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Faculty
		Office Location
	Adalgisa Caccone Lecturer in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Senior Research Scientist in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, School of the Environment, and Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases) 21 Sachem Street, New Haven, CT, 06511 adalgisa.caccone@yale.edu Phone: 203-432-5259 Website Research Interests: Molecular evolution and conservation genetics.	ESC 140
	Jenn Coughlan Assistant Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology jennifer.coughlan@yale.edu Phone: Website Research Interests: Dr. Coughlan is an evolutionary geneticist. The Coughlan lab uses a charismatic group of wildflowers (Mimulus) to understand the genetic basis and evolutionary drivers of adaptation and speciation in nature.	ESC 370A
	Mary Beth Decker Research Scientist in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Lecturer in School of the Environment 165 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT 06511-8934 marybeth.decker@yale.edu Phone: 203-432-6293 Website Research Interests: Biological oceanography, jellyfish blooms in changing coastal and estuarine ecosystems.	OML 316B
	Michael Donoghue Sterling Professor Emeritus of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology michael.donoghue@yale.edu Website Research Interests: Plant evolution and systematics; phylogenetic biology.
	Casey Dunn Professor 165 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT 06511 casey.dunn@yale.edu Phone: +1 (203) 432-3109 Website Research Interests: Comparative invertebrate zoology. We use phylogenetics to study the evolution of genomes, genome function, morphology, and siphonophores.	OML 326A
	Erika Edwards Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Curator of Botany at the Peabody Museum of Natural History; Director of Marsh Botanical Gardens 165 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT 06511 erika.edwards@yale.edu Phone: 203-432-3869 Website Research Interests: Evolution; phylogenetics; plant structure and function; ecological adaptation	OML 326B
	Vanessa Ezenwa Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology 165 Prospect St. New Haven, CT 06511 vanessa.ezenwa@yale.edu Phone: 203 436-2614 Research Interests: Disease ecology, behavioral ecology, ecoimmunology, parasitology	OML 427
	Walter Jetz Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; School of the Environment 165 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT 06511-8934 walter.jetz@yale.edu Phone: 203-432-7540 Website Research Interests: Macroecology; community ecology; biogeography; global change biology; conservation; ecology and evolution of terrestrial vertebrates.	OML 401
	Joshua Moyer Lecturer of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology 165 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT 06511 joshua.moyer@yale.edu Research Interests: Functional anatomy and biodiversity of vertebrates. Specializes in the ecological morphology & systematics of cartilaginous fishes (sharks and their relatives) using methods in kinematics, behavior, anatomy & dissection, histology, & biomedical imaging.	OML 103A
	Martha Muñoz Assistant Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology 165 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT 06511 martha.munoz@yale.edu Phone: 203-432-9861	ESC 368
	Thomas Near Professor and Chair of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Bingham Oceanographic Curator of Ichthyology, Peabody Museum of Natural History; Head of College - Saybrook College 21 Sachem Street, New Haven, CT 06511 thomas.near@yale.edu Phone: 203-432-3002 Fax: Office Hours T & Th 9:30am - 11:00am Research Interests: Evolutionary biology of fishes – retracing how species and lineages are treated to one another, primarily using DNA sequence data to reconstruct the evolutionary relationships of species represented through branching diagrams and phylogenies.	ESC 364
	C. Brandon Ogbunu Assistant Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology 165 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT 06511 brandon.ogbunu@yale.edu Phone: 203-432-7805 Research Interests: systems biology, population genetics, epidemiology, disease ecology and evolution, science and society	OML 253A
	David Post Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Yale University; Vice President (Academic Affairs), Dean of Faculty, and Visiting Wong Ngit Liong Professor at Yale-NUS College 165 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT 06511-8934 david.post@yale.edu Website Research Interests: Aquatic ecology; food-web structure and dynamics, eco-evolutionary interactions, environmental change	OML 426B
	Jeffrey Powell Research Professor 21 Sachem Street, New Haven, CT 06511-8934 jeffrey.powell@yale.edu Phone: 203-432-3887 Website Research Interests: Evolutionary genetics; molecular evolution and conservation genetics.	ESC 172
	Richard Prum William Robertson Coe Professor of Ornithology of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Head Curator of Vertebrate Zoology (Ornithology) Peabody Museum of Natural History 21 Sachem Street, New Haven, CT 06511-8934 richard.prum@yale.edu Phone: 203-432-9423 Website Research Interests: Evolutionary ornithology, including phylogenetics, behavior, feathers, structural color, evolution and development, sexual selection, and historical biogeography.	ESC 164
	Linda Puth Lecturer of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. On leave from 2021-2024 in Singapore, Yale-NUS College linda.puth@yale.edu
	Eric Slessarev Incoming Assistant Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (July 1, 2023) slessarev1@llnl.gov Website Research Interests: Soil science, terrestrial biogeochemistry, ecosystem-geosphere interactions, carbon and nutrient cycling
	Carla Staver Associate Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Associate Director of The Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies 165 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT 06511-8934 carla.staver@yale.edu Phone: 203-436-9200 Fax: 203-432-5176 Website Research Interests: Landscape ecology of savannas and forest; fire and herbivore feedbacks; temporal and spatial variability as ecological driver; historical dependence in ecology.	OML 404
	Stephen Stearns Edward P. Bass Professor Emeritus of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology stephen.stearns@yale.edu Phone: Website Research Interests: I am retired and no longer accepting graduate students. Life history evolution, evolutionary medicine, evolutionary genetics and innovations in teaching that serve learning.
	Alison Sweeney Associate Professor of Physics; Ecology and Evolutionary Biology alison.sweeney@yale.edu	SCL 131
	Paul Turner Rachel Carson Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Microbiology Faculty, Yale School of Medicine 165 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT 06511-8934 paul.turner@yale.edu Phone: 203-432-5918 Website Research Interests: Virus evolutionary genetics and genomics, mostly in bacteriophages and arthropod-borne viruses. We use experimental evolution to test basic biology questions, and conduct applied research on virus-based therapies to treat disease.	OML 327B
	David Vasseur Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology 165 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT 06511-8934 david.vasseur@yale.edu Phone: 203-432-2719 Website Research Interests: Theoretical ecology; biodiversity-ecosystem function; impacts of environmental variability on population, community, and ecosystem processes; spatial population synchrony.	OML 426A
	Günter Wagner Alison Richard Professor Emeritus of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology 850 West Campus Drive, ISTC 108 gunter.wagner@yale.edu Phone: 203-737-3091; 203-432-9998 Website Research Interests: Population genetics theory; evolutionary theory.	OML 327A
	Marta Wells Senior Lecturer of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology 165 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT 06511-8934 marta.wells@yale.edu Phone: 203-432-6294 Research Interests: Insect behavior and Evolution. Mating signal and speciation in Neuropteran insects.	OML103B
	Michelle Wong Incoming Assistant Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (July 1, 2023) wongm@caryinstitute.org Website Research Interests: Ecosystem ecology, biogeochemistry, plant-soil feedbacks, nutrient cycling

Faculty (affiliated)
		Office Location
	Richard Bribiescas Deputy Provost for Faculty Development and Diversity; Professor of Anthropology 2 Whitney Avenue richard.bribiescas@yale.edu Phone: 203-432-2049 Website	Whitney Grove Square Building
	Craig Brodersen Associate Professor of the School of the Environment 195 Prospect St craig.brodersen@yale.edu Phone: 203-436-5145 Website
	Leo Buss Professor Emeritus of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Senior Research Scientist of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Curator Emeritus of Invertebrate Zoology Peabody Museum leo.buss@yale.edu Research Interests: Allorecognition reactions, wherein a colony detects and reacts to a conspecific on the basis of cell-cell contact, are near ubiquitous amongst the clonal marine benthos.
	Nicholas Christakis Sol Goldman Family Professor of Social & Natural Science; Professor Int Med General Medicine 17 Hillhouse Ave, New Haven, CT 06511-8965 nicholas.christakis@yale.edu Phone: 203-436-4747 Website	17 HLH
	Liza Comita Associate Professor of the School of the Environment 205 Prospect St, New Haven, CT 06511 liza.comita@yale.edu Phone: 203-436-5783
	Forrest Crawford Associate Professor of the School of Public Health 60 College St, New Haven, CT 06510-3210 forrest.crawford@yale.edu Phone: 203-785-6125 Website	Room 207
	Gordon Geballe Lecturer of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology gordon.geballe@yale.edu
	Nathan Grubaugh Assistant Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases) 60 College Street nathan.grubaugh@yale.edu Phone: 203-737-5869 Website	LEPH 607
	Vivian Irish Professor and Chair of Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology 219 Prospect St, New Haven, CT 06511-2106 vivian.irish@yale.edu Phone: 203-432-5572 Website	OML 252A
	James Noonan Associate Professor, MYSM Department of Genetics 333 Cedar St, New Haven, CT 06510-3206 james.noonan@yale.edu Phone: 203-737-1922 Website	SHM I 142C
	Eric Sargis Professor of Anthropology; School of the Environment; Curator of Zoology (Mammalogy) and Vertebrate Paleontology Peabody Museum 10 Sachem St, New Haven, CT 06511-3707 eric.sargis@yale.edu Phone: 203-432-6140 Website	Room 208
	Oswald Schmitz Oastler Professor of Population and Community Ecology; School of the Environment 205 Prospect St, New Haven, CT 06511-2106 oswald.schmitz@yale.edu Phone: 203-432-5110 Website	Greeley Laboratory, Room 112
	David Skelly Oastler Professor of the School of the Environment; Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Director of Peabody Museum of Natural History 205 Prospect St, New Haven, CT 06511-2106 david.skelly@yale.edu Phone: 203-432-3603 Website	Kroon 208
	Jeffrey Townsend, Ph.D. Elihu Professor of Biostatistics YSPH 135 College St., New Haven, CT 06510-2483 jeffrey.townsend@yale.edu Phone: 203-737-7042 Website	Suite 200, Room 222
	Serena Tucci Assistant Professor of Anthropology 10 Sachem Street, New Haven, CT 06511 serena.tucci@yale.edu Website	Room 216
	J Rimas Vaisnys Professor of Electrical Engineering 15 Prospect St, New Haven, CT 06511-6816 juozas.vaisnys@yale.edu Phone: 203-432-4253 Website	BCT 519