Evolutionary genetics and population ecology of plants; global change biology; field ecology; seed dispersal ecology; frugivorous fish. |
Evolutionary ecology of flowering plants; plant mating system evolution. |
Plant evolutionary ecophysiology, adaptations to stress. |
Mathematical and computational modeling of within-host and between-host infectious disease dynamics. |
Ecological genetics of plants; invasive plants; genetics of adaptation. |
Evolution, systematics and anatomy of insects. |
The role of developmental mechanisms in sexual selection and the evolution of reproductive strategies in insects. |
Ecology and evolution of heritable symbiosis in insects. |
Ecology and physiology of environmental microbes. The use of community genomics and transcriptomics to examine microbial behavior in natural systems. |
Response and vulnerability of forests to natural (e.g. wind, fire) and anthropogenic disturbances (e.g. salvage logging), and geographic patterns of disturbance severity. |
Population biology of infectious diseases. |
Evolutionary biology and population genetics of natural plant populations; patterns of genetic variation; mechanisms for partitioning and maintaining species-wide diversity. |
Ecological genetics of natural populations. |
Evolution, ecology, physiology of methane-producing archaeon Methanococcus, the marine alpha proteobacteria, and soil bacteria. |
Marine microbial ecology and biogeochemistry; climate change. |