Teaching Faculty

John Cooley

John Cooley

Speciation and mating system evolution; song evolution and genetic boundaries in North American periodical cicadas and New Zealand cicadas

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Phone: 860.486.6650

Miranda Davis

Miranda Davis

Wildlife population dynamics and the ecological interactions among large mammal populations; how large mammal populations (specifically carnivores, ungulates) coexist and how these communities can be managed and conserved in the face of rapid environmental change in a human-dominated world

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Phone: 860.486.1768

Michael Finiguerra

Michael Finiguerra

Evolutionary ecology of zooplankton, specifically how stressors can affect ecological interactions and evolutionary trajectories; pedagogical approaches to teaching science to undergraduates

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Phone: 860.405.9051

Adam Fry

Adam Fry

Avian population genetics and phylogeography; genetics of host-endosymbiont coevolution, particularly the WolbachiaDrosophila association; identifying best practices in university-level pedagogy

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Phone: 860.486.4689

Nicole Fusco

Nicole Fusco

Urban ecology and evolution, with a specific focus on how urban development affects genetic connectivity & evolution of native species in cities. Biology, Ecology, Evolution, Genetics, Zoology, Anatomy & Physiology

Susan Herrick

Susan Herrick

Behavioral ecology and herpetology, particularly interested in social behavior and interspecific interactions; spatial and acoustic interactions between breeding ranid frogs

Phone: 860.486.5662

Claudia Kraemer

Claudia Kraemer

General biology, zoology, animal behavior, cell and molecular biology, embryology, genetics, anatomy and physiology

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Phone: 203.251.8585

Edward McAssey

Edward McAssey

Local adaptation and population genomics in plants; Hybridization and speciation; Photosynthetic evolution; Biology education

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Susan Preston-Berlin

Susan Preston-Berlin

Phone: 203 236-9800

Rod Wilson

Rod Wilson

Pedagogy, Development and Molecular Evolution

Phone: 203.251.8527