Jeff Dudycha

Jeff Dudycha is a Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of South Carolina's McCausland College of Arts and Sciences. He leads the Dudycha Lab, which investigates evolutionary processes in natural systems using model organisms like Daphnia and cryptophyte phytoplankton.

His research focuses on evolutionary ecology, examining adaptive/non-adaptive processes driving biodiversity. Key interests include ecological diversification, phenotypic plasticity, life history evolution, vision biology, and photosynthetic mechanisms in cryptophytes. The lab integrates field demography, genomics, quantitative genetics, and physiology to study evolutionary trade-offs.