DeMarche, Megan
Megan DeMarche
Assistant Professor
Plant Biology
Plant evolutionary ecology; population dynamics; responses to climate change
Plant evolutionary ecology; population dynamics; responses to climate change
Coastal ecosystem ecology and biogeochemistry; ecosystem resilience to and recovery from disturbances; global change; carbon cycling
Evolutionary toxicology, disease ecology, impacts of natural and anthropogenic stressors on freshwater vertebrates.
Environmental and ecological influences on development, reproduction,
and aging in wildlife and humans.
Ecology, epidemiology and evolution of infectious RNA viruses (Influenza A virus, avian paramyxovirus,
RSV, MERS-CoV) in animals and humans
We use the advanced genetic mouse models to study the molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying
several diseases: obesity, diabetics, muscle and heart diseases.
Nutritional Genomics; Human Genetics; Population and Quantitative Genomics;
Gene-Diet Interaction during human evolution and in metabolic diseases;
Integrating physiology, genomics, evolution, and microbial symbiosis to understand the biology of insect vectors of disease.
Genome bioinformatics, ecological and evolutionary genomics of yeast.