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Evolution Working Group

The ALLELE series is hosted by a steering committee at The University of Alabama called the Evolution Working Group (EVOWOG). EVOWOG participation is open to any UA faculty or affiliated educators or scholars whose teaching or research interests are evolution-oriented.

​Contact any one of us directly or through the ALLELE Facebook page for more information or to get involved.

If you are a student interested in evolution, feel free to contact any of us, and maybe consider the Evolutionary Studies minor.

Fred Andrus
Fred Andrus
Geological Sciences
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fandrus@ua.edu

Paleoclimatology; climate change; isotope geochemistry; archaeology; paleoecology; marine organism skeletal growth (fish otoliths, coral, mollusks, etc.).

Anthony Buhr
Anthony Buhr
Communicative Disor
ders

​Anthony.Buhr@ua.edu

Speech production; fluency disorders; psychology of language

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Litsa Cheimariou
Communicative Disorders
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​scheimariou@ua.edu

Neural substrates of language processing; Neurogenic disorders of language; Aphasia; Cognitive, linguistic, and neural changes in healthy aging

Ryan Earley
Ryan Earley
Biological Sciences


rlearley@ua.edu

Animal behavior; mechanisms that underlie behavioral variation among individuals of a population; fishes; hormones, metabolism, gene expression, and neurobiology

William Evans
William Evans
Telecommunication and Film


wevans@ua.edu

​Science communication; evolutionary perspectives on media

Joshua Eyer
Joshua Eyer
Capstone College of Nursing


​jceyer@ua.edu

​Psychology of pain, emotions.

Janna Fierst
Janna Fierst
Biological Sciences


janna.l.fierst@ua.edu

​Evolutionary genetics; genome evolution; network evolution; bioinformatics; computational biology; evolutionary theory

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Courtney Helfrecht
Anthropology


chelfrecht@ua.edu

Biocultural anthropology; effects of cultural/physical stress on biomarker patterning and developmental trajectories; sociocultural and evolutionary determinants of childhood health and growth; and the evolution of human childhood. 

Keith Jacobi
Keith Jacobi
Anthropology


kjacobi@ua.edu

Bioarchaeology, forensic anthropology.

Deborah Keene
Deborah Keene
Blount Undergraduate Initiative and Department of Geological Sciences


dakeene@aalan.ua.edu
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Archaeological science, southeastern prehistoric archaeology, evolution education)

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Kevin Kocot
Biological Sciences & Alabama Museum of Natural History
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kmkocot@ua.edu

Invertebrate systematics; phylogenomics; comparative and evolutionary genomics

David Kopaska-Merkel
David Kopaska-Merkel
Geological Survey of Alabama


jopnquog@gmail.com
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Ancient reef and mound deposits; carbonate geology; characteristics of hydrocarbon reservoir rocks

Jeff Lozier
Jeff Lozier
Biological Sciences


jlozier@ua.edu

​Population genetics; molecular ecology; conservation; speciation; local adaptation; social insects; biological invasions

Christopher Lynn
Christopher Lynn
Anthropology


cdlynn@ua.edu

Biocultural medical anthropology; human behavioral ecology; neuroanthropology; human sexual behavior; cognitive mechanisms of religion

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Rebecca Totten Minzoni
Geological Sciences

rminzoni@ua.edu​

Impacts of historic climate change; flooding history and storm impacts in the Gulf of Mexico region; paleoenvironments of the ancient Gulf of ​

Erik Peterson
Erik Peterson
History


elpeterson@ua.edu

History and philosophy of developmental and evolutionary biology from Aristotle to the Human Genome Project; history and philosophy of anthropology from Kant to Marvin Harris

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Jason Pienaar
Biological Sciences


jason.pienaar@ua.edu

Macroevolution and modeling evolutionary genetics of quantitative traits

Laura Reed
Laura Reed
Biological Sciences


lreed1@ua.edu

​Evolutionary genetics of metabolic disease in Drosophila

Wendy Reed
Wendy Reed
Honors College


wendyreed66@gmail.com

Public TV producer: Discovering Alabama and Bookmark

Richard Richards
Richard Richards
Philosophy
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rrichard@ua.edu
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Darwin; history and philosophy of biology; species and taxonomy; naturalism and value

Firat Soylu
Firat Soylu
Educational Psychology & ELDEN Research group
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fsoylu@ua.edu

Embodied cognition; neuroscience; science and math learning; educational technology; evolution of cognition

Thomas Tobin
Thomas Tobin
Geological Sciences
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ttobin@ua.edu

​EVOWOG chair (2020-2021)
​Mass extinctions; invertebrate paleontology; stable isotope geochemistry; paleoclimatology; paleoecology

John Yoder
John Yoder
Biological Sciences


​Evolution of morphological novelty
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