Maile Neel

Portrait of Maile Neel

Maile Neel

Entomology Professor
mneel@umd.edu 6117 Plant Sciences Building
301 405 9780

Graduate Program Affiliations

Biological Sciences (BISI): Behavior, Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics (BEES)
Biological Sciences (BISI): Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, and Genomics (CBBG)
Entomology

Research

The Neel Lab applies and integrates techniques from traditionally disparate fields to  study patterns of biological diversity and the ecological and evolutionary processes that created them. The lab also develops effective conservation approaches to predict the effects of changing ecological patterns and evolutionary processes.

Education

Ph.D. University of California - Riverside, 2000
M.S., University of California - Santa Barbara, 1994
B.A., Humboldt State University, 1985

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