Invertebrates
| Faculty | Research | Potential Primary Advisor* |
|---|---|---|
| Agnes J. Ayme-Southgate | Genomics and molecular analysis of insect muscle proteins; protein structure-function relationship and biophysical modeling; application and significance for development, flight physiology and evolution | NO |
| Jody M. Beers | Environmental and comparative physiology, physiological ecology | YES |
| Craig L. Browdy | Sustainable aquaculture technology research and development | NO |
| Jeffrey F. Brunson | Crustacean fisheries management, applied fisheries research, conservation ecology, population dynamics | NO |
| Louis E. Burnett, Jr. | Environmental physiology, respiration and transport processes in animals | NO |
| Christine A. Byrum | Evolution and development of endoderm and mesoderm in marine invertebrates; cell specification and signal transduction; cnidarian gastrulation. Use of the sea urchin as a developmental model at the cellular, molecular, and systems level; evolution of the metazoan body plan | NO |
| Katy W. Chung | Aquatic toxicology | NO |
| Loren D. Coen | Marine benthic ecology, plant-animal interactions, tropical ecology, crustacean biology | NO |
| Stacie E. Crowe | Benthic ecology, taxonomy of marine invertebrates | NO |
| Russell D. Day | Biomonitoring of marine ecosystems and organismal health, environmental chemistry, coral stressors, health, and geochemistry, isotopes, heavy metals, trace elements in the marine environment, ocean acidification, sea turtle ecotoxicology | NO |
| Isaure de Buron | Host-parasite interactions at the ecological, cellular, and molecular levels | NO |
| Marie E. DeLorenzo | Environmental toxicology | YES |
| Phillip Dustan | Marine ecology, coral reef ecology, biological oceanography | YES |
| Peter J. Etnoyer | Deep-sea coral diversity and ecology, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for marine conservation and management | YES |
| Kristina Hill-Spanik | Applied molecular biology; biogeography and ecology of microbes; parasites of molluscs and fish; bioinformatics, phylogenetics | NO |
| Melissa Hughes | Animal behavior; in particular, communication in song birds and crustaceans | YES |
| Jeffrey L. Hyland | Environmental monitoring and assessments, benthic ecology, ecotoxicology | NO |
| Pamela C. Jutte | Benthic ecology; invertebrate behavioral biology | YES |
| Peter B. Key | Aquatic toxicology | NO |
| Peter R. Kingsley-Smith | Shellfish restoration and management | YES |
| David M. Knott | Taxonomy and ecology of benthic and planktonic invertebrates | NO |
| Lisa May | Microbial ecology and coral-microbe interactions; DNA damage and its effect upon the reproduction potential of coral; effects of stressors on coral. | NO |
| Paul L. Pennington | Marine and estuarine ecotoxicology | YES |
| Robert D. Podolsky | Functional biology and evolutionary ecology of marine invertebrates, larval ecology and life-history evolution, fertilization ecology, physiological ecology, phenotypic plasticity | YES |
| Lou Ann Reed | Environmental chemistry, ecotoxicology | NO |
| Denise M. Sanger | Impacts of human land use, benthic ecology, water quality, sediment chemistry, and toxicology | YES |
| Daniel A. Sasson | Reproductive behavior of invertebrates | YES |
| Tracey B. Schock | Environmental Metabolomics - assessing health by identifying the physiological changes in marine organisms in response to environmental stressors/change, such as pollutants, disease, or temperature rise | NO |
| Geoffrey I. Scott | Aquatic toxicology | YES |
| Erik E. Sotka | Ecology and evolution of marine biotic interactions, larval dispersal, molecular ecology, chemical ecology | YES |
| Jason T. Vance | Biomechanics, aerodynamics, and control of insect flight; ontogeny of maximal flight performance and foraging behavior in honey bees | NO |
| John E. Weinstein | Environmental toxicology; physiological ecology and toxicology of invertebrates and fish | YES |
| Dara H. Wilber | Ecological impact assessment in the marine and estuarine environment | NO |
| Pace Wilber | Geographical information systems | NO |
| Edward F. Wirth | Effects of pesticides on crustaceans, particularly reproduction and physiology | NO |
| Cheryl M. Woodley | The application of biomedical concepts and technologies to understand how stressors affect coral health and use this information to design early-warning indicators of conditions posing risks to coral health and fitness | NO |
| John D. Zardus | Evolution and ecology of commensal barnacles | YES |
*NO=cannot serve as major advisor, but can serve on thesis committee