Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Robbie Hart, PhD
Director, William L. Brown Center
- Email: robbie.hart@mobot.org
Program affiliation
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Research summary
The ecology and ethnobotany of mountain ecosystems
Key words
ecology, ethnobotany, ethnobiology, phenology, plant science
Andrew Heath, DPhil
Spencer T. Olin Professor of Psychology
- Email: aheath@wustl.edu
Program affiliation
Human and Statistical Genetics
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Biomedical Informatics and Data Science
Research summary
Genetic studies of alcoholism, smoking and drug dependence, depression, suicidality and anxiety disorders, personality disorders, and methodological research in genetic epidemiology
Key words
substance abuse, development, modeling, psychiatry, quantitative genetics
Feng Sheng Hu, PhD
Richard G. Engelsmann Dean of Arts & Sciences and Lucille P. Markey Distinguished Professor
- Email: deanhu@wustl.edu
Program affiliation
Plant and Microbial Biosciences
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Research summary
Understanding patterns and mechanisms of long-term ecosystem dynamics under changing climatic conditions
Key words
ecosystem ecology, quaternary paleoecology, climatic change and biotic response, soil and sediment biogeochemistry
Elizabeth Kellogg, PhD
Member
- Email: ekellogg@danforthcenter.org
Program affiliation
Plant and Microbial Biosciences
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Research summary
Identifying deep similarities among plants as apparently disparate as rice, wheat, maize, and the other cereals
Key words
plant evolution; evo-devo; genomics; phylogeny
Michael Landis, PhD
Assistant Professor
- Email: michael.landis@wustl.edu
Program affiliation
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Computational and Systems Biology
Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Research summary
Modeling the evolution of species with stochastic processes [Recruiting PhD Students for Fall 2024]
Key words
phylogenetics, evolution, ecology, epidemiology, statistical models, stochastic processes, computational inference, deep learning
Heather Lawson, PhD
Assistant Professor
- Email: lawson@wustl.edu
Program affiliation
Computational and Systems Biology
Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Human and Statistical Genetics
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Research summary
Integration of whole-genome sequence with phenotypic data to understand parent-of-origin genetic effects and gene-by-environment interactions
Key words
Epigenetics, gene regulation, parent-of-origin effects, gene-by-environment interactions, pleiotropy, systems biology, metabolism, evolution
Fangqiong Ling, PhD
Assistant Professor
- Email: fangqiong@wustl.edu
Program affiliation
Computational and Systems Biology
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
Plant and Microbial Biosciences
Research summary
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
Key words
Jonathan Losos, PhD
William H Danforth Distinquished Professor
- Email: losos@wustl.edu
Program affiliation
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Research summary
I study how species adapt to their environment.
Key words
ecology, evolution, adaptation, lizard, reptile
Elizabeth Mallott, PhD
Assistant Professor
- Email: mallott@wustl.edu
Program affiliation
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Plant and Microbial Biosciences
Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
Research summary
How the environment shapes host-associated microbial communities both within and across species
Key words
Gut microbiome, nonhuman primates, environmental health
Josh Morgan, PhD
Assistant Professor
- Email: jlmorgan@wustl.edu
Program affiliation
Neurosciences
Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Research summary
Use advanced cellular imaging techniques to investigate how neurons organize themselves into image processing circuits
Key words
connectomics, vision, retina, LGN, synapse, electron microscopy, circuit