Currently the department research and teaching focuses in four major areas:
Learn more about the Zoology faculty whose research focuses on molecular and genetic bases of development and cellular function:
Ninan Abraham
Vanessa Auld
Michael Gordon
Linda Matsuuchi
Kota Mizumoto
Nelly Pante
Matt Ramer
Terry Snutch
Kenji Sugioka
Wolfram Tetzlaff
Kevin Wei
Learn more about the Zoology faculty whose research focuses on many aspects of animal physiology from a comparative perspective, particularly those mechanisms underlying adaptive responses to environmental constraints:
Doug Altshuler
Colin Brauner
Duncan Leitch
Katie Marshall
Ben Matthews
Phil Matthews
Jeff Richards
Trish Schulte
Emerti
James Berger
Bill Milsom
Bob Shadwick
Adjunct
Ora Johansen (former DFO scientist)
Raul Suarez (former UC Santa Barbara)
Chris Wood (former CRC Tier I, McMaster University)
Learn more about the Zoology faculty whose research focuses on field ecology, natural history, ecological theory and conservation biology:
Amy Angert
Leticia Avilés
Sarah Benson-Amram
Michael Doebeli
Kaitlyn Gaynor
Rachel Germain
Chris Harley
Darren Irwin
Jill Jankowski
Claire Kremen
Wayne Maddison
Judith Mank
Mary O'Connor
Laura Parfrey
Daniel Pauly
Tony Pitcher
Dolph Schluter
Diane Srivastava
Eric Taylor
Michelle Tseng
Learn more about the Zoology faculty whose research focuses on evolutionary ecology, evolutionary genetics, conservation genetics, theory, and systematics:
Amy Angert
Leticia Avilés
Sarah Benson-Amram
Michael Doebeli
Rachel Germain
Chris Harley
Darren Irwin
Brian Leander
Wayne Maddison
Judith Mank
Sally Otto
Laura Parfrey
Daniel Pauly
Dolph Schluter
Kevin Wei
Michael Whitlock
Emerti
Rosie Redfield