Washington University
Jonathan A. Myers
Associate Professor of Biology, Washington University in Saint Louis
Primary subject of interest: Community ecology, plant diversity, longleaf pine ecosystems
Primary geographic interest: Southeastern coastal plains (US); temperature and tropical forests
Paulo Natenzon
Associate Professor of Business Economics, Olin Business School
- Email: pnatenzon@wustl.edu
Primary subject(s) of interest: Microeconomics, Decision Theory, Behavioral Economics
Kenneth Olsen
Professor of Biology, Washington University in Saint Louis
Primary subject of interest: Plant evolution, ecological genomics, evolution of crops and wild relatives
Primary geographic interest: North America, East Asia, Southeast Asia
Patricia Olynyk
Chair, Graduate School of Art MFA in Visual Art Program, Florence and Frank Bush Professor of Art
- Email: Olynyk@wustl.edu
Primary subject of interest: I am an artist who develops projects that relate to animal behavior and conservation, and interspecies communication. I am also interested in narratives that relate to the anthropocene and in the environmental imagination.
Primary geographic interest: Canada, Japan, US
Eleanor Pardini
Assistant Director and Senior Lecturer, Environmental Studies, Washington University in Saint Louis
- Email: epardini@wustl.edu
Primary subject of interest: Rare plants, plant population ecology, restoration ecology
Primary geographic interest: Coastal sand dunes of northern California
Rachel Penczykowski
Assistant Professor of Biology, Washington University in Saint Louis
Primary subject of interest: Plant-pathogen interactions, Plantago and Powdery Mildew, disease ecology, food webs
Primary geographic interest: Latitudinal gradient spanning the Mississippi River Basin (N Minnesota to the Mississippi Delta)/Åland Island of SW Finland
Anya Plutynski
Associate Professor of Philosophy, Faculty Member in the Division of Biology and Biomedical Sciences, and Graduate Director in Philosophy; Washington University in Saint Louis
Primary subject of interest: History and philosophy of biology and medicine, conservation, biodiversity, ethics
Jenny Price
Research Fellow, Sam Fox School of Arts and Architecture, Washington University in Saint Louis
Primary subject of interest: Public arts and humanities projects--Environment and public space
Primary geographic interest: Los Angeles, Saint Louis
David C. Queller
Spencer T. Olin Professor of Biology, Washington University in Saint Louis
Primary subject of interest: Social amoebae (Dictyostelium) and Bacteria social evolution, Relatedness, Mutualisms, Symbiosis
Primary geographic interest: Mountain Lake Biological Station, Tyson Research Center, Costa Rica, Panama
Rodrigo Reis
Professor and Chair of Urban Design, Brown School of Social Work, Washington University in Saint Louis
Primary subject of interest: Livability, Built environment, and Public health
Primary geographic interest: Brazil, Saint Louis, UK, Colombia, Chile
Susanne Renner
Honorary Professor of Biology
- Email: srenner@wustl.edu
Primary subject of interest: Plant evolution; plant sexual systems; mutualisms; biogeography; history of systematics
Primary geographic interest: Worldwide
Jill Richardson
Lecturer, Anthropology
- Email: rjill@wustl.edu
Primary subject(s) of interest: Governance of natural resources, environmental social movements, race and ethnicity
Primary geographic area of interest: United States (Montana)
Tara Rocque
Assistant Professor of Practice, Washington University School of Law
- Email: tarocque@wustl.edu
Crickette Sanz
Associate Professor of Biological Anthropology, Washington University in Saint Louis
Primary subject of interest: Trees, carbon, conesrvation, Goualoogo triangle
Primary geographic interest: Republic of Congo
Barbara Schaal
Professor of Biology, Mary-Dell Chilton Distinguished Professor, Washington University in Saint Louis
Odean Serrano
Founder, Countering Wildlife Trafficking Institute
- Email: odean@cwtinstitute.org
Primary subject(s) of interest: Wildlife Conservation, Geospatial Analytics, Anti-Poaching, Countering Wildlife Trafficking
Primary geographic interest: Central African Republic, Madagascar, United States, *Mali, Burkina Faso (*Support research remotely from US)
Joe Steensma
Professor of Practice, Brown School of Social Work, Washington University in Saint Louis
Primary subject of interest: Sustainability, fisheries, biodiversity and health, birds
Primary geographic interest: Bahamas, Haiti, Costa Rica, Australia, Global
Glenn Stone
Professor of Sociocultural Anthropology and Environmental Studies, Washington University in Saint Louis
David Strait
Professor, Anthropology
- Email: dstrait@wustl.edu
Primary subject of interest: Paleoanthropology, Biogeography, Systematics
Primary geographic interest: South Africa, Italy
Joan E. Strassman
Charles Rebstock Professor of Biology, Washington University in Saint Louis
Primary subject of interest: Social amoebae (Dictyostelium) and bacteria social evolution, relatedness, mutualisms, symbiosis
Primary geographic interest: Mountain Lake Biological Station, Tyson Research Center, Costa Rica, Panama
Alan Templeton
Charles Rebstock Professor Emeritus of Biology, Washington University in Saint Louis
Primary subject of interest: Endangered salamanders, reintroduction of wild ass, conservation genetics, landscape genetics and restoration of collared lizards
Primary geographic interest: Israel (salamanders and wild ass); Glade Communities in the Ozarks (collared lizards)
Mikhail Tikhonov
Assistant Professor of Physics
- Email: tikhonov@wustl.edu
Primary subject of interest: Statistical physics, Microbial eco/evo
Primary geographic interest: United States
David Wang
Professor of Molecular Microbiology and Pathology and Immunology
- Email: davewang@wustl.edu
Primary subject of interest: Viral biodiversity and genomics
Primary geographic interest: USA, France
Wes Warren
Assistant Director of Comparative Genomics, McDonnell Genome Institute, Washington University School of Medicine
Primary subject of interest: Evolution of vertebrate traits, question: how does the loss or adaptation of a trait correlate to genome change?
Primary geographic area of interest: Global
Katie Westby
Postdoctoral Research Associate - Tyson Research Center
- Email: kwestby@wustl.edu
Primary subject(s) of interest: Ecology and evolution of mosquitoes, urban, invasion, and disease ecology.
Primary geographic interest: United States
Helina Woldekiros
Assistant Professor of Archaeology, Washington University in Saint Louis
Primary subject of interest: Zooarchaelogy
Primary geographic interest: Ethiopia, Horn of Africa
Heather Woofter
Director of the College of Architecture and Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design
- Email: woofter@wustl.edu
Primary subject of interest: Architecture, urban design, landscape architecture, art
Primary geographic interest: I am applying the role of Director, working with faculty across disciplines. In addition, I am a practitioner and we have architectural projects around the world -- not specifically in Biodiversity work, although this is an interest, and of holistic importance for architects. At this time, perhaps only to 'pin' St. Louis.
Emily Wroblewski
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Washington University in Saint Louis
Primary subject of interest: Primate population and evolutionary genomics, immunogenomis
Primary geographic area of interest: United States, Tanzania, Uganda, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of Congo, Nigeria, Cameroon
Xuehua Zhong
Professor of Biology
- Email: xuehuazhong@wustl.edu
Primary subject of interest: Epigenetics, Climate change, Plant adaptation
Primary geographic interest: United States, Asia, China