Understanding change -- seconds to millennia -- is our common quest.
EEB offers a competitive postdoctoral fellowship program
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Michigan State University's Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior (EEB) Program is a research and training hub for those seeking to understand and predict life in a changing world.
EEB members come from 12 departments in five colleges, uniting multiple disciplines. The program aims to support innovative research and mentor the next generation of life scientists while building networks and enriching collaborations.
Exploring how the world is, and is becoming
EEB is our intellectual home
Our work spans a breathtaking swath of life, across the globe from molecules to the biosphere. We study and teach biodiversity's origins and maintenance. We're inspired by the diverse community we make.
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Study raises the possibility of a country without butterflies
Butterflies are disappearing in the United States. All kinds of them. With a speed
scientists call alarming, and they are sounding an alarm. The work has received extensive
global media coverage.
Two EEB Presidential Postdoctoral Fellows poised to build bridges to discovery
Two early-career scholars bringing integrative research collaborations across four
departments in two colleges, and thoughtful community engagement, will be the next
MSU Presidential Postdoctoral Fellows in Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior.
The genetic blueprint to untangle making a neurotoxin
A team of Michigan State University researchers is investigating a long-standing biological
mystery: how certain bacteria produce tetrodotoxin, or TTX — a powerful neurotoxin best known as the potentially deadly compound in fugu, the Japanese puffer fish.
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26 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellows
20 MSU University Distinguished Graduate Fellows
14 American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellows
13 National Science Foundation Faculty Early CAREER Awardees
8 Ecological Society of America Fellows and Early Career Fellows
3 American Academy for Arts and Sciences Members
3 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellows