Faculty Research Interests
The following is an alphabetical list of Integrative Biology faculty members and brief descriptions of their research. Click on a faculty member's name to see a complete description of their research (if available).
Emeriti and Professors of the Graduate School
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David Ackerly - Dean of Rausser College of Natural Resources and Professor
Plant ecology and evolution
B
Doris Bachtrog - Professor
Evolution of sex and recombination, Y degeneration, dosage compensation, sexually antagonistic variation
Bruce Baldwin - Professor
Systematics and evolution of vascular plants
Annaliese Beery - Associate Professor
Social behavior, neuroendocrinology, physiology and behavior
George E. Bentley - Professor
Avian reproductive biology, neuroendocrinology and behavior
Benjamin Blackman - Associate Professor
Evolution, ecology, and genomics of plant development
Mike Boots - Professor
Infectious disease ecology and evolution; wildlife and tropical human disease
Rauri C.K. Bowie - Professor
Evolutionary Biology, Molecular Ecology, Conservation Genetics and Ornithology
George A. Brooks - Professor
Exercise physiology and metabolism
C
Thomas J. Carlson - Teaching Professor
Ethnobotany, ecology and evolution of human disease and medicine
D
Todd E. Dawson - Professor
Physiological plant ecology, stable isotope biogeochemistry
Robert Dudley - Professor
Biomechanics and comparative physiology
Ivo Duijnstee - Assistant Adjunct Professor
Geobiology and marine micropaleontology
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Michael B. Eisen - Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and Professor of Genetics, Genomics, Evolution, and Development
Genomics/Bioinformatics
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Paul V.A. Fine - Professor
Plant ecology, plant evolutionary biology, speciation, floristics and phytogeography
Seth Finnegan - Associate Professor
Marine Invertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoecology
Robert J. Full - Professor
Comparative biomechanics, physiology, and functional morphology
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Tyrone B. Hayes - Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and Professor
Developmental endocrinology
Leslea Hlusko - Professor
Mammalian evolutionary biology
John Huelsenbeck - Professor
Evolutionary biology, phylogenetics theory, evolutionary genetics
K
Daniela Kaufer - Acting Associate Dean and Professor
Molecular Neuroscience and Stem Cell Biology: Plasticity in the Adult Brain
Britt Koskella - Associate Professor
Disease Ecology and Evolution, Bacteria-phage interactions, Coevolution between hosts and pathogens
Lance Kriegsfeld - Professor
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Eileen A. Lacey - Department Co-Chair and Professor
Behavioral ecology, population and evolutionary biology
Juan Liu - Assistant Adjunct Professor
Vertebrate paleontology, ichthyology, auditory system of vertebrates
Cindy Looy - Professor
Paleobotany, palynology and paleoecology
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Charles Marshall - Professor
Paleobiology
Christopher Martin - Associate Professor
Evolution, ecology, and genomics of adaptive radiation in fishes
Jimmy A. McGuire - Professor
Vertebrate systematics/evolutionary biology
Brent D. Mishler - Professor
Bryology, systematics and evolutionary biology
N
Michael Nachman - Professor
Evolutionary genetics and genomics
Rasmus Nielsen - Professor
Evolutionary Genomics
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Onja Razafindratsima - Assistant Professor
Tropical ecology, Plant-frugivore interactions, community ecology, conservation biology, primatology
Carl Rothfels - Assistant Adjunct Professor
Plant phylogenetics, polyploidy, fern evolution
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Michael Shapira - Associate Professor
Host-pathogen interactions, innate immunity, aging, gut microbial communities
Jonathon Stillman - Adjunct Professor
Marine Environmental Physiology
Peter Sudmant - Assistant Professor (Affiliated)
Evolutionary and Functional Genomics
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Rebecca Tarvin - Assistant Professor
Evolutionary biology, genomics, chemical and molecular ecology
Frederic Theunissen - Professor
Animal Communication, Neuroethology
Jack Tseng - Assistant Professor
Vertebrate paleontology, functional morphology, and comparative biomechanics.
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José Pablo Vázquez-Medina - Assistant Professor
Vertebrate Physiology, Redox Biology
W
Noah Whiteman - Professor
We study the genetic basis of biotic interactions, the evolution of immune systems and toxin evolution-resistance mechanisms
Caroline Williams - Associate Professor
Evolutionary physiology
Emeriti and Professors of the Graduate School
Anthony D. Barnosky - Professor Emeritus
Mammalian paleobiology
Roy L. Caldwell - Professor of the Graduate School
Invertebrate behavioral biology and ecology
Carole S. Hickman - Professor of the Graduate School
Evolutionary paleobiology, morphology and systematics
Patrick Kirch - Professor Emeritus
Mimi R. Koehl - Professor of the Graduate School
Invertebrate functional morphology and biomechanics
Steven Lehman - Professor Emeritus
Motor control
Paul Licht - Professor Emeritus
Director of the UC Botanical Garden
David R. Lindberg - Professor Emeritus
Evolutionary biology and ecology
Jere H. Lipps - Professor of the Graduate School
Paleontology of marine environments
Charles S Nicoll - Professor Emeritus
Kevin Padian - Professor Emeritus
Paleontology and evolutionary biology
James L. Patton - Professor Emeritus
Mammalogy and evolutionary biology
Thomas (Zack) Powell - Professor Emeritus
Oceanography, aquatic ecology
Mary E. Power - Professor of the Graduate School
Freshwater ecology, food webs
Thelma E Rowell - Professor Emeritus
Ellen L. Simms - Professor Emeritus
Plant ecology and evolution
Montgomery Slatkin - Professor Emeritus
Evolutionary theory
Wayne P Sousa - Professor of the Graduate School
Population and community ecology
Glenys J. Thomson - Professor Emerita
Human and population genetics and evolution
Marvalee H. Wake - Professor of the Graduate School
Vertebrate evolutionary morphology and reproductive biology
Donald P. Weston - Adjunct Professor Emeritus
Invertebrate ecology and ecotoxicology
Tim D. White - Professor Emeritus
Human evolutionary studies
Irving Zucker - Professor Emeritus
Biological rhythms, hibernation. and behavioral endocrinology