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.
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.
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Fred Andrus
Geological Sciences fandrus@ua.edu Paleoclimatology; climate change; isotope geochemistry; archaeology; paleoecology; marine organism skeletal growth (fish otoliths, coral, mollusks, etc.). |
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Anthony Buhr
Communicative Disorders Anthony.Buhr@ua.edu EVOWOG co-chair Speech production; fluency disorders; psychology of language |
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Litsa Cheimariou
Communicative Disorders scheimariou@ua.edu Neural substrates of language processing; Neurogenic disorders of language; Aphasia; Cognitive, linguistic, and neural changes in healthy aging |
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Jason DeCaro
Anthropology jdecaro@ua.edu Human population biology and health; human ontogeny; life history theory; adaptive plasticity; the evolution of childhood |
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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 |
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William Evans
Telecommunication and Film wevans@ua.edu Science communication; evolutionary perspectives on media |
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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. |
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Deborah Keene
Blount Undergraduate Initiative and Department of Geological Sciences dakeene@aalan.ua.edu Archaeological science, southeastern prehistoric archaeology, evolution education) |
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Kevin Kocot
Biological Sciences & Alabama Museum of Natural History kmkocot@ua.edu Invertebrate systematics; phylogenomics; comparative and evolutionary genomics |
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David Kopaska-Merkel
Geological Survey of Alabama jopnquog@gmail.com Ancient reef and mound deposits; carbonate geology; characteristics of hydrocarbon reservoir rocks |
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Jeff Lozier
Biological Sciences jlozier@ua.edu Population genetics; molecular ecology; conservation; speciation; local adaptation; social insects; biological invasions |
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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 |
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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 |
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Richard Richards
Philosophy rrichard@ua.edu Darwin; history and philosophy of biology; species and taxonomy; naturalism and value |
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Firat Soylu
Educational Psychology & ELDEN Research group fsoylu@ua.edu Embodied cognition; neuroscience; science and math learning; educational technology; evolution of cognition |
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Thomas Tobin
Geological Sciences ttobin@ua.edu EVOWOG co-chair Mass extinctions; invertebrate paleontology; stable isotope geochemistry; paleoclimatology; paleoecology |
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John Yoder
Biological Sciences Evolution of morphological novelty |