![Robert Bagchi](http://www.eeb.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1312/2015/08/bagchi.jpg)
Robert Bagchi
The processes that maintain biodiversity in natural ecosystems (particularly in the tropics); how human activity might affect this biodiversity; the role of biodiversity in the provision of ecosystem functions/services
Web site![James Bernot](https://eeb.media.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1312/2024/01/Bernot_IMG_7106_square.jpg)
James Bernot
The evolution of parasitism; parasitic copepod evolution, host-associations, systematics, taxonomy, and morphology; crustacean genomics and phylogeny
Web site![Daniel Bolnick](http://eeb.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1312/2017/09/70AE6703-3DB7-46E8-9BC2-3E496D1D4A55@bamfieldmsc.com_.jpeg)
Daniel Bolnick
Evolution and ecology of variation within species; evolutionary immunology; host-parasite co-evolution; speciation. I combine observational natural history with experiments, theory, and genomics.
Web sitePhone: 860.486.3156
![Andrew Bush](http://www.eeb.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1312/2015/08/bush.lg_.jpg)
Andrew Bush
Paleobiology, including Phanerozoic trends in ecospace utilization and biodiversity; gradient analyses of patchy paleoecologic distributions; and stratigraphy and extinction in the Late Devonian of the Appalachian Basin
Web sitePhone: 860.486.9359
![Andrius Dagilis](https://eeb.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1312/2023/10/dagilis.jpg)
Andrius Dagilis
Genetic underpinnings of speciation and the evolution of how the genome is organized (in particular sex chromosomes and inversions; broad patterns of speciation and introgression across groups
Web site![Pamela Diggle](http://www.eeb.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1312/2015/08/pad06001.lg_.jpg)
Pamela Diggle
Effects of genotype, environment, and ontogenetic history on the development and evolutionary diversification of plant phenotypes
Web sitePhone: 860.486.4788
![Chris Elphick](http://www.eeb.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1312/2015/08/elphick.lg_.jpg)
Chris Elphick
Avian conservation ecology, especially in coastal and farmland settings; habitat loss, climate change, large-scale conservation planning
Web sitePhone: 860.486.4547
![Carlos Garcia-Robledo](http://eeb.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1312/2016/08/Carlos.jpg)
Carlos Garcia-Robledo
Evolutionary ecology of plant-insect interactions; adaptation to novel environments (e.g., novel hosts, climate change), molecular biology, insect physiology, demography
Web sitePhone: 860.486.4027
![Bernard Goffinet](http://www.eeb.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1312/2015/08/goffinet.lg_.jpg)
Bernard Goffinet
Systematics of bryophytes and lichenized fungi; evolution of spore dispersal mechanisms and breeding systems in mosses; evolution of multiple symbioses and photomorphism in lichens
Web sitePhone: 860.486.5290
![Karolina Heyduk](https://eeb.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1312/2022/09/heyduk.jpg)
Karolina Heyduk
Evolution of plant adaptations to abiotic stress; evolution of CAM photosynthesis; plant ecophysiology; comparative genomics
Web site![Kent Holsinger](http://www.eeb.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1312/2015/08/holsinge.lg_.jpg)
Kent Holsinger
Theoretical population genetics; plant population genetics and evolution; evolution of plant mating systems; conservation biology; plant systematics; molecular evolution
Web sitePhone: 860.486.4059
![Elizabeth Jockusch](http://www.eeb.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1312/2015/08/jockusch.lg_.jpg)
Elizabeth Jockusch
Phenotypic evolution; particularly evolution of development and evolution of phenotypic plasticity in basal insects and salamanders; systematics
Web sitePhone: 860.486.4452
![Sarah Knutie](http://eeb.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1312/2017/08/SarahContrast.jpg)
Sarah Knutie
Disease ecology of birds and amphibians; host-microbe interactions; ecotoxicology; invasive species biology; behavioral ecology
Web site![Colin Kremer](https://eeb.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1312/2023/03/kremer.jpg)
Colin Kremer
Interactions between ecology, evolution, and physiology in variable and changing environments, using math, statistics, and experiments involving phytoplankton
Web site![Louise Lewis](https://eeb.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1312/2023/08/lol02005.jpg)
Louise Lewis
Systematics and evolution of green algae, especially terrestrial forms; phylogeny of basal green plants; diversity of desert algae
Web sitePhone: 860.486.6723
![Paul Lewis](http://eeb.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1312/2016/08/polpic.jpg)
Paul Lewis
Phylogenetic theory and methodology; statistical phylogenetics with an emphasis on Bayesian phylogenetics; marginal likelihood estimation; estimating information content
Web sitePhone: 860.486.2069
![Gene Likens](http://www.eeb.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1312/2015/08/likens.lg_.jpg)
Gene Likens
Long-term, multidisciplinary studies of forest, stream and lake ecosystems in the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest in the White Mountains of New Hampshire.
Web sitePhone: 860.486.0367
![Margaret Rubega](http://www.eeb.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1312/2015/08/rubega.lg_.jpg)
Margaret Rubega
Avian functional and evolutionary morphology, especially of feeding structures; feeding mechanics; functional aspects of behavior; ecology; conservation biology
Web sitePhone: 860.486.4502
![Eric Schultz](http://www.eeb.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1312/2015/08/eschultz.lg_.jpg)
Eric Schultz
Evolutionary ecology, physiological ecology, and population biology, especially of fishes; adaptation in life history traits; ecology of larval fishes
Web sitePhone: 860.486.4692
![Kurt Schwenk](http://www.eeb.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1312/2015/08/schwenk.lg_.jpg)
Kurt Schwenk
Functional and evolutionary morphology of tetrapod vertebrates, especially feeding and chemoreception in lizards and snakes
Web sitePhone: 860.486.0351
![Jeff Seemann](http://eeb.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1312/2017/09/Seemann-EEB-Web-Page-Photo.jpg)
Jeff Seemann
Plant responses to the environment from the level of genes to ecosystems, with a focus on photosynthesis, the global carbon cycle, and the responses of terrestrial ecosystems to rising atmospheric CO2
Phone: 860.486.4151![Mark Urban](http://www.eeb.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1312/2015/08/urban.lg_.jpg)
Mark Urban
Community ecology; eco-evolutionary dynamics; microgeographic adaptation; global climate change; metacommunity ecology
Web sitePhone: 860.486.6113
![David Wagner](http://www.eeb.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1312/2015/08/dwagner.lg_.jpg)
David Wagner
Systematics; phylogenetics, especially of the Lepidoptera; insect behavior and ecology; invertebrate conservation
Web sitePhone: 860.486.2139
![Jill Wegrzyn](http://www.eeb.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1312/2015/08/jlw13012.jpg)
Jill Wegrzyn
Scientific databasing and visualization; machine learning; semantic web; ontologies; computational biology; plant genomics; comparative genomics
Web sitePhone: 860.486.8742
![Michael Willig](http://www.eeb.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1312/2015/08/Willig.lg_.jpg)
Michael Willig
Behavioral Ecology; biogeography; community ecology; conservation biology; disturbance ecology; macroecology; mammalogy; morphometrics; theoretical ecology
Web sitePhone: 860.486.1455
![Yaowu Yuan](http://www.eeb.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1312/2015/08/yuan.lg_.jpg)
Yaowu Yuan
Genetics, development, and evolution of phenotypic diversity; genetics of adaptation and speciation; plant-pollinator interactions; transposable elements and plant genomics; plant molecular systematics
Web sitePhone: 860.486.4059