The Biological Data Science (BilDS) program for doctoral students is unique in the emphasis placed on evolutionary training, modeling for prediction, and culturally sensitive teamwork. BilDS faculty are accomplished researchers and mentors with interest and expertise in graduate training and diversity.
Participating Faculty Directory
Associate Professor, Rubenstein School • Gund Fellow
Instructional programs: Environmental Sciences, Forestry, Natural Resources
Research: Global climate change, ecosystem ecology, biogeochemistry
Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Water Quality Engineering, Membrane Separation Processes, Resource Recovery from Solid- and Liquid-Waste, Environmental Photochemistry
raju.badireddy@uvm.edu (802) 656-8443Associate Professor
Mastitis epidemiology, veterinary infectious disease epidemiology, zoonotic disease, antimicrobial resistance, global animal and public health, One Health.
john.barlow@uvm.edu (802) 656-1395Professor, Department of Computer Science • Graduate Student Advisor
Brian.Beckage@uvm.eduAssistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Biomedical Engineering
Computational Biology, Systems Biology, Genome-Scale Metabolic Modeling, Microbiome, Machine Learning.
David.Bernstein@uvm.eduChair of the Department of Animal and Veterinary Science • Director of VT Agricultural Experiment Station
Genetics, Genomics, Domestication, Crop Breeding, Evolution, Ecology, Legumes, Germplasm, Conservation
Eric.Bishop-Von-Wettberg@uvm.edu (802) 656-9117Howard Professor of Natural History • Associate Vice-President for Research
Social Insect Ecology
Scahan@uvm.edu (802) 656-2962Associate Professor, PSS • CCGH Team Leader
How crop domestication and breeding shape insect-plant interactions, farmer influence on evolutionary processes in agroecosystems, conservation and utilization of crop landraces in centers of origin.
yolanda.chen@uvm.eduAssociate Professor, Department of Computer Science
Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Meta-Learning, AutoML, Evolutionary Computation, Evolutionary Robotics
Professor, Director of Forestry Program, Director of UVM Research Forests
Instructional programs: Forestry, Natural Resources
Research: Silviculture, forest ecology, forest management, forest adaptation
Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Computational Social Science, Complex Systems, Chaos
chris.danforth@uvm.edu (802) 656-3032Dr. Ronald W. Pero International Research Green and Gold Professor • Assistant Professor, Medical Laboratory Science
Regulation of gene expression, chromatin structure and epigenetics, transcriptomics of vertebrate development and evolution, metagenomics and molecular diagnostics
Seth.Frietze@med.uvm.edu (802) 656-0569Research Associate Professor
Instructional programs: Environmental Sciences, Natural Resources
Research: Environmental sustainability, ecosystems ecology, nitrogen and carbon cycling, greenhouse gases, remote sensing, ecosystems modeling, land-cover and land-use change, tropical agriculture
Endowed Professor • Department of Biology
Organization of animal and plant communities
Nicholas.Gotelli@uvm.edu (802) 656-0450Associate Professor
Instructional program: Environmental Studies
Research: Environmental values, well-being, Cultural Ecosystem Services, environmental learning, human behavior, policy, diversity, equity
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science
Complexity science; Complex networks; Disease modeling; Computational Social Science.
Laurent.Hebert-Dufresne@uvm.edu (505) 603-2215Associate Professor • Plant Biology
Ecological and population genomics, Landscape genetics, Molecular ecology and evolution, Plant population biology, Forest responses to climate change, Biological invasions, Applied conservation genetics
Stephen.Keller@uvm.edu (802) 656-5121Professor and Chair • Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
Development of new vaccines, many intended to combat waterborne infections
Beth.Kirkpatrick@uvm.edu (802) 656-5822Associate Professor, Medical Laboratory Science
Immunology, microbiology, genetics, microbiome, autoimmune disease, virology
Dimitry.Krementsov@uvm.edu (802) 656-9024Assistant Professor
Evolutionary ecology, evolutionary genomics, population genetics, comparative genomics, computational methods development, bioinformatics, conservation genomics
mlauterb@uvm.eduAssociate Professor
Evolutionary genetics, ecological physiology and protein evolution
bllockwo@uvm.edu (802) 656-1321Assistant Professor
My research interests span topics on evolution, animal communication, soundscapes, marine conservation and behavior of marine vertebrates.
Lmaycoll@uvm.edu (802) 656-4138Research Associate Professor • Managing Director, Social-Ecological Gaming & Simulation (SEGS) Lab UVM
Systems ecology, Integrated Pest Management (IPM), social-ecological systems, Landscape ecology, serious games, experimental gaming, animal biosecurity, climate change, population modeling, Monte Carlo simulations, and spatiotemporal modeling.
Scott.C.Merrill@uvm.edu (802) 656-0711Professor
- Evolution of invasiveness
- Population dynamics
- Coexistence in plant communities
Assistant Professor
Instructional program: Wildlife and Fisheries Biology
Research: Disease and population ecology, quantitative ecology, conservation decision-making, herpetology, conservation biology
Assistant Professor
Population genetics, evolutionary genomics, computational biology, historical phylogeography
joaquin.nunez@uvm.edu (802) 656-8286Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science
Cybersecurity, Understanding Malicious Activity in Online Accounts, Honeypots, Social Network Security.
jeremiah.onaolapo@uvm.eduAssociate Professor
Ecological genomics, population genetics, evolutionary biology, physiology
melissa.pespeni@uvm.edu (802) 656-0628Associate Professor • Department of Plant Biology
Evolutionary genetics of plant development
Jill.Preston@uvm.edu (802) 656-0637Director of the Gund Institute • Professor, Rubenstein School of the Environment and Natural Resources
Instructional programs: Environmental Sciences, Natural Resources
Research: Community & landscape ecology, ecosystem services, ecological economics, conservation biology, environmental policy, pollination ecology, biogeography, linking research & conservation communities
Professor • Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Environmental, Water Resources, Environmental & Public Health, Geotechnical & Geoenvironmental, Sustainability & Energy, Infrastructure Systems, Climate Change & Hazard Mitigation
drizzo@uvm.edu (802) 656-1495Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Biostatistics.
Richard.Single@uvm.edu (802) 656-8631Professor
Instructional programs: Wildlife and Fisheries Biology
Research: Aquatic ecology, food web dynamics, predator-prey interactions
Assistant Professor • Director of the Pringle Herbarium
Ferns, phylogenomics, specimen-based research, systematics, taxonomy, tropical plants, Vermont flora
Weston.Testo@uvm.edu (802) 238-6590Name | College | Secondary Department | Primary Department |
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Bates, Jason | College, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences (CEMS) | Electrical and Biomedical Engineering | Pulmonary Medicine |