All OEB faculty are listed below. To help applicants to our graduate program locate a faculty sponsor, the faculty list can be filtered by four broad research areas.
Click any OEB faculty member's name to view their directory page.
Faculty
| Name | Research Interests |
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Associate Professor of Biology |
Ecology and evolution of insect-plant interactions |
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Assistant Professor of Biology |
Evolutionary Developmental Biology |
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Professor of Biology |
Plant Ecology and Conservation Science |
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Associate Professor of Environmental Conservation |
Insect-plant interactions |
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Professor of Biology |
Regulation of Plant Morphogenesis During Growth & Development |
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Assistant Professor of Psychology and Biology, Smith College |
Neuroendocrinology of social behavior |
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Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, Smith College |
Plant ecology, biogeography and evolution |
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Professor of Biology |
Circadian Rhythms, Reproduction, and Seasonal Changes in Brain Function |
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Associate Professor of Biology |
Climate Change, Biofuels, Clostridia, Microbial Ecology and Evolution, Genomics, Bioinformatics |
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Professor of Psychology Director of NSB |
Neuroendocrinology, Hormone-Neurotransmitter Interactions, Hormones and Behavior, Reproductive Endocrinology, Peripubertal Stress and Reproduction |
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Assistant Professor of Environmental Conservation |
Biogeography and global change ecology |
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Associate Professor of Kinesiology |
Metabolic regulation in humans |
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Research Assistant Professor of Biology |
Evolutionary consequences of interactions between behavior, morphology and the environment |
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Associate Professor of Environmental Science, Mount Holyoke College |
Carbon cycling in northern wetlands |
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Professor of Mathematics and Statistics |
Statistical theory, methods and applcations, Quantitative ecology |
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Associate Professor of Biology |
Acoustic communication in birds |
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Associate Professor of Biology |
Plant molecular evolution and evolutionary genomics |
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Associate Professor of Kinesiology |
Muscle mechanics and modeling in human motor performance |
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Adjunct Assistant Professor of Biology |
Biomechanics and Behavior of Migratory Fishes; Bioengineering of Fish Passage Structures |
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Associate Professor of Biology, Amherst College |
Reproductive behavior of birds and fishes |
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Professor, Stockbridge School of Agriculture |
Ecology of fungal-plant interactions in agricultural systems |
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Lecturer/Adjunct Research Associate Professor of Biology |
Ecology and evolutionary diversity of neotropical freshwater fishes, particularly within the Amazon River |
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Assistant Professor of Environmental Conservation |
Fish conservation, recreational fisheries, sustainable aquaculture |
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Assistant Professor of Microbiology |
Community ecology and physiology of soil microbes, climate change, plant-soil interactions |
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Research Associate Professor of Environmental Conservation USGS Massachusetts Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit Leader |
Urban and suburban wildlife, forest wildlife, and human-wildlife interactions |
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Associate Professor of Biological Sciences, Smith College |
Molecular evolution; comparative & statistical approaches to molecular & genome evolution |
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Associate Professor of Biology |
Development and function of spinal cord networks |
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OEB Director Professor of Biology Director of Natural History Collections |
Vertebrate Morphology |
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Professor of Environmental Conservation |
Population dynamics and biological control of invasive forest insects |
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Senior Researcher, Harvard Forest, Harvard University Adjunct Research Professor, Department of Biology, UMass Amherst |
Community ecology |
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Professor of Environmental Conservation |
Mathematical modeling of populations and ecosystems |
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Professor of Environmental Conservation |
Mammalian population ecology and natural history |
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Associate Professor of Natural Sciences, Hampshire College |
Human and comparative physiology, neuroscience, endocrinology, herpetology, conservation biology, and behavioral biology |
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Associate Professor of Biological Sciences, Mount Holyoke College |
Biomechanics and neuromuscular control of vertebrate locomotion |
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Dean, College of Natural Sciences Professor of Microbiology |
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Professor and Department Head of Environmental Conservation |
Wildlife ecology and conservation |
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Professor of Kinesiology |
Biomechanics of human locomotion |
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Adjunct Professor of Environmental Conservation Ecologist and Section Leader, Fish Passage Engineering S.O. Conte Anadromous Fish Research Center |
Fish behavior and migration; fish passage |
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Associate Professor of Anthropology |
Biocultural evolution of the genus Homo, functional morphology and biomechanics of the appendicular skeleton, paleoecology, forager ecology, Old World prehistory, Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene ecology, bone mass and physical activity. |
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Associate Professor of Biology, Amherst College |
Evolutionary forces that shape systems of inheritance and disease transmission |
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Associate Professor, Biological Sciences, Mount Holyoke College |
Conservation biology, invasion dynamics, spatial modeling |
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Senior Lecturer in Biology |
Animal Behavior, Vertebrate Ecology, and Conservation Biology |
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Professor of Biology |
Functional Morphology, Evolution, and Behavioral Ecology |
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Professor of Psychology |
Animal behavior, especially perception, learning, and social behavior |
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Associate Professor of Biology |
Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms of Vertebrate Retinal Development and Retinal Disease |
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Adjunct Research Assistant Professor, Biology & Environmental Conservation |
Evolutionary genetics, evolution of development |
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Assistant Professor, Environmental Conservation |
Ecosystems, modeling, tagging, movement, trophic dynamics, diadromous, marine, |
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Professor and Chair, Biology |
Developmental neurobiology; axon guidance and forebrain patterning |
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Elsie Damon Simonds Professor of Biological Sciences, Smith College |
Genome evolution and biodiversity studies of microbial eukaryotes |
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Professor of Environmental Conservation |
413-545-1799 |
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Professor of Kinesiology |
Muscle physiology |
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Adjunct Research Associate Professor, Environmental Conservation Research Wildlife Biologist USDA Forest Service Northern Research Station, Amherst |
Wildlife ecology and conservation |
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Associate Professor of Psychology |
Sex hormones and cognition across the lifespan in primates |
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Professor and Department Head, Mathematics and Statistics |
Statistical Theory and Methods |
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Professor and Department Head, Geosciences |
Micropaleontology, Biostratigraphy, Paleoceanography |
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Adjunct Associate Professor of Environmental Conservation Section Leader, Conte Anadromous Fish Research Center |
Population ecology of stream fishes |
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Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Amherst College |
Plant systematics, biogeography and ecology |
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Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology |
Comparative fungal genomics: A gateway toward understanding genome innovation and adaptation |
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Adjunct Professor of Biology Research Physiologist, Conte Anadromous Fish Lab |
Environmental Physiology of Fish |
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Professor of Environmental Conservation |
Landscape ecology, ecosystem management, wildlife ecology |
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Senior Zoologist, Division of Fisheries and Wildlife, Westborough, MA |
Endangered species |
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Associate Professor of Biology, Amherst College |
Ecology and evolution of plant sexual systems |
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Adjunct Associate Professor of Environmental Conservation Research Fishery Biologist, USDA Forest Service |
Ecology and conservation biology of stream fishes and invertebrates |
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Associate Professor of Biology |
Evolution of alternative genetic systems in insects |
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Professor and Chair of Psychology |
Behavior of microtines and primates |
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Associate Professsor of Microbiology |
Microbial ecology of terrestrial and aquatic environments |
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Associate Professor of Cognitive Science, Hampshire College |
Visual and acoustic communication in mammals |
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Associate Professor of Biology |
Evolutionary biomechanics of movement and communication |
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OEB Graduate Program Director Professor of Biology |
Mechanisms and evolution of vertebrate behavior, bioacoustics |
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Associate Professor of Biology |
Conservation ecology of lepidoptera; evolution of development, biostatistics and bioinformatics |
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Professor of Biological Sciences, Mount Holyoke College |
Evolution and development, history of evolutionary theory |
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Assistant Professor of Psychology |
Neural basis of behavior |
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Associate Professor of Microbiology |
Molecular Evolution and Population Genomics of Arthropod-borne Microbial Pathogens |
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Lecturer in Biology Curator of Curator of Amphibians and Reptiles , NaturalHistory Collections |
Phylogeography of New England amphibians and reptiles |
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Professor of Biology |
Microbial molecular evolution and ecology |
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Assistant Professor of Evolutionary Biology, Hampshire College |
Ecological and evolutionary genetics of hybrid zones and speciation |
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Research Assistant Professor of Environmental Conservation |
Freshwater ecology, fish and macroinvertebrates, urban ecology, conservation |
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Professor of Anthropology |
Evolution of menopause |
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Associate Director of OEB and Chair of Admissions Research Associate Professor of Environmental Conservation |
Conservation biology, physiological ecology and biostatistics |
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Professor of Biological Sciences, Smith College |
Ecology and evolution of marine predator-prey interactions |
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Professor of Biology, Amherst College |
Foraging behavior; Territoriality; Intra- and Interspecific competition; Resource partitioning; Mutualism; Coevolution; |
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Associate Professor of Kinesiology |
Biomechanics and energetics of hominin locomotion |
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Professor of Biology Director of Plant Biology Graduate Program |
Epigenetic mechanisms in plants |
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Associate Professor of Environmental Conservation |
Animal communication, urban ecology, human-environment interactions |
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Assistant Professor of Environmental Conservation |
Conservation genetics and evolutionary ecology of fishes |
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Professor of Biology |
Environmental endocrine disrupters |