Experts by Expertise: Plants and Animals Experts

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8/19/21
Victor Albert

Professor of Biological Sciences

Expertise: plant evolutionary biology; evolution of carnivorous plants; genomes of Amborella, avocado, birch, coffee and gardenia; comparative genomics; junk DNA
Phone: 716-645-4983
Email: vaalbert@buffalo.edu
8/16/21
Irus Braverman

Professor of Law

Expertise: laws governing animals, zoos, wildlife, coral reefs, extinction and climate change law, law and society, law and conservation, law and the environment, environmental justice in Israel/Palestine
Phone: 716-645-3030
Email: irusb@buffalo.edu
7/27/22
Omer Gokcumen
Associate Professor of Biological Sciences

Expertise: human and primate evolution, ancient humans (including Neanderthals and Denisovans), anthropological genomics
Phone: 716-645-4937
Email: omergokc@buffalo.edu
8/19/21
Joyce Hwang

Associate Professor of Architecture

Expertise: animal architecture; habitecture; habitart; wildlife habitats, ecology and architecture
Phone: 716-829-5906
Email: jh96@buffalo.edu
9/24/21
Howard Lasker

Professor of Environment and Sustainability

Expertise: coral reefs; coral bleaching; climate change and oceans
Phone: 716-645-4870
Email: hlasker@buffalo.edu
9/30/22
Charlotte Lindqvist

Associate Professor of Biological Sciences

Expertise: evolutionary biology, evolution of polar bears, hybridization of polar bears and brown bears, genomics
Phone: 716-645-4986
Email: cl243@buffalo.edu
8/17/21
Vincent Lynch

Associate Professor of Biological Sciences

Expertise: evolutionary developmental biology; genetics; genomics; mammoths; evolution of mammalian pregnancy and cancer
Phone: 716-645-4899
Email: vjlynch@buffalo.edu
8/17/21
Stephanie A. Poindexter

Assistant Professor of Anthropology

Expertise: biological anthropology, primate evolution, primate conservation

Phone: 716-645-0427
Email: sapoinde@buffalo.edu
8/17/21
Noreen von Cramon-Taubadel

Associate Professor of Anthropology
Expertise: human and primate evolution; human skeleton; morphological evolution; biological anthropology

Phone: 716-645-0430
Email: noreenvo@buffalo.edu
8/17/21
Zhen Wang

Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences

Expertise: plant natural products, medicinal plants, synthetic biology, metabolic engineering

Phone: 716-645-4969
Email: zhenw@buffalo.edu