Affiliated Researchers: Evolutionary

George Perry

Professor, Anthropology
Top research keywords: Evolution, Genomics, Primates, Copy-Number Variation, Lemur

Mark E. Patzkowsky

Professor, Geosciences
Top research keywords: Late Ordovician, Middle Ordovician, Ordovician, Mass Extinction, Brachiopod

Jill Hamilton

Associate Professor, Ecosystem Science and Management
Top research keywords: Hybrid Zone, Genetic Divergence, Seeds, Evolution, Spruce

John E. Carlson

Professor, Ecosystem Science and Management
Top research keywords: Genome, Magnoliopsida, Populus, Genes, Coleoptera

Sarah Bordenstein

Associate Research Professor, Biology
Top research keywords: Wolbachia, Bacteriophage, Phage WO, Phage, Cytoplasmic Incompatibility

Rebecca Bliege Bird

Professor, Anthropology
Top research keywords: Martu, Australia, Western Desert, Foragers, Hunters

Timothy Ryan

Professor, Anthropology
Top research keywords: Trabecular Bone, Primates, Hominin, Bone Volume Fraction, Locomotor

Stephen Schaeffer

Professor, Biology
Top research keywords: Drosophila, Gene Order, Drosophila Pseudoobscura, Chromosome Inversion, Chromosomes

Mary K. Shenk

Associate Professor, Anthropology
Top research keywords: Wealth, Kinship, Bangladesh, India, Evolution

Claude dePamphilis

Professor, Biology
Top research keywords: Angiosperm, Angiosperms, Parasitic Plants, Parasitic Plant, Cladistics

Andrew Read

Senior Vice President for Research, Office of the Senior Vice President for Research
Top research keywords: Plasmodium, Plasmodium Chabaudi, Infectious Agent, Malaria Parasite, Virulence

Christian Huber

Assistant Professor, Biology
Top research keywords: Evolution, Genomics, Genetic Divergence, Population Genetics, Genetic Variation

Sagan Friant

Assistant Professor, Anthropology
Top research keywords: Primates, Red-capped Mangabeys, Bushmeat, Cercocebus, Food Security

Sohail Anwar

Professor, Division of Business, Engineering, and Information Sciences & Technology (Altoona)
Top research keywords: Engineering Technology, Engineering, Penn State, Baccalaureate Degree, Electromechanical Engineering

Teh-hui Kao

Distinguished Professor, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Top research keywords: Petunia, Self Incompatibility, Self-incompatibility, Petunia Inflata, Ribonuclease

Liana Burghardt

Assistant Professor, Plant Science
Top research keywords: Rhizobiaceae, Rhizobium, Phenology, Arabidopsis Thaliana, Dormancy

Casey Helgeson

Assistant Research Professor, Earth and Environmental Systems Institute
Top research keywords: Risk Management, Review, Climate Risk Management, Elliott Sober, Uncertainty Quantification

Laura Weyrich

Associate Professor, Anthropology
Top research keywords: Microbiome, Microflora, Microorganism, Ancient DNA, Oral Microbiota

Isabella Cattadori

Associate Professor, Biology
Top research keywords: Helminth, Leporidae, Dynamics, Helminths, Nematode

Jason Rasgon

Professor, Entomology
Top research keywords: Wolbachia, Anopheles Gambiae, Infectious Agent, Culex Tarsalis, Anopheles Mosquito

Andrew Deans

Professor, Entomology
Top research keywords: Hymenoptera, Ceraphronoidea, Evaniidae, Megaspilidae, Ensign Wasp

Rudolf Schilder

Associate Professor, Entomology
Top research keywords: Alternative Splicing, Skeletal Muscle, Flight, Troponin T, Flight Muscle

Margarita López-Uribe

Lorenzo L. Langstroth Early Career Professor and Associate Professor, Entomology
Top research keywords: Apoidea, Hymenoptera, Pollinator, Pollinators, Apidae

David M. Geiser

Professor, Plant Pathology and Environmental Microbiology
Top research keywords: Fusarium, Cladistics, DNA Sequence, DNA Sequencing, Fusarium Solani Species Complex

Robersy Sanchez

Associate Research Professor, Biology
Top research keywords: Genetic Code, Amino Acids, Epigenome, DNA Methylation, Arabidopsis

David Macauley

Associate Professor, Penn State Brandywine
Top research keywords: Philosophy, Empedocles, Aristotle, Pre-Socratics, Flowering

Tanya Renner

Associate Professor, Entomology
Top research keywords: Carnivorous Plants, Evolution, Genomics, Primary Metabolism, Carabid Beetles

Jesse Lasky

Associate Professor, Biology
Top research keywords: Genomics, Arabidopsis Thaliana, Local Adaptation, Genetics, Arabidopsis

Guido Cervone

Professor, Geography
Top research keywords: Atmospherics, Remote Sensing, Analog Ensemble, Machine Learning, Earthquake

Carolee Bull

Department Head and Professor, Plant Pathology and Environmental Microbiology
Top research keywords: Pseudomonas Syringae, Infectious Agent, Bacterial Leaf Spot, Lettuce, Leaf Spot

Tracy Langkilde

Interim Executive Vice President and Provost, Eberly College of Science
Top research keywords: Lizard, Fences, Sceloporus Undulatus, Fire Ant, Fire Ants

Ruairidh Sawers

Assistant Professor, Plant Science
Top research keywords: Maize, Zea Mays, Zea, Allele, Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi

Timothy Bralower

Professor, Geosciences
Top research keywords: Paleocene, Eocene, Nannofossil, Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, Nannofossils

Jennifer Macalady

Professor, Geosciences
Top research keywords: Biofilm, Microorganism, Microbial Community, Frasassi Caves, Italy

Hong Ma

Top research keywords: Arabidopsis, Angiosperm, Meiosis, Cladistics, Angiosperms

Todd LaJeunesse

Professor, Biology
Top research keywords: Symbiodinium, Dinoflagellate, Symbiont, Coral, Reef-building Corals

Cooduvalli Shashikant

Associate Professor, Animal Science
Top research keywords: Homeobox Genes, Neural Tube, Transgenic Mice, Genes, Mesoderm

Antonia Hadjimichael

Assistant Professor, Geosciences
Top research keywords: Vulnerability, Exploratory Modelling, Water Scarcity, River Basin, Modeller