Welcome to the Titus Lab
Symbiotic associations underpin all ecosystems, and understanding how they generate and maintain biodiversity has been an important question in evolutionary biology for decades. Nevertheless, we are still largely ignorant of how symbiotic processes shape patterns of biodiversity across space and through time.
Research in the Titus Lab uses the iconic mutualisms from tropical coral reefs to understand the evolutionary and ecological processes that generate biodiversity in these tightly linked interactions. We combine field research, systematics, and genomic approaches to understand mutualism at all levels of biological organization. Organismally, we focus our research on tropical sea anemones (Order Actiniaria) and their symbionts. We conduct field research in all tropical oceans, but are especially focused at the moment on the evolution of the clownfish-hosting sea anemones in the Indo-West Pacific.
We are part of the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Alabama. The lab is located at Dauphin Island Sea Lab on the Gulf of Mexico just South of Mobile, AL.
Interested in the research going on in the Titus Lab? See the Join page for more info. We are currently recruiting for multiple PhD student and Postdoctoral positions!
Research in the Titus Lab uses the iconic mutualisms from tropical coral reefs to understand the evolutionary and ecological processes that generate biodiversity in these tightly linked interactions. We combine field research, systematics, and genomic approaches to understand mutualism at all levels of biological organization. Organismally, we focus our research on tropical sea anemones (Order Actiniaria) and their symbionts. We conduct field research in all tropical oceans, but are especially focused at the moment on the evolution of the clownfish-hosting sea anemones in the Indo-West Pacific.
We are part of the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Alabama. The lab is located at Dauphin Island Sea Lab on the Gulf of Mexico just South of Mobile, AL.
Interested in the research going on in the Titus Lab? See the Join page for more info. We are currently recruiting for multiple PhD student and Postdoctoral positions!
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