Research efforts in the McAlister Lab sit at the interface of functional organismal and population biology and center on three broad questions:

• •  How do organisms respond to environmental change?

  •  How much variation exists for these responses?

  •  How come organisms respond in the way(s) that they do? 

Our work is empirical, uses integrative and comparative approaches, occurs in the lab and the field, and we focus primarily on marine invertebrates and their larvae.

Students with interests in marine biology, invertebrate biology, organism-environment interactions, ecotoxicology, "eco-devo", and/or the expression and evolution of phenotypic plasticity are encouraged to contact Prof. McAlister about research opportunities in the lab.