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Sampling an Old-growth Cypress Stand for the Carolina Vegetation Survey (Robert Peet Lab)

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Research Strengths

Evolution

Evolution is heritable change in the characteristics of populations over time. Two major goals of evolutionary biology are to explain the incredible fit of organisms to their environment and the origins of diversity. To this end, we investigate the genetic and ecological mechanisms that shape adaptation with a strong focus on processes that contribute to the origins of species.

Faculty MemberContact InfoResearch Description
Christina Burch
Associate Professor		235 Wilson Hall
919-843-2691
cburch[at]bio.unc.edu		Experimental Evolution of Viruses
Bob Goldstein
Professor		616 Fordham Hall
(919) 843-8575
bobg[at]unc.edu		Cell Polarity, Morphogenesis, and Evolution of Development
Sarah R. Grant
Research Associate Professor		108 Coker Hall
(919) 962-0684
sgrant[at]email.unc.edu		The suite of pathogenicity factors in Pseudomonas syringae
Tyson L. Hedrick
Assistant Professor of Biology		G40a Wilson Hall
(919) 962-0757
thedrick[at]email.unc.edu		Biomechanics and Animal Locomotion
Corbin Jones
Associate Professor		414 Coker Hall
(919) 843-5162
cdjones[at]email.unc.edu		Evolutionary Genetics and Genomics
William M. Kier
Professor and Chair		313B Wilson Hall (Lab)
205 Coker Hall (Chair)
(919) 962-5017 (Lab Office)
(919) 962-8321 (Chair's Office)
billkier[at]bio.unc.edu		Biomechanics of marine invertebrates and musculoskeletal systems
Joel G. Kingsolver
William Rand Kenan, Jr. Professor		334A Wilson Hall
(919) 843-6291
jgking[at]bio.unc.edu		Evolutionary and physiological ecology
David W. Pfennig
Zachary Taylor Smith Professor		304 Wilson Hall
(919) 962-6958
dpfennig [at] unc [dot] edu		Evolutionary Biology and Ecology
Karin Pfennig
Associate Professor		G44A Wilson Hall
(919)-843-5590
kpfennig[at]email.unc.edu		Ecology, Behavior, and Evolution
Maria R. Servedio
Associate Professor		234A Wilson Hall
(919) 843-2692
servedio[at]email.unc.edu		Evolutionary Theory
Todd J. Vision
Associate Professor		102 Coker Hall
(919) 843-4507
tjv[at]bio.unc.edu		Computational genetics, genome evolution and the architecture of complex traits
Alan S. Weakley
Adjunct Assistant Professor		419 Coker Hall
(919) 619-1101
weakley[at]unc.edu		Plant Systematics, Floristics, Biogeography, Conservation Planning, Bioinformatics, Vegetation Classification and Mapping
Christopher S. Willett
Research Assistant Professor		435 Wilson Hall
(919) 843-8663
willett4[at]email.unc.edu		Molecular population and evolutionary genetics