Fang-yu Chou
Ph.D., RN, FNP-BC, CNE
Professor
Ph.D., RN, FNP-BC, CNE
Professor
RESEARCH INTERESTS
As a behavioral ecologist I am interested in evolutionary and ecological processes that generate the broad diversity of animal behavior. Our research focuses on the evolution of social behaviors such as parental care, brood parasitism and cooperative breeding. Most recently we have focused on the roles of mutualism and parasitism in social evolution. Our general approach is to develop mathematical models that are applicable to a broad range of animals and to test the predictions of these (and other) models using laboratory and field experiments.
Vance Vredenburg is a Professor and Associate Chair of the Department of Biology at San Francisco State University, Fellow of the California Academy of Sciences, and Research Associate at the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at University of California Berkeley. He grew up in Mexico, received his bachelor's degree from the University of California Santa Barbara, and his Ph.D. from University of California Berkeley. His Ph.D.
My research group, SEPAL: The Science Education Partnership and Assessment Laboratory, is interested in how people learn science, especially biology, and how teachers and scientists can collaborate to make science teaching and learning in classrooms – Kindergarten through college – more like how scientists work.
B.A. from University of California, Berkeley
Ph.D. from University of California, Berkeley
Postdoctoral fellow at Cary Instiute of Ecosystem Studies
Ruth Kirschstein postdoctoral fellow at University of California, San Francisco
The Stillman Laboratory in the Department of Biology studies the effects of climate change and human impacts on marine and aquatic organisms in response to warming, increasing frequency and severity of heat waves, carbon dioxide acidification, salinity gradients, hypoxia and other environmental stressors.
Ph.D. Evolutionary Biology - University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (1990)
M.S. Evolutionary Biology - University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (1986)
M.S. Biology - Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas (1985)
B.S. Biology - University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas (1980)
The research focus in my lab is on systematics with an emphasis in
molecular phylogenetics and evolution.
Ravinder Sehgal is a Professor in the Dept.
Ph.D. Washington University 1990
Selected publications:
Thompson, M.E., B.J. Halstead, G.D. Wylie, M. Amarello, J.J. Smith, M.L. Casazza, and E.J. Routman. 2013. Effects of prescribed fire on Coluber constrictor mormon in coastal San Mateo County, California. Herpetological Conservation and Biology. 8:602-615.