Faculty
Christopher Osovitz
Undergraduate Director, Tampa Campus & Professor of Instruction
CONTACT
Tampa campus
Office: SCA 327
Phone: (813) 974-9109
Email: osovitz@usf.edu
| Specialty Area | Teaching Area | ||
|---|---|---|---|
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Evolution, Physiology, Pedagogy & Education |
PCB 4674 Organic Evolution BSC 4851 Hollywood Biology PCB 3712 General Physiology |
EDUCATION
Ph.D. University of California, Santa Barbara, 2007
RESEARCH
Being an instructor, I do not maintain an active research program at USF. However,
my general research interests revolve around spanning several levels of organization,
from genes to ecosystem-level studies. Specifically, I am interested in how genetic,
molecular, or cellular structures very often have critical implications in understanding
the bases of higher level biological phenomena, such as biogeography, biological invasions,
and overall fitness. For my Ph.D. dissertation, I investigated the role of gene expression
in environmental tolerance of the purple sea urchin, along its biogeographic range
along the west coast of North America.