Affiliated Researchers: Evolutionary

Mark E. Patzkowsky

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

Mary K. Shenk

Professor, Anthropology
Top research keywords: Fertility, Bangladesh, Kinship, Mosuo, Rural Bangladesh

George Perry

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

Rebecca Bliege Bird

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

John E. Carlson

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

Stephen Schaeffer

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

Sarah Bordenstein

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

Timothy Ryan

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

Hong Ma

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

Claude dePamphilis

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

Sohail Anwar

Professor, Division of Business, Engineering, and Information Sciences & Technology (Altoona)
Top research keywords: Engineering, Engineering Technology, Economic And Social Development, Penn State, Technology Students

Teh-hui Kao

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

David Toews

Associate Professor, Biology
Top research keywords: Warbler, Genomics, Genetics, Hybrid Zone, Setophaga

Kristin Sznajder

Assistant Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences
Top research keywords: China, COVID-19, Ghana, Resilience, Structural Equation Analysis

Tracy Langkilde

Verne M. Willaman Dean, Eberly College of Science
Top research keywords: Lizard, Fences, Fire Ant, Fire Ants, Eastern Fence Lizard

Peter Wilf

Professor, Geosciences
Top research keywords: Patagonia, Flora, Eocene, South America, Patagonia Argentina

Gary Felton

Department Head and Professor, Entomology
Top research keywords: Caterpillar, Helicoverpa Zea, Herbivore, Plant Defense, Insect Herbivory

Sarah Ivory

Associate Professor, Geosciences
Top research keywords: Holocene, Pollen, Climate Change, Africa, Malawi

Sagan Friant

Assistant Professor, Anthropology
Top research keywords: Zoonotic Disease, Nigerians, Rodents, Infectious Diseases, Disease Ecology

Seth Bordenstein

Professor, Biology
Top research keywords: Wolbachia, Cytoplasmic Incompatibility, Nasonia, Bacterium, Bacteriophage

Liana Burghardt

Assistant Professor, Plant Science
Top research keywords: Nodule, Rhizobium, Arabidopsis Thaliana, Genotype, Legumes

Andrew Read

Senior Vice President for Research, Office of the Senior Vice President for Research
Top research keywords: Parasite, Infection, Infectious Disease, Malaria, Plasmodium

Isabella Cattadori

Associate Professor, Biology
Top research keywords: Infectious Disease, Infection, Parasite, Helminth, Helminths

Seogchan Kang

Professor, Plant Pathology and Environmental Microbiology
Top research keywords: Infectious Agent, Fusarium Oxysporum, Fungi, Magnaporthe Grisea, Infection

David Macauley

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

Robersy Sanchez

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

Jill Hamilton

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

Anne Pisor

Assistant Professor, Anthropology
Top research keywords: Climate Change Adaptation, Long-distance Relationships, Long Distance, Moral Judgment, Adaptation

Jesse Lasky

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

Christian Huber

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

Carolee Bull

Professor, Plant Pathology and Environmental Microbiology
Top research keywords: Pseudomonas Syringae, Leaf Spot, Infectious Agent, Bacterium, Pseudomonas

Todd LaJeunesse

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

Timothy Bralower

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

Jason Keagy

Assistant Research Professor, Ecosystem Science and Management
Top research keywords: Stickleback, Satin Bowerbird, Mate Choice, Limnetic, Mating Success

Jennifer Macalady

Professor, Geosciences
Top research keywords: Microbial Community, Biofilm, Sulfide, Microorganism, Bacterium

David M. Geiser

Professor, Plant Pathology and Environmental Microbiology
Top research keywords: Fusarium, Cladistics, Fungi, DNA Sequence, Infectious Agent

Tanya Renner

Associate Professor, Entomology
Top research keywords: Carnivorous Plants, Carabidae, Caryophyllales, Genomics, Carnivorous Plant

Rudolf Schilder

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

Cooduvalli Shashikant

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

Ruairidh Sawers

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