertebrates, and communities; emphasis on crustose coralline algae, herbivores, and lobste |
| Van Beneden, Rebecca J | Ph.D. 1983 Johns Hopkins University | Environmental toxicology: molecular mechanisms of carcinogenesis, comparative carcinogenesis, aquatic toxicology |
| Wagner, Robert | Ph.D. 1989 Oregon State University | |
| Zydlewski, Joseph D. | Ph.D. 1998 University of Massachusetts | Fish movements and migrations in the context of ecology, physiology and management |
