Adrienne M.S. Correa
Instructor
Office: 135A Anderson Biology
Office Phone: (713) 348-3054
Web: Personal
Email: ac53(at)rice.edu
Research Area: Biodiversity, Community Ecology, Conservation Biology, Coral Reefs, Marine Biology, Microbiology, Molecular Systematics, Symbiosis, Virology
I am a microbial community ecologist and evolutionary biologist, working at scales that range from microbial strains and individual hosts to ecosystems. My primary research interests include the diversity, stability, and function of mutualisms; the context-dependent roles of microbes in host health and survival; and the extent to which selection on microbes influences host response to environmental disturbance.
Amy Dunham
Assistant Professor
Office: 103B Anderson Biology
Office Phone: (713) 348-2792
Web: Personal
Email: aed4 (at) rice.edu
Research Area: Conservation biology, community ecology, plant-animal interactions, population biology, terrestrial food-web ecology,linking grazing and detrital food webs, invasive species, tropical ecology
Michael Kohn
Associate Professor
Institute of Biosciences and Bioengineering
Rice Systems and Synthetic Biology Group
Gulf Coast Consortium
Center for Tropical Research
Office: 205A Anderson Biology
Office Phone: (713) 348-3779
Lab Phone: (713) 348-6227
Web: Personal Lab
Email: hmkohn (at) rice.edu
Research Area: Evolutionary Biology, Genomics, Population Genetics, Medical Genetics
We are interested in the evolutionary dynamics of genes and genomes in populations and species. Some of our research projects have implications for conservation biology or medicine.
Zhenguo Lin
Huxley Faculty Fellow
Office: 105B Anderson Biology
Office Phone:
Web: Personal
Email:zlin (at) rice.edu
Research Area: The genetic basis of phenotypic evolution and gene regulation divergence.
Tom Miller
Godwin
Assistant Professor
of
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Office: 135B Anderson Biology
Office Phone: (713) 348-4218
Web: Personal
Email:tom.miller (at) rice.edu
Research Area: demography, population, dynamics, plant-animal interactions, life history evolution, theory-data interface
Luay K. Nakhleh
Associate Professor
of
Computer Science
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and
Biochemistry and Cell Biology
Office: 3119 Duncan Hall
Office Phone: (713) 348-3959
Fax: (713) 348-5930
Web: Personal Lab
Email: nakhleh (at) rice.edu
Research Area: Luay's research falls into the general areas of computational biology and bioinformatics, with focus on computational evolutionary biology, particularly "networks of evolution and evolution of networks," as well as other topics related to biological networks.
Nicholas H. Putnam
Assistant Professor
Office: 201D Anderson Biology
Office Phone: (713) 348-2243
Web: Lab
Email: nputnam (at) rice.edu
Research Area: My goal is to reconstruct ancestral genomes, pathways, and regulatory networks, and use these reconstructions to test the predictions of models of evolution, and functional hypotheses.
Haldre Rogers
Huxley Faculty Fellow
Office: 135B Anderson Biology
Office Phone: (713) 348-2877
Web: Personal
Email:haldre.s.rogers (at) rice.edu
Research Area: Conservation, human-environment interactions, environmental policy, community ecology, seed dispersal, trophic cascades, invasive species, Interdisciplinary research.
Volker Rudolf
Assistant Professor
Office: 105A Anderson Biology
Office Phone: (713) 348-2834
Web: Personal Lab
Email: volker.rudolf (at) rice.edu
Research Area: Community ecology, population ecology, evolutionary ecology, ecology of infectious diseases and parasites, aquatic ecology
My interests are broad but mainly focus on the ecological and evolutionary factors that generate and determine the structure and dynamics of communities. In my research I combine theoretical and empirical work to develop predictive frameworks for understanding how species interactions and abiotic environmental factors determine the structure and dynamics of communities and how they drive population dynamics and the evolution of complex life histories. Most of my current research focuses on the impact of cannibalism and population size structure on community dynamics and their evolutionary consequences. This research partly overlaps with my work on the role of diseases in determining community structure and population dynamics. Most of my research on evolutionary ecology examines how environmental variation shapes the evolution of life history strategies such as iteroparity and delayed maturity and the reaction norm of age and size at metamorphosis.
Yousif Shamoo
Associate Professor
of
Biochemistry and Cell Biology
and
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Director, Institute of Biosciences and Bioengineering
Keck Center for Computational Biology
Ken Kennedy Institute for Information Technology
Office: 332 Keck Hall
Office Phone: (713) 348-5493
Lab Phone: (713) 348-3858
Web: Personal Lab
Email: shamoo (at) rice.edu
Research Area: Structural biology, molecular evolution, X-ray crystallography, microbial evolution, antibiotic resistance
My lab is interested in the underlying biophysical principles of adaptation within bacterial populations during protein evolution. Our interest in this field is stimulated by the rise in drug resistant pathogens as well as our own curiosity about the physical basis for molecular evolution. By combining approaches from biophysics and experimental evolution we are able to identify and characterize intermediates along the mutational pathways of adaptation and then link those intermediates to the overall evolutionary trajectory of the bacterial populations.
Evan Siemann
Department Chair and Professor
Center for the Study of the Environment and Society
Environmental and Energy Systems Institute
Institute of Biosciences and Bioengineering
Sloan Professional Masters Program
Office: 101A Anderson Biology
Office Phone: (713) 348-5954
Lab Phone: (713) 348-2419
Web: Personal Lab
Email: siemann (at) rice.edu
Research Area: population and community ecology, forests, grasslands, plant ecology, insect ecology, plant/herbivore interactions, invasive species, biodiversity, conservation
Scott Solomon
Instructor
Office: 135C Anderson Biology
Office Phone: (713) 348-2661
Web: Personal Blog
Email: Scott.Solomon (at) rice.edu
Research Area: Molecular systematics, biogeography, phylogeography, biodiversity, tropical ecology
I am generally interested in how evolutionary and ecological processes produce patterns in geographical space. I use ants as a model system, which are useful because they are widespread and abundant, and because ant species diversity can be an indicator of diversity in other groups
Frank Fisher
Professor Emeritus
Office: 203B Anderson Biology
Office Phone: (713) 348-4917
Email: fisher (at) rice.edu
Paul Harcombe
Professor Emeritus
Web: Personal
Email: harcomb (at) rice.edu
Ronald Sass
Professor Emeritus
Office: 203A Anderson Biology
Office Phone: (713) 348-4066
Email: sass (at) rice.edu
Stephen Subtelny
Professor Emeritus
Office: 215AB Anderson Biology
Office Phone: (713) 348-4923
Email: subtelny (at) rice.edu
Ricardo Azevedo
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Associate Professor
Biology and Biochemistry
University of Houston
Office: SR2 350
Office Phone:(713) 743-4149
Email: razevedo (at) uh.edu
Web: Lab
Blaine J. Cole
Adjunct Associate Professor
Associate Professor
Biology and Biochemistry
University of Houston
Office: SR2 321G
Phone:(713) 743-2679
Email: bcole (at) uh.edu
Web: Personal
Tim Cooper
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor
Biology and Biochemistry
University of Houston
Office: 353
Phone:(713) 743-2552
Email: tfcooper (at) uh.edu
Web: Lab
Yuriy Fofanov
Adjunct Associate Professor
Assistant Professor
Biology and Biochemistry
University of Houston
Office: PGH 230
Phone:(713) 743-8553
Email: yfofanov (at) uh.edu
Web: Personal
Tony Frankino
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor
Biology and Biochemistry
University of Houston
Office: SR2 #321B
Phone:(713) 743-2552
Email: frankino (at) uh.edu
Web: Personal
Dan Graur
Adjunct Professor
John and Rebecca Moores Professor
Biology and Biochemistry
University of Houston
Office: SR2 352
Office Phone:(713) 743-7236
Email: dgraur (at) rice.edu
Web: Lab
Nancy Greig
Adjunct Professor
Curator of Entomology
Cockrell Butterfly Center
Houston Museum of Natural Science
Office: The Houston Museum of Natural Science
Office Phone: (713)639-4742
Email: ngreig (at) hmns.org
Web: Personal
Maria Hartley
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Ecologist
Chevron
University of Houston
Email: mariak (at) rice.edu
Adam Kuspa
Adjunct Professor
Professor
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Baylor College of Medicine
Office: One Baylor Plaza T321
Office Phone: (713) 798-8278
Email: akuspa (at) bcm.tmc.edu
Web: Personal
Wen-Hsiung Li
Adjunct Professor
James Watson Professor
Department of Ecology and Evolution
University of Chicago
Office: Zoolgy 202B
Office Phone: (773) 702-3104
Email: whli (at) uchicago.edu
Web: Personal Lab
Steven C. Pennings
Adjunct Professor
Associate Professor
Biology and Biochemistry
University of Houston
Office: SR2-321F
Office Phone: (713) 743 2989
Email: spennings (at) uh.edu
Web: Personal
Gad Shaulsky
Adjunct Associate Professor
Associate Professor
Department of Molecular and Human Genetics
Baylor College of Medicine
Office: One Baylor Plaza S430
Office Phone: (713) 798-8082
Email: gadi (at) bcm.tmc.edu
Web: Personal
Diane C. Wiernasz
Adjunct Associate Professor
Associate Professor
Biology and Biochemistry
University of Houston
Office: SR2 321E
Office Phone: (713)743-2677
Email: dwiernasz (at) uh.edu
Web: Personal
Rebecca Zufall
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor
Biology and Biochemistry
University of Houston
Office: 353 SR2
Phone:(713) 743-8172
Email: rzufall (at) uh.edu
Web: Lab