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titleboxEVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY titlebox

Alexandra E. Bely, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., State University of New York-Stony Brook, 1999. Evolution and mechanism of regeneration and segmentation. Animal body plan evolution.


Karen Carleton, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., University of Colorado, 1987. Evolution of visual systems, visual communication and speciation, phototransduction, sensory genomics.


Catherine E. Carr, Professor; Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, 1984. Cellular mechanisms of sound localization in birds; evolution of the auditory system.


Cristian I. Castillo-Davis, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Harvard University, 2003. The genetic basis of phenotypic change, the evolution of gene regulation and gene networks, computational biology and statistics.


Eric S. Haag, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Indiana University, 1997. Molecular and functional evolution of nematode sex determination genes.


Thomas D. Kocher, Professor: Ph.D., University of Colorado, 1986; Molecular evolution, population genetics, evolution of development, genetics of speciation, evolution of sex determination.


William R. Jeffery, Professor; Ph.D., University of Iowa, 1971. Evolution of developmental mechanisms.


J. Dennis O'Connor, Professor; Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1968. Developmental biology and the mode of action of steroid hormones.


Arthur N. Popper, Professor; Ph.D., CUNY Graduate Center, 1969. Function, development and evolution of T6 auditory system in non-mammalian vertebrates.