Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

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Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Research summary
The ecology and ethnobotany of mountain ecosystems

Key words
ecology, ethnobotany, ethnobiology, phenology, plant science

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Human and Statistical Genetics
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Biomedical Informatics and Data Science

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Genetic studies of alcoholism, smoking and drug dependence, depression, suicidality and anxiety disorders, personality disorders, and methodological research in genetic epidemiology

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substance abuse, development, modeling, psychiatry, quantitative genetics

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Plant and Microbial Biosciences
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

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Understanding patterns and mechanisms of long-term ecosystem dynamics under changing climatic conditions

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ecosystem ecology, quaternary paleoecology, climatic change and biotic response, soil and sediment biogeochemistry

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Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Neurosciences
Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Research summary
In the Kautt Lab, we combine a genomics-centered approach with molecular experiments, behavioral assays, and fieldwork to elucidate both the evolutionary and molecular mechanisms underlying organismal adaptation and diversification, with a focus on animal behavior.

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Evolution, Genomics, Behavior, Adaptation, Speciation

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Plant and Microbial Biosciences
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Molecular Genetics and Genomics

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Identifying deep similarities among plants as apparently disparate as rice, wheat, maize, and the other cereals

Key words
plant evolution; evo-devo; genomics; phylogeny

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Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Computational and Systems Biology
Molecular Genetics and Genomics

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Modeling the evolution of species with stochastic processes [Recruiting PhD Students for Fall 2024]

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phylogenetics, evolution, ecology, epidemiology, statistical models, stochastic processes, computational inference, deep learning

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Computational and Systems Biology
Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Human and Statistical Genetics
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

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Integration of whole-genome sequence with phenotypic data to understand parent-of-origin genetic effects and gene-by-environment interactions

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Epigenetics, gene regulation, parent-of-origin effects, gene-by-environment interactions, pleiotropy, systems biology, metabolism, evolution

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Computational and Systems Biology
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
Plant and Microbial Biosciences

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A computational and experimental lab studying bacterial colonization and transmission at the boundary of built and natural environments and exploring microbiomes as environmental sensors and public health sentinels

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Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Research summary
I study how species adapt to their environment.

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ecology, evolution, adaptation, lizard, reptile

Program affiliation
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Plant and Microbial Biosciences
Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

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How the environment shapes host-associated microbial communities both within and across species

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Gut microbiome, nonhuman primates, environmental health