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Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Graduate Faculty who are interested in taking new graduate students in Fall 2027 have " ** " before their names below.

Faculty	Name & Contact Information	Specialty	Links
	Darren L. Bade Associate Professor, Kent Campus 119 Cunningham Hall dbade@kent.edu ​330-672-4639	Limnology, Aquatic Ecology, ​B¾±´Ç²µ±ð´Ç³¦³ó±ð³¾¾±²õ³Ù°ù²â	Dr. Bade's Faculty Page
	**  Christie Bahlai Associate Professor, Kent Campus 209 Cunningham Hall cbahlai@kent.edu 330-672-9775	Quantitative Ecology, Population Ecology, Functional Ecology, Invasion Biology	Dr. Bahlai's Faculty Page
	David Costello Associate Professor, Kent Campus 217 Cunningham Hall dcostel3@kent.edu 330-672-2035	Ecotoxicology, Biogeochemistry, ​Aquatic Ecology	Dr. Costello's Faculty Page
	Ferenc de Szalay Associate Professor, Kent Campus 205 Cunningham Hall ​â¶Ä‹fdeszala@kent.edu 330-672-7936	Mosquito Ecology, Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology, Entomology	Dr. de Szalay's Faculty Page
	**  Sarah Eichler Assistant Professor, Kent Campus 114 Cunningham Hall ​seeichle@kent.edu ​	Global Sustainability, Agroecology	Dr. Eichler's Faculty Page
	**  Jean Engohang-Ndong, PhD Professor Kent Campus  201 Cunningham Hall jengohan@kent.edu 330-308-7458	Infectious Diseases, Drug Discovery, Antimicrobial Resistance, Molecular Mechanisms of Bacterial Pathogenesis, Surface Water Quality, Microbial Ecology	Dr. Engonhang-Ndong's Faculty Page
	Mark Kershner Associate Professor, Kent Campus 49 Cunningham Hall ​mkershne@kent.edu ​330-672-2738	Lake Community Ecology, Fish Ecology, Crayfish Ecology	Dr. Kershner's Faculty Page
	**  Lauren Kinsman-Costello Associate Professor, Kent Campus 245 Cunningham Hall lkinsman@kent.edu 330-672-3640	Freshwater Ecology, ​Wetland Ecosystem Ecology and Management, Biogeochemistry	Dr. Kinsman-Costello's Faculty Page
	**  Sangeet Lamichhaney Associate Professor, Kent Campus slamichh@kent.edu 330-672-2764	Adaptive Evolution in Vertebrates, Computational Genomics, Organismal Biology	Dr. Lamichhaney's Faculty Page
	Laura Leff Professor, Kent Campus 52 Cunningham Hall lleff@kent.edu 330-672-3788	Freshwater Microbial Ecology	Dr. Leff's Faculty Page
	**  Xiaozhen (Jen) Mou Professor and MA Coordinator, Kent Campus 209 Cunningham Hall ​xmou@kent.edu 330-672-3625	Aquatic Microbial Ecology, Metagenomics, Metatranscriptomics, Microbiology	Dr. Mou's Faculty Page
	**  Helen Piontkivska Professor and Curriculum Coordinator, Kent Campus 241 Cunningham Hall opiontki@kent.edu 330-672-3620	Genomic sequencing, Molecular Evolutionary Genetics	Dr. Piontkivska's Faculty Page
	Oscar Rocha Professor and Graduate Coordinator, Kent Campus 135 and 253C Cunningham Hall orocha@kent.edu 330-672-2279	Tropical Ecology, Conservation Biology,  Plant Population Biology, ​Plant Ecology	Dr. Rocha's Faculty Page
​	Brian Trevelline Assistant Professor, Kent Campus 251 F Integrated Sciences Building btrevell@kent.edu 330-672-3895	Evolutionary Biology, Microbiome	Dr. Trevelline's Faculty Page
	David Ward Professor and Herrick Chair of Plant Biology, Kent Campus 229 Cunningham Hall ​dward21@kent.edu 330-672-9394	Plant Ecology, Community Ecology, ​Population Biology, ​Invasion Biology	Dr. Ward's Faculty Page
Stark Campus
	Matthew Lehnert Professor, Stark Campus 023F Science and Nursing Building mlehner1@kent.edu ​330-499-9600	Entomology, Conservation Biology, Evolutionary Biology	Dr. Lehnert's Faculty Page
	Greg Smith Associate Professor, Stark Campus 023E Science and Nursing Building gsmith62@kent.edu ​330-244-3395	Wildlife Ecology, Conservation Biology, Vertebrate Biology	Dr. Smith's Faculty Page
Holden Arboretum
	David Burke Adjunct Faculty, Holden Arboretum ​Long Science Center dburke@holdenarb.org 440-602-3858	Plant Ecology, ​Microbial Ecology
	Juliana Medeiros Adjunct Faculty, Holden Arboretum ​Long Science Center jmedeiros@holdenarb.org 440-602-3819	Plant Physiological Ecology, Plant-Water Transport, Photosynthesis, Phenotypic Variation
	Katie Stuble ​Adjunct Faculty, Holden Arboretum ​Long Science Center kstuble@holdenarb.org 440-946-4400	Community Ecology, ​Global Change Biology