Faculty Collaboration Database - BYU Research Development

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College of Family, Home, & Social Sciences: Anthropology College of Life Sciences: Biology

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Byron Adams

College: Life Sciences
Department: Biology
4127 LSB

Research Interests:
- Soil Ecosystem responses to climate-driven environmental changes
- Evolutionary Ecology
- Ecological Genomics
- Soil Biodiversity
- Microfauna

James Allison

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
894 KMBL

Research Interests:
- Small-scale societies of the southwest
- Quantitative Methods
- Ceramic Analysis
- Archaeological Theory

Liz Bailey

College: College of Life Sciences
Department: Biology
4146 LSB

Research Interests:
- Gender Gaps in Biology Education
- Reciprocal Peer Tutoring
- Course Structures that Promote Growth Mindset
- Student Learning or Enrichment
- Cumulative Assessment
- Integration of Math and Biology
- Membrane Biophysics

Matt Bailey

College: College of Life Sciences
Department: Biology

Research Interests:
- Predictive Biomarkers
- Big Data Visualization and Analytics
- Statistical Model Development
- Patient Specific Genetics
- Patient Specific Pharmaceuticals

Jaime Bartlett

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
870 KMBL

Research Interests:
- Anthropology
- Anglo-Saxon Archaeology
- Archaeology

Mark Belk

College: Life Sciences
Department: Biology
4023 LSB

Research Interests:
- Predator Prey Interactions
- Life History Evolution
- Native Fish Conservation
- Fisheries
- Parasites
- Buring Beetles
- Fishes

Seth Bybee

College: Life Sciences
Department: Biology
4057 LSB

Research Interests:
- Phylogenetics
- Entomology (specifically Odonata)
- Visual Evolution

Zachary Chase

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
882 KMBL

Research Interests:
- Andes

John E. Clark

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
876 KMBL

Research Interests:
- Mesoamerica
- American History

Shawn Clark

College: Life Sciences
Department: Biology
3101E MLBM

Research Interests:
- Entomology
- Identification and Classification of Insects

David Crandall

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
820 KMBL

Research Interests:
- African Folktales
- Himba Flora Taxonomy and Herbal Medicines
- Africa
- Human Moral Knowledge

Cynthia S. Finlayson

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
882 KMBL

Research Interests:
- Archaeological excavation
- Cultural heritage site development
- Syria and Jordan

Richard Gill

College: Life Sciences
Department: Biology
4101A LSB

Research Interests:
- Climate Change
- Ecosystem Response to Climate Change
- Community Response to Climate Change
- Human influence on the environment and climate
- Resource conservation in the United States and South Pacific

Blaine Griffen

College: Life Sciences
Department: Biology
2121 LSB

Research Interests:
- Marine Biology
- Ecology
- Human influence on the environment and climate
- Ecosystem Response to Climate Change
- Extinction
- Individual variation within populations
- Population and Community Interactions

Jacob R. Hickman

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
860 KMBL

Research Interests;
- How the processes of migration, displacement, and diaspora affect a host of cultural and psychological phenomena
- Transnational ethnographic fieldwork with Hmong communities in both southeast Asia and the west
- Religion, ritual practice, family life, moral thinking, and personhood
- Religious dynamics that are emerging in the Hmong diaspora, which include messianic movements, new forms of transnational ritual networks, and changing religious ideologies and practices
- Comparative fieldwork in Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, China, the United States, and other areas where the Hmong have resettled

Jamie Jensen

College: Life Sciences
Department: Biology
4059 LSB

Research Interests:
- Biological Science or Biology Education
- Reconciling Evolution and Religion
- STEM Faculty Professional Development
- Assessment Strategies

David J. Johnson

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
892 KMBL

Research Interests:
- Cultures associated with the Red Sea area and their involvement in long distance trade from the earliest period through the Islamic Period
- Effects of long distance trade contacts on religious ideology and social organization

Jerry Johnson

College: Life Sciences
Department: Biology
4033 LSB

Research Interests:
- Evolutionary Diversity or Diversification
- Ecology and Evolution
- Speciation
- Species Interaction
- Species Conservation

Leigh Johnson

College: Life Sciences
Department: Biology
4058 LSB

Research Interests:
- Plant Systematics
- Taxonomy
- Phylogenetics AND inference
- Species Delimination
- Phylogeography
- Conservation Genetics

Robert Johnson

College: Life Sciences
Department: Biology
3115A MLBM

Research Interests:
- Plant Taxonomy
- Plant insect interactions

John "Keoni" Kauwe

College: Life Sciences
Department: Biology
4102 LSB

Research Interests:
- Genetics and Genomics
- Novel Phenotypes
- Alzheimer's disease genetics
- Alzheimer's disease cure
- Prevention and diagnosis of rheumatic heart disease
- Genomics and Evolution

Roger Koide

College: Life Sciences
Department: Biology
4031 LSB

Research Interests:
- Population and Community Ecology of plants and fungi
- Mycorrhizal, endophytic and gut fungi
- Botany
- Plant Ecology
- Mycology
- Fungal Ecology
- Gut Microbiome
- Community Ecology
- Agricultural Ecology
- Soil Carbon Sequestration
- Soil Microbial Ecology

Steve Leavitt

College: Life Sciences
Department: Biology
4143 LSB

Research Interests:
- Evolutionary Diversity or Diversification
- Molecular Systematics and phylogenomics
- Species interactions and evolution
- Fungal symbioses
- Biogeography in arid environments
- Climate Change and Bio-monitoring
- Scientific Education and Outreach
- Conservation

Riley Nelson

College: Life Sciences
Department: Biology
2119 LSB

Research Interests:
- Insects
- Taxonomy
- Systematics
- Ecology
- Evolution

Charles W. Nuckolls

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
894 KMBL

Research Interests:
- Anthropological studies of causal thinking and explanation in India
- Nationalism in Japan
- Psychiatric classification and diagnosis in the U.S. and New Zealand.

Samuel Payne

College: Life Sciences
Department: Biology
4029 LSB

Research Interests:
- Bioinformatics
- Cancer biology
- Proteomics
- Protein Function

Steven Peck

College: Life Sciences
Department: Biology
4145 LSB

Research Interests:
- Biomathematics or Math and Biology
- Simulation Modeling
- Philosophy of Simulation
- Evolution and Philosophy
- Evolution and Theology or Religion
- Bioethics

Stephen Piccolo

College: Life Sciences
Department: Biology
4056 LSB

Research Interests:
- Bioinformatics
- Medicine
- Cancer
- Data Science
- Genomics
- Transcriptomics
- Bioinformatics Education

Russell Rader

College: Life Sciences
Department: Biology
4025 LSB

Research Interests:
- Invasive species
- Freshwater biology
- Stream ecology
- Water resources management
- Environmental impact assessment
- Biodiversity

Perry Ridge, Jr.

College: Life Sciences
Department: Biology
4126 LSB

Research Interests:
- Bioinformatics
- Computational Biology
- Genetics
- Genome Biology or Genomics

Michael T. Searcy

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
820 KMBL

Research Interests:
- Social processes associated with the Viejo (AD 700-1200) and Medio Periods (AD 1200-1450) of the Casas Grandes tradition, which flourished in the northwestern portion of modern-day Chihuahua, Mexico
- Causes linked to transitions in sociopolitical organization and structural transformations
- Long-distance interaction
- Iconographical analysis
- Ground stone analysis
- Ethnoarchaeology
- Fremont archaeology

Gregory Thompson

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
880 KMBL

Research Interests:
- The intersection of anthropology, language, education, and communication with a broad focus on the mediating role of cultural contexts in human interaction
- Discourse analytic methods drawn from linguistic anthropology
- Micro-cultural contexts
- Motivation and engagement
- Psychological anthropology
- How education and learning are accomplished in actual teaching/learning interactions
- American cultural contexts
- African-American settings
- American cultural meanings of race and class

Clinton Whipple

College: Life Sciences
Department: Biology
4027 LSB

Research Interests:
- Evolution and genetics of plant development

Michael Whiting

College: Life Sciences
Department: Biology
4142 LSB

Research Interests:
- Insect Phylogenetics
- Genomics
- Morphology
- Insect Diversification and Evolution

Edward Wilcox

College: Life Sciences
Department: Biology
4102 LSB

Research Interests:
- DNA or Gene Sequencing