EIS Faculty Directory

Judith Becerra

Associate Professor, Entomology / Insect Science - GIDP
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Research: Plant-insect interactions and chemical ecology

Michael Bogan

Assistant Professor of Aquatic Ecology
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Research: Freshwater and riparian ecology, disturbance ecology, aquatic invertebrates

Judith Bronstein

University Distinguished Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
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Research: Evolution and ecology of mutualisms

Heidi Brown

Associate Professor, Epidemiology and Biostatistics Department
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Research: West Nile virus, dengue, canine heartworm, valley fever, spatial epidemiology, and climate change.

Yves Carriere

Professor, Entomology
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Research: Insect ecology, resistance to transgenic crops, host-selection behaviors, diapause

Andrew Comrie

Director, School of Geography, Development & Environment
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Research: Geographic aspects of atmospheric environmental issues

Kacey Ernst

Professor & Program Director, Epidemiology
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Research: Epidemiology of infectious diseases

Dr. Martha (Molly) Hunter

Chair, GIDP in Entomology & Insect Science
Professor, Entomology
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Research: The influence of microbial symbionts on herbivores, parasitoids, and herbivore-parasitoid interactions

Xianchun Li

Professor, Entomology
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Research: Molecular ecology /evolution, chemical ecology, functional genomics, gene regulation, signal transduction

Luciano Matzkin

Associate Professor, Entomology
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Research: Our lab investigates how the ecology of a species shapes patterns of variation (from genes to genomes), how populations adapt to environmental shifts and the implication of ecological adaptation in the process of speciation.

Wendy Moore

Associate Professor, Insect Systematics
Curator, University of Arizona Insect Collection
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Research: Insect systematics, evolutionary biology

Lisa Nagy

Professor, Molecular and Cellular Biology
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Research: Development and evolution of pattern formation in arthropods

Daniel Papaj

Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
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Research: Learning and cognition in bees, tephritid fruit flies, butterflies; plant-insect interactions

Todd Schlenke

Associate Professor, Entomology
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Research: Evolutionary biology and genetics, host-parasite interactions, from the population level down to the molecular level.

Bruce Tabashnik

Regents' Professor & Department Head, Entomology
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Research: Evolution and management of insect resistance to transgenic plants

Kathleen Walker

Associate Professor, Entomology
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Research: Ecology of mosquito vectors of human diseases, particularly Aedes aegypti, one of the main vectors of dengue fever around the world.

J. Bruce Walsh

Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
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Research: Interface between genetics and evolution, especially evolution of genome structure and analysis of complex characters, biodiversity of SE Arizona Lepidoptera

Konrad Zinsmaier

Professor and Interim Department Head, Neuroscience
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Research: Molecular mechanisms of excitation-dependent neurotransmitter exocytosis at nerve terminals