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Research Areas
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 essentail 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.
We are currently searching for an endowed chair candidate, for the Aresty chair
in Tropical Ecology. In addition, the department has signifanctly expanded in
Developmental Biology and Neuroscience, with five recent hires. For information
on faculty research in each area, click on individual faculty links or on the
research heading.
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Research ranges from studying bee, bat, bird and primate
behavior to understanding how behavior changes in evolution and
how the environment molds behavior. Faculty include Drs. Green,
Searcy, Tokarz, Waddington, and adjunct faculty.
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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 includes Drs. DeAngelis, Gaines, Green, Horvitz, Janos, Prince, Sealy, Tokarz, Waddington, Whitlock, and adjunct faculty.
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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. Baker, Browne, Chiba, Dallman, Lu, Prince, Tosney, Skromne, Tokarz, Wikramanayake, and D. Wilson.
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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. Browne, Gaines, Hurt, Janos, Searcy, Tosney, Whitlock, Wikramanayake, A. Wilson and several adjunct faculty.
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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, Herbert, Sternberg and D. Wilson.
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Research ranges broadly across major scientific issues in the tropics, with major research projects on tropical botany, ecosystems, behavior and faunal assemblages. Faculty include Drs. Gaines, Green,
Herbert, Horvitz, Hurt, Janos, Prince, Sealy, Sternberg, Whitlock, and adjunct faculty.
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