Interdisciplinary Links

Because of the complexities of scale and diversity involved in the study of ecology and evolutionary biology, research in EEB is highly interdisciplinary. Thus, EEB faculty have affiliations or research collaborations with numerous units as follows.

Life sciences:

• Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
• Department of Epidemiology
• Department of Human Genetics
• Department of Computational
  Medicine & Bioinformatics
• Life Sciences Institute

Physical and environmental sciences:

• Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
• College of Engineering
• School of Natural Resources and Environment

Social sciences:

• Department of Anthropology
• Program in American Culture
• Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Mathematics:

• Department of Mathematics
• Center for the Study of Complex Systems
• Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics

EEB faculty participate in several multi-departmental graduate training grants funded by federal agencies (National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation) including:

• Genetics Training Grant
• Genome Science Training Grant
• Bioinformatics Training Grant
• Biosphere-Atmosphere Training Grant