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Faculty Member
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Research |
Affiliation |
| Martin Ackermann |
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Molecular microbiology and
experimental evolution of bacteria; phenotypic noise,
the evolution of new functions, and the division of labor. |
EAWAG/ETHZ |
| Homayoun Bagheri |
 |
Population genetics; forces that change population composition, and
mechanisms of inheritance from parent to offspring. |
Zoological Institute (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.
|
Zoological museum (UZH) |
| Sebastian Bonhoeffer |
 |
Evolution and population biology of infectious
diseases; mathematical and computational models of the population dynamics of viral (especially HIV)
infections within infected individuals; evolution of drug resistance; evolution of recombination.
|
Institute of Integrative Biology (ETHZ) |
| 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. |
Palaeontological Institute and Museum (UZH) |
| Peter A. Hochuli |
 |
Evolution
of terrestrial plants and ecosystems in relation to environmental
changes; focus on the Early Triassic and on the Early Cretaceous. |
Palaeontological Institute and Museum (UZH) |
| Jukka Jokela |
 |
Maintenance of genetic polymorphism in natural
populations, antagonistic coevolution between hosts and their
parasites, life-history evolution, immunoecology and mating system
evolution of hermaphroditic animals. |
Institute of Integrative Biology (ETHZ) /
EAWAG
Department of Aquatic Ecology |
| Lukas Keller |
 |
Ecology, evolution, and genetics of small or
fragmented populations in the wild. |
Zoological Museum (UZH) |
| Christian Klug |
 |
Cephalopod evolution,
origin of ammonoids in the Early Devonian with its
various palaeobiological aspects (phylogeny, development, ecology,
construction). |
Palaeontological Institute (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. |
Zoological Institute (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. |
Anthropological Institute (UZH) |
| Marta Manser |
 |
Evolution and mechanisms underlying group coordination; communication and cognitive aspects in mammals in their natural
environment. |
Zoological Institute (UZH) |
| Bruce McDonald |
 |
Population genetics and evolutionary
biology of plant pathogenic fungi; major topics include evolutionary
history of pathogen effectors, phylogeography, pathogen emergence and
center of origin. |
Institute of Integrative Biology (ETHZ) |
| 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. |
Palaeontological Institute and Museum (UZH) |
| Paul Schmid-Hempel |
 |
Evolutionary ecology of
host-parasite interactions, immune defense strategies and maintenance
of genetic diversity; parasites and host population structure and
differentiation; genomics of pollinators. |
Institute of Integrative Biology (ETHZ) |
| Kentaro K. Shimizu |
 |
Evolutionary and ecological functional
genomics, adaptation and speciation in Arabidopsis relatives, molecular
population genetics, plant reproductive systems. |
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. |
Anthropological Institute and Museum (UZH) |
| Andreas
Wagner |
 |
Evolutionary innovation; molecular evolution of genes, genomes, and complex
biological networks, including metabolic and regulatory networks; evolution of robustness in complex systems |
Biochemistry (UZH) |
| Alex Widmer |
 |
Genetic basis of plant
adaptation, reproductive isolation and speciation using population
genetic and functional genomic approaches, experiments, and analyses of
natural populations. |
Institute of Integrative Biology (ETHZ) |
| 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. |
Zoological Museum (UZH) |
| Christoph Zollikofer |
 |
Paleoanthropology; 3D and 4D
geometric morphometric analysis and morphogenetic modeling; hominin
population dispersals in the Pleistocene. |
Anthropological Institute (UZH) |
