Organismal Biology and Behavior
Duke's Biology Department has a strong history of research and training in organismal biology and behavior. Physiology, comparative biomechanics, developmental biology, paleontology and macroevolution, neurobiology and behavioral ecology are all well-represented, with faculty working in diverse systems (both plant and animal) and on a large range of interesting problems in these fields. Organismal biology underlies and connects with essentially all major disciplines in biology, so faculty and students in this group have strong intellectual ties across the department.
- Susan C Alberts, Professor
Behavorial ecology of large mammals - Vikas Bhandawat, Scholar in Residence
Drosophila olfaction - Robert B. Jackson, Professor
Ecology and biogeochemistry, global change, energy and environment, water resources - Sonke Johnsen, Associate Professor
Comparative physiology; focusing on vision, crypsis, optics, and bioluminescence in the open ocean - Peter H Klopfer, Professor Emeritus
animal behavior and behavioral ecology - Manuel S Leal, Assistant Professor
Behavioral and Evolutionary Ecology of Lizards, Animal Communication - Daniel A Livingstone, James B Duke Professor Emeritus and Research Professor
- Daniel W McShea, Associate Professor
Macroevolution, paleobiology, philosophy of biology - H Frederik Nijhout, Professor
Developmental physiology/development and evolution - Stephen Nowicki, Professor of Biology and Dean of Undergraduate Education
Ecology, evolution and mechanisms of animal communication - V. Louise Roth, Associate Professor
Morphological and molecular evolution in mammals: size, shape, and ontogeny - Kathleen K Smith, Professor and Director, National Evolutionary Synthesis Center
Functional morphology and evolution of vertebrates; craniofacial development, evolutionary morphology - John Staddon, James B Duke Prof. of Psych. & Brain Sciences and Professor
- Vance A Tucker, Professor Emeritus
- Marcy K Uyenoyama, Professor
Population genetics, molecular evolution - Steven Vogel, Research Professor
Life in moving fluids - Stephen A. Wainwright, James B. Duke Professor Emeritus
Biomechanics; Design in organisms and engineering - Richard A White, University Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus and University Marshal
Comparative anatomy of vascular plants - William Wilson, Associate Professor
Theoretical ecology and evolution
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