Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief
I.T. Moore - DCE, DAB, and DEE
Virginia Tech, USA
Ignacio Moore is a Professor of Biological Sciences at Virginia Tech. His research interests are in animal physiological ecology and behavior. He mostly studies free-living vertebrates in their natural environments and crosses traditional disciplinary lines to achieve a more complete understanding of animal function.
How do animals respond to changes in their physical and social environments? What are the mechanisms mediating the behavioral and physiological responses to these changes? What are the consequences for the individual and population? These are the types of questions I address in my research. As such, my work crosses traditional disciplinary lines to achieve a more complete understanding of animal function. I try to identify important questions and then utilize appropriate methods to answer them. My general premise is that one must study, or at least appreciate, animals in their natural environments if one is to truly understand how they work. A strength of my research is the combination of field based observations of classical naturalists with the rigorous experimentation and techniques of modern biologists.
Managing Editor
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Associate Editors
University of Florida, USA
Dave Blackburn is a Curator at the Florida Museum of Natural History. His research focuses on the evolution and diversity of amphibians, including systematics, biogeography, molecular phylogenetics, comparative and functional morphology, paleontology, and natural history. He really, really likes frogs.
R.W. Blob - DVM, DCB, DEE
Clemson University, USA
Rick Blob is Alumni Distinguished Professor of Biological Sciences at Clemson University. His research focuses on the biomechanics, morphology, and evolution of vertebrate musculoskeletal function, using modern species and the fossil record.
Assistant Professor: Biology Department
Swarthmore College
Karen Chan received her Ph.D. in Oceanography from the University of Washington in Seattle and is currently an Assistant Professor of Biology at Swarthmore College. Her research focuses on the interactions between the early development stages of marine invertebrates and their fluid environment. She studies both the functional morphology of diverse planktonic larval forms and the impacts of anthropogenic stressors on their performances.
Rice University, USA
K. Evans is interested in the ecology and evolution of phenotypic diversity, integrating data from developmental biology, ecology, biomechanics and phylogeny to understand this process at various timescales. Bony fishes provide a unique opportunity to ask these questions and study the origins of phenotypic diversity along with the interface between phenotype and environment, within the most species-rich assemblage of vertebrates on the planet.
Associate Professor at Chapman University, CA, USA
Patricia C. Lopes was trained in behavioral neuroendocrinology during her Ph.D. in Integrative Biology at UC Berkeley (USA) and then in behavioral ecology and ecological immunology during her postdoc at the University of Zurich (Switzerland). In broad terms, her research examines the effects of social stimuli on the behavior and the neural, endocrine, reproductive, and immune systems of both sick and healthy animals. A significant focus has been on the study of sickness behaviors, which consist of the array of behavioral changes exhibited by sick animals, to understand the modulation of those behaviors. More recently, her research has shifted towards examining how disgust influences the physiology of healthy animals. She is a tropical animal (from Brazil)!
New England College, USA
James Newcomb was trained as an invertebrate neurophysiologist in the labs of Winsor Watson (M.S., University of New Hampshire) and Paul Katz (Ph.D., Georgia State University). He is currently a Professor of Biology and Health Science and Co-Director of the Center for Undergraduate Science Research at New England College. His research spans genetics to behavior, with a focus on how animals respond to their environments. He primarily studies nudibranchs and most recently has been investigating hypotheses about circadian rhythms, extraocular photoreception, and regeneration.
Stephanie Smith is interested in how ecology, biomechanics, morphology, and phylogenetic history interact to produce mammalian musculoskeletal morphologies. Her research focuses on ecological and morphological diversity and evolution of small-bodied mammals (i.e., pocket-sized to possum-sized), and the unique challenges they face at the lower extremes of mammalian body mass.
Janet Steven
Janet Steven received a PhD in Botany from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2003 and is currently an Associate Professor in Organismal and Environmental Biology at Christopher Newport University. As a plant evolutionary ecologist, her research explores how the interactions among selective forces and genetic constraints shape plant morphology and evolution. She is currently studying the relative importance of climate and plasticity on morphological diversification in the plant genus Silene.
Yui Suzuki - DEDB, DCE, DEE
Wellesley College, USA
Yui Suzuki received his PhD in Biology from Duke University and is currently an Associate Professor in Biological Sciences at Wellesley College. He is an integrative biologist who focuses on understanding how endocrine processes interact with the environment to impact the post-embryonic development and evolution of insects. Specifically, his research focuses on developmental plasticity, phenotypic plasticity, metamorphosis and limb regeneration.
S.H. Williams - DVM, DCB, DEE
Ohio University, USA
Susan Williams received her PhD in Biological Anthropology and Anatomy from Duke University in 2004. She currently is a Professor of Anatomy in the Department of Biomedical Sciences at Ohio University. Her research focuses on the functional morphology, biomechanics and physiology of feeding in mammals. Her work use experimental approaches (both in the lab and in the field), biomechanical modeling and comparative anatomy to understand the factors driving the evolution of masticatory form and function within mammals. Her research specifically address questions relating to the ontogeny of feeding and oral structures; the relationship between skull loading and morphology; oromotor control, movement and coordination; and sensorimotor integration.
