Faculty
Marc Lajeunesse
Associate Professor
CONTACT
Tampa campus
Office: SCA 306
Lab: SCA 319
Phone: (813) 974-6234
Email: lajeunesse@usf.edu
| Specialty Area | Recent Publications |
|---|---|
| Ecology, Evolutionary Biology and Research Synthesis |
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Cornell University, 2009
RESEARCH
The overarching goal of my lab is to understand the natural diversity of parasites
and forces creating and sustaining this diversity—in particular, we focus on using
available data to isolate which ecological or evolutionary concepts are applicable
over a wide variety of contexts.
We use a broad variety of techniques to pursue this goal, including meta-analysis, comparative phylogenetic methods, field and selection experiments, and mathematical modeling.
My current research has two major themes: (1) the development of novel statistics for synthesizing published research and evaluating sources of bias in this research; and (2) providing rigorous syntheses of key ecological and evolutionary principles relating to the specialization of parasites and herbivores.