Lesley Campbell
Huxley Faculty Fellow
Office: 135A Anderson Biology
Office Phone: (713) 348-3054
Lab Phone: (713) 348-
Web: Personal
Email: lgc (at) rice.edu
Research Area: Understanding the dynamic interplay between evolution and the changes over time of rare and invasive species by examining two complementary themes: How demographic patterns are shaped by evolution and genetic variation and how competition, climatic stress, pollination, and other ecological interactions drive evolution within populations.
Jim Coleman
Vice Provost for Research
Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Office: 315 Allen Center
Office Phone: (713) 348-2702
Fax: (713) 348-4806
Web: Personal
Email: James.S.Coleman (at) rice.edu
Research Area: recent focus has been the ecosystem effects of global change (elevated carbon dioxide, changing temperature patterns, and changing patterns of water and nutrient availability). Past research has focused on understanding the role of plant ontogeny in understanding how plants partition biomass in response to environmental perturbation; the role of plant ontogeny in plant-herbivore interactions; the function and ecological significance of heat shock proteins in plants; and the way in which environmental stressors affect the interactions of plants with insects and pathogens.
Amy Dunham
Assistant Professor
Office: 103B Anderson Biology
Office Phone: (713) 348-2792
Web: Personal
Email: Amy.E.Dunham (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
Nat Holland
Assistant Professor
Center for the Study of the Environment and Society
Environmental and Energy Systems Institute
Institute of Biosciences and Bioengineering
Keck Center for Computational and Structural Biology
Office: 103A Anderson Biology
Office Phone: (713) 348-3987
Lab Phone: (713) 348-6229
Web: Personal Lab
Email: jholland (at) rice.edu
Research Area: population and evolutionary ecology, population dynamics, interspecific interactions, mutualism, density dependence, functional responses, interspecific population regulation, consumer-resource interactions, plant-animal interactions, geographic mosaic of species interactions, food webs, coevolution, pollination ecology, plant reproductive biology, desert ecology
Michael Kohn
Assistant Professor
Institute of Biosciences and Bioengineering
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.
Tom Miller
Huxley Faculty Fellow
Office: 135B Anderson Biology
Office Phone: (713) 348-4218
Web: Personal
Email:tom.miller (at) rice.edu
Research Area: I am a population ecologist. My research addresses fundamental questions regarding how and why population densities vary through time and space. I am especially interested in the demographic consequences of biotic interactions and the ways in which population structure (individual variation in size, sex, or life stage) can influence population dynamics and interaction outcomes. My empirical work focuses on plants, insects, and their positive and negative interactions (mutualism and herbivory).
Nicholas H. Putnam, Ph.D
Assistant Professor
Office: 135B 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.
David Queller
Harry C. and Olga K. Wiess
Professor
of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Office: 137A Anderson Biology
Office Phone: (713) 348-5220
Lab Phone: (713) 348-2656
Web: Personal Lab
Email: queller (at) rice.edu
Research Area: Evolutionary Biology, particularly the evolution of sociality
I work on both theoretical and empirical aspects of the evolution of social interactions, including both sexual selection and kin selection. Recent theoretical studies have focused on generalizing inclusive fitness theory, the role of relatedness in viscous populations, and the importance of demographic advantages in the evolution of sociality in insects.
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.
Jennifer Rudgers
James and Deborah Godwin
Assistant Professor
of
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Office: 119 Anderson Biology
Office Phone: (713) 348-6276
Lab Phone: (713) 348-3858
Web: Personal Lab
Email: jrudgers (at) rice.edu
Research Area: Ecology and evolution of interactions among plants, animals, and microbes; community ecology of mutualisms
My research integrates community ecology with evolutionary biology to explore the ecological dynamics and the evolutionary consequences of interactions among plants and other species.
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: 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
Joan Strassmann
Harry C. and Olga K. Wiess
Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Keck Center for Computational Biology
Organization for Tropical Studies (OTS)
Rice Automated DNA Sequencing Facility
Office: 139A Anderson Biology
Office Phone: (713) 348-4922
Lab Phone: (713) 348-3261
Web: Personal Lab
Email: jstrassmann (at) rice.edu
Research Area: Evolutionary biology, particularly social evolution and genetic conflicts of interest in social insects and social amoebae
Cooperative alliances have occurred at several important steps in the evolution of life, and have proven evolutionarily and ecologically very successful. Studying how these alliances came to be, how conflicts are subsumed into cooperation, what conflicts remain, and how they influence sociality make up my dominant research interests.
Ken Whitney
Assistant Professor
Office: 119 Anderson Biology
Office Phone: (713) 348-3057
Lab Phone: (713) 348-3859
Web: Personal Lab
Email: kwhitney (at) rice.edu
Research Area: Ecology and Evolution of Plant-Animal Interactions
My interests are in the interplay between ecology and genetics in plant-animal interactions. These interactions range from mutualistic (seed dispersal, protection) to negative (seed predation, herbivory). Major questions include how genetic diversity is maintained in nature, how invasive plant species acquire their invasive traits, and how genome size might affect plant ecology and evolution. To examine these interactions I use a variety of techniques, including experimental field and greenhouse studies, molecular genetic techniques, stable isotope analyses, and (with collaborators) chemical analyses of plant secondary compounds. I work in systems ranging from Texas oak woodlands to central African forests and Australian deserts.
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: Personal 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
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
Walter Isle
Professor Emeritus
Office: 215AB Anderson Biology
Office Phone: (713) 348-4923
Email: wwisle (at) ruf.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
Calvin H. (Herb) Ward
Professor
Foyt Family Chair of Engineering and
Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering
Rice University
Office: 260 Mechanical Lab
Office Phone: (713) 348-4086
Email: wardch (at) rice.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
Rebecc 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: Personal