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, Robert F. Durden Distinguished Professor and Bass Fellow
       Behavorial ecology and ecological genetics of large mammals

  • Sonke Johnsen, Professor
       Comparative physiology; focusing on vision, crypsis, optics, and bioluminescence in the open ocean

  • Peter H. Klopfer, Professor Emeritus
       animal behavior and behavioral ecology

  • Sara E Lipshutz, Assistant Professor
       

  • Daniel W. McShea, Professor
       Hierarchy Theory, Macroevolution, Philosophy of Biology

  • H. Frederik Nijhout, John Franklin Crowell Distinguished Professor
       Developmental physiology/development and evolution

  • Stephen Nowicki, Professor and Associate Chair and Bass Fellow
       Function, structure, and evolution of animal signaling systems

  • Sheila N Patek, Mrs. Alexander Hehmeyer Professor
       

  • V. Louise Roth, Professor
       Morphological and molecular evolution in mammals: size, shape, and ontogeny

  • Kathleen K. Smith, Professor Emerita
       Functional morphology and evolution of vertebrates; craniofacial development, evolutionary morphology

  • Vance A. Tucker, Professor Emeritus of Zoology
       

  • Marcy K. Uyenoyama, Professor
       Population genetics, molecular evolution

  • Stephen A. Wainwright, James B. Duke Professor Emeritus
       Biomechanics; Design in organisms and engineering

  • Richard A. White, University Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Botany
       Comparative anatomy of vascular plants

  • Anne D. Yoder, Braxton Craven Distinguished Professor of Evolutionary Biology
       Phylogeny and evolution of mammals, ; conservation genetics; historical biogeography and biodiversity of Madagascar

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