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Number of experts found: 34

 
Elaine L. Bailey

Agent

UME-Calvert

Expertise Key Words:
4-H, University of Maryland Extension, eXtension, youth development, non-formal education, 4-H science, animal science, horses, agriculture, community resource & economic development, STEM, science education,

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E-mail(s)    

301 855 1150

elbailey@umd.edu

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Andrew H. Baldwin

Associate Professor

Environmental Science and Technology

Expertise Key Words:
Wetland ecology; restored and treatment wetlands; wetland botany; disturbance ecology of wetland vegetation; ecological engineering; plant biodiversity; seed banks and seed dispersal; tidal marshes and swamps; mangroves; nonpoint source pollution; water quality; ecological risk and impact assessment

Contact Information:

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E-mail(s)    

301 405 7855

baldwin@umd.edu

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Dorothy Beckett

Professor

Chemistry & Biochemistry

Expertise Key Words:
Bioterrorism; Forensics related to biochemistry and biotechnology; Advances in therapeutic agents for treatment of some diseases; Funding of basic scientific research; Regulation of gene expression, protein structure and function; Analytical biochemistry

Contact Information:

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E-mail(s)    

301-405-1812

dbeckett@umd.edu

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Gerald Borgia

Professor

Biology

Expertise Key Words:
Mate choice in animals and humans; Robotics in biological research; animal social behavior.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 6943

borgia@umd.edu

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Catherine E. Carr

Prof

Biology

Expertise Key Words:
sound localization; hearing

Contact Information:

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E-mail(s)    

301 405 6915

cecarr@umd.edu

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Priscila Chaverri

Asst Prof

Plant Science & Landscape Architecture

Expertise Key Words:
fungi, mycology, biological control, systematics, taxonomy

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 7041

pchaverr@umd.edu

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Michael P. Cummings

Assoc Prof, Affil Assoc Prof

Biology

Expertise Key Words:
molecular evolution, phylogenetics, computational biology, grid computing

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

Home phone    

Cell phone          

E-mail(s)    

301 405 9903

301 395 0431

301 395 0431

mcummin1@umd.edu
mike@umiacs.umd.edu

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Charles F. Delwiche

Associate Professor

Cell Biology & Molecular Genetics, Biology

Expertise Key Words:
tree of life, plant evolution, plant genetics, phylogeny, algae, origin of land plants, chloroplasts, molecular systematics, bioinformatics, protist genomics

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 8286

delwiche@umd.edu

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Michele R. Dudash

Assoc Prof

Biology

Expertise Key Words:
Plant population biology, Plant pollinator interactions, Plant evolution, demography, and ecology, Evolution of plant mating systems, Conservation and restoration strategies, Interactions between native and invasive species

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 1642

mdudash@umd.edu

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Kenneth Frauwirth

Assistant Professor

Cell Biology & Molecular Genetics

Expertise Key Words:
Immunology; Lymphocytes; Autoimmune disease; Immunotherapy; Immune system; T cells white blood cells

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 2507

kfrauwir@umd.edu
swingdanceken@yahoo.com

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John A. Frederick

Faculty Extension Assistant, Education Specialist

Maryland Cooperative Extension - Maryland Sea Grant Extension

Expertise Key Words:
Marine Education, K-12 Education, Teacher Professional Development, Environmental Science, Biotechnology

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

410 234 8850

jfrederi@umd.edu

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Daniel S. Gruner

Asst Prof

Entomology

Expertise Key Words:
Ecology, Evolution, Conservation and Sustainability, Biodiversity, Invasive species, Insects and spiders, Island biogeography, Parasitic nematodes, Biological control, Soil ecosystem

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 3957

dsgruner@umd.edu

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Eric S. Haag

Assistant Professor

Biology

Expertise Key Words:
Evolutionary biology; sex determination; reproduction; nematodes; mutants; embryos animal development

Contact Information:

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E-mail(s)    

301 405 8534

ehaag@umd.edu

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Iqbal Hamza

Assoc Prof

Animal & Avian Sciences

Expertise Key Words:
Iron deficiency
haem homeostasis in animals

Contact Information:

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E-mail(s)    

301 405 0649

hamza@umd.edu

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David W. Inouye

Prof

Biology

Expertise Key Words:
phenology, climate change, pollination biology, plant population biology, wildflowers, Rocky Mountains, hummingbirds, bumble bees

Contact Information:

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Home phone    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 6946

301-422-8926/ 970-349-5801 CO

inouye@umd.edu

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Anthony C. Janetos

Director, Joint Global Change Research Institute

Joint Global Change Research Institute

Expertise Key Words:
environmental science, climate change (commonly called global warming), biodiversity, land-cover and land-use change, satellite imaging, terrestrial ecosystems

Contact Information:

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E-mail(s)    

301 314 7843

anthony.janetos@pnl.gov

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William R. Jeffery

Professor

Biology

Expertise Key Words:
Organismal Biology, Experimental Developmental Biology

Contact Information:

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E-mail(s)    

301 405 5202

jeffery@umd.edu

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Clinton N. Jenkins

Assistant Research Scientist

Biology

Expertise Key Words:
biological diversity, biodiversity, conservation, remote sensing, GIS, geospatial technology, Amazon, Brazil, ecology, satellite imagery, Atlantic Forest

Contact Information:

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E-mail(s)    

301 405 8148

cnjenkin@umd.edu
clinton.jenkins@gmail.com

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Sujay Kaushal

Asst Prof

Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center

Expertise Key Words:
Biogeochemistry, limnology, fate and transport of organic pollutants, effects of land use/climate change, aquatic restoration ecology, stable isotopes as environmental tracers, microbial ecology

Contact Information:

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Cell phone          

E-mail(s)    

301 405 7048

862 485 6455

skaushal@umd.edu

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Carol L. Keefer

Associate Professor

Animal & Avian Sciences

Expertise Key Words:
Animal cloning (somatic cell nuclear transfer); Embryo, embryonic stem cells (domestic animals); Transgenic (genetically altered) animals;

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 3933

ckeefer@umd.edu

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June M. Kwak

Assistant Professor

Cell Biology & Molecular Genetics

Expertise Key Words:
My lab research focuses on how plant cells deal with environmental and endogenous cues in order to achieve specific cellular responses.

Contact Information:

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E-mail(s)    

301 405 9726

jkwak@umd.edu

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Karen R. Lips

Associate Professor & Director, Graduate Program in Sustainable Development & Conservation Biology

Biology

Expertise Key Words:
biodiversity, tropical biology, amphibians, reptiles, extinction, amphibian population declines, ecology, conservation biology

Contact Information:

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E-mail(s)    

301 405 5030

klips@umd.edu

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Carlos A. Machado

Assoc Prof

Biology

Expertise Key Words:
Evolution Genomics

Contact Information:

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E-mail(s)    

301 405 9447

machado@umd.edu

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Edgar Moctezuma

Lecturer

Cell Biology & Molecular Genetics

Expertise Key Words:
plant biology, peanuts, peanut gynophore, plant science, gravitropism, plant growth, plant physiology, plant hormones, fruit development, tomato, genetic engineering, genetically modified organisms, plant gene expression, chicanos, latinos in science

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E-mail(s)    

301 405 1638

emoctezu@umd.edu

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Mary A. Ottinger

Professor

Animal & Avian Sciences

Expertise Key Words:
Comparative biology of aging; neurodegenerative disease; viology of aging in primates. Effects of environmental endocrine disruptors in wildlife. Functional foods - adding soy isoflavones or anthyocyanins to eggs to increase nutritional properties

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 5780

maotting@umd.edu

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Margaret A. Palmer

Professor

Entomology and Biology

Expertise Key Words:
water quality;watersheds; aquatic biodiversity; stream and watershed restoration; global water issues; restoration ecology; land use change; urban environments

Contact Information:

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Home phone    

Cell phone          

E-mail(s)    

301 405 3795

410 798-8814

301 873-7256

mpalmer@umd.edu

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Daniel R. Perez

Associate Professor

VA-MD Regional Col Veterinary Med

Expertise Key Words:
Avian influenza, swine influenza, interspecies virus transmission (such as animal to human or avian to swine, flu transmission); virology; plasmid-based reverse genetics; pandemic viruses.

Contact Information:

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E-mail(s)    

301 314 6811
301 314 6678

dperez1@umd.edu
danielpmd@comcast.net

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Arthur N. Popper

Professor

Biology

Expertise Key Words:
Fish, hearing, anthropogenic sound, effects of sound on animals, evolution of hearing, ear structure, psychoacoustics, inner ear, pile driving, seismic air guns, sonar effects on animals, noise effects on animals

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 1940

apopper@umd.edu

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Michael J. Raupp

Professor

Entomology

Expertise Key Words:
Pest management, insects, cicadas, ecology, biting insects, mosquitoes & West Nile, ticks, caterpillars, lady bugs, garden pests, landscape plants, pesticides, crickets, beetles, beneficial insects, biological control,butterflies, moths, aphids, scales, plant defense, insect defense, insect behavior

Contact Information:

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Home phone    

Cell phone          

E-mail(s)    

301 405 8478

443 864 4844

301 219 4206

mraupp@umd.edu

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Joshua Singer

Visit Asst Prof

Biology

Expertise Key Words:
How a neural circuit reflects the behaviors of the individual synapses and neurons that compose it. Night Vision

Contact Information:

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E-mail(s)    

301 405 1000

jhsinger@umd.edu

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Ann C. Smith

Instructor

Cell Biology & Molecular Genetics

Expertise Key Words:
Microbiology; microbiology teaching techniques

Contact Information:

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E-mail(s)    

301 405 5443

asmith@umd.edu

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Joseph H. Sullivan

Associate Professor

Plant Science & Landscape Architecture

Expertise Key Words:
Global Climate Change, Stratospheric Ozone, UV-B radiation, Plant Physiology, Ecology, Ecophysiology, Forest Biology, Urban Forestry, atmospheric carbon dioxide increases, stress physiology, secondary chemistry

Contact Information:

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Cell phone          

E-mail(s)    

301 405 1626

301-641-5115

jsull@umd.edu

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Gerald S. Wilkinson

Professor and Chair

Biology

Expertise Key Words:
Evolutionary biology, Animal behavior, Cooperation and communication in bats, Sexual selection in flies

Expertise Credentials:
Dr. Wilkinson is Chair of the Department of Biology. He has authored or coauthored over 95 original research articles or book chapters on various topics in evolutionary biology and animal behavior. He conducts research on the evolution of social behavior, with emphasis on how genetic mechanisms may influence the outcome of evolution. Recent research in the lab addresses several controversial topics in animal behavior: sexual selection, genomic conflict, cooperation and communication. Stalk-eyed flies are being used as a model system for studying the evolution of sexually selected traits. Our recent empirical and theoretical results have surprisingly implicated meiotic drive as a potent evolutionary agent which can catalyze sexual selection. Using quantitative trait locus studies we have recently confirmed the prediction that sex-linked genes that influence a sexually selected trait are linked to genes causing sex chromosome meiotic drive. By hybridizing genomic DNA to custom Agilent microarrays we have discovered that stalk-eyed flies contain a neo-X chromosome and that genes have moved both onto and off of this chromosome. We are currently sequencing testes transcriptomes and additional CGH experiments to identify sex-linked genes and qRT-PCR to infer how their expression has evolved among different species of flies. Bats in the neotropics and in the US are being studied in the lab and field to understand how communication mediates cooperation and social learning.

Dr. Wilkinson was the recipient of a Searle Scholar Award (1988), Distinguished Scholar-Teacher Award (1997), Fellow of and Quest Award from the Animal Behavior Society (2003), and was the President of the Animal Behavior Society (2007). He was also a Program Officer at the National Science Foundation from 2006-2007.

Web Site(s):
Dr. Wilkinson's home page

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 6942
301 405 6914

wilkinso@umd.edu

Address:
2223 Biology-Psychology Building
College Park, MD  20742

Degrees:
PhD 1984, Biology, University of California, San Diego
BS 1977, Zoology, University of California, Davis

Publication(s):
Birge, L.M., Pitts, M.L., Baker, R.H., and Wilkinson, G.S. 2010 Length polymorphism and head shape association among genes with polyglutamine repeats in the stalk-eyed fly, Teleopsis dalmanni. BMC Evolutionary Biology 10:227
Bohn, K.M., Moss, C.F. and Wilkinson, G.S. 2009 Pup guarding by greater spear-nosed bats. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 63:1693-1703.
Munshi-South, J. and Wilkinson, G.S. 2010 Bats and birds: Exceptional longevity despite high metabolic rates. Ageing Research Reviews 9:12-19.
Baker, R.H. and Wilkinson, G.S. 2010 Comparative genomic hybridization (CGH) reveals a neo-X chromosome and biased gene movement in stalk-eyed flies (genus Teleopsis). PLoS Genetics 6(9): e1001121
Baker, R.H., Morgan, J., Wang, X., Boore, J.L. and Wilkinson, G.S. 2009 Genomic analysis of a sexually-selected character: EST sequencing and microarray analysis of eye-antennal imaginal discs in the stalk-eyed fly Teleopsis dalmanni (Diopsidae). BMC Genomics 10:361


 
Stephanie A. Yarwood

Asst Prof

Environmental Science & Technology

Expertise Key Words:
microbiology, soil science, nutrient cycling, nitrogen cycling, bacteria and fungi, environmental microbiology, ecology

Contact Information:

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E-mail(s)    

301 405 1345

syarwood@umd.edu

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