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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Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, Smith College |
Plant ecology, biogeography and evolution |
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Associate Professor of Biology |
Climate Change, Biofuels, Clostridia, Microbial Ecology and Evolution, Genomics, Bioinformatics |
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Associate Professor of Environmental Science, Mount Holyoke College |
Carbon cycling in northern wetlands |
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Associate Professor of Biology |
Plant molecular evolution and evolutionary genomics |
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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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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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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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Adjunct Research Assistant Professor, Biology & Environmental Conservation |
Evolutionary genetics, evolution of development |
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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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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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Associate Professor of Biology, Amherst College |
Ecology and evolution of plant sexual systems |
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Associate Professor of Biology |
Evolution of alternative genetic systems in insects |
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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 Evolutionary Biology, Hampshire College |
Ecological and evolutionary genetics of hybrid zones and speciation |
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Professor of Anthropology |
Evolution of menopause |
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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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Assistant Professor of Environmental Conservation |
Conservation genetics and evolutionary ecology of fishes |