UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS
A number of faculty investigators affiliated with the Biodiversity Center oversee research streams affiliated with the College's award-winning Freshman Research Initiative. You may browse some of the research projects that undergraduates in the year-long program are working on with their research educators and faculty leads by clicking here.
Additionally, contact a scientist, curator or collections manager in the research area that most interests you to discuss how we may help your educational interests. Contact information is below.
GRADUATE STUDENTS
The Biodiversity Center can assist in your goals in numerous ways. We can help make research robust by providing opportunities for field research and places to deposit permanent samples and document source materials. Specifically, the Biodiversity Collections can provide collecting supplies, a workspace, loan materials, and help with shipping of materials. They can also assist with curation and specimen preparation, provide equipment, and help with permits.
Our Field Stations, including Brackenridge Field Lab, Stengl Lost Pines and the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, provide opportunities for researchers to conduct small pilot studies or large scale manipulations of habitats coupled with laboratory and greenhouse space. Field stations regularly offer paid assistantships to participate in long-term studies. BFL has advantages of being only minutes from main campus and has a range of sophisticated facilities, while Stengl offers accommodation and larger areas for manipulative studies in diverse forests and savanna.
ADAMS PRESERVE
The Adams Preserve is an isolated creek canyon that has remained in single family owner ship for almost 80 years. Purchased in the 1940s, the owners have dedicated their lives to protecting the canyon and keeping it pristine. Botanists and biologists refer to it as a “time capsule” of the Texas Hill Country's once rich biodiversity.
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With a commitment to conservation, the land has remained untouched and is home to a variety of rare plants and animal species that rarely exist in other parts of Texas today. The canyon provides habitat for two endangered species of birds and one threatened species of fish. More recently, a rare salamander was discovered in one of the springs. This salamander has only been found in three other locations and remains an un-described species.
Today the area is often used as a field study laboratory by UT Austin students, the US Fish and Wildlife Service, Texas Parks and Wildlife, and the Audubon Society. UT is currently utilizing the canyon for research supporting its natural sciences studies.
CONTACT BIODIVERSITY CENTER COLLECTIONS:
CONTACT BIODIVERSITY CENTER FIELD STATIONS
Contact the Lady bird johnson Wildflower Center
To explore some of our other research areas and find which faculty scientists specialize in these areas, click on the links below.
Behavior
Dave Cannatella
Molly Cummings
Larry Gilbert
Ulrich Mueller
Steve Phelps
Eric Pianka
Mike Ryan
Community Ecology / Species Interactions (including host-microbe and Plant-insect)
Molly Cummings
Larry Gilbert
Shalene Jha
Tom Juenger
Tim Keitt
Mathew Leibold
Nancy Moran
Ulrich Mueller
Howard Ochman
Rob Plowes
Eric Pianka
Mike Ryan
Computational Biology and Genomics
Dave Cannatella
Molly Cummings
David Hillis
Bob Jansen
Shalene Jha
Tom Juenger
Tim Keitt
Craig R Linder
Nancy Moran
Ulrich Mueller
Howard Ochman
Steve Phelps
Conservation Biology
Larry Gilbert
David Hillis
Shalene Jha
Tim Keitt
Mike Ryan
Disease Evolution & Ecology
David Hillis
Nancy Moran
Ulrich Mueller
Mike Ryan
Ecosystem Ecology
Larry Gilbert
Shalene Jha
Tom Juenger
Tim Keitt
Mathew Leibold
James Mauseth
Nancy Moran
Evolution
Dave Cannatella
Molly Cummings
Larry Gilbert
David Hillis
Bob Jansen
Tom Juenger
Mathew Leibold
Craig R Linder
Nancy Moran
Ulrich Mueller
Howard Ochman
Jose Panero
Steve Phelps
Eric Pianka
Mike Ryan
Alex Wild
Genetics, Genomics & Epigenetics
Bob Jansen
Shalene Jha
Tom Juenger
Craig R Linder
Nancy Moran
Microbiome
Nancy Moran
Ulrich Mueller
Howard Ochman
Molecular, Cell & Developmental Biology
Bob Jansen
Tom Juenger
James Mauseth
Nancy Moran
Neuroscience
Molly Cummings
Steve Phelps
Mike Ryan
Organismal Physiology
Tom Juenger
Nancy Moran
Population Ecology
Larry Gilbert
David Hillis
Shalene Jha
Tim Keitt
Mathew Leibold
Ulrich Mueller
Eric Pianka
Rob Plowes
Mike Ryan
Population / Quantitative Genetics
Dave Cannatella
David Hillis
Shalene Jha
Tom Juenger
Tim Keitt
Craig R Linder
Ulrich Mueller
Howard Ochman
Steve Phelps
Systematics & Evolution
Bob Jansen
Shalene Jha
Tom Juenger
Mathew Leibold
Craig R Linder
James Mauseth
Nancy Moran
Jose Panero
Systematics/Phylogenetics
Dave Cannatella
David Hillis
Bob Jansen
Mathew Leibold
Craig R Linder
Nancy Moran
Ulrich Mueller
Howard Ochman
Jose Panero
Eric Pianka
Alex Wild
Theoretical Biology
David Hillis
Tim Keitt
Mathew Leibold
Steve Phelps
