Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Science
The faculty in this cluster address questions concerning the ecology and evolution of behavior, physiology, and morphology in individual organisms, factors influencing the organization and stability of ecological communities, and natural and anthropogenic influences on large-scale ecosytems.
Ecology, Evolution/Enviornmental Science Faculty
(* faculty members who are accepting graduate students in Zoology)
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Janette Boughman*, Associate Professor
Evolution -
April Harlin Cognato, Assistant Professor
Evolution and development in vertebrates -
Ian Dworkin*, Assistant Professor
Evolutionary genetics of development -
Fred Dyer*, Professor and Chairperson
Animal behavior; learning and decision-making in insects -
Heather Eisthen*, Associate Professor
Evolution and development of vertebrate nervous systems -
Thomas Getty*, Professor
Behavioral ecology; perception and decision-making by birds (jointly appointed with the Kellogg Biological Station) -
John Giesy, Professor Emeritus
Environmental toxicology in aquatic ecosystems -
Michael Gottfried*, Associate Professor and Director of Integrative Studies in General Science
Biology and paleontology of living and fossil sharks (jointly appointed with Geological Sciences) -
Stephen Hamilton*, Professor
Aquatic ecosystem ecology and biogeochemistry (jointly appointed with the Kellogg Biological Station) -
Richard Hill*, Professor
Environmental physiology in mamals and coral animals -
Susan Hill, Assistant Professor
Regeneration, especially in annelids; interactions of development, regeneration, and evolution -
Kay Holekamp*, Professor
Animal behavior; behavioral ecology of rodents and carnivores -
Richard Lenski*, Hannah Distinguished Professor of Ecology and Evolution
Ecology, genetics, and evolution in microbial and artificial organisms (jointly appointed with the Departments of Crop and Soil Sciences and Microbiology and Molecular Genetics) -
Elena Litchman*, Assistant Professor
Community ecology in aquatic ecosystems (jointly appointed with the Kellogg Biological Station) -
Catherine A. Lindell*, Associate Professor
Behavioral and landscape ecology in birds (jointly appointed in the Center for Global Change and Earth Observation) -
Barbara Lundrigan*, Associate Professor
Mammalian systematics; behavioral and morphological evolution (jointly appointed in the MSU Museum) -
Gary Mittelbach*, Professor
Population and community ecology in freshwater ecoystems (jointly appointed with the Kellogg Biological Station) -
Patrick M. Muzzall*, Professor
Parasitology and ichthyology, especially aquatic parasitology -
Nathaniel E.Ostrom*, Professor
Biogeochemical cycling in oceanic and lake ecosystems -
Margaret H. Ostrom*, Professor
Biogeochemical studies of contemporary and extinct ecosystems -
Pam Rasmussen, Assistant Professor
Systematics and evolutionary ecology of birds -
Kim Scribner*, Professor
Population genetics and conservation biology of vertebrates (jointly appointed in the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife) -
Alexander W. Shingleton*, Assistant Professor
Evolution and development of size and shape in insects -
James J. Smith*, Associate Professor
Molecular phylogenetics and evolution in plant-insect interactions (jointly appointed with the Department of Entomology and the Lyman Briggs College of Science) -
Richard J. Snider*, Professor
Systematics and ecology of soil and litter arthropods (jointly appointed with the Department of Entomology) -
R. Jan Stevenson*, Professor
Algal ecology, aquatic ecology, environmental science -
Stephen Thomas, Assistant Professor
Ecology and evolution of insects -
Barry Williams*, Assistant Professor
Evolutionary and population genetics; genetics of adaptation in yeast