Tenure-Track Faculty

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Joshua B Benoit

Professor, Biological Sciences

711D Rieveschl Hall

513-556-9714

Insect stress tolerance, hormonal regulation of metabolism, reproductive physiology, molecular physiology, transcriptomics, insect-microbe interactions and vector biology
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Daniel R. Buchholz

Professor, Biological Sciences

711A Rieveschl Hall

Role of hormones in development and evolution, frog metamorphosis, comparative endocrinology

Lab website: https://letfrogshelpman.wixsite.com/thefroglab
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Elke K. Buschbeck

Professor, Biological Sciences

800Q Rieveschl Hall


Please see: http://buschbecklab.com for more information
SBBE, Evolution and development of arthropod visual systems: Neuroethology, insect neurobiology, physiology, optics, behavior, molecular biology, evolution
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Miguel Angel Chiurillo

Asst Professor, Biological Sciences

422QB Rieveschl Hall

513-556-9758

Research topics: Molecular Parasitology, trypanosomes, Chagas disease, genomic organization, telomeres, cytokinesis, cell signaling, protein kinases, genome editing, CRISPR/Cas9, differentiation, host-parasite interactions.
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Theresa M. Culley

Professor, Biological Sciences

703 Rieveschl Hall

513-556-9705

See https://culleylab.com for more information. Topics: Plant population biology and genetics, especially of invasive and endangered species; integrative taxonomy; evolution of breeding systems, especially cleistogamy and dioecy; ecological and genetic effects of habitat fragmentation.
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Ronald W. DeBry

Associate Professor
Graduate Director, Biological Sciences

711I Rieveschl Hall

513-556-9743

ECBR, Molecular evolution; experimental evolution; forensic entomology; phylogeny; systematics; evolution of mammals; DNA sequence analysis; rodent systematics; dipteran systematics
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Kathleen Elizabeth Grogan

Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences

Braunstein Hall

513-556-2772

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Josh B Gross

Professor, Biological Sciences

711B Rieveschl Hall

ECBR, SBBE, Evolution and development of vertebrates; Evolutionary genetics of natural populations; Cave biology; Genetic basis for phenotypic changes; Mexican cave tetra, Astyanax mexicanus
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Elizabeth A Hobson

Assoc Professor, Biological Sciences

Rieveschl Hall

513-556-8265

Please visit http://hobsonresearch.com for more information
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Bruce C Jayne

Professor, Biological Sciences

851T Rieveschl Hall

513-556-7012

ECBR, SBBE, Functional morphology; evolution of behavior, structure and function; neuromuscular basis of the locomotion of ectothermic vertebrates; herpetology; natural history and ecology of reptiles
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Noelia Marina Lander

Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences

422QD Rieveschl Hall

513-556-9798

Research topics: Molecular Parasitology, trypanosomes, Trypanosoma cruzi, Chagas disease, cell signaling, calcium signaling, cAMP signaling, genome editing, CRISPR/Cas, environmental sensing, differentiation, host-parasite interactions.
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John E. Layne

Associate Professor, Biological Sciences

800O Rieveschl Hall

513.556.9718

SBBE, Behavioral neurobiology and sensory ecology; vision in natural habitats; control systems in visual guidance; animal orientation and navigation
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David L Lentz

Professor , Biological Sciences

731 Rieveschl Hall

ECBR, Historical ecology, field botany, plant domestication, population genetics and paleoethnobotany of North America, Central Asia and the Neotropics
Click here for information about the UC Center for Field Studies
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Stephen F. Matter

Associate Professor, Biological Sciences

731I Rieveschl Hall

513-556-9768

School for the Environment and Susatinability
Department of Biological Sciences, ECBR, SBBE
Ecology; Population Ecology; Metapopulation Dynamics; Dispersal Behavior; Community Patterns and Dynamics; Insect Plant Interactions; Modelling
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Nathan Isaiah Morehouse

Associate Professor, Biological Sciences

711H Rieveschl Hall

SBBE, visual and behavioral ecology of butterflies and jumping spiders, coevolutionary dynamics of reproductive traits, nutritional ecology, life history evolution, sexual selection theory, art-science collaborations, http://www.morehouselab.com
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Kenneth Petren

Professor, Biological Sciences

800C Rieveschl Hall

513-556-9719

Evolutionary ecology: Landscape genomics, migration, speciaiton, adaptation, invasive species, behavior, island systems, "ancient" DNA, vertebrates, Darwin's finches and lizards.
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Michal Polak

Professor , Biological Sciences

820A Rieveschl Hall

Please go here http://polaklab.org/ to learn more about the lab.

SBBE, Behavior, Sexual Selection; Insect Mating Systems; Insect Host-Parasite Biology; Evolution
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Stephanie M. Rollmann

Professor, Biological Sciences

800D Rieveschl Hall

Please visit the Rollmann Lab site
Genetics and neurobiology of behavior, olfaction; chemical ecology
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Annette Ruth Rowe

Assistant Professor , Biological Sciences

Rieveschl Hall

513-556-9715

Applied and Environmental Microbiology, Water Quality, Alternative Energy, Electromicrobiology, Electrosynthesis, Microbe-mineral Interactions, Anaerobic Microbiology, Microbial Ecology
 
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Eric J Tepe

Associate Professor
Curator of the Herbarium , Biological Sciences

703B Rieveschl Hall

 
Plant systematics, including taxonomy, phylogenetics, biogeography, and diversification of “giant genera” – those with over 1000 species – including Piper (Piperaceae) and Solanum (Solanaceae).  Evolution of ant-plant associations.  Visit my webpage for more details.  Click here for the CINC herbarium webpage.
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George W Uetz

Professor , Biological Sciences

ECBR, SBBE, Behavioral ecology, arachnology: multi-modal communication and sexual selection in wolf spiders; social behavior in colonial web-building spiders.
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Dieter Frans S. Vanderelst

Biology-Mechanical Engineering-Electrical Engineering (jointly appointed), Biological Sciences

820G Rieveschl Hall

SBBE, Sensory ecology, models of bat echolocation and flight control, robotic and computational models of animal behaviour and perception. Models of human cognition.
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