Systematics, Ecology and Evolution (SEE) Division
The diverse interests of the 30 SEE faculty and adjuncts, their 55+ graduate students, and several postdoctoral research associates facilitate advanced study of ecological and evolutionary processes involving a broad range of organisms and habitats.
- SEE graduate students have access to modern, well-equipped facilities for data collection and analysis
- Research within SEE is supported by grants from several national funding agencies
- Results are regularly published in premier international scientific journals
- Several members of the group serve as editors or editorial board members of important journals and are high office holders in a number of societies
SEE PhD Grads
SEE Faculty List (pdf)
Christopher Austin
Population genetics, systematics, biogeography, phylogeography and physiological and
functional
ecology of reptiles and amphibians
Mark Batzer
Comparative Genomics, Genome Biology and Evolution, Transposable Element Biology,
Computational Biology
Jeremy Brown
Computational Phylogenetics, Phylogeography, and Molecular Evolution
Robb Brumfield
Avian population genetics and systematics
Prosanta Chakrabarty
Ichthyology, Biogeography, Systematics of Marine and Freshwater fishes
James Cronin
Population and Community Ecology, Plant-Herbivore-Natural Enemy Interactions, Ecological
Genetics, Biological Pest Management
Maheshi Dassanayake
Plant adaptions to abiotic stress and comparative genomics
Bret Elderd
Quantitative, Population, Disease, and Community Ecology
Jake Esselstyn
Mammalian systematics and evolution
Brant C. Faircloth
Vertebrate genomics and phylogenetics
Fernando Galvez
Integrative Fish Biology, Environmental Physiology, Aquatic Toxicology
Steven C. Hand
Bioenergetics, molecular physiology, environmental control of gene expression, comparative
biochemistry
Kyle Harms
Population, Community, and Evolutionary Ecology
Michael Hellberg
Molecular evolution, population genetics and speciation in marine invertebrates and
fish
Dominique Homberger
Functional, ecological, and evolutionary morphology
Morgan Kelly
Ecology, evolution and conservation of marine invertebrates
Gary King
Microbial Ecology, Trace Gas Biogeochemistry, Physiological Ecology of Bacteria
Laura Lagomarsino
Botany, evolution, plant-pollinator interactions
Daijiang Li
Quantitative Ecology, Statistics, Phylogenetic Ecology, Biodiversity, Phenology, Global
Change Biology
Nicholas Mason
Ornithology, Evolution, Ecology, Natural History Collections
Sarah Mathews
Biology and evolution of plants, molecular evolution of plant photoreceptors
William J. Platt
Plant population biology / ecology
Arthur Porto (Joint Appointment with the LSU Center for Computation and Technology)
Evolutionary Morphology, Computer Vision, Machine learning, Quantitative Genetics,
Complex traits
Fred Sheldon
Molecular systematics and ornithology
Jiaqi Tan
Plant-microbe interactions, microbial ecology and evolution
E. William Wischusen
Vertebrate ecology
Adjunct Faculty
- Mary Jane Eberhard
- William Eberhard
- Gary Graves
- James V. Remsen Jr.
- Kevin Robertson
- Cameron Thrash
- Lowell E. Urbatsch