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| In the Biology Department, six research areas serve as foci for research interactions and graduate training. These foci assure that researchers have the critical number of colleagues that is essential to form effective communities. The foci also cross-fertilize each other, as faculty and students commonly have multiple research interests. Several research areas center on the Tropics, as befits the Department's setting in South Florida at the gateway to the tropics. In addition, the department is significantly expanding in Developmental Biology and Neuroscience. In the next four years, we will hire five new faculty in these areas. For information on faculty research in each area, click on the research heading. |
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Behavior and Behavioral Ecology
Research ranges from studying bee, bat, bird and and primate behavior to understanding how behavior changes in evolution and how the environment molds behavior. Faculty include Drs. Fleming, Green, Searcy, Waddington and adjunct faculty. |
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Conservation and Restoration Biology
Research studies invasive species, ecosystem degredation, and means of restoring ecosystems in an exceptionally wide range of land and aquatic environments, including the everglades, the Bahamas, Central and South America and Malaysia. Faculty include Drs. DeAngelis, Fleming, Gaines, Horvitz, Janos, Potts, Prince, Sealy, Tokarz, Waddington, Whitlock and adjunct faculty.
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Development and Neuroscience
Research ranges from sensory physiology, aging and neuroendocrine function through axis and nervous system development and the cell biology of motility. Our current expansion is adding junior and senior faculty who ask basic biological questions using model genetic systems such as Drosophila, zebrafish, chick and urchin. Faculty include Drs. Chiba, Dallman, Lu, Tosney, Skromne, Tokarz, ,Wikramanayake and D. Wilson.
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Evolutionary Biology
Research ranges from discovering new species of both plants and animals to assessing taxonomy, the molecular genetics of evolution, environmental pressures on evolution, and changes in developmental programs that produce substrates for evolutionary change. Faculty include Drs. Fleming, Gaines, Janos, Lee, Searcy, Tosney, Whitlock, A. Wilson and several adjunct faculty. |
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Mathematical and Theoretical Biology
Research ranges from analysis and metanalysis to modeling of ecosystems, resource cycling, population biology, plant geometry, climate change, epidemiology, resource management, the mind and aging. Faculty include Drs. DeAngelis, Horvitz, Potts, Herbert , Sternberg and D. Wilson.
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Tropical Biology
Research ranges broadly across major scientific issus in the tropics, with major research projects on tropical botany, ecosystems, behavior and faunal assemblages. Faculty include Drs. Fleming, Gaines, Herbert, Horvitz, Janos, Lee, Potts, Prince, Sealy, Sternberg, Whitlock and adjunct faculty.
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