Learn more about this group by contacting Dr. Gaelen Burke (grburke@uga.edu).
Evolution & Ecology is the study of patterns and processes of evolution. Students learn genetics and functional patterns. They study the form and structure of organisms for evidence of their origin.
Evolutionary genetics and population ecology of plants; global change biology;
field ecology; seed dispersal ecology; frugivorous fish.
Undergraduate evolution education; instructor experiences, knowledge,
and skills in teaching biology; teaching context and climate in life science departments.
Professor, Genetics; Research interest: Fungal gene regulatory
and biochemical networks, and biological clocks.
Evolutionary significance of genetic exchange; effects of hybridization in natural
populations of plants and animals.
Ecology, epidemiology and evolution of infectious RNA viruses (Influenza A virus, avian paramyxovirus,
RSV, MERS-CoV) in animals and humans
Molecular cell biology of the wall, Biofuel and BioEnergy, Golgi as model for System biology, Plant Immunity.
Plant genomics and genome evolution, transposable elements,
and regulatory gene evolution.
Genome bioinformatics, ecological and evolutionary genomics of yeast.
We use the advanced genetic mouse models to study the molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying
several diseases: obesity, diabetics, muscle and heart diseases.
Invertebrate microbiomes; nematode ecology and evolution; benthic and deep-sea habitats; using environmental DNA for biomonitoring
High throughput genetics to better understand evolution of fungal pathogens and drive antifungal drug discovery.
Meiotic chromosome biology using Drosophila as a model system.
Biodiversity; insect ecology; the role of soil microbes and defensive plant chemistry in plant/herbivore interactions, predator/prey interactions; sustainable agriculture
Computational Plant Science, Phenotyping, Plant Imaging and Simulation.
Plant genome biology with a focus on crops and medicinal plants; Synthetic biology; Evolution of natural product biosynthesis
Functional and evolutionary genomics of microbial associations with insects; virology, symbiosis, immunity
Evolutionary Ecology of flowering plants; Plant mating system evolution.
Plant evolutionary ecology; population dynamics; responses to climate change
Crop genetics, comparative genomics and genome evolution.
Molecular evolution and evolutionary genetics, in particular genetic conflict,
sex chromosome evolution, genetics of adaptation and speciation,
and host-parasite interactions.
Metabolomics and systems biology of Caenorhabditis elegans using NMR,
mass spec, and computational approaches.
Protist systematics, cell evolution, and flagellar development.
The mission of the Household and Structural Entomology program is acquisition of information
on behavior, biology, ecology and evolution of associations with arthropods and human habitation.
Environmental Genomics; Crocodilians; Reptilian Genomics; Molecular Ecology.
Zooplankton ecology, predator-prey interactions, ocean biophysical coupling, plankton imaging and analysis
Behavioral and evolutionary genetics and epigenetics of social insects.
Evolutionary systems biology; protein kinase signaling in plants, pathogens and microbes. Evolution and classification of glycoenzymes.
Parasite genomics and the biology of genome evolution.
Evolutionary toxicology, disease ecology, impacts of natural and anthropogenic stressors on freshwater vertebrates.
Phylogenetics, genetics of diversification including speciation; molecular basis of adaptation;
evolutionary genomics; evolution of plant reproduction; organismal and molecular coevolution.
Phylogenetics, evolutionary biology, statistics.
Fertilization, and early cell-fate decisions in plant embryos.
Ecological genetics of plants; invasive plants; genetics of adaptation.
Developmental Regulation of Gene Expression; Evolution of Vertebrate Morphology.
The role of developmental mechanisms in sexual selection and the evolution of reproductive strategies in insects.
Ecology of marine bacteria in the carbon and sulfur cycles;
application of ecological functional genomics techniques to marine microbes.
Use bioinformatics and comparative genomics to study
relationships between the genomic DNA sequence and the
organism’s physiological characteristics,and regulatory
processes that govern the flow of genetic information.
Ecology and evolution of heritable symbiosis in insects.
Ecology and physiology of environmental microbes. The use of community genomics and
transcriptomics to examine microbial behavior in natural systems.
Environmental and ecological influences on development, reproduction,
and aging in wildlife and humans.
My unit’s work addresses dimensions of plant genome biology relevant toward a more bio-based economy, linking increased fundamental knowledge to improved human lives.
Dr Peach’s research interests are in the field of vector ecology, with a focus on behavioral and sensory ecology. He is primarily focused on how arthropod vectors, such as mosquitoes, find and interact with resources such as the hosts they bite, the flowers they nectar-feed from (and pollinate) or the breeding sites they use, and the implications of this information for mosquito management and pathogen transmission as well as understanding species and disease distributions..
Response and vulnerability of forests to natural (e.g. wind, fire) and anthropogenic disturbances (e.g. salvage logging),
and geographic patterns of disturbance severity.
The ecology and evolution of infectious diseases, including measles, pertussis, avian influenza, dengue and polio using computational modeling.
Population biology, evolutionary genetics, molecular systematics, and comparative
genomics of social insects (fire ants) with an emphasis on studies of genetic variation.
Computational ecology; ecology and evolution of infectious diseases;
evolutionary dynamics; animal movement.
Marine microbial ecology and evolution; oceanography, biogeochemistry, astrobiology, bioinformatics, big data analytics in environmental science
Population epigenomics and mechanisms of epigenetic inheritance.
Coastal ecosystem ecology and biogeochemistry; ecosystem resilience to and recovery from disturbances; global change; carbon cycling
Phylogeny and Signal Evolution in Fireflies (Coleoptera, Lampyridae); Science education research.
Molecular and evolutionary biology of insect parasites; virology, immunology, symbiont evolution, reproduction.
Evolutionary genetics and genomics of natural plant populations.
Evolutionary biology and population genetics of natural plant populations, specifically evolutionary
factors that shape patterns of genetic variation and mechanisms for partitioning and maintaining species-wide diversity.
Growth-defense tradeoff, phenylpropanoid metabolism and carbon allocation,
gene family evolution and functional diversification, alternative splicing and gene duplication.
Integrating physiology, genomics, evolution, and microbial symbiosis to understand the biology of insect vectors of disease.
Evolutionary Genomics and Sex Chromosome Evolution.
Marine microbial ecology and biogeochemistry; climate change.
Nutritional Genomics; Human Genetics; Population and Quantitative Genomics;
Gene-Diet Interaction during human evolution and in metabolic diseases;