Faculty
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 on any OEB faculty member's name to view their contact information on our directory page.
| Name | Research Interests |
|---|---|
| Adler, Lynn Associate Professor Plant, Soil and Insect Sciences |
Plant-Animal interactions |
| Blanchard, Jeffrey Associate Professor Microbiology |
Influence of environmental changes on the evolution of molecular processes, Evolution of microbial cellular and community networks |
| Bubier, Jill Associate Professor Environmental Science, Mount Holyoke College |
Carbon cycling in northern wetlands |
| Caicedo, Ana L. Assistant Professor Biology |
Plant molecular evolution and evolutionary genomics |
| Coombs, Margery C. Professor Biology |
Vertebrate paleontology |
| Dorit, Robert L. Associate Professor Biological Sciences, Smith College |
Molecular evolution; comparative & statistical approaches to molecular & genome evolution |
| Dumont, Betsy Professor Biology |
Mammalian morphology and evolution |
| Godfrey, Laurie R. Professor Anthropology |
Primatology, paleontology and evolutionary theory |
| Hood, Michael E. Assistant Professor Biology, Amherst College |
Evolutionary forces that shape systems of inheritance and disease transmission |
| Irschick, Duncan Associate Professor Biology |
Functional morphology, evolution and behavioral ecology |
| Jakob, Elizabeth Professor Psychology |
Behavioral ecology of spiders, especially social behavior and learning |
| Katz, Laura Associate Professor Biological Sciences, Smith College |
Tree of Life; genome evolution in microbial eukaryotes |
| Letcher, Benjamin Adjunct Associate Professor Natural Resources Conservation |
Population ecology of anadromous fish |
| Margulis, Lynn Distinguished Professor Geosciences |
Microbial evolution and organelle heredity |
| Miller, Jill Assistant Professor Biology, Amherst College |
Ecology and evolution of plant sexual systems |
| Normark, Benjamin Associate Professor Plant, Soil and Insect Sciences |
Evolution of alternative genetic systems in insects |
| Patek, Sheila Assistant Professor Biology |
Evolutionary biomechanics of movement and communication |
| Podos, Jeffrey Professor Biology |
Mechanisms and evolution of vertebrate behavior, bioacoustics |
| Porter, Adam H. Associate Professor Plant, Soil and Insect Sciences |
Conservation ecology of lepidoptera; evolution of development, biostatistics and bioinformatics |
| Rachootin, Stan P. Professor Biological Sciences, Mount Holyoke College |
Evolution and development, history of evolutionary theory |
| Rich, Stephen Assistant Professor Plant, Soil and Insect Sciences |
Medical zoology and evolutionary genetics |
| Riley, Margaret (Peg) Professor Biology |
Microbial molecular evolution and ecology |
| Tilley, Stephen G. Professor Biological Sciences, Smith College |
Genetic differentiation and speciation in salamanders |
| Walker, Elsbeth Associate Professor Biology |
Epigenetic mechanisms in plants |
| Whiteley, Andrew Assistant Professor Natural Resources Conservation |
Conservation genetics and evolutionary ecology of fishes |
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