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
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 - Co-Chair of Integrative Biology, Trevor J. McMinn Endowed Professor and Professor
Infectious disease ecology and evolution; wildlife and tropical human disease
Rauri C.K. Bowie - Virginia & Robert Gill Chair in Natural History and Professor
Evolutionary Biology, Molecular Ecology, Conservation Genetics and Ornithology
George A. Brooks - Professor
Exercise physiology and metabolism
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, Raymond & Beverly Sackler Chair in Computational Biology, and Professor of Genetics, Genomics, Evolution, and Development
Genomics/Bioinformatics
Moisés Expósito-Alonso - Howard Hughes Medical Institute Freeman Hrabowski Scholar and Assistant Professor
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Paul V.A. Fine - Professor
Plant ecology, plant evolutionary biology, speciation, floristics and phytogeography
Seth Finnegan - Professor
Marine Invertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoecology
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tyrone B. hayes - Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Judy Chandler Webb Distinguished Chair for Innovative Teaching and Research, and Professor
Developmental endocrinology
John Huelsenbeck - McCreight Chancellor’s Chair in Computational Biology and Professor
Evolutionary biology, phylogenetics theory, evolutionary genetics
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Daniela Kaufer - Associate Dean, Class of 1943 Memorial Chair, 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 - Co-Chair of Integrative Biology, Class of 1933 Chair in Biological Sciences, and Professor
Behavioral ecology, population and evolutionary biology
Juan Liu - Assistant Adjunct Professor
Vertebrate paleontology, ichthyology, auditory system of vertebrates
Lúcia Lohmann - Professor
Cindy Looy - Professor
Paleobotany, palynology and paleoecology
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Charles Marshall - Philip Sandford Boone Chair in Paleontology and Distinguished Professor
Paleobiology
Christopher Martin - Associate Professor
Evolution, ecology, and genomics of adaptive radiation in fishes
Jimmy A. McGuire - Professor
Vertebrate systematics/evolutionary biology
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Michael Nachman - Professor
Evolutionary genetics and genomics
Rasmus Nielsen - Marthella Foskett Brown Chair in Biological Sciences, and Professor
Evolutionary Genomics
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Daniel Okamoto - Assistant Professor
Víctor Ortega Jiménez - Assistant Professor
Organismal Dynamics, Electrostatics, Unsteady Flows, Bioinspired Design
R
Onja Razafindratsima - Assistant Professor
Tropical ecology, Plant-frugivore interactions, community ecology, conservation biology, primatology
S
Michael Shapira - Professor
Host-pathogen interactions, innate immunity, aging, gut microbial communities
Michal Shuldman - Teaching Assistant Professor
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 - Associate Professor
Vertebrate paleontology, functional morphology, and comparative biomechanics.
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José Pablo Vázquez-Medina - Associate 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 - John L. and Margaret B. Gompertz Chair and Associate Professor
Evolutionary physiology
Emeriti and Professors of the Graduate School
Bruce Baldwin - Professor Emeritus
Systematics and evolution of vascular plants
Anthony D. Barnosky - Professor Emeritus
Mammalian paleobiology
Roy L. Caldwell - Professor of the Graduate School
Invertebrate behavioral biology and ecology
Thomas J. Carlson - Teaching Professor Emeritus
Ethnobotany, ecology and evolution of human disease and medicine
Robert J. Full - Professor of the Graduate School
Comparative biomechanics, physiology, and functional morphology
Carole S. Hickman - Professor of the Graduate School
Evolutionary paleobiology, morphology and systematics
Leslea Hlusko - Professor Emerita
Mammalian evolutionary biology
Patrick Kirch - Professor Emeritus
Mimi A. 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
Brent D. Mishler - Professor Emeritus
Bryology, systematics and evolutionary biology
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 - Distinguished Professor in Life and Physical Sciences and Professor Emeritus
Human evolutionary studies
Irving Zucker - Professor Emeritus
Biological rhythms, hibernation. and behavioral endocrinology