People Type: Emeriti

Research Google Scholar My research focuses on the mechanisms underlying early disease detection and disease progression using stable isotope technology and metabolomics. By integrating these complementary approaches, my work has identified metabolic biomarkers that reveal early physiological responses to infection and metabolic dysfunction, enabling pre-symptomatic disease detection. This research has led to patented breath-analysis technologies …

Research From 1963 through 1996 my laboratory made contributions to understanding o how light changes into a nerve signal in our eyes. From 1993 to the present I have been studying and writing on the Biology of Mind, the structure, function, and evolution of our brains and cognition. Google Scholar

Research I am an ecosystem scientist who studies water quality and fisheries as systems of people and nature. I’ve organized collaborations among scientists, managers and the public to improve the quality of working landscapes and the waters that drain them. I served as President of the Ecological Society of America, a co-Chair of the Millennium …

Research My work addresses taxonomic and floristic studies of vascular plants, especially systematics of New World Cleomaceae and flora of Wisconsin, to a lesser extent taxonomy of north-temperate Cyperaceae and flora of Jalisco and Colima, Mexico.By volunteering at the UW-Madison Herbarium, I can help maintain historical context (e.g., regarding past acquisitions and institutional and personal …

Research Mohammad m. Fayyaz (Mo Fayyaz) Distinguish Faculty Associate  Emeritus Director of Greenhouses and Botanical Garden

Research The Fernandez lab investigated developmental transitions in plants at several levels. We investigated the role of MADS domain factors in the regulation of flowering time, floral organ abscission, and pollen growth and development. We also investigated protein sorting during plastid biogenesis. We identified and studied components of membrane-specific translocation systems that ensure proteins are …

Research Interests Plant ecology and evolution; adaptive radiation and molecular systematics; phylogeography; physiological ecology; landscape dynamics. Education Ph.D. (1976), Princeton University

Research With research colleagues I study the cell biology, physiology, genomics, and metagenomics of algae and plants. I author textbooks (without using AI): Biology, Princlples of Biology, Plant Biology, Algae, and Ancestry of Land Plants.

Research I was a research plant photobiologist for about twenty-five years mainly studying phytochrome before transitioning to managing and teaching in the Introductory Biology sequence at UW-Madison.

Research Thanks to the superb collaborations with my students and faculty at the UW, nationally and internationally we have been able to develop and test our user-friendly generic software, Niche Mapper and NicheMapR that can compute the local microenvironments and an animal’s coupled heat and mass balances required for survival, growth and reproductive potential for …