GRADUATE STUDY IN ANIMAL BEHAVIOR
INCLUDING
BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY, NEUROETHOLOGY, AND ANIMAL COMMUNICATION
DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGY
CURRICULUM IN ECOLOGY
CURRICULUM IN NEUROBIOLOGY
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA, CHAPEL HILL
FACULTY

Sabrina Burmeister, Ph. D. (University of Texas)
email sburmeister@unc.edu
web site
Behavioral regulation of reproductive physiology in frogs; animal
communication from behavioral, mechanistic, and evolutionary
perspectives

Kenneth Lohmann, Ph. D. (University of Washington)
email ken_lohmann@unc.edu
web site
Geomagnetic orientation in hatchling sea turtle, molluscs, and spiny
lobsters; neuroethology of magnetic orientation; orientation of
hatchling sea turtles to magnetic fields and waves; geomagnetic
navigation of sea turtles
David Pfennig, Ph. D. (University of Texas)
email dpfennig@email.unc.edu
web site
Recognition systems; evolution of social behavior; ecology and evolution
of disease transmission; development and evolution of phenotypic
plasticity in anuran larvae

Karin Pfennig, Ph. D. (University of Illinois)
email kpfennig@email.unc.edu
web site
Evolution of mating behavior in spadefoot toads and its role in ecological
and evolutionary processes

Keith Sockman, Ph. D. (Washington State University)
email kws@unc.edu
web site
Neuroendocrine basis for reproductive decisions in birds and
neuroethology of birdsong

Maria Servedio, Ph. D. (University of Texas)
email servedio@email.unc.edu
web
site
Mathematical models of the evolution of reproductive isolation and
mimicry

Haven Wiley, Ph. D. (Rockefeller University)
email haven_wiley@unc.edu
web site
Evolution of acoustic communication and signal detection in birds,
frogs, and primates; dominance hierarchies and spatial relationships;
evolution of mating systems in birds; demography of cooperatively
breeding tropical wrens; populations and behavioral ecology of birds in
tropical and temperate forests

Helmut Mueller, Ph. D. (University of Wisconsin), Emeritus
[no longer supervises graduate student research]
email hmueller@email.unc.edu
Evolution of reversed sexual dimorphism in birds; aerodynamic and
behavioral correlates of age and sex differences in sizes of hawks; avian
populations in old-growth forests; bird migration; predatory behavior of
hawks

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