Research and Teaching Interactionsin the Department of Biology

Research and Teaching Interactionsin the Department of Biology

Graphics courtesy of Silvia Alvarez

Dissertation Research on Social Interactions of Primates

Responses:

29 Tenured / Tenure-track faculty4 Instructional faculty

Did Not Respond:

5 Tenured / Tenure-track faculty2 Instructional faculty

Spatial Scope:

Geographically constrained to UMCP and nearby institutionsLong distance collaborations NOT included

Data Type

Strength of Interaction (% of Effort)Colleagues outside Biology aggregated by affiliation

What data were available ?

Research interactions: How many and how strong?

InsideBiologyOnly

Research interactions: How many and how strong?

InsideBiologyOnly

Research interactions: How many and how strong?

AllLocalInteractions

Some network analyses

Intensity of interactions appear in two ways

• Width of links proportional to intensity

• Low intensity interactions greater spatial separation

Compact clusters interact more closely

AffiliationBiologyBio Research FacultyOtherOld CLFSNew CMNSOther UMCP CollegesOther UniversitiesGovernmentNGO/Industry

Research Network

Did not respond

No reported interactions

AffiliationBiologyBio Research FacultyOtherOld CLFSNew CMNSOther UMCP CollegesOther UniversitiesGovernmentNGO/Industry

Research Network

GedanDid not respond

No reported interactions

AdesComptonHigginsMachadoReakaVia

CohenFensterPayneQuinlanSoares

Alternative Ways of Subsetting Biology

Website (3 groups with overlap):

External Review (5 groups / primary affiliation):

Ecology, Evolution & Behavior

Neurobiology, Biophysics & Development

Evolutionary Developmental Biology

BioPhysics

Evo-DevoEvolutionary GeneticsNeuroscience

Ecology

WebsiteEcology, Evolution & BehaviorNeurobiology, Biophysics & DevelopmentEvolutionary Developmental BiologyAffiliates/Institutions

OtherBio Research Assoc.

Research Network

Did not respond

No reported interactions

No reported interactions

Research Network

Affiliates /Institutions

External Review

BioPhysicsEcologyEvo-Devo

Other

Evolutionary GeneticsNeuroscienceBio Research Assoc.

Did not respond

In Biology

AllLocalInteractions

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AffiliationBiology T/T-T

Bio Research FacultyLecturers

Old CLFSNew CMNSOther UMCP Colleges

No reported interactions

Teaching Network

Did not respond

Teaching interactions: How many and how strong?

No reported interactions

BelyButtsComptonDudashFaganKocherReakaSimonSinger

Teaching NetworkAffiliation

Biology T/T-T

Bio Research FacultyLecturers

Old CLFSNew CMNSOther UMCP Colleges

Did not respond

CohenFensterPayneQuinlanSoares

WebsiteEcology, Evolution & BehaviorNeurobiology, Biophysics & DevelopmentEvolutionary Developmental BiologyAffiliation/InstitutionLecturersBio Research Assoc.

No reported interactions

Teaching Network

Affiliation/Institutions

External Review

BioPhysicsEcologyEvo-Devo

Lecturers

Evolutionary GeneticsNeuroscienceBio Research Assoc.

No reported interactions

Teaching Network

THE END

Research network

Only Bio faculty:- degree range: 0-5- average degree: 1.1- average outdegree: 0.73- average indegree: 0.37- average weighted degree: 0.20

All nodes- density: 0.016- number of communities (islands): 9 (+9 isolated individuals) - Modularity: 0.85

AffiliationBiologyBio Research FacultyOtherOld CLFSNew CMNSOther UMCP CollegesOther UniversitiesGovernmentNGO/Industry

Research Network

Did not respond

No reported interactions

Research network

Only Bio faculty:- degree range: 0-20- average degree: 3.88- average outdegree: 2.94- average indegree: 0.94- average weighted degree: 0.31

All nodes- density: 0.034- number of communities (islands): 7 (+6 isolated individuals)- Modularity: 0.608