The following faculty are considering graduate students for 2025.
We encourage applicants to contact, by email, individual faculty whose labs they are interested in, to initiate a conversation about shared interests. For suggestions on how to reach out to faculty, please see our tips for contacting potential advisors.
- Babonis, Leslie (Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology). Evolutionary development (Evo-Devo), origin of novelty, invertebrate biodiversity, cnidarians, ctenophores, gene regulation, cell identity, tissue morphogenesis, regeneration, evolution of multicellularity.
- Clark, Andrew G. (Departments of Molecular Biology and Genetics & Ecology and Evolutionary Biology). Genomic basis of adaptive evolution; theoretical and statistical population genetics; genetics of complex traits.
- Goodale, Christine L. (Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology). Forest biogeochemistry; land-use history and change; terrestrial carbon balance; and alteration of the global nitrogen cycle.
- Kessler, Andre (Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology). Molecular and chemical ecology, plant-insect interactions, multitrophic interactions, induced plant responses to herbivory.
- Moreau, Corrie S. (Departments of Entomology & Ecology and Evolutionary Biology). Ecology and evolution of symbiosis; macroevolution; social insect evolution; host-microbe interactions; speciation and evolutionary diversification; evolution of gut microbiota; biogeography; phylogenetics/phylogenomics; molecular clocks and divergence dating; biodiversity genomics; ant-plant mutualisms; entomology; comparative biology; microbiomes.
- Thaler, Jennifer S. (Departments of Entomology & Ecology and Evolutionary Biology). Insect-plant interactions, chemical ecology, tritrophic interactions.
- Therkildsen, Nina O. (Department of Natural Resources and the Environment). Population and evolutionary genomics, rapid adaptation, fisheries, conservation.
- Womack, Molly (Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology).
- Xu, Xiangtao (Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology). Ecological modeling/forecasting, ecological remote sensing, plant functional ecology, global change biology, terrestrial ecosystem ecology.