Physiology/Development Faculty
| Faculty | Research | Potential Primary Advisor* |
|---|---|---|
| Jody M. Beers | Environmental and comparative physiology, physiological ecology | YES |
| John A. Bowden | Environmental chemistry, environmental forensics, metabolomics and lipidomics for human and environmental health assessments, 'omics' measurement, exposomics, identifying and measuring chemicals of emerging concern, mass spectrometry, pre-analytical strategies | NO |
| Karen G. Burnett | Marine biomedicine, immunology, molecular biology of marine organisms | 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 |
| Andrew J. Clark | Comparative biomechanics and functional morphology | YES |
| Michael R. Denson | Fisheries management, aquaculture, stock enhancement | YES |
| Wayne R. Fitzgibbon | Applying microphysiological techniques to the study of hormonal regulation of mammalian renal physiology and pathophysiology | NO |
| Michael G. Janech | Physiology of marine organisms, molecular and proteomic applications | YES |
| Mark D. Lazzaro | Cell biology: cytoskeletal function in pollen tube development; structure and function of plant secretory hairs including salt glands of marine plants; digital and fluorescent microscopy | NO |
| Eric J. McElroy | Evolution and ecology of animal performance and functional morphology; functional, physiological and morphological basis of animal behavior | YES |
| Elizabeth Meyer-Bernstein | Physiological mechanisms underlying the circadian timing system using Drosophila and mouse model systems. Research includes studies at the molecular, cellular, system and behavioral levels | NO |
| Eric W. Montie | Marine sensory and neurobiology, marine bioacoustics (sound production and hearing), fish biology, marine mammal biology, toxicology, noise pollution, climate change | 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 |
| 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 |
| Demetri D. Spyropoulos | Impacts of environmental obesogens on invertebrate, marine mammal, and human health | YES |
| Jason T. Vance | Biomechanics, aerodynamics, and control of insect flight; ontogeny of maximal flight performance and foraging behavior in honey bees | NO |
*NO=cannot serve as major advisor, but can serve on thesis committee