Genomics/Molecular Biology Faculty
| 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 |
| Larry L. Bowman | Conservation and adaptive management of commercial and recreation fisheries; population genetics and genomics; species delimitation and phylogenetics; evolutionary ecology and life history evolution; applications of molecular ecology for conservation; theory and mathematical modeling; STEM education and outreach | YES |
| Karen G. Burnett | Marine biomedicine, immunology, molecular biology of marine organisms | 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 |
| Heather Fullerton | Microbial metabolic diversity and ecology | YES |
| Thomas W. Greig | Fisheries population genetics, molecular marine forensics, evolutionary ecotoxicology | NO |
| Kristina Hill-Spanik | Applied molecular biology; biogeography and ecology of microbes; parasites of molluscs and fish; bioinformatics, phylogenetics | NO |
| Michael G. Janech | Physiology of marine organisms, molecular and proteomic applications | YES |
| Lisa May | Microbial ecology and coral-microbe interactions, DNA damage and its effect upon the reproductive potential of coral, effects of stressors on coral health | NO |
| Moshe E. Rhodes | Microbial ecology of hypersaline environments, mechanisms and frequency of horizontal gene transfer events, the human microbiome and its impact on immune function | YES |
| Andrew M. Shedlock | Genomics, evolution and conservation biology of marine vertebrates | YES |
| Erik E. Sotka | Ecology and evolution of marine biotic interactions, larval dispersal, molecular ecology, chemical ecology | YES |
| Demetri D. Spyropoulos | Impacts of environmental obesogens on invertebrate, marine mammal, and human health | YES |
| 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 |
| Lenny Yong | Population genetics and distribution of marine organisms, genomics of sex differences in natural populations, phenotypic evoluation and adaptation of fishes, molecular and conservation genetics, genotype-phenotype mapping/GWAS | YES |
| Anastasia M. Zimmerman | Molecular evolution of the vertebrate immune system, genome-wide analyses of innate and adaptive immune loci in fishes, use of the zebrafish as an immunological model | NO |
*NO=cannot serve as major advisor, but can serve on thesis committee