Steven A. Juliano Distinguished Professor of Ecology
Last update November 2008
Steven A. Juliano
Distinguished Professor
of Ecology
Last update November 2008
RESEARCH INTERESTS
My research concerns behavioral, population,
and community ecology of insects, and the ways in which these different levels of organization within ecology are
linked. Currently I am involved with two major projects, one on ecology of container dwelling mosquitoes.
This project involves post doctoral researchers, and graduate and undergraduate students, and
is funded by a National Institutes of Health grant, in which I collaborate with colleagues
at Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory,
University of Florida. The
other project
is an NSF-funded Cross-disciplinary Research at Undergraduate Institutions
(CRUI) project on life history phenotypes of insects, using grasshoppers as a model organism.
A summary of past research in my lab on our CRUI project is
here.
This project involves undergraduates exclusively, and is funded by a National
Science Foundation grant for Collaborative
Research at Undergraduate Institutions. There are
numerous conceptual connections between my ongoing research on ecology and evolution of
container-dwelling mosquitoes and my more recent research on environmental effects on
reproduction by grasshoppers. Both projects involve testing hypotheses about how the
external environment influences life history events (i.e., transitions from one
developmental stage to another).
In addition to these research projects, I have a long
standing interest in biostatistics, which has led to
my involvement in research on application of statistical techniques to a variety of
biological problems. I also have broad interests in insect community ecology, particularly
in the roles of competition and predation in organizing communities.
Selected publications Selected courses
BEES Brown Bag Seminar
(current semester F 2008)
I am also a charter member
of the National Center for
Science Education's
Project Steve.
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to learn more.
