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Rick Michod

Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology | Member of the Graduate Faculty | Professor, Applied Mathematics - GIDP

Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

Research Area

multicellularity, evolution, biology, developmental biology, evolutionary transition, origin of life, evolutionary biology, fitness trade-offs, soma evolution, volvocine algae

RoL: Evolution of Multicellular Individuality
Active·2020·$956K·
External
Principal Investigator (PI)
evolution, multicellularity, individuality, genetics, cellular organization
Collaborative Research: The Genomic Basis of Multicellularity and Developmental Complexity in the Volvocine Algae
2014·$278.9K·
External
Principal Investigator (PI)
genomics, multicellularity, development, algae, collaborative research
Advancing the Synthesis of Ecology and Evolution
2014·$103.8K·
External
Principal Investigator (PI)
ecology, evolution, synthesis, biology, environment
Steps to multicellularity
2013·$1.2M / $1.3M·
External
Principal Investigator (PI)
evolution, cellular differentiation, developmental biology, genetic regulation, symbiosis
NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship Host Allowance
2010·$10K·
External
Principal Investigator (PI)
government funding, biology, research grants, academic funding, postdoctoral research

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Recent

A model for the origin of groureproduction during the evolutionary transition to multicellularity

2015

evolutionary transition, multicellularity, reproduction, origin of life, modeling

A Darwinian approach to the origin of life cycles with grouproperties

2015

evolution, origin of life, life cycles, property, darwinian approach

Grouselection and grouadaptation during a major evolutionary transition: insights from the evolution of multicellularity in the volvocine algae

2014

evolutionary transition, multicellularity, volvocine algae, grouselection, grouadaptation

Fitness trade-offs and developmental constraints in the evolution of soma: an experimental study in a volvocine alga

2014

evolutionary biology, developmental biology, fitness trade-offs, soma evolution

DNA repair as the primary adaptive function of sex in bacteria and eukaryotes

2012

Inclusive fitness theory and eusociality

2011

Diversity in the Epistemology Group: Ernst von Glasersfeld and the Question of Adaptation

2011

Flagellar phenotypic plasticity in volvocalean algae correlates with Péclet number

2011

What is life and why, how and when did it begin?

2011

Inclusive fitness in evolution

2011

Regis Ferriere
Steven Kuhn
Jeremiah Hackett

Bringing Pandemic Lessons to the (Virtual) Classroom
2020
All for One: What Makes an Individual
2013
Professor Credits UA Surgery/Cardio Team in Bypass Recovery
2012
How Volvox Got Its Groove
2009
Desert Laboratory Director Honored by Ecological Society of America
2008

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Research in Ecology and Evolution
Internship Presentation and Planning
Evolutionary Biology

$3.3M / $3.4M Funding

90+ Publications