Research areas

For descriptions and a list of faculty in each research area, please click on the link below.

Research in EEB spans the full range of biological diversity from viruses to mammals and includes understanding the diversity of organisms, discerning their history (comparative biology and systematics, paleobiology), accounting for their characteristics (evolutionary processes), analyzing the function of their features (functional organismal biology), and understanding how organisms affect and are affected by environmental factors, including other organisms (ecology). Our focus on a wide diversity of organisms and how they function in the complex environments of the natural world offers a unique perspective among the life science units at the University of Michigan.