GPMB Complete Faculty List
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| Faculty | Focus Area | Research |
|---|---|---|
| William D. Anderson Jr. (Emeritus) | Evolution/Systematics | Systematics of fishes and history of natural history |
| Stephen A. Arnott | Fisheries/Aquaculture Ecology Evolution/Systematics |
Fisheries ecology, life history evolution, parasite ecology, climate change |
| Agnes J. Ayme-Southgate | Genomics/Molecular Biology | Genomics and molecular analysis of insect muscle proteins; protein structure-function relationship and biophysical modeling; application and significance for development, flight physiology and evolution |
| John E. Baatz | Physiology/Development | Mammalian lung biochemistry and molecular biology |
| Joseph C. Ballenger | Fisheries/Aquaculture Ecology |
Fish life history and population dynamics; fish biology/ecology; fisheries science/management |
| Paul R. Becker | Toxicology/Chemistry | Transport and fate of contaminants in Arctic ecosystems; geographic and species-specific patterns of contaminants in mammals; biological and chemical factors affecting the transport of contaminants through food webs |
| Shane Boylan | Fisheries/Aquaculture | Sea turtle health and rehabilitation medicine, fish and invertebrate medicine and husbandry |
| Craig L. Browdy | Fisheries/Aquaculture | Shrimp reproduction and mariculture |
| Erin J. Burge | Genomics/Molecular Biology | Environmental immunology and molecular biology of marine invertebrates and fishes |
| Karen G. Burnett | Genomics/Molecular Biology Physiology/Development |
Marine biomedicine, immunology, molecular biology of marine organisms |
| Louis E. Burnett, Jr. | Physiology/Development | Environmental physiology, respiration and transport processes in animals |
| Christine A. Byrum | Genomics/Molecular Biology | 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 |
| Robert W. Chapman | Genomics/Molecular Biology | Fisheries, genetics, population biology |
| Steven J. Christopher | Toxicology/Chemistry | Development and application of high accuracy analytical methodologies for the determination of trace elements in marine biological matrices |
| Katy W. Chung | Toxicology/Chemistry | Aquatic toxicology |
| Andrew J. Clark | Physiology/Development | Comparative biomechanics and functional morphology |
| Loren D. Coen | Ecology | Marine benthic ecology, plant-animal interactions, tropical ecology, crustacean biology |
| Mark R. Collins | Fisheries/Aquaculture | Fish biology and ecology, parasites of fishes |
| Stacie E. Crowe | Ecology | Benthic ecology, taxonomy of marine invertebrates |
| Jaclyn Daly | Conservation/Management | Estuarine and marine resource management, regulatory and policy |
| Tanya L. Darden | Fisheries/Aquaculture | Fish population genetics |
| Margaret A. Davidson | Conservation/Management | Coastal resource management and research |
| Russell D. Day | Toxicology/Chemistry | Mercury toxicology in sea turtles and seabirds |
| Isaure de Buron | Ecology | Host-parasite interactions at the ecological, cellular, and molecular levels |
| Marie E. DeLorenzo | Toxicology/Chemistry | Environmental toxicology |
| Michael R. Denson | Physiology/Development | Fisheries management, aquaculture, stock enhancement |
| M. Richard DeVoe | Conservation/Management | Aquaculture policy; marine/coastal policy and management; science management |
| Robert T. Dillon, Jr. | Evolution/Systematics | Biology of mollusks, genetics of gastropods and bivalves |
| Giacomo R. DiTullio | Microbial Processes | Phytoplankton physiology and ecology, biogeochemical cycling |
| Gregory J. Doucette | Microbial Processes | Physiological ecology of marine phytoplankton, marine biotoxins and harmful algae |
| Phillip Dustan | Ecology | Marine ecology, coral reef ecology, biological oceanography |
| Peter J. Etnoyer | Conservation/Management Evolution/Systematics |
Deep-sea coral diversity and ecology, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for marine conservation and management |
| Patricia A. Fair | Toxicology/Chemistry | Marine mammal health assessment and impacts of environmental stressors; toxicological effects of contaminants |
| Wayne R. Fitzgibbon | Physiology/Development | Applying microphysiological techniques to the study of hormonal regulation of mammalian renal physiology and pathophysiology |
| Michael H. Fulton | Toxicology/Chemistry | Environmental health, aquatic toxicology |
| Sylvia B. Galloway | Genomics/Molecular Biology | Coral health/disease characterization using genomic/proteomic approaches |
| Dianne I. Greenfield | Microbial Processes | Ecology and physiology of coastal phytoplankton |
| Thomas W. Greig | Genomics/Molecular Biology | Fisheries population genetics, molecular marine forensics, evolutionary ecotoxicology |
| Louis J. Guillette, Jr. | Physiology/Development | Reproductive/developmental endocrinology and ecotoxicology of vertebrates |
| Danny J. Gustafson | Ecology Conservation/Management |
Plant conservation genetics and restoration ecology |
| Nancy
H. Hadley |
Fisheries/Aquaculture | Molluscan mariculture |
| Antony S. Harold | Evolution/Systematics | Phylogenetic systematics and biogeography of fishes |
| Willem J. Hillenius | Evolution/Systematics | Comparative anatomy of tetrapods, particularly mammals, reptiles and dinosaurs |
| Melissa Hughes | Ecology | Animal behavior; in particular, communication in song birds and crustaceans |
| Jeffrey L. Hyland | Ecology | Environmental monitoring and assessments, benthic ecology, ecotoxicology |
| Michael G. Janech | Physiology/Development Genomics/Molecular Biology |
Physiology of marine organisms, molecular and proteomic applications |
| Pamela C. Jutte | Ecology | Benthic ecology; invertebrate behavioral biology |
| Jennifer M. Keller | Toxicology/Chemistry | Effects of environmental contaminants on marine wildlife health |
| Peter B. Key | Toxicology/Chemistry | Aquatic toxicology of insecticides |
| Peter R. Kingsley-Smith | Ecology Fisheries/Aquaculture |
Shellfish restoration and management |
| David M. Knott | Ecology | Taxonomy and ecology of benthic and planktonic invertebrates |
| Satomi Kohno | Genomics/Molecular Biology Physiology/Development |
Developmental and reproductive endocrinology in vertebrates, and environmental influences on it |
| Christopher A. Korey | Genomics/Molecular Biology | Drosophila genetics; Molecular genetics of Human neurological disease using Drosophila as a model system |
| Laura M. Kracker | Fisheries/Aquaculture Ecology |
GIS and spatial analysis of fish distribution and aquatic habitats; landscape ecology methodologies for large lake and marine ecosystems; underwater acoustics and remote sensing |
| John R. Kucklick | Toxicology/Chemistry | Analytical chemistry, aquatic ecotoxicology |
| Eric R. Lacy | Physiology/Development | Biology of epithelial cells of osmoregulatory and digestive organs in fishes and mammals |
| Mark D. Lazzaro | Physiology/Development | 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 |
| Peter A. Lee | Microbial Processes | Phytoplankton ecophysiology and sulfur biogeochemistry |
| John W. Leffler | Fisheries/Aquaculture Ecology |
Seafood health and safety; sustainable aquaculture development; shrimp mariculture |
| Susan Lovelace | Conservation/Management Ecology |
Linkages between coastal environmental health and ecosystem services and human health and human wellbeing |
| Philip P. Maier | Fisheries/Aquaculture | Fisheries research |
| Robert M. Martore | Fisheries/Aquaculture | Marine artificial reefs, fisheries, benthic ecology |
| Lisa May | Genomics/Molecular Biology Microbial Processes |
Microbial ecology and coral-microbe interactions, DNA damage and its effect upon the reproductive potential of coral, effects of stressors on coral health |
| Eric J. McElroy | Ecology Physiology/Development |
Evolution and ecology of animal performance and functional morphology; functional, physiological and morphological basis of animal behavior |
| Wayne E. McFee | Conservation/Management | Marine mammal strandings, marine mammal life history, dolphin/human interactions |
| Elizabeth Meyer-Bernstein | Physiology/Development | Physiological mechanisms underlying the circadian timing system using Drosophila and mouse model systems. Research includes studies at the molecular, cellular, system and behavioral levels |
| Pamela J. Morris | Microbial Processes | Environmental microbiology |
| Susan J. Morrison | Microbial Processes | Ecology of estuarine and marine microbes |
| Courtney Murren | Ecology | Plant ecology |
| Gavin Naylor | Evolution/Systematics | Molecular evolution and systematics of sharks skates and rays |
| Julie A. Neer | Ecology Fisheries/Aquaculture |
Fisheries science and management, elasmobranch ecology, life history of fishes, population dynamics |
| Paul M. Nolan | Ecology | Behavioral ecology, disease ecology, ornithology, avian habitat selection |
| David Wm. Owens | Conservation/Management | Sea turtle behavior, physiology and ecology |
| Margie M. Peden-Adams | Toxicology/Chemistry | Sub-lethal toxicological effects of environmental contaminants |
| Paul L. Pennington | Toxicology/Chemistry | Marine and estuarine ecotoxicology |
| John S. Peters | Fisheries/Aquaculture | Age and growth of fishes |
| Craig J. Plante | Microbial Processes | Microbial ecology, benthic biology, the influence of animal-microbe interactions on biogeochemical processes, and the role of autoinduction in the development of marine biofilms |
| Robert D. Podolsky | Ecology Evolution Physiology/Development |
Functional biology and evolutionary ecology of marine invertebrates, larval ecology and life-history evolution, fertilization ecology, physiological ecology, phenotypic plasticity |
| Seth Pritchard | Ecology | Plant physiological ecology: physiological responses of plants to ongoing global environmental changes including rising atmospheric carbon dioxide and ozone concentrations, warming, and soil salinization; implications for ecosystem function and food production |
| Lou Ann Reed | Toxicology/Chemistry | Environmental chemistry, ecotoxicology |
| Marcel J.M. Reichert | Fisheries/Aquaculture | Fish ecology, fisheries science |
| William A. Roumillat | Fisheries/Aquaculture | Biology of fishes |
| Matthew T. Rutter | Ecology Evolution/Systematics |
Plant ecology, genetics, evolution |
| Gorka Sancho | Ecology Fisheries/Aquaculture |
Behavioral ecology of fishes, fisheries conservation |
| Paul A. Sandifer | Fisheries/Aquaculture | Biology of decapod Crustacea, aquaculture, coastal ecology |
| Denise M. Sanger | Ecology | Impacts of human land use, benthic ecology, water quality, sediment chemistry, and toxicology |
| Leslie R. Sautter | Ecology | Biological oceanography, marine phytoplankton ecology, marine geology |
| Brian G. Scholtens | Ecology | Ecological models of plant-insect interactions |
| Lori H. Schwacke | Conservation/Management | Sentinel marine species as indicators of human health risks, epidemiology applied to protected species, population models for risk assessment |
| Geoffrey I. Scott | Toxicology/Chemistry | Aquatic toxicology |
| George R. Sedberry | Conservation/Management Ecology |
Community population and trophic ecology of marine fishes, coral reef biology, fisheries biology |
| Al Segars | Conservation/Management | Health/population assessment in marine turtles |
| Andrew M. Shedlock | Genomics/Molecular Biology Evolution/Systematics Conservation/Management |
Genomics, evolution and conservation biology of marine vertebrates |
| Virginia R. Shervette | Ecology | Estuarine ecology and management, conservation biology, fish ecology, oyster reef ecology, urbanization of estuaries, Human Dimensions of fisheries management, tropical ecology |
| Tracey Smart | Ecology Fisheries/Aquaculture |
Marine ecology, fisheries science and biological oceanography |
| Erik E. Sotka | Ecology Genomics/Molecular Biology |
Ecology and evolution of marine biotic interactions, larval dispersal, molecular ecology, chemical ecology |
| Allan E. Strand | Ecology | Molecular ecology, evolution, and demography of plants |
| Jeffrey D. Triblehorn | Physiology/Development | Sensory neurobiology and the neural control of behavior primarily involving invertebrate systems and includes studies using neurophysiological, neuroanatomical, and behavioral techniques |
| Frances M. Van Dolah | Genomics/Molecular Biology | Functional genomics of toxic dinoflagellates; effects of algal toxins on marine mammals and human consumers |
| Robert F. Van Dolah | Ecology | Benthic ecology, toxicology, environmental assessment, invertebrate community structure, population dynamics |
| Jason T. Vance | Physiology/Development | Biomechanics, aerodynamics, and control of insect flight; ontogeny of maximal flight performance and foraging behavior in honey bees |
| Keith Walters | Ecology | Marine ecology, habitat restoration, marine snow dynamics, plant-animal interactions, meiofauna |
| John E. Weinstein | Toxicology/Chemistry | Environmental toxicology; physiological ecology and toxicology of invertebrates and fish |
| Allison M. Welch | Ecology Evolution/Systematics |
Ecology, evolution and behavior of amphibians |
| J. David Whitaker | Conservation/Management Fisheries/Aquaculture |
Crustacean fisheries resource research |
| Dara H. Wilber | Ecology | Ecological impact assessment in the marine and estuarine environment |
| Pace Wilber | Conservation/Management | Geographical information systems |
| Edward F. Wirth | Toxicology/Chemistry | Effects of pesticides on crustaceans, particularly reproduction and physiology |
| D. Reid Wiseman | Evolution/Systematics | Systematics and ecology of marine algae |
| Cheryl M. Woodley | Genomics/Molecular Biology | 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 |
| David M. Wyanski | Fisheries/Aquaculture Evolution/Systematics |
Life history and taxonomy of marine fishes, fisheries biology |
| John D. Zardus | Evolution/Systematics Ecology |
Evolution and ecology of commensal barnacles |
| Anastasia M. Zimmerman | Genomics/Molecular Biology | 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 |