Faculty List of Graduate Program
Ecology and Evolution

Joy Bergelson  <j-bergelson@uchicago.edu> Ecology and evolution of resistance in plants, plant-enemy interactions, coevolution, pathogenesis of bacteria on plants

Jerry Coyne  <j-coyne@uchicago.edu> I work on a diverse array of topics in the areas of population and evolutionary genetics, speciation, ecological genetics, and molecular evolution.

Greg Dwyer  <gdwyer@midway.uchicago.edu> Disease ecology, spatial ecology, population genetics, animal behavior and conservation biology.

Richard Hudson  <rr-hudson@uchicago.edu> Population genetics, theory and data analysis with a focus on molecular variation within and between species.

Martin Kreitman  <mkre@midway.uchicago.edu> Molecular population genetics, genetics of speciation.

Wen-Hsiung Li  <whli@uchicago.edu> Major interest: Processes and mechanisms of molecular and genomic evolution. I. Evolution of gene regulation. II. Evolution of duplicate genes. III. Development of statistical methods and computational analysis of genomic data.

Manyuan Long  <mlong@midway.uchicago.edu> Molecular evolution, evolutionary genomics

Thomas Nagylaki  <none> Theoretical population biology, especially geographical variation; gene conversion in multi-gene families; random genetic drift; natural selection

Cathy Pfister  <c-pfister@uchicago.edu> Population and community dynamics in marine systems

Trevor Price  <pricet@uchicago.edu> Evolutionary ecology of birds, including sexual selection, speciation, causes of range limits and latitudinal gradients in species diversity

Stephen Pruett-Jones  <aspj@midway.uchicago.edu> Behavioral ecology, sexual selection, mate choice, communication, population biology, phylogeography

Manfred Ruddat  <mruddat@uchicago.edu> Basic molecular, genetic and evolutionary mechanisms of interactions among organisms. The specific problems my students and I are investigating concern host-parasite interactions, especially between the anther smut fungus Ustilago violacea (aka Microbotry

Leigh Van Valen  <leigh@uchicago.edu> Macroevolution, macroecology, fossil mammals, evolution of biotas, energy in ecology and evolution, ecological genetics, evolution of development and adaptation, organization and evolution of phenotype, conceptual analysis

Tim Wootton  <twootton@uchicago.edu> Species interactions, particularly experimental and theoretical analyses of the causes and consequences of extinctions and introductions, and of the role of species interactions in mediating environmental impacts in food webs.

Chung-I Wu  <ciwu@uchicago.edu> Speciation, evolutionary genetics, molecular population genetics, genomics, sexual selection