Meet the Principal Investigator

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Biography

Bill Wright is an organismal biologist who was trained in multiple disciplines at Moss Landing Marine Laboratory, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Friday Harbor Laboratories (University of Washington), and Yale University.  He naturally brings cross-disciplinary approaches to questions of animal behavior: 

1. How do learning and memory change across evolution, at neurobiological (24, 27, 29, 30), behavioral (25, 27, 31, 35, 36), and ecological (34, 37, 38, 41) levels? 

2. How does the risk of dislodgement interact with the ecology of the territorial owl limpet Lottia gigantea (4, 8, 9, 17, 20, 33, 39, 40)? 

3. How does climate change impact nervous systems and animal behavior (Ab1 and Ab2)?

He has recruited over 70 undergraduate collaborators, 21 of whom are authors on peer-reviewed journals and 29 of whom have presented their research in regional (Western Society of Naturalists) or national (Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, Society for Neuroscience) scientific conferences.


Education

University of California, Santa Cruz,
Bachelor of Arts

University of California, San Diego,
Ph.D.


Courses

BIOL 204 From Molecules to Cells: Evolution of Life on Earth
BIOL 205 Evolution & Diversity of Multicellular Organisms
BIOL 250 Introduction to Biostatistics
BIOL 291/491 Independent Research
BIOL 440 Marine Biology
BIOL 498 Capstone


Memberships

Society for Neuroscience
Society for Integrated and Comparative Biology
Western Society of Naturalists


Curriculum Vitae