Our laboratory studies the genetic basis of adaptation and speciation using genomic analyses and field-based studies in the genus Aquilegia (Columbines).
EEMB Department Chair Professor
3151 Marine Biotech
Debora Iglesias-Rodriguez has worked for twenty years on diversity and function in marine phytoplankton combining molecular approaches, carbon physiology and biogeochemistry in the lab and in the field.
The mission of our research group is to reveal the role of infectious diseases in ecosystems. We investigate parasite ecology, disease ecology, food web dynamics, ecology and evolution of infectious strategies, and control of human parasites.
Uses mathematics, experiments, and field observations to understand how metabolic interactions between species shape the structure and function of ecological communities.
Assistant Teaching Professor
4320 Life Sciences Building
Joy-centered pedagogy in biology education, equity-minded teacher professional development, epistemologies in STEM, accessible course-based research experiences, and all things fungal.
Distributional ecology and systematics of western North American and Australian amphibians and reptiles; ecology and systematics of monitor lizards; mechanics of intergrade zones and of speciational processes; crypsis; functional and evolutionary morphology; ethnozoology; conservation biology.
Professor; Director of UCSB Marine Science Institute
MSRB 4326
Our lab studies the microbial and viral ecology of marine and terrestrial species. We also conduct work specifically on marine conservation, aiming to better evaluate the unseen biodiversity of marine systems and to identify innovative solutions to the global declines of key marine species.
I am interested how microbial interactions and tightly-coupled biogeochemical cycles drive the ecological and evolutionary dynamics of populations, with a current focus on the bacteria and archaea of marine aggregates and biofilms.
