Laboratories & Facilities

Faculty Laboratories

• Rachelle Adams' Lab :: ant evolution and symbioses, behavioral ecology, chemical ecology
• Robin Bagley's Lab :: divergence across trophic levels
• Alison Bennett's Lab :: plant-soil and plant-microbe interactions
• Lindsey Bruckerhoff's Lab :: conservation of freshwater systems
• Bryan Carstens' Lab :: molecular ecology, systematics, phylogeography
• Meg Daly's Lab :: anatomical, taxonomic, and geographic diversity of actiniarian sea anemones
• John Freudenstein's Lab :: plant systematics, phylogenetic theory
• Susan Gershman's Lab :: evolution of animal behavior
• H. Lisle Gibbs' Lab :: evolution, conservation and behaviour in wild birds and snakes using DNA-based genetic techniques
• Karen Goodell's Lab :: community ecology and population ecology of native bees
• Ian Hamilton's Lab :: animal behavior and ecology complex systems
• Jennifer Hellmann :: Phenotypic plasticity
• Jim Hood's Lab :: patterns and fluxes of nutrients and energy in freshwater ecosystems
• Steve Hovick's Lab :: ecological and evolutionary drivers of invasion success
• John Hunter's Lab :: mammalian paleontology
• Marta Jarzyna's Lab :: macroecology, global change biology, trait based ecology
• Norman Johnson's Lab :: parasitoid wasp superfamily Proctotrupoidea
• Laura Kubatko's Lab :: statistical genetics
• Carol Landry's Lab ::  maintaining biodiversity in coastal plant communities in the Bahamas
• Roman Lanno's Lab :: bioavailability of chemicals in the environment
• Stu Ludsin's Lab :: mechanisms that regulate the structure, function, and dynamics of aquatic ecosystems
• Maria Miriti's Lab :: theoretical, experimental and demographic methods to address factors that regulate plant populations and communities.
• James Mouton :: how natural or man-made environmental perturbations shape population- and community-level responses 
• Agus Munoz-Garcia's Lab :: physiological ecology
• Ryan Norris' Lab :: determining the evolutionary relationships of rodents and other small mammals
• James Pease's Lab :: interactive genomic evolution
• Casey Pennock :: conduct research on the ecology of aquatic ecosystems to contribute to their conservation and management
• J. Andrew Roberts' Lab :: behavioral ecology, evolution of animal communication and social behavior
• Zakee Sabree's Lab :: insect microbial symbiosis
• Mandy Slate's Lab :: how plant-environment interactions shape ecological communities

Facilities

• EEOB Departmental Shared Lab Resource (SLR) :: EEOB SLR is available for all faculty and staff, and students and collaborators of EEOB faculty and staff
• Aquatic Ecology Laboratory (AEL) :: population & community structure and dynamics in aquatic systems
• Museum of Biological Diversity :: houses research and teaching collections; comprised of the Acarology Lab, Borror Lab, Herbarium, Museum of Zoology, and the Insect Collection
  • Acarology Laboratory :: one of the largest mite collections in North America
  • Borror Laboratory of Bioacoustics :: center of active research on animal sounds
  • Fish Division, MBD :: houses collection of North American freshwater fishes with secondary strengths in fishes of Mexico and Central America
  • Herbarium :: major collection of plant and fungal specimens that supports research and teaching at OSU, other academic institutions, and governmental agencies
  • Mollusc Division :: houses gastropod and bivalve collections used in teaching, research, and service
  • Triplehorn Insect Collection :: contains approximately 3.5 million specimens from all parts of the world with historical emphasis in the orders Coleoptera and Homoptera and current interests in the Hymenoptera