Program Members
Faculty member |
Research |
Affiliation |
| Homayoun Bagheri | Population genetics; forces that change population composition, and mechanisms of inheritance from parent to offspring.
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Institute for Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies (UZH) |
| Wolf Blanckenhorn | Evolutionary ecology; integration of questions and methods of ecology, life history, population biology, behavior, genetics, functional morphology, phylogenetics and physiology; primary study organisms are dung flies.
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Institute for Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies (UZH) |
| Hugo F. Bucher | Palaeontology: Biotic-abiotic interactions during extinctions and recoveries, with emphasis on ammonoids. Morphogenesis of the molluscan shell and the ontogeny-phylogeny relations.
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Palaeontological Institute and Museum (UZH) |
| Elena Conti | Evolution of diversity and breeding systems in flowering plants; integration of temporal and spatial data in biogeography; origins of plants that are endemic to the Mediterranean basin; the role of floral trait variation in plant hybridization; evolution of heterostyly in Primula (primroses).
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Institute for Systematic Botany (UZH) |
| Michael Griesser | My research tries to understand why family living and cooperative breeding in birds evolves, and how individuals interact with each other in groups. | Anthropological Institut and Museum (UZH) |
| Jukka Jokela | Evolutionary ecology, host-parasite coevolution, ecological population genetics, adaptation to environment, maintence of genetic diversity, immunoecology | Institute of Integrative Biology (ETH), Eawag |
| Lukas Keller | Ecology, evolution, and genetics of small or fragmented populations in the wild.
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Institute for Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies (UZH) |
| Barbara Koenig | Social interactions in mammals; integration of behavioural, ecological, physiological, and molecular genetic methods to understand the causes and mechanisms of social behaviour.
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Institute for Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies (UZH) |
| Rolf Kümmerli | Microbial Evolutionary Ecology. We investigate evolutionary dynamics between cooperative and non-cooperative (cheating) bacteria during experimental evolution, in the field, and at the single-cell level. We further examine the role of these dynamics for virulence evolution in host models. | Institute of Plant Science (UZH) |
| Peter Linder | My primary interest lies in exploring plant radiations (macro-evolution and macro-ecology) by linking phylogenies with niche evolution and biogeographical range extension. As main study area I use the Cape flora at the southern tip of Africa.
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Institute for Systematic Botany (UZH) |
| Marta Manser | Evolution and mechanisms underlying group coordination; communication and cognitive aspects in mammals in their natural environment.
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Institute for Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies (UZH) |
| Frank Rühli | Researchers at the transdisciplinary Centre for Evolutionary Medicine study evolutionary aspects of e.g. disease aetiology and disease patterns (prevalence, socio-economic stratifications), particularly molecular evolution of pathogens / functional genes (ancient DNA analyses) and secular trends of human morphology.
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Centre for Evolutionary Medicine (UZH) |
| Marcelo Sánchez | Comparative ontogeny of land vertebrates, palaeobiology of reptiles and mammals, heterochrony in the skeletal system, homology and systematics, palaentological fieldwork in South America and Switzerland.
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Palaeontological Institute and Museum (UZH) |
| Florian Schiestl | My research interests are chemical and evolutionary ecology of plant-pollinator interactions.
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Institute for Systematic Botany (UZH) |
| Kentaro K. Shimizu | Evolutionary and ecological functional genomics, adaptation and speciation in Arabidopsis relatives, molecular population genetics, plant reproductive systems.
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Plant Biology (UZH) |
| Carel van Schaik | Social evolution in primates, especially evolution of human behavior; comparative study of primate behavior, culture and cognition, in the wild and in captivity.
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Anthropological Institute and Museum (UZH) |
| Barbara Tschirren | Our research focuses on how environmental factors shape the evolution of life histories and life strategies in wild vertebrates. We are particularly interested in how the environment an animal encounters before birth influences its later life, including its behaviour, morphology and physiology.
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Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies (UZH) |
| Christoph Vorburger | Evolution and ecology of insect host-parasitoid interactions; Effects of symbiont-conferred resistance on coevolution of hosts and parasitoids.
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ETH & EAWAG |
| Andreas Wagner | Evolutionary innovation; molecular evolution of genes, genomes, and complex biological networks, including metabolic and regulatory networks; evolution of robustness in complex systems.
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Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies |
| Tony Wilson | Parental investment and mate choice in seahorses and pipefishes, which have male pregnancy; lab and field studies on the origins of male pregnancy, and its consequences on the reproductive ecology of the group.
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Institute for Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies (UZH) |
| Christoph Zollikofer | Paleoanthropology; 3D and 4D geometric morphometric analysis and morphogenetic modeling; hominin population dispersals in the Pleistocene.
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Anthropological Institute and Museum (UZH) |
Associate Researchers |
Research |
Affiliation |
| Judith Burkart | Evolution of primate cognition; cognitive and psychological consequences of cooperative breeding. Experimental studies with nonhuman primates in captivity (comparative psychology).
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Anthropological Institute and Museum (UZH) |
| Michael Hautmann | Research focus: Evolution of bivalves, with emphasis on mass extinction events and ensuing recovery; marine biomineralization in response to seawater chemistry; Triassic palaeoenvironments.
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Palaeontological Institute and Museum (UZH) |
| Martin Häusler | Evolutionary medicine: morphology and diseases of the human skeleton and their relationship to the evolution of bipedal locomotion; evolution of childbirth; hominid body proportions.
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Centre for Evolutionary Medicine (UZH) |
| Colin Hughes | Revisionary taxonomy, biogeography and the evolutionary dynamics of legume diversification.
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Institute for Systematic Botany (UZH) |
| Karin Isler | Evolution of brain size variation in primates, other mammals and birds, testing adaptive hypotheses using comparative methods to take phylogenetic relationships into account.
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Anthropological Institute and Museum (UZH) |
| Christian Klug | Cephalopod evolution, origin of ammonoids in the Early Devonian with its various palaeobiological aspects (phylogeny, development, ecology, construction).
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Palaeontological Institute and Museum (UZH) |
| Michael Krützen | Evolutionary genetics approaches to understand the origins and evolution of human behaviour and cultures; focus on a comparative approach using great apes, other primates, and taxa with similar life history parameters, such as cetaceans.
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Anthropological Institute and Museum (UZH) |
| Anna Lindholm | Behavioural ecology and evolutionary genetics. Social evolution. Field and laboratory studies of wild mice.
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Institute for Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies (UZH) |
| Reto Nyffeler | My research is focusing on the patterns of diversification in different groups of succulent plants.
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Institute for Systematic Botany (UZH) |
| Marcia Ponce de León | Paleoanthropology: computer-assisted reconstruction of fossil hominins; reconstruction of hominin growth and development from birth to senescence; analysis of evolutionary and developmental patterns of shape variation in fossil and extant hominins and great apes.
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Anthropological Institute and Museum (UZH) |
| Erik Postma | We combine ideas and techniques from the fields of evolutionary biology and quantitative genetics to obtain a better understanding of the evolutionary processes responsible for the generation and maintenance of the ubiquitous levels of diversity we see around us, both among individuals and populations.
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Institute for Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies (UZH) |
| Daniel Rankin | Social evolution; helping and harming in humans; theoretical ecology and evolution; evolution of horizontal gene transfer in bacteria; linking ecology and evolution.
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Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies |
| Carsten Schradin | I study evolved physiological mechanisms which allow animals to behave adaptively in their changing natural environment. I seek to understand the proximate and ultimate causes of social behavior, including physiological, endocrine, ecological, demographic and evolutionary reasons. Thus, I want to break down the barrier between proximate and ultimate research, using molecular tools in organismic research.
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Institute for Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies (UZH) |
| Torsten Scheyer | Evolutionary morphology, palaeobiology and (palaeo-) ecology of vertebrates; development of soft and hard tissue structures in vertebrates.
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Palaeontological Institute and Museum (UZH) |
| Josh Van Buskirk | Adaptation to variable environments; evolutionary response to climate change; general issues in ecology and conservation biology; emphasis on amphibians and birds.
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Institute for Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies (UZH) |