Experts by Expertise: Plants and Animals Experts

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

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

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

Joyce Hwang

Associate Professor of Architecture

Expertise: animal architecture; habitecture; habitart; wildlife habitats, ecology and architecture

Phone: 716-829-5906

Email: jh96@buffalo.edu

Howard Lasker

Professor of Environment and Sustainability

Expertise: coral reefs; coral bleaching; climate change and oceans

Phone: 716-645-4870

Email: hlasker@buffalo.edu

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

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

Stephanie A. Poindexter

Assistant Professor of Anthropology

Expertise: biological anthropology, primate evolution, primate conservation

Phone: 716-645-0427

Email: sapoinde@buffalo.edu

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

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