Biological Sciences
Professor
Professor Roy's research is focused on better understanding: (i) the processes that generate and maintain large-scale spatial gradients in biodiversity (ii) how such gradients are being impacted by climate change and other anthropogenic impacts (e.g. human harvesting) and (iii) the ecological and evolutionary consequences of such changes. The research in the lab is interdisciplinary and addresses these questions using data for coastal marine invertebrates as well as the microbial taxa associated with them (i.e. their microbiomes).
Bio
Kaustuv Roy received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, where he completed postdoctoral training. He joined UC San Dego as an Assistant Professor in 1995. He works primarily with marine invertebrates using interdisciplinary approaches that combine ecological and genetic information from living species and populations with the temporal perspective afforded by the rich marine fossil record. He has served on several committees both at the campus level and within the Division of Biological Sciences. These include the Educational Policy Committee, the Senate-Administration Task Force on Online and Technology Enhanced Education, the faculty advisory committee for UC San Diego CAPE, and the Executive Committee of Eleanor Roosevelt College.