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Stefano Allesina, Ph.D.
Visiting Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor (starting Fall, 2009)
Department of Ecology & Evolution
Computation Institute
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Subjects: ecological
networks, food webs, mutualistic networks, stability, extinctions,
robustness, simple models for food web structure, likelihood
analysis, model selection, stochastic population models |
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Joy Bergelson, Ph.D.
Chair, Department of Ecology & Evolution
Professor, Department of Ecology & Evolution
Committee on Evolutionary
Biology
Committee on Genetics, Genomics & Systems Biology
Committee on Microbiology
Senior Fellow, Institute for Genome & Systems Biology
Office: Erman 102B | Phone: 773-702-3855 | email: jbergels(at)uchicago(dot)edu
Subjects: Plant-enemy interactions, spatial structure, spread and impact of genetically-engineered organisms, plant evolutionary ecology |
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Justin Borevitz, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Ecology & Evolution
Committee on Evolutionary Biology
Office: Erman 305 | Phone: (773) 702-5948 | Fax: (773) 702-9740 | email: borevitz(at)uchicago(dot)edu
Subjects:
Genetics of local adaptation in plants, genetic variation in
environmental response, genomic approaches to natural variation,
molecular systems to ecosystems: restoring biodiversity and biomass |
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Jerry Coyne, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Ecology & Evolution
Commitee on Evolutionary Biology
Committee on Genetics, Genomics & Systems Biology
Biological Sciences Collegiate Division
Office: Zoology 309B | Phone: (773) 702-1105 | Fax: (773) 702-9740 | email: j-coyne(at)uchicago(dot)edu
Subjects: I work on a diverse array of topics in the
areas of population and evolutionary genetics, speciation, ecological
genetics, and molecular evolution. |
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Greg Dwyer, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Ecology & Evolution
Committee on Evolutionary Biology
Biological Sciences Collegiate Division
Office: Erman 102A | Phone: (773) 834-7691 | Fax: (773) 702-9740 | email: gdwyer(at)uchicago(dot) edu
Subjects:
Host-pathogen, spatial ecology, mathematical modelling, mathematical
biology, population ecology, population dynamics, disease ecology,
disease resistance, gypsy moth, polyhedrosis virus, baculovirus |
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Richard R. Hudson, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Ecology & Evolution
Committee on Evolutionary Biology
Biological Sciences Collegiate Division
Office: Zoology 302A | Phone: 773-834-2978 | Fax: 773-702-9740 | email: rr-hudson(at)uchicago(dot)edu
Subjects: Population genetics, theory and data analysis with a focus on molecular variation within and between species. |
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Martin Kreitman, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Ecology & Evolution
Committee on Genetics, Genomics & Systems Biology
Biological Sciences Collegiate Division
Office: Zoology 15 | Phone: 773-702-1222 | Fax: 773-702-9740 | email: mkre(at)uchicago(dot)edu
Subjects: Molecular population genetics, genetics of speciation. |
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Wen-Hsiung Li, Ph.D.
James D. Watson Distinguished Service Professor
Department of Ecology & Evolution
Committee on Evolutionary Biology
Biological Sciences Collegiate Division
Office: Zoology 202B | Phone: 773-702-3105 | Fax: 773-702-9740 | email: whli(at)uchicago(dot)edu
Subjects: Processes and mechanisms of molecular and
genomic evolution, evolution of gene regulation, evolution of duplicate
genes, development of statistical methods and computational analysis of
genomic data. |
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Manyuan Long, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Ecology & Evolution
Committee on Evolutionary Biology
Committe on Genetics, Genomics & Systems Biology
Biological Sciences Collegiate Division
Office: Zoology 301E | Phone: 773-702-0557 | Fax: 773-702-9740 | email: mlong(at)uchicago(dot)edu
Subjects: Molecular evolution, evolutionary genomics |
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| |  | | Michael Z. Ludwig, Ph.D.
Research Associate (Associate Professor)
Department of Ecology & Evolution
Office: Zoology 113 | Phone: 773-702-1963 | Fax: 773-703-9740 | email: mludwig(at)uchicag(dot)edu
Subjects: Developmental regulation of gene expression and the genetic basis for evolution of regulatory DNA
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Professor, Emeritus
Department of Ecology & Evolution
Committee on Genetics, Genomic & Systems Biology
Office: Zoology 405 | Phone: 773-702-1079 | Fax: 773-702-9740 | email: nagylaki(at)uchicago(dot)edu
Subjects:
Theoretical population genetics, especially geographical variation; gene
conversion in multi-gene families; random genetic drift; natural
selection
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Catherine Pfister, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Ecology & Evolution
Committee on Evolutionary Biology
Biological Sciences Collegiate Division
Office: Zoology 401A | Phone: 773-834-0071 | Fax: 773-702-9740 | email: cpfister(at)uchicago(dot)edu
Subjects: Spatial structure and temporal variability,
population viability, stage-structured populations, life histories,
fish ecology, marine ecology |
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Trevor Price, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Ecology & Evolution
Committee on Evolutionary Biology
Committee on Genetics, Genomics & Systems Biology
Biological Sciences Collegiate Division
Office: Zoology 309A | Phone: (773) 702-5176 | Fax: (773) 702-9740 | email: pricet(at)uchicago(dot)edu
Subjects: Phylogenetics and community ecology, sexual
selection and speciation, quantitative genetics, conservation of himalayan birds, bird speciation |
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Professor
Department of Ecology & Evolution
Department of Human Genetics
Committee on Genetics, Genomics & Systems Biology
Office: Cummings 507H | Phone: (773) 834-8178 | Fax: (773) 834-0505 | email: mfp(at)uchicago(dot)edu
Subjects: Population genetics, human evolution, recombination, natural selection | | | |
| |  | | Janice B. Spofford, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Emeritus
Department of Ecology & Evolution
Office: Culver 405B | Phone: 773-702-8941 | Fax: 773-702-9740 | email: jspoffor(at)uchicago(dot)edu
Subjects: Position effect variegation in Drosophila, evolutionary genetics of Drosophila and humans | | | |
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Stephen Pruett-Jones, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Ecology & Evolution
Committee on Evolutionary Biology
Office: Zoology 409A | Phone: (773) 702-3115 | Fax: (773) 702-9740 | email: pruett-jones(at)uchicago(dot)edu
Subjects: Behavioral ecology, sexual Selection,
speciation, evolutionary biology, population biology, avian ecology,
fairy-wrens, monk parakeets |
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Manfred Ruddat, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Emeritus
Department of Ecology & Evolution
Committee on Developmental Biology
Biological Sciences Collegiate Division
Office: Erman 010 | Phone: 773-702-8796 | Fax: 773-702-9740 | email: mruddat(at)uchicago(dot)edu
Subjects: Basic molecular, genetic and evolutionary mechanisms of interactions among organisms |
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Ilya Ruvinsky, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Ecology & Evolution
Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy
Committee on Genetics, Genomics & Systems Biology
Committee on Developmental Biology
Committee on Evolutionary Biology
Office: Erman 304 | Phone: 773-702-1533 | Fax: 773-702-9740 | email: ruvinsky(at)uchicago(dot)edu
Subjects: Evolution of development, particularly the
origin and diversification of the nervous system and evolution of
transcriptional regulation (using C. elegans as a primary model
organism); Comparative and computational genomics; Molecular evolution |
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Leigh Van Valen, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Ecology & Evolution
Committee on Evolutionary Biology
Committee on Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science
Committee on Genetics, Genomics & Systems Biology
Biological Sciences Collegiate Division
Office: Zoology 403 | Phone: 773-702-9475 | Fax: 773-702-9740 | email: leigh(at)uchicago(dot)edu
Subjects: Energy in ecology and evolution,
macroecology, paleoecology, biotal evolution, extinction, body size,
ecological genetics, mammals |
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Kevin White, Ph.D.
James and Karen Frank Family Professor
Department of Human Genetics
Department of Ecology & Evolution
Director
Institute for Genomics and Systems Biology at the University of Chicago
and Argonne National Laboratory
Office: Cummings 425 | Phone: 773-834-3913 | Fax: 773-702-9740 | email: kpwhite(at)uchicago(dot)edu
Subjects:
Combining experimental and computational techniques to understand the
networks of factors that control gene expression during development,
evolution and disease
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Timothy Wootton, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Ecology & Evolution
Committee on Evolutionary Biology
Biological Sciences Collegiate Division
Office: Zoology 401D | Phone: 773-702-2773 | Fax: 773-702-9740 | email: twootton(at)uchicago(dot)edu
Subjects: Multi-species interactions, extinction
processes and consequences, synthesis of multiple ecological processes,
marine and aquatic ecology, avian ecology |
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Chung-I Wu, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Ecology & Evolution
Committee on Evolutionary Biology
Committee on Genetics, Genomics & Systems Biology
Biological Sciences Collegiate Division
Office: Zoology 201A | Phone: 773-702-2565 | Fax: 773-702-9740 | email: ciwu(at)uchicago(dot)edu
Subjects: Speciation, evolutionary genetics, molecular population genetics, genomics, sexual selection |
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