Elasmobranchs and Teleost Fish
| Faculty | Research | Potential Primary Advisor* |
|---|---|---|
| William D. Anderson Jr. (Emeritus) | Systematics of fishes and history of natural history | YES |
| Joseph C. Ballenger | Fish life history and population dynamics; fish biology/ecology; fisheries science/management | YES |
| Jody M. Beers | Environmental and comparative physiology, physiological ecology | YES |
| Andrew J. Clark | Comparative biomechanics and functional morphology | YES |
| Tanya L. Darden | Fish population genetics | YES |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Thomas W. Greig | Fisheries population genetics, molecular marine forensics, evolutionary ecotoxicology | NO |
| Antony S. Harold | Phylogenetic systematics and biogeography of fishes | YES |
| Peter B. Key | Aquatic toxicology | NO |
| James Kilfoil | Elasmobranchs, fisheries research, population dynamics, spatial ecology, bycatch, predator-prey interactions, human-wildlife interactions | YES |
| Ruairi MacNamara | Fisheries management and ecology; population dynamics; culture-based stock enhancement | NO |
| Eric J. McElroy | Evolution and ecology of animal performance and functional morphology; functional, physiological and morphological basis of animal behavior | YES |
| Julie A. Neer | Fisheries science and management, elasmobranch ecology, life history of fishes, population dynamics | NO |
| John S. Peters | Age and growth of fishes | NO |
| Marcel J.M. Reichert | Fish ecology, fisheries science | YES |
| Kimberly Ritchie | Coral reef ecology, beneficial microbes (beneficial bacteria associated with white shark epidermal surfaces), microbial ecology, host-microbe interactions, climate change, marine policy | YES |
| William A. Roumillat | Biology of fishes | NO |
| Gorka Sancho | Behavioral ecology of fishes, fisheries conservation | YES |
| George R. Sedberry | Community population and trophic ecology of marine fishes, coral reef biology, fisheries biology | NO |
| Andrew M. Shedlock | Comparative evolutionary genomics; impacts of mobile DNA and non-coding RNA on eukaryotic genome structure and transcriptome function. Computational biology. Phylogeny, ecology and population genetics of marine vertebrates | YES |
| Virginia R. Shervette | Estuarine ecology and management, conservation biology, fish ecology, oyster reef ecology, urbanization of estuaries, Human Dimensions of fisheries management, tropical ecology | YES |
| Katherine Silliman | Population genetics, resource management, development/use of molecular tools | YES |
| Tracey Smart | Life history ecology, reproductive ecology, biological oceanography, fisheries science | YES |
| Julie Vecchio | Innovative technique for quantifying, measuring, and assessing fish, fisheries stock assessment, reef fish life history dynamics, reef fish ecology, human impacts on fisheries | YES |
| J. David Whitaker | Crustacean fisheries resource research | NO |
| David M. Wyanski | Life history and taxonomy of marine fishes, fisheries biology | NO |
| Lenny Yong | Population genetics and distribution of marine organisms, genomics of sex differences in natuaral populations, phenotypic evolution 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