University of Southern California
USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences  
USC Department of Biology
People Undergraduate Marine Environmental Biology Molecular and Computational Biology Integrative and Evolutionary Biology Neurobiology

Adaptation, Evolution, and Population Dynamics for Marine Animals

What are the physiological and genetic mechanisms that enable marine organisms to adapt to the dynamic and often extreme environments in the ocean? MEB faculty use a variety of genomic tools and rigorous experimental approaches to answer question such as this and to tease apart the “Nature” and “Nurture” components of evolution, adaptation, and persistence in temperate, polar, and deep sea environments.

Faculty

Suzanne Edmands
Andrew Gracey
Dennis Hedgecock
Donal Manahan