Ecology, Evolutionary Biology, and Behavior

The Ecology, Evolutionary Biology, and Behavior Subprogram (EEB) integrates the theoretical framework and tools of ecology, behavior, evolution and systematics to understand the relationships of organisms, populations and communities to their historic and contemporary environments. The faculty, drawn from eight campuses of the City University of New York and the American Museum of Natural History, have defined much of the state-of-the-art progress in these general disciplines. The course of study exposes the students to each of the disciplines and stresses both the unique and common intellectual approaches used in each. The faculty are especially known for making use of molecular and computational approaches to solving evolutionary questions. The EEB subprogram strives not only to integrate its included disciplines but to make certain the students are exposed to a variety of its practitioners.
Michael Hickerson
Professor
City College of New York
Room E-114
Alvarado, Sebastián - How epigenetic mechanisms shape neuronal substrates and how they relate to evolution |
Anderson, Robert P. - Developing GIS-based methods of modeling species geographic ranges using occurrence records and environmental data. |
Baden, Andrea - Molecular underpinnings of primate social and reproductive strategies particularly in malagasy strepsirrhines |
Berkov, Amy C. - Tropical plant - insect interactions and urban botany |
Bird, Jeffrey A. - Biogeochemistry; Ecosystem ecology, soil C and N cycling, soil microbial ecology, plant-microbial interactions, and mechanisms of soil C and N stabilization |
Blair, Christopher - Molecular Systematics, Phylogenomics, Phylogeography, Species Delimitation, Herpetology |
Calamari, Zachary - Evolution, paleontology, comparative anatomy/morphometrics, and bioinformatics, Anatomy/Morphology |
Chamberlain, John A. - Cephalopod paleobiology and evolution; fossil chondrichthyans; functional morphology |
Dennehy, John J. - Viruses, bacteriophages, gene expression control, cellular event timing, mathematical modeling, virus molecular biology, virus evolution and ecology, systems biology |
Flynn, John - Vertebrate paleontology, mammalian evolution, systematics |
Forlano, Paul M. - Behavioral neuroendocrinology, cellular and molecular neuroethology of vocal-acoustic communication in fishes, comparative vertebrate neuroanatomy |
Ghirlanda, Stefano - Evolution and neural mechanisms of behavior - especially learning, stimulus processing, and organization of behavior in time |
Gilbert, Christopher C. - Primate and Mammalian evolution over the past 65 million years with a focus on anatomy, systematics, and paleontology. |
Gosnell, J. Stephen - causes and consequences of ecological diversity; nature resrouce management |
Greenfield, Dianne - Coastal Phythoplankton Ecology and Biogeochemistry; Molecular Biology and quantification of Marine Plankton; Global change and effects on marine ecosystems; Harmful algal bloom ecology |
Gruber, David F. - Microbial ecology, marine biogeochemistry, coral reef ecology |
Hayashi , Cheryl - Functional genomics, Molecular evolution, Biology of spiders and spider silk, Systematics |
Holford, Mandë - Chemical Marine Biology: An evolutionary roadmap to the discovery and characterization of novel neuropeptides from marine organisms. |
Kim, Eunsoo - Microbiology, Eukaryotic phylogeny and genomics, Microbial symbiosis, Microbial diversity |
Lahti, David C. - Evolutionary and behavioral ecology, especially the evolution of complex and learned traits in birds and humans |
Lohman, David J. - Ecology, evolution, and conservation of insects and other volant animals in Southeast Asia |
Manne, Lisa L. - Impact of climate and competition on species' abundances. Biogeography. Spatial patterns of biodiversity. Climate change research |
Marra, John F. - Phytoplankton ecology, ocean productivity, food resources from the ocean |
Meng, Jin - Morphology evolution and systematics of mammals |
Perkins, Susan L. - Organismal Biology (i.e. Parasitology, Herpetology), microbiomes, systematics, evolutionary biology, genetics, herpetology, biogeography |
Prendini, Lorenzo - Empirical study of phylogeny, macroevolution, speciation, biogeography, and comparative evolutionary biology, using scorpions and minor arachnid orders as model organisms. |
Qiu, Weigang - Microbes, genomics, population genetics, evolution, and bioinformatics |
Reinmann, Andrew - Urban Ecology, Forest Ecology, Ecosystem Ecology, Plant Ecophysiology, Terrestrial Biogeochemistry, Global Change Biology, Dendrochronology, Land Use |
Simmons, Nancy Bingham - Evolution and systematics of mammals, bat ecology and evolution, fossil bats, morphology, phenomics, taxonomy, bat microbiomes, bat parasites, emerging infectious diseases |
Smith, Brian - Systematics, Biogeography, Phylogeography, Ornithology |
Sparks, John - Systematics and Biogeography of Fresh Water and Marine Fishes; Evolution Of Bioluminescence and Biofluorescence In Marine Systems |
Staniczenko, Phillip P.A. - Community ecology, environmental change, food webs, ecological networks, social-ecological networks, biological pest control, urban pollination |
Stewart, Gillian - Biogeochemistry, radioecology, trace metal and elemental cycling, plankton physiology, food web ecology, carbon flux and sequestration |
Waldman, John R. - Historical ecology and conservation biology of anadromous fishes; environmental history and management of urban waterways |
Wilson, Tony - Sexual Selection and Speciation in Aquatic Systems |
Faculty
Michael Hickerson - Chair
City College of New York
mhickerson@ccny.cuny.edu
Lisa Manne
College of Staten Island
lisa.manne@csi.cuny.edu
Chester Zarnoch
Baruch College
chester.zarnoch@baruch.cuny.edu
Christopher Blair
New York City College of Technology
CBlair@citytech.cuny.edu
David Lahti
Queens College
david.lahti@qc.cuny.edu
Brian Smith
American Museum of Natural History
bsmith1@amnh.org
Tony Wilson (alternate member)
Brooklyn College
twilson@brooklyn.cuny.edu
Students
Sam Chin — Student Representative to the Executive committee
Brooklyn College
Kathryn Mercier
City College of New York
Royce Cummings
American Museum of Natural History