WELCOME TO THE EVANS LAB @ CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY EAST BAY
In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment.
-Charles Darwin
-Charles Darwin
A focus on environmental physiology...
Although research projects in the lab are quite diverse, we are generally interested in determining how shifts in abiotic variables (such as temperature, salinity and pH) affect the performance of aquatic organisms, particularly within the scope of global climate change. Ultimately, this information is useful in developing predictions as to how organisms will fare in future environments.
An integrative approach...
Our work is typically integrative and comparative in nature, striving to characterize responses to the environment across levels of biological organization and elucidate differences that exist between populations or species in their capacity to respond to environmental change.
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Our study organisms...
We use a variety of model organisms in our work and have previously examined the response of sea urchins to ocean acidification, the impact of the environment on wild migrating salmon and the effect of salinity change on an estuarine fish.
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Physiological Genomics...
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Most recently research has centered on the use of genomic approaches that better link molecular level responses to the environment to larger-scale physiological and whole-organism processes. |
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