MAYDIANNE
C.B. ANDRADE, Assistant Professor Degrees offered: M.Sc., Ph.D. Address: Division
of Life Sciences Voice: (607) 287-7425 (office) and (607) 287-7124 (lab); FAX: (607) 287-7642 e-mail: mandrade@scar.utoronto.ca Professional website: www.scar.utoronto.ca/~mandrade Research Interests
and Information on Graduate Program: Behavioural Ecology and
Evolution of mating systems in spiders and insects. updated 11 - 27 -2000
FRIEDRICH
G. BARTH, O. Univ.-Prof. Dr Degrees offered: MSc (Diplom) and PhD (Dr.rer.nat.) Address: Biozentrum Voice: 0043/1/31336/1205; FAX: 0043/31336/778; e-mail: Friedrich.G.Barth@univie.ac.at Research Interests and Information on Graduate Program: Sensory systems (mechano/photo/chemo/thermo & hygro). Neuroethology. Biomechanics. Vibratory communication. Spider webs. Communication in stingless bees. Additional information on request. updated 1 - 14 -2000
TODD BLACKLEDGE, Assistant Professor Degrees offered: Master of Science and Ph.D. Address: Department of Biology Voice: (330) 972-7264; FAX: (330) 972-8445 Website: http://www3.uakron.edu/biology/ Research Interests and Information on Graduate Program: My research focuses upon the interface of animal behavior with ecological and evolutionary processes. Web weaving spiders provide a unique opportunity to integrate behavioral research across levels of biological organization for several reasons. Unlike the relatively ephemeral foraging and defensive behaviors of most animals, spider webs are quantifiable records of spiders’ behavioral decisions that endure for the life of webs. Also, the architectures of spider webs can be easily manipulated, allowing direct investigation of the ecological consequences of the behavioral decisions made by spiders during web construction. Furthermore, the function of webs depends upon the physical properties of the silks used to construct them, which are themselves dependent upon protein structure. Therefore, behavioral and genotypic evolution can be tightly linked in this system. My laboratory is set up to support a variety of research. I have three main lines of current research:
The Department of Biology at University of Akron emphasizes integrative research and has strong programs in both evolutionary ecology and physiological ecology. The department has grown rapidly over the last ten years to include many energetic new faculty, a new field station, and a strong research emphasis. The department offers a Master of Science as well as a PhD through a joint program with Kent State University. added 1 - 15 - 2005
JAMES
CARREL, Professor Degrees offered: M.A./Ph.D. Address: Division
of Biological Sciences Voice: (314) 882-0123; e-mail: carrel@biosci.mbp.missouri.edu Research Interests
and Information on Graduate Program: Physiology, behavior, and
ecology of spiders. Pheromones in spiders. Conservation biology of rare
spiders endemic to scrub habitats in Florida. Teaching assistantships
and special scholarships for gifted or underrepresented students are
available to qualified candidates.
GARY DODSON, Professor of Biology Biology Department, Ball State Univ. Degrees offered: M.S./Ed.D. Address: Biology
Department Voice: (765) 285-8859; FAX: (765) 285-8804 e-mail: gdodson@bsu.edu Professional website: http://www.bsu.edu/web/biology/faculty/dodson.html Research Interests and Information on Graduate Program: Behavioral ecology of spiders, especially mating systems, male fighting behavior of thomisids. Also occurrence and significance of nectar feeding in spiders. Teaching assistantships are available to qualified candidates. updated 1 - 19 - 2005
DAN FORMANOWICZ, Professor and Graduate Advisor The University of Texas at Arlington Degrees offered: M.S.; Ph.D. Address: Dept.
of Biology Office: (817) 272-2422; FAX: (817) 272-2855 e-mail: formanowicz@uta.edu Professional website: www.uta.edu/biology/faculty/formanowicz/index.html Departmental website: www.uta.edu/biology Research Interests and Information on Graduate Program: Behavioral ecology of scorpions and spiders including; predator-prey interactions (foraging behavior, defensive behavior); temporal and geographic life history variation; costs of reproduction; costs and benefits of burrowing. There are currently 5 Ph.D. and 5 M.S. students in the lab. working on a variety of questions within the general areas listed above. The research in our laboratory also focuses on reptile and amphibian systems. Information about the graduate programs at UTA can be found on the department website and the UTA departmental graduate program website. Recent Publications: Shaffer, L.R. & D.R. Formanowicz, Jr. 2000. Sprint speeds of juvenile scorpions: among family differences and parent-offspring correlations. J. Insect Behavior 13:45-54. Amaya, C.C., P.D. Klawinski, & D.R. Formanowicz, Jr. The effects of leg autotomy on running speed and foraging ability in two species of wolf spider. Am. Midl. Nat., in press. updated 6 - 26 -2000
EILEEN
A. HEBETS, Assistant Professor Degrees offered: Ph. D Address: School of Biological Sciences Office Phone: (402) 472-2571 E-mail: ehebets@unlnotes.unl.edu Professional website: http://www.biosci.unl.edu/faculty/FacPages/hebets.asp Research Interests and Information on Graduate Program: I am interested in the evolution of complex signaling, sexual selection, and learning and memory in arachnids. My research programs are broad encompassing wolf spiders, jumping spiders, and amblypygids. new listing October 27, 2005
ROBERT R. JACKSON, Associate Professor Department of Zoology, University of Canterbury Degrees offered: M.Sc./Ph.D. Address: Department
of Zoology Voice: +64 3 364-2064 [or] +64 3 364-2071; FAX: +64 3 364-2024; e-mail: r.jackson@zool.canterbury.ac.nz Research Interests
and Information on Graduate Program: Aggressive mimicry.Foreign
students are subject to fees. Financial support from within New Zealand
for foreign students is virtually non-existent.
ELIZABETH M. JAKOB, Associate Professor University of Massachusetts, Amherst Degrees offered: M.S./Ph.D. Address: Department
of Psychology Voice: (413) 577-0707; FAX: (413) 545-0231 e-mail: ejakob@ent.umass.edu Professional website: http://www.umass.edu/ent/DeptSite/jakob.html Research Interests and Information on Graduate Program: Behavior of spiders, including group living in pholcids, and learning and the effects of environmental enrichment in salticids. I am also working a project to evaluate several salticid species for their efficacy as predators in greenhouses. I would be interested in supervising students on other projects as well. I can sponsor students in
the Department of Entomology, the Program in Organismic and Evolutionary
Biology, and the Program in Neuroscience and Behavior. These differ
substantially in structure, so please look at the website descriptions
to see which fits you best. Some teaching assistantships are available,
and research assistantships are occasionally available as well. Please
contact me by email if you are interested in UMass. last updated 1 - 13 -
2000
YAEL D. LUBIN, Associate Prof. Department of Life Sciences, Ben Gurion Univ. Degrees offered: M.Sc./Ph.D. Address: Mitrani
Center for Desert Ecology Voice: ++972-7-552650, [or] ++972-7-565073; FAX: ++972-7- 557829; e-mail: lubin@bgumail.bgu.ac.il Research Interests and Information on Graduate Program: Behavioural ecology, evolution of sociality, ecology. Some current research activities (including work of students and post-doctoral fellows):
Financial support: Some support is available for MSc and PhD students from the Dept. of Life Sciences, the Blaustein International Center and the Mitrani Center for Desert Research. Post-doctoral fellowships may be available through the Blaustein International Center and form grants. Students may register for degrees at Ben Gurion University, or may come here from other universities to do their field work at the Mitrani Center (in which case they usually have support from their 'home' university). MSc students must take courses at the main campus in Beer Sheva. PhD students do not have course requirements. A variety of desert and steppe habitats are easily accessible here. Field studies are encouraged (lab space is limited). Students live on the Sede Boker Campus, 50 km south of the town of Beer Sheva. Further information is
available upon request.
SUSAN MASTA, Assistant Professor Department of Biology, Portland State University Degrees offered: M.S./ Ph.D. Address: Department
of Biology Voice: (503) 725-8505 (office); FAX: (503) 725-3888 e-mail: smasta@pdx.edu Professional website: http://web.pdx.edu/~smasta/ Departmental website: http://www.orgbio.pdx.edu/ Research Interests and Information on Graduate Program: Biological diversification, from the molecular to organismal levels, with a focus on diversification of arachnid groups and divergence among jumping spider populations. I have specific interests in RNA and genome evolution, population genetics, phylogenetics, and sexual selection. Information on the graduate program is available on the departmental website. Departmental teaching assistantships are available, with the possibility of research assistantships. Added June 22, 2005
DOUGLASS
H. MORSE, Professor Degree offered: Ph.D. Address: Department
of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Voice: (401) 863-3152; FAX: (401) 863-2166; e-mail: d_morse@brown.edu Professional website: http://www.brown.edu/Departments/EEB/faculty/Morse.html Research Interests and Information on Graduate Program: Ecology and behavior of spiders. I currently focus on foraging, life histories and sexual selection, primarily with the crab spider Misumena vatia (Thomisidae). Recent work has included the role of experience on foraging behavior and patch choice at different stages of the life cycle; and the roles played by sex ratios, aggression, mate-guarding, and mate-finding in determining male reproductive strategy. In a second, newer line of research, I study the movements and population dynamics of an intertidal wolf spider Pardosa lapidicina that moves up and down cobble beaches with the tides. Graduate students are supported with fellowships and assistantships. updated 1 - 25 - 2000
LINDA
S. RAYOR, Assistant Professor Degrees offered: M.S./Ph.D. Address: Department
of Entomology Voice: (607)
255-8406 e-mail: LSR1@cornell.edu Websites: http://www.entomology.cornell.edu/Faculty_Staff/Rayor Research Interests and Information on Graduate Program: Behavioral ecology, with an emphasis on social behavior, mother-offspring interactions, learning, and tradeoffs between foraging and predation risk. Current projects in my laboratory involve: (1) Social behavior in the atypical Australian huntsman spider, Delena cancerides and (2) Social behavior and tactile communication in amblypygids. I am actively seeking graduate students for either of these projects for Fall 2003. I would consider graduate students interested in other aspects of spider behavior. Teaching Assistantships are available for qualified applicants. added 8 - 21 - 2002
SUSAN
E. RIECHERT, Professor Degree offered: Ph.D. Address: Department
of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Voice: (685) 974-2371; FAX: (685) 974-3067 e-mail: sriecher@utk.edu Research Interests and Information on Graduate Program: Ecology, behavior, evolutionary biology, genetics, biocontrol. Prefer students with prior research experience (e.g., a masters degree). last updated 1 - 14 -
2000
J. ANDREW ROBERTS, Assistant Professor Degrees offered: M.S./Ph.D. Address: Ohio State University, Newark Voice: (740) 366-9178
e-mail: roberts.762@osu.edu Websites: Professional homepage: http://www.biosci.ohio-state.edu/~eeob/faculty/roberts.html Departmental Homepage: http://www.biosci.ohio-state.edu/~eeob/
added 1 - 5 - 2005
ANN L. RYPSTRA, Associate Prof. of Zoology Department of Zoology, Miami University Degrees offered: M.S./Ph.D. Address: Department
of Zoology FAX: (513) 529-6900; e-mail: rypstral@MUOhio.edu Research Interests
and Information on Graduate Program: Spacing patterns in spiders,
evolution of social behavior, spiders in agroecosystems, food web ecology,
foraging behavior, influence of spiders on the foraging activity of
herbivores. All students admitted receive a graduate assistantship.
Most are required to teach. Program is a broad based zoology program
but the departmental emphasis is ecology. Of 33 faculty, 15 conduct
research in some aspect of ecology. Students have to have had undergraduate
courses in ecology, physiology, genetics, statistics, one year of physics
and two years of chemistry, but some of these courses can be taken after
the student is admitted and comes to Miami. GREs are required.
CARA SHILLINGTON Associate Professor Degrees offered: M.Sc. Address: 316 Mark Jefferson Voice: (734) 487-4433 (office/lab) and (734) 487-4242 (department office) e-mail: cara.shillington@emich.edu Professional Homepage: http://www.emich.edu/biology/details.php?dep=Biology&ID=49 Research Interests and Information on Graduate Program: My research focuses on an integrative, field-based, evolutionary approach to study the behavioral and physiological ecology of tarantulas. Current research topics include intra- and interspecific variation in metabolic rates, life history variation, mating systems, and foraging behavior.
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DAVID SISSOM, Professor Degrees offered: M.S. Address: Dept.
of Life, Earth, & Environmental Sciences Voice: (806) 651-2578; Fax: (806) 651-2928 e-mail: dsissom@mail.wtamu.edu Departmental website: http://www.wtamu.edu Research Interests and Information on Graduate Program: My primary research interests are in scorpion systematics, phylogeny (based on morphological characters), life history, behavior, and ecology. I have secondary interests in systematics and regional inventories of other arachnids. A limited number of teaching assistantships are available for qualified applicants. last updated 4 - 1 - 2002
GEORGE
W. UETZ, Professor of Biological Sciences Degrees offered: M.S./Ph.D. Address: Department
of Biological Sciences Phone (office): (513) 556-9752, (lab) (513) 556-9753, (other) (513) 556-9700; FAX: (513) 556-5299; e-mail: George.Uetz@uc.edu Professional homepages:
Departmental homepage: http://www.biology.uc.edu Research Interests: The major focus of my research is the behavioral ecology of spiders. I am interested in the selective forces shaping the evolution of social behavior, and use both field-based observational studies and laboratory experimentation in two long-term research projects: Two additional areas of research are:
I will also support student research in other areas of arachnology/behavioral ecology. Information About the
Graduate Program: My research is funded by grants from the National
Science Foundation, and my lab is well-equipped to pursue many types
of arachnological research. I currently sponsor two graduate students,
and have room for one to two more next year. updated 1 / 19 / 2000
FRITZ
VOLLRATH Degrees offered: M.Sc./Ph.D. Address: Department
of Zoology Voice: +45-89 42 27 65 (Sec: +45- 89 42 27 27); FAX: +45-86 12 51 75; e-mail: vollrath@aau.dk Research Interests
and Information on Graduate Program: Orb spider ecology, behaviour,
web engineering, silk biomechanics. Information upon request.
SEAN WALKER, Assistant Professor Degree offered: M.S. Address: Department of BIological Science Phone (office): (714) 278-3610; Phone (lab): (714) 278-8204; FAX: (714) 278-3426 e-mail: swalker@fullerton.edu Professional website (homepage): http://biology.fullerton.edu/swalker Research Interests and Information on Graduate Program: My primary research interests are in the cognitive, behavioral, and evolutionary ecology of terrestrial invertebrates (mainly Arachnids and Orthopterans). In particular, I am interested in animal decision making as it relates to foraging and reproduction (e.g., mate choice & reproductive investment) and have a keen interest in any project related to animal communication, the evolution of sex differences, and the evolution of alternative tactics and strategies. I have also worked on projects related to the estimation and comparison of terrestrial invertebrate biodiversity and pollination biology.
DAVID
H. WISE, Professor of Entomology Degrees offered: M.S., Ph.D. Address: Department
of Entomology, Phone (office): (606) 257-4264; Phone (lab): (606) 257-4693; FAX: (606) 323-1120; e-mail: dhwise@pop.uky.edu Professional website (homepage): http://www.uky.edu/~dhwise/wise.html Research Interests and Information on Graduate Program: Behavioral, population and community ecology of spiders in food webs of forest-floor leaf litter and vegetable crops. Please visit my website for detailed, current information on my group's research program. last updated 1 / 18 /
2000
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