Biological Sciences

2011-12 General Catalog

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
A308 Earth and Marine Sciences
(831) 459-5358
http://www.eeb.ucsc.edu/

Program Description | Course Descriptions
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Faculty | Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology Faculty


Faculty and Professional Interests

Giacomo Bernardi
Fish biology, phylogenetics, evolution

Mark H. Carr
Marine ecology, applied marine ecology

Daniel P. Costa
Physiological ecology of marine mammals and birds

Donald Croll
Ecology and conservation of islands and seabirds

Nathaniel J. Dominy
Ecology and foraging behavior of humans and non-human primates; sensory ecology; color vision; primate evolution; tropical forests

Laurel R. Fox
Terrestrial population and community ecology, plant-animal interactions

Kathleen M. Kay
Plant evolutionary ecology

A. Marm Kilpatrick
Disease ecology, population biology

Bruce E. Lyon
Behavioral ecology, evolutionary ecology, avian ecology

Rita Mehta
Comparative marine physiology

Ingrid M. Parker
Plant ecology,  plant-pathogen interactions, biological invasions s

Jarmila Pittermann
Plant physiology

Grant H. Pogson
Molecular population genetics, ecological genetics, marine invertebrates and fishes

Donald C. Potts
Coral reef ecology, genetics, evolution, and geological history; marine biodiversity; tropical biology, global change, and remote sensing

Peter T. Raimondi
Marine ecology, evolutionary ecology, experimental design, applied ecology

Barry Sinervo
Animal behavior, evolution, physiological ecology

John N. Thompson
Coevolution, evolutionary ecology and genetics of species interactions, organization of biodiversity

Terrie M. Williams
Large mammal physiology, bioenergetics, exercise and environmental physiology

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Emeritus Faculty

Ralph Berger
William Jackson Davis
William Doyle
Lynda J. Goff
Ralph Hinegardner
Jean Langenheim
Burney LeBoeuf
Charles (Leo) Ortiz
A. Todd Newberry
John Pearse

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Lecturers

Baldo Marinovic

Jill Thompson

Adjuncts

James Estes (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)
Marine sciences, community ecology, species interactions

Samantha Forde (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)
Experimental evolutionary ecology

R. Bruce Mac Farlane (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)
Physiological ecology of marine, estuarine, and anadromous fishes

Devon Pearse (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)
Evolutionary and ecological genetics, conservation biology

Bernie Tershy (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)
Ecology and conservation of seabirds and island ecosystems

M. Tim Tinker (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)
Foraging ecology and demography of the southern sea otter

Robert Vrijenhoek (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)

Kerstin Wasson (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)
Evolutionary ecology, invasion biology, conservation science

Jonathan Zehr (Ocean Sciences)
Aquatic microbial ecology, biological oceanography

Affiliates

Greg Gilbert (Environmental Studies)
Disease ecology, conservation biology, tropical forest ecology, microbial ecology

Karen D. Holl (Environmental Studies)
Restoration ecology, conservation biology, landscape ecology

Paul L. Koch (Earth Sciences)
Isotope biogeochemistry, vertebrate paleontology

Raphael Kudela (Ocean Sciences)
Ecological modeling and remote sensing, satellite oceanography, phytoplankton ecology and harmful algal blooms

Marc S. Mangel (Applied Mathematics and Statistics)
Mathematical modeling of biological phenomena, especially the evolutionary ecology of growth, aging, and longevity; quantitative issues in fishery management; mathematical and computational aspects of disease

Jonathan Zehr (Ocean Sciences)
Aquatic microbial ecology, biological oceanography

 

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Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology

225 Sinsheimer Laboratories
(831) 459-4986

http://www.mcd.ucsc.edu

Faculty and Professional Interests

Manuel Ares Jr.
RNA processing, structure and function of RNA

Needhi Bhalla
Meiotic chromosome dynamics

Hanns H. Boeger
Chromatin structure and the regulation of transcription

Barry Bowman
Membrane biochemistry and genetics, biochemistry and molecular biology of membrane proteins

Bin Chen
Mammalian brain development

David Feldheim
Developmental neuroscience

Grant Hartzog
Biochemistry, genetics, chromatin and transcriptional regulation

Lindsay Hinck
Breast development and cancer, cell biology, development

Melissa Jurica
Structure and function of human splicing machinery

Rohinton T. Kamakaka
Chromatin domains, epigenetic gene regulation and insulators

Douglas R. Kellogg
Coordination of cell growth and cell division

Jeremy Lee
Molecular biology education and curriculum development; Drosphila models of neurodegeneration

Robert A. Ludwig
Plant microbe interactions, photorespiration, genetic recombination in plants

Harry F. Noller
Ribosomes, RNA structure and function, RNA protein interaction

Amy Ralston
Origins and regulation of mammalian stem cells

Michael Rexach
Structure and function of nuclear pore complex, nuclear transport

Jeremy Sanford
Genomic analysis of protein-RNA interactions

William M. Saxton
Cytoskeletal motors and active transport processes

Susan Strome
Chromatin and RNA regulation in C. elegans

William T. Sullivan
Cell cycle, cytoskeleton, and host-pathogen interactions

John W. Tamkun
Transcriptional regulation, molecular genetics of Drosophila development, regulation of gene expression

Alan M. Zahler
Molecular biology, splice site selection, and alternative pre-mRNA processing

Martha C. Zúñiga
Molecular, cellular, and developmental biology of the immune system

Yi Zuo
Synaptic plasticity in learning and memory

Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology Emeritus Faculty

Charles Daniel
Robert Edgar
Jerry F. Feldman
Henry Hilgard
Kivie Moldave
Clifton A. Poodry
Lincoln Taiz
Frank J. Talamantes
Howard H. Wang

Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology Lecturers

Michael Dalbey  

Linda Ogren  

Mary Zavanelli

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Victora Auerbach-Stone (Microbiology and Environmental Toxicology)
The interaction between the gut pathogen Yersinia pseudotuberculosis and the mammalian immune system

Camilla Forsberg (Biomolecular Engineering)
Hematopoietic stem cells; transcriptional regulation; chromatin; blood cell development; cell surface receptors; genomics

David Haussler (Biomolecular Engineering)
Molecular evolution, neurodevelopment, genomics, bioinformatics, computational molecular biology, statistical models, machine learning, neural networks

Scott Lokey (Chemistry and Biochemistry)
Organic chemistry; combinatorial synthesis, biotechnology, molecular cell biology

Todd M. Lowe (Biomolecular Engineering)
Experimental and computation genomics, ncRNA gene finders, DNA microarrays to study the biology of Archaea

Karen Ottemann (Environmental Toxicology)
Environmental responses of pathogenic bacteria

Seth Rubin (Chemistry and Biochemistry)
Biomolecular mechanisms of cell-cycle regulation and cancer; structural biology and biochemistry; macromolecular x-ray crystallography; nuclear magnetic resonance

William G. Scott (Chemistry and Biochemistry)
Structure and function of RNA, proteins, and their complexes

Alexander Sher (Physics)
Development of experimental techniques for the study of neural function

Michael Stone (Chemistry)
Single-molecule Biophysics and Enzymology; Structure, function, and assembly of the telomerase ribonucleoprotein, Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET), optical/magnetic trapping, sub-diffraction optical imaging of telomeres and the nucleus

Fitnat Yildiz (Environmental Toxicology)
Microbiology, molecular genetics, genomics; the mechanism of persistence of survival of Vibrio cholerae

 

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Revised: 8/13/12