Participating Faculty

Carol Berman

Carol M. Berman

Professor, Department of Anthropology

Research Focus: Animal Behavior, Primates, Social Behavior, Social Structure, Parent-offspring Relationships, Conflict Management
Contact: cberman@buffalo.edu
Daniel Brazeau

Daniel A. Brazeau

Research Associate Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences

Research Focus: Population Genetics, DNA Forensics, Reproductive Strategies
Contact: dbrazeau@buffalo.edu
Mary Alice Coffroth

Mary Alice Coffroth

Professor, Department of Geology

Research Focus: Evolutionary Biology and Ecology; Population Biology of Marine Invertebrates
Contact: coffroth@buffalo.edu
Michael Dent

Micheal Dent

Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology

Research Focus: Animal behavior, animal communication, audition, complex sound perception
Contact: mdent@buffalo.edu
Michael Dent

Katharina Dittmar de la Cruz

Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences

Research Focus: Evolution of convergence, genetics of adaptation
Contact: katharinad@gmail.com
Mark Kristal

Mark B. Kristal

Professor, Department of Psychology

Research Focus: Mammalian Maternal Behavior and Parturition (Placentophagia, Analgesia), Aggression, Motivation
Contact: kristal@buffalo.edu
Chris Larsen

Chris Larsen

Associate Professor, Department of Geography

Research Focus: Forest Conservation Biogeography, Climate change, Geographic Information Systems, Paleoecology
Contact: Larsen@buffalo.edu
Howard Lasker

Howard R. Lasker

Professor, Department of Geology

Research Focus: Evolutionary Biology and Ecology; Population Ecology of Marine Invertebrates
Contact: hlasker@buffalo.edu
Jörg Maletz

Jörg Maletz

Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Geology

Research Focus: Paleontology and Stratigraphy
Contact: jorgm@buffalo.edu
Frank Mendel

Frank C. Mendel

Professor, Department of Pathology and Anatomic Sciences

Research Focus: Form, Function, and Behavior of Extant and Extinct Cats and Cat-like Carnivores
Contact: fcmendel@buffalo.edu
Eduardo Mercado

Eduardo Mercado III

Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology

Research Focus: Cognitive Neuroscience of Learning and Memory
Contact: emiii@buffalo.edu
Charles Mitchell

Charles E. Mitchell

SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor, Department of Geology

Research Focus: Paleobiology, Biostratigraphy, Appalachian Basin history, Ordovician geology
Contact: cem@buffalo.edu
H. David Sheets

H. David Sheets

Adjunct Associate Professor, Geology, UB; Professor and Chair, Department of Physics, Canisius College

Research Focus: Statistical Paleobiology, Statistical Inference Applied to Evolutionary or Developmental Dynamics, Geometric Morphometric Methods, Wildlife Population Modeling
Contact: sheets@canisius.edu
Derek Taylor

Derek J. Taylor

Associate Professor, Department of Biology

Research Focus: Evolutionary Biology: Molecular Systematics and Ecology of Freshwater Invertebrates
Contact: dtaylor@buffalo.edu