Research and teaching within the Department of Zoology focuses on all areas and all hierarchical levels of biology, including cell and molecular biology, neurobiology, genetics, organismal biology, ecology, evolution, and behavior.

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Zoology News:

• Read about Professor Warren Porter's study on how pesticide exposure during pregnancy can have long-term impact on female offspring.
• Read Professor Jake Vander Zanden's comments in 15,000 reasons to worry about state's lakes .
• Read about the recent meeting of the Society of Environmental Journalists where Steve Carpenter and Jim Kitchell hosted a tour of Lake Mendota.
• Watch Professor Jake Vander Zanden talk about invasive species in lakes Mendota, Monona, and Waubesa. (WKOW TV)
  Read the UW article here.
• Read how Professor Steve Carpenter casts the human factor into the study of lakes.
• Read about Professor Jim Kitchell's recent grant by the National Science Foundation's Rapid Response Research (RAPID).