Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

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Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

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Neurosciences
Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

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Use advanced cellular imaging techniques to investigate how neurons organize themselves into image processing circuits

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connectomics, vision, retina, LGN, synapse, electron microscopy, circuit

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Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

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Community ecology, biodiversity, and biogeography of temperate and tropical ecosystems

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biodiversity; biogeography; community assembly; environmental change; forest dynamics; plant community ecology; plant functional ecology; species diversity; species interactions; tropical ecology

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Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Plant and Microbial Biosciences

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Plant evolutionary biology, molecular population genetics, genetics of adaptation, phylogeography

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evolution, genetics, plant biology, population genetics, molecular evolution

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Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Plant and Microbial Biosciences

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The ecology and evolution of infectious diseases, with a focus on wild populations of herbaceous plant hosts and their powdery mildew pathogens.

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host-parasite interactions, disease ecology, plant pathogens, urban ecology, climate change

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

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The evolution of sociality, cooperation, and cheating in a eukaryotic microbe, using experimental evolution, genomics, and other approaches

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social interactions, evolution, microbiology, social amoebae, kin selection, moleuclar evolution, multicellularity, development, genomics

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Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

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I am an evolutionary biologist and plant systematist. Of particular interest to me are plant/animal interactions, biogeography, and plant sexual systems

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Evolution, plant systematics, nomenclature, biogeography, plant/animal interactions, sexual systems, sex chromosomes

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Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Plant and Microbial Biosciences

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Evolutionary genetics and systematics of plants

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evolution, population genetics, plant biology

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

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We work on social interactions and mutualism using a microbial system so we can study cheating, conflict and cooperation at experimental and genomic levels, within and between species, in particular in social amoebae and their farmed bacteria

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social evolution; multicellularity; mutualism; symbiosis; experimental evolution; disease; social amoebae; Dictyostelium; science education; birds

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Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

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Study of biodiversity, particularly on macroecology, metacommunity ecology, biogeography and spatial ecology

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Biodiversity, community ecology, macroecology, metacommunities, metapopulations, spatial ecology,null models, computer simulation models