Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Jonathan Myers, PhD
Associate Professor
- Email: jamyers@wustl.edu
Program affiliation
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Research summary
Community ecology, biodiversity, and biogeography of temperate and tropical ecosystems
Key words
biodiversity; biogeography; community assembly; environmental change; forest dynamics; plant community ecology; plant functional ecology; species diversity; species interactions; tropical ecology
Kenneth Olsen, PhD
George William and Irene Koechig Freiberg Professor
- Email: kolsen@wustl.edu
Program affiliation
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Plant and Microbial Biosciences
Research summary
Plant evolutionary biology, molecular population genetics, genetics of adaptation, phylogeography
Key words
evolution, genetics, plant biology, population genetics, molecular evolution
Rachel Penczykowski, PhD
Assistant Professor
- Email: rpenczykowski@wustl.edu
Program affiliation
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Plant and Microbial Biosciences
Research summary
The ecology and evolution of infectious diseases, with a focus on wild populations of herbaceous plant hosts and their powdery mildew pathogens.
Key words
David Queller, PhD
Spencer T. Olin Professor
- Email: queller@wustl.edu
Program affiliation
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Plant and Microbial Biosciences
Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Research summary
The evolution of sociality, cooperation, and cheating in a eukaryotic microbe, using experimental evolution, genomics, and other approaches
Key words
social interactions, evolution, microbiology, social amoebae, kin selection, moleuclar evolution, multicellularity, development, genomics
Susanne Renner, Dr rer nat
Honorary Professor
- Email: srenner@wustl.edu
Program affiliation
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Research summary
I am an evolutionary biologist and plant systematist. Of particular interest to me are plant/animal interactions, biogeography, and plant sexual systems
Key words
Evolution, plant systematics, nomenclature, biogeography, plant/animal interactions, sexual systems, sex chromosomes
Barbara Schaal, PhD
Mary-Dell Chilton Distinguished Professor
- Email: schaal@wustl.edu
Program affiliation
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Plant and Microbial Biosciences
Research summary
Evolutionary genetics and systematics of plants
Key words
evolution, population genetics, plant biology
Adam Smith, PhD
Associate Scientist
- Email: adam.smith@mobot.org
Program affiliation
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Research summary
Key words
Joan Strassmann, PhD
Charles Rebstock Professor
- Email: strassmann@wustl.edu
Program affiliation
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
Plant and Microbial Biosciences
Research summary
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
Key words
social evolution; multicellularity; mutualism; symbiosis; experimental evolution; disease; social amoebae; Dictyostelium; science education; birds
Juan Sebastian Tello, PhD
Assistant Scientist
- Email: sebastian.tello@mobot.org
Program affiliation
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Research summary
Study of biodiversity, particularly on macroecology, metacommunity ecology, biogeography and spatial ecology
Key words
Biodiversity, community ecology, macroecology, metacommunities, metapopulations, spatial ecology,null models, computer simulation models
Mikhail Tikhonov, PhD
Assistant Professor
- Email: tikhonov@wustl.edu
Program affiliation
Computational and Systems Biology
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Research summary
Theoretical physics of ecology and evolution; quantitative modeling; analysis of sequencing data
Key words
Theoretical biophysics; Evolution; Microbiome; High-diversity ecology