The study of ecology, evolution, and behavior in the School of Biological Sciences includes the following areas:
- Aquatic chemical ecology
- Aquatic toxicology
- Evolutionary and population ecology
- Molecular and genome evolution
- Sensory ecology
- Ecological genomics
- Evolution of development, behavior, and sociality
- Biological oceanography
- Microbial ecology and environmental microbiology, with special emphasis on plasmid ecology, bacterial transformation and respiration of metals, and chemosensory regulation
Opportunities for research exist on campus, at our Skidaway Oceanographic Facilities on the Georgia coast, and on research cruises. Interdisciplinary research in microbiology, involving faculty members from other departments, occurs through the Center for Environmental Microbiology.
Faculty in this focus area
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Sam Brown
Professor -
Steve Diggle
Associate Professor -
Greg Gibson
Professor -
Michael Goodisman
Associate Professor -
Brian Hammer
Associate Professor -
Mark Hay
Regents Professor and Harry and Linda Teasley Chair -
David Hu
Assistant Professor -
Lin Jiang
Professor -
King Jordan
Professor and Director, Bioinformatics Graduate Program -
Kostas Konstantinidis
Assistant Professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering -
Joel Kostka
Professor and Associate Chair of Research -
Julia Kubanek
Professor and Associate Dean -
Joe Lachance
Assistant Professor -
Patrick McGrath
Associate Professor -
Jenny McGuire
Assistant Professor -
Joseph Montoya
Professor -
Shuyi Nie
Assistant Professor -
Annalise Paaby
Assistant Professor -
Jerry Pullman
Professor Emeritus -
William Ratcliff
Associate Professor -
Terry Snell
Professor Emeritus -
Jim Spain
Professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering -
Chrissy Spencer
Senior Academic Professional -
Alberto Stolfi
Assistant Professor -
Jeffrey Streelman
Professor and Chair -
Emily Weigel
Academic Professional -
Marc Weissburg
Professor -
Joshua Weitz
Professor and Director of the Interdisciplinary PhD in Quantitative Biosciences -
Marvin Whiteley
Professor Biological Sciences, Georgia Tech Bennie H. and Nelson D. Abell Chair in Molecular and Cellular Biology, Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar Co-Director, Emory-Children’s CF Center (CF@LANTA) -
Jeannette Yen
Professor -
Soojin Yi
Professor