Faculty Research Groups
Team up with expert researchers
Drive discovery. Make meaningful contributions to the scientific community. Get experience and recognition.
You can do all that – and more – by joining a faculty research group.
Browse labs by research area
Which area of biology do you want to explore? Our faculty conduct dedicated research in the following areas.
You can join most research groups as an undergraduate or graduate student.
- Aquatic plants (pollutants and biology education) - Faculty
- Bats (population genetics and conservation) - Adjunct faculty
- Behavioral ecology (predation, territoriality, chemical communication) - Faculty
- Birds (bioacoustics, evolution, biogeography, ecology) - Adjunct faculty
- Conservation behavior (behavioral ecology, two-eyed seeing) - Faculty
- Ecology (behavioral, evolutionary, microbial) - Faculty
- Fisheries (applied management) - Adjunct Faculty
- Genetic mapping (transcriptomics and plant defense) - Emeritus faculty
- Herpetology (snake ecology and conservation) - Faculty
- Lepidoptera (conservation, ecology, physiology) - Emeritus
- Mammals (biogeography and quantitative biology) - Faculty
- Microbial ecology (environmental metagenomics) - Faculty
- Migraine (TMD, nutraceuticals, inflammation) - Faculty
- Mollusca (conservation, ecology, physiology) - Emeritus faculty
- Mycobacteria (immunity and membrane dynamics) - Faculty
- Nanotoxicology (cell traffic and cancer nanodrug carrier) - Faculty
- Physiological ecology (conservation, herpetology, aquatic ecology) - Faculty
- Plant ecology (restoration and conservation) - Faculty
- Stream ecology (connectivity, aquatic insects, communities, populations) - Faculty
Dr. Giorgia Auteri
Research area: Population genetics, bats, conservation
Status: Adjunct
Dr. Chris Barnhart
Research area: Conservation, ecology, physiology, mollusca, lepidoptera
Status: Emeritus
Dr. Kathleen Church
Research area: Behavioral ecology, conservation behavior, two-eyed seeing
Status: Faculty
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Dr. Paul Durham
Research area: Migraine, TMD, nutraceuticals, inflammation
Status: Faculty
Dr. Deb Finn
Research area: Stream ecology, connectivity, aquatic insects, communities, populations
Status: Faculty
Dr. Brian Greene
Research area: Herpetology, snake ecology, conservation
Status: Faculty
Dr. Takehiro Kado
Research area: Mycobacteria, immunity, membrane dynamics
Status: Faculty
Dr. Kyoungtae Kim
Research area: Nanotoxicology, cell traffic, cancer nanodrug carrier
Status: Faculty
Dr. La Toya Kissoon-Charles
Research area: Pollutants, aquatic plants, biology education
Status: Faculty
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Dr. Laszlo Kovacs
Research area: Genetic mapping, transcriptomics, plant defense
Faculty Status: Emeritus
Dr. Day Ligon
Research area: Conservation, herpetology, physiological ecology, aquatic ecology
Status: Faculty
Dr. Sean Maher
Research area: Mammals, biogeography, quantitative biology
Status: Faculty
Dr. Alicia Mathis
Research area: Behavioral ecology, predation, territoriality, chemical communication
Status: Faculty
Dr. Jay McEntee
Research area: Birds, bioacoustics, evolution, biogeography, ecology
Faculty status: Adjunct
Dr. Babur Mirza
Research area: Microbial ecology, environmental metagenomics
Status: Faculty
Dr. Quinton Phelps
Research area: Applied fisheries management
Faculty status: Adjunct
Dr. Avery Russell
Research area: Behavioral, evolutionary, microbial ecology
Status: Faculty
Dr. Alexander Wait
Research area: Plant ecology, restoration, conservation
Status: Faculty