- Behavior, ecology and evolution of freshwater fish
- Adaptation along environmental gradients and the evolution of reproductive isolation
- Evolutionary ecology of fishes in extreme habitats
- Biospeleology
- Evolution and maintenance of sexual reproduction
Contact info
Email: michi.tobler@gmail.com
Office phone: (979) 862-1279
110B Nagle Hall
Fax: (979) 845-4096
Michael Tobler
Section of Ecology, Evolution & Systematic Biology
Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences
Texas A&M University
2258 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-2258 U.S.A.
Education
In progress - Postdoctoral researcher; Ecology, Evolution & Systematic Biology, Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences, Texas A&M University
2005 - 2008 – Ph D student at the Institute of Zoology, University of Zürich. Ph D thesis on “The evolutionary ecology of Poecilia mexicana in the Cueva del Azufre system: Effects of abiotic and biotic environmental factors”. Supervision: Prof. Dr. I. Schlupp, University of Oklahoma, and Prof. Dr. H.-U. Reyer, University of Zürich.
2004 – Diploma thesis on "Sex and parasites in a gynogenetic complex of fishes". Supervision: Prof. Dr. P. Schmid-Hempel, ETH Zürich and PD Dr. Ingo Schlupp, University of Zürich.
2000 - 2004 – Studies of Biological Sciences at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zürich and at the University of Zürich with focus on behavior, ecology and evolution
Research interests
Current Research
