Adrienne M.S. Correa
Lecturer
Office: 135A Anderson Biology
Office Phone: (713) 348-3054
Web: Personal
Email: ac53(at)rice.edu
Research Area: Biodiversity, Community Ecology, Conservation Biology, Coral Reefs, Marine Biology, Microbiology, Molecular Systematics, Symbiosis, Virology
I am a microbial community ecologist and evolutionary biologist, working at scales that range from microbial strains and individual hosts to ecosystems. My primary research interests include the diversity, stability, and function of mutualisms; the context-dependent roles of microbes in host health and survival; and the extent to which selection on microbes influences host response to environmental disturbance.
Amy Dunham
Assistant Professor
Office: 103B Anderson Biology
Office Phone: (713) 348-2792
Web: Personal
Email: aed4 (at) rice.edu
Research Area: Conservation biology, community ecology, plant-animal interactions, population biology, terrestrial food-web ecology,linking grazing and detrital food webs, invasive species, tropical ecology
Scott P. Egan
Assistant Professor
Office: 211A Anderson Biology
Office Phone:
Web: Personal
Email:scott.p.egan (at) rice.edu
Research Area: I am interested in the processes that promote or constrain the evolution of new biological species. Examples of my research include (1) understanding the role of adaptation via natural selection in the speciation process and (2) exploring the genomic architecture associated with and mediating the evolution of new species. This work requires a multidisciplinary approach integrating natural history, manipulative field experiments, behavioral observations, and population genetics and genomics. Related research interests include interdisciplinary research that harnesses genetic variation to address societal challenges, such as the rapid environmental detection of rare or invasive species.
Michael Kohn
Associate Professor
Institute of Biosciences and Bioengineering
Rice Systems and Synthetic Biology Group
Gulf Coast Consortium
Center for Tropical Research
Office: 205A Anderson Biology
Office Phone: (713) 348-3779
Lab Phone: (713) 348-6227
Web: Personal Lab
Email: hmkohn (at) rice.edu
Research Area: Evolutionary Biology, Genomics, Population Genetics, Medical Genetics
We are interested in the evolutionary dynamics of genes and genomes in populations and species. Some of our research projects have implications for conservation biology or medicine.
Emily I. Jones
Huxley Faculty Fellow
Office: 211D Anderson Biology
Office Phone:(713) 348-4182
Web: Personal
Email:eijones (at) rice.edu
Research Area: An evolutionary ecologist studying species interactions in a community context.
Tom Miller
Godwin
Assistant Professor
of
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Office: 135B Anderson Biology
Office Phone: (713) 348-4218
Web: Personal
Email:tom.miller (at) rice.edu
Research Area: demography, population, dynamics, plant-animal interactions, life history evolution, theory-data interface
Luay K. Nakhleh
Associate Professor
of
Computer Science
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and
Biochemistry and Cell Biology
Office: 3119 Duncan Hall
Office Phone: (713) 348-3959
Fax: (713) 348-5930
Web: Personal Lab
Email: nakhleh (at) rice.edu
Research Area: Luay's research falls into the general areas of computational biology and bioinformatics, with focus on computational evolutionary biology, particularly "networks of evolution and evolution of networks," as well as other topics related to biological networks.
Haldre Rogers
Huxley Faculty Fellow
Office: 135B Anderson Biology
Office Phone: (713) 348-2877
Web: Research Personal
Email:haldre.s.rogers (at) rice.edu
Research Area: Conservation, human-environment interactions, environmental policy, community ecology, seed dispersal, trophic cascades, invasive species, Interdisciplinary research.
Volker Rudolf
Associate Professor
Institute of Biosciences and Bioengineering
Office: 105A Anderson Biology
Office Phone: (713) 348-2834
Web: Personal Lab
Email: volker.rudolf (at) rice.edu
Research Area: Community ecology, population ecology, evolutionary ecology, ecology of infectious diseases and parasites, aquatic ecology.
My interests are broad but mainly focus on the ecological and evolutionary factors that generate and determine the structure and dynamics of communities. In my research I combine theoretical and empirical work to develop predictive frameworks for understanding how species interactions and abiotic environmental factors determine the structure and dynamics of communities and how they drive population dynamics and the evolution of complex life histories. Most of my current research focuses on the impact of cannibalism and population size structure on community dynamics and their evolutionary consequences. This research partly overlaps with my work on the role of diseases in determining community structure and population dynamics. Most of my research on evolutionary ecology examines how environmental variation shapes the evolution of life history strategies such as iteroparity and delayed maturity and the reaction norm of age and size at metamorphosis.
Julia B Saltz
Assistant Professor
Office: Anderson Biology 209B
Office Phone: (713) 348-xxxx
Web: Lab
Email:julia.b.saltz (at) rice.edu
Research Area: My work aims to understand the development and evolution of intra-population individual differences in behavior, with a particular focus on social behaviors. Why do individuals of the same species develop dramatic differences in behavior? How is this diversity maintained in the face of selection and drift? To address these questions, I work to integrate evolutionary ecology and psychology with quantitative, population and functional genetics, using the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster.
Yousif Shamoo
Professor,
Vice Provost for Research
and Wiess Career Development Chair
Director, Institute of Biosciences and Bioengineering
Keck Center for Computational Biology
Ken Kennedy Institute for Information Technology
Office: 332 Keck Hall
Office Phone: (713) 348-5493
Lab Phone: (713) 348-3858
Web: Personal Lab
Email: shamoo (at) rice.edu
Research Area: Structural biology, molecular evolution, X-ray crystallography, microbial evolution, antibiotic resistance
My lab is interested in the underlying biophysical principles of adaptation within bacterial populations during protein evolution. Our interest in this field is stimulated by the rise in drug resistant pathogens as well as our own curiosity about the physical basis for molecular evolution. By combining approaches from biophysics and experimental evolution we are able to identify and characterize intermediates along the mutational pathways of adaptation and then link those intermediates to the overall evolutionary trajectory of the bacterial populations.
Evan Siemann
Harry C & Olga K Wiess Professor,
Associate Vice Provost for Academic Affairs
Center for the Study of the Environment and Society
Environmental and Energy Systems Institute
Institute of Biosciences and Bioengineering
Sloan Professional Masters Program
Office: 101A Anderson Biology
Office Phone: (713) 348-5954
Lab Phone: (713) 348-2419
Web: Personal Lab
Email: siemann (at) rice.edu
Research Area: population and community ecology, forests, grasslands, plant ecology, insect ecology, plant/herbivore interactions, invasive species, biodiversity, conservation
Scott Solomon
Professor in Practice
Office: 135C Anderson Biology
Office Phone: (713) 348-2661
Web: Personal Blog
Email: Scott.Solomon (at) rice.edu
Research Area: Molecular systematics, biogeography, phylogeography, biodiversity, tropical ecology
I am generally interested in how evolutionary and ecological processes produce patterns in geographical space. I use ants as a model system, which are useful because they are widespread and abundant, and because ant species diversity can be an indicator of diversity in other groups
Frank Fisher
Professor Emeritus
Office: 203B Anderson Biology
Office Phone: (713) 348-4917
Email: fisher (at) rice.edu
Paul Harcombe
Professor Emeritus
Web: Personal
Email: harcomb (at) rice.edu
Ronald Sass
Professor Emeritus
Office: 203A Anderson Biology
Office Phone: (713) 348-4066
Email: sass (at) rice.edu
Stephen Subtelny
Professor Emeritus
Office: 215AB Anderson Biology
Office Phone: (713) 348-4923
Email: subtelny (at) rice.edu
Jeffrey Glassberg
Adjunct Professor
President
North American Butterfly Association
Office:
Office Phone:
Email:
Web:
Nancy Greig
Adjunct Professor
Curator of Entomology
Cockrell Butterfly Center
Houston Museum of Natural Science
Office: The Houston Museum of Natural Science
Office Phone: (713)639-4742
Email: ngreig (at) hmns.org
Web: Personal
Maria Hartley
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Ecologist
Chevron
University of Houston
Email: mariak (at) rice.edu