Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior

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The study of ecology, evolution, and behavior in the School of Biology includes the following areas:

Aquatic chemical ecology
Aquatic toxicology
Evolutionary and population ecology
Molecular and genome evolution
Sensory ecology
Ecological genomics
Evolution of development, behavior, and sociality
Biological oceanography
Microbial ecology and environmental microbiology, with special emphasis on plasmid ecology, bacterial transformation and respiration of metals, and chemosensory regulation

Opportunities for research exist on campus, at our Skidaway Oceanographic Facilities on the Georgia coast, and on research cruises. Interdisciplinary research in microbiology, involving faculty members from other departments, occurs through the Center for Environmental Microbiology.

Faculty members in the Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior area of research include:

Meghan Duffy, Assistant Professor
Marc Frischer - Adjunct; Skidaway Institute of Oceanography
Eric Gaucher, Associate Professor
Greg Gibson, Professor
Michael Goodisman, Assistant Professor
Brian Hammer, Assistant Professor
Mark Hay, Professor and Linda Teasley Chair in Environmental Biology
Lin Jiang, Assistant Professor
King Jordan, Associate Professor
Julia Kubanek, Associate Professor
Frank Loeffler - Associate Professor
John McDonald, Professor and Chair, CSO Ovarian Cancer Institute
Joseph Montoya, Professor
Valerie Paul - Adjunct; Director, Smithsonian Marine Laboratory, Fort Pierce, Florida (Adjunct Appointment)
Jerry Pullman, Professor
Jim Sanders - Director, Skidaway Institute of Oceanography (Adjunct Appointment)
Terry Snell, Professor
Todd Streelman, Associate Professor
Peter Verity - Skidaway Institute of Oceanography (Adjunct Appointment)
Marc Weissburg, Associate Professor
Joshua Weitz, Assistant Professor
Jeannette Yen, Professor
Soojin Yi, Assistant Professor