Evolution, Ecology & Population Biology

We are a collaborative research group investigating strategies to reduce human and wildlife disease risk and conserve biodiversity

• Email: solny.adalsteinsson@wustl.edu

The Behavior Lab at the Saint Louis Zoo studies animal behavior in a variety of species and contexts.

• Email: baskir@stlzoo.org

We study the evolutionary, genetic, molecular, cellular, and behavioral mechanisms underlying the interaction of animals with their physical and social environments.

• Email: benshahary@wustl.edu

My research program focuses on studying connectivity networks in the human brain using advanced MRI imageanalysis methods

• Email: janine.bijsterbosch@wustl.edu

I am a biogeochemist interested the ways in which the evolution of life on Earth and the evolution of the Earth`s environment have affected one another over the course of Earth history.

• Email: abradley@eps.wustl.edu

plant systematics, taxonomy, floristics, phylogenomic diversification

• Email: monica.carlsen@mobot.org

We study animal communication, sensory processing, and brain evolution

• Email: carlson.bruce@wustl.edu

My research interests involve the systematics, floristics and ecology of the family Araceae (philodendron family).

• Email: tcroat@wustl.edu

The Dantas Lab works at the interface of microbial genomics, ecology, synthetic biology, and systems biology, to understand, harness, and engineer the biochemical processing potential of microbial communities.

• Email: dantas@wustl.edu

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Sharon has conducted conservation and research projects in 30 countries around the world.

• Email: deem@stlzoo.org

Zoo animal welfare, Primatology, Stress physiology & endocrinology, Allostatic load, Behavior

• Email: aedes@stlzoo.org

Microbial biogeochemistry, stable isotope geochemistry, microbial mats, carbon cycling, sulfur cycling, Earth history

• Email: dfike@wustl.edu

Genomics, Genetics, Evolutionary Biology, Phylogenetics

• Email: paul.hime@wustl.edu

I am interested in understanding plant evolution on a broad scale, why some species and genera are so successful (sometimes even invasive) and why other closely related taxa are rare or threatened.

• Email: peter.hoch@mobot.org

Evolution, Genomics, Animal Behavior, Adaptation, Speciation

• Email: kautt@wustl.edu

We are fascinated by the elegant and diverse forms that plants can take, and we explore the biological basis of this diversity.

• Email: ekellogg@danforthcenter.org

As the Zoo’s Endocrinologist, Dr. Kozlowski’s work focuses on the reproductive status and health of endangered species, both in zoos and in the wild.

• Email: kozlowski@stlzoo.org

Statistical phylogenetics, Bayesian inference, historical biogeography, phenotypic evolution

• Email: michael.landis@wustl.edu

Archaeology, isotopic ecology, macrofossil study, plant domestication paleodiet

• Email: liuxinyi@wustl.edu

• Email: jlosos@oeb.harvard.edu

host-associated microbial communities, gut microbiome

• Email: mallott@wustl.edu

human gut microbiome, host-associated microbial communities, gut microbial SCFA metabolism

• Email: mallott@wustl.edu

Reproductive Physiology, Sexual Selection, Nonhuman Primates, Reproductive Ecology, Behavioral Endocrinology, Zoonotic Disease, Community Conservation

• Email: krista.milich@wustl.edu

connectomics, vision, retina, LGN, synapse, electron microscopy, circuit

• Email: jlmorgan@wustl.edu

​We are broadly interested in understanding the ecological forces that shape both below- and above-ground biotic communities.

• Email: jamyers@wustl.edu

My research focuses on the genetic basis of evolution in plants: how is the genetic variation that we find within a species shaped by natural selection, population history, and other evolutionary forces?

• Email: kolsen@wustl.edu

I am broadly interested in the effects of genetic and ecological processes on population dynamics of invasive and rare plants. My research addresses questions that lie at the interface of population ecology and population genetics.

• Email: epardini@wustl.edu

The ecology and evolution of infectious diseases, with a focus on wild populations of herbaceous plant hosts and their powdery mildew pathogens.

• Phone: 314-935-8282
• Email: rpenczykowski@wustl.edu

Social evolution, behavior, and genomics of microbes, symbiosis, microbiomes, happy and diverse lab welcoming undergraduates

• Email: queller@wustl.edu

Climate change, Alpine botany, Ethnobotany, Tropical ecology, Agroecology, Traditional knowledge and science, Biocultural collections

• Email: jan.salick@mobot.org

instraspecific variation in the behavioral ecology of wild chimpanzees

• Email: csanz@wustl.edu

Social evolution, behavior, and genomics of microbes, symbiosis, microbiomes, happy and diverse lab welcoming undergraduates

• Email: strassmann@wustl.edu

The Topp Lab takes a phenomics approach to study crop root growth dynamics in response to environmental stress such as drought and rhizosphere competition…

• Email: ctopp@danforthcenter.org

DNA methylation, transposable elements, epigenomics, evolution, genomics, systems biology

• Email: twang@wustl.edu

ecology and evolution of mosquitoes

• Email: kwestby@wustl.edu

molecular work at the intersection of (ecological) immunology, disease ecology, and behavioral ecology

• Email: emily.wroblewski@wustl.edu