A list of faculty projects is below. Select a project name to review its information.

Faculty Project Name Faculty
A miRNA Regulatory Circuit Balancing Plant Growth and Defense Barbara J. Baker
Biodiversity of spiny lizards Ian Wang
Caddisfly Emergence and Life History in the California East Bay Patina Mendez
Chemical recognition cues in an adaptive radiation of Hawaiian spiders Rosemary Gillespie
Coalition for Healthy Campus Food and Beverages Case Design Alastair Iles
Comparative Phylogeography of Leeward Island Amphibians and Reptiles Ian Wang
DNA methylation machinery in adipose biology Dr. Sona Kang, PhD
Drivers of crop rotation in the Midwestern U.S.: a large-scale spatial analysis Timothy Bowles, PhD
Engineering tissue-specific cyanogenic glycoside composition in cassava Brian Staskawicz
Evaluating the ecological effects of mercury contamination from informal gold mining in Madre de Dios, Peru Matthew Potts
Evaluation of State Incentive Programs for Habitat Management on Private Land Luke Macaulay
Genetic dissection of trait variation between long-diverged species Rachel B BREM
Genetics and Ecology of Floral Pigmentation Patterns Benjamin Blackman, PhD
Genetics of Adaptation to Seasonal Cues in Monkeyflowers Benjamin Blackman, PhD
How does prescribed fire affect Florida Panther (Puma concolor coryi) den selection? Lynn Huntsinger
Hurricanes and land use change in the Caribbean Van Butsic
Investigating gene expression networks in a hybrid grass John Vogel
Karuk Agroecosystem Resilience Initiative: Archival research and data entry of mining and logging records Jennifer Sowerwine
Karuk Agroecosystem Resilience Initiative: Processing historical aerial images for long term ecological change detection Jennifer Sowerwine
Linking the effect of farm management practices: soils to bees Timothy Bowles, PhD
Local and landscape Effects and Biological Control of Crop Pests in Urban Agriculture Miguel Altieri
Long-term arthropod monitoring project in Perkins Canyon, Mt. Diablo Kipling Will
Mapping Environmental Advocacy in the U.S. States Jonas Meckling
Mapping socio-ecological relationship of climate change and small-scale diversified farms in California Lynn Huntsinger
Muscle function in a mouse model of muscle degeneration. Joe Napoli
Native Bees in Avocado Orchards, Urban areas and Wildlands Gordon Frankie
Pesticide exposure for native and wild bees in CA agriculture Nicholas Mills
Plant immune responses to bacterial pathogens Jennifer Lewis
Predicting the potential risks for the native fly fauna posed by beneficial insects introduced for biocontrol of an exotic insect pest in the US Alexis C Billings
Programming tools to understand plant-pathogen interactions Jennifer Lewis
Regulation of drinking water quality Joseph Shapiro
Researching and Mapping the Original Lands Granted to Establish the University of California Jennifer Sowerwine
Strawberry Creek Restoration Project Albert Ruhi Vidal
Testing the fluidity of supercolony identity in invasive Argentine ants Neil Tsutsui
The Genetics of Natural Variation in Sunflower Reproductive Development Benjamin Blackman, PhD
Uncovering the historic ties between climate, fire and forest demography: an exploration using tree ring data from Baja California, Mexico and the Eastern Sierra Nevada, California. Scott Stephens
Understanding how community forests build social capital for land management collaboration in northern California Lynn Huntsinger
Urban Agroecology to Build Soil Health and Promote Food Justice Timothy Bowles, PhD
Using entomology museum and molecular lab methods to understand California’s beetle diversity Kipling Will
Varieties of Climate Governance: Mapping the Climate Policy Structures of the World Jonas Meckling
Wildlife damage compensation programs in the U.S. Luke Macaulay