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
Professor and Director of the Center for Microbial Dynamics & Infection -
Greg Gibson
Regents Professor, Tom and Marie Patton Chair in Biological Sciences, Director of the Center for Integrative Genomics, and member of the Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience -
Michael Goodisman
Professor -
Brian Hammer
Associate Professor -
Mark Hay
Regents Chair and the Harry and Anna Teasley Chair in Environmental Biology -
David Hu
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 Vice President for Interdisciplinary Research -
Joe Lachance
Associate Professor and Director, GAANN Training Grant -
Abigail Lind
Assistant Professor -
Patrick McGrath
Associate Professor -
Jenny McGuire
Associate Professor -
Joseph Montoya
Professor -
Farzaneh Najafi
Assistant Professor -
Shuyi Nie
Assistant Professor -
Annalise Paaby
Assistant Professor -
Jerry Pullman
Professor Emeritus -
William Ratcliff
Associate Professor and Co-Director of the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Quantitative Biosciences -
Robbie Richards
Academic Professional -
Terry Snell
Professor Emeritus -
Jim Spain
Professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering -
Lauren Speare
Assistant Professor -
Chrissy Spencer
Principal Academic Professional and Associate Chair for Undergraduate Affairs -
Alberto Stolfi
Assistant Professor -
Jeffrey Streelman
Professor and Chair -
Emily Weigel
Senior Academic Professional -
Marc Weissburg
Professor -
Joshua Weitz
Professor and Tom and Marie Patton Chair in Biological Sciences, Co-Director of the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Quantitative Biosciences, and Blaise Pascal International Chair of Excellence at the Ecole Normale Superieure -
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
