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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, Associate Professor
       Behavorial ecology of large mammals

  • 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 Leal, Assistant Professor
       Behavioral and Evolutionary Ecology of Lizards, Animal Communication

  • Stephen Nowicki, Professor of Biology and Dean of Undergraduate Education
       Ecology, evolution and mechanisms of animal communication

  • John Staddon, James B Duke Prof. of Psych. & Brain Sciences and Professor
       

  • Vance A Tucker, Professor Emeritus
       

  • Steven Vogel, Research Professor
       Life in moving fluids

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

  • Robert B. Jackson, Professor
       Physiological and ecosystem ecology; biogeochemistry

  • Daniel A. Livingstone, James B Duke Professor Emeritus and Research Professor
       

  • Daniel W McShea, Associate Professor
       Macroevolution, paleobiology, philosophy of biology

  • Kathleen K Smith, Professor and Director, National Evolutionary Synthesis Center
       Functional morphology and evolution of vertebrates; craniofacial development, evolutionary morphology

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

  • William Wilson, Associate Professor
       Theoretical ecology and evolution

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

  • H Frederik F. Nijhout, Professor
       Developmental physiology/development and evolution

  • Marcy K Uyenoyama, Professor
       Population genetics, molecular evolution