Dr. Carlos Martinez del Rio is a professor in the Department of Zoology and Physiologyecology at the University of Wyoming. laboratory conducts research on a variety of themes that can be best placed under the umbrella of functional ecology. We focus on organisms and how they work to inform broader ecological and evolutionary processes and patterns. Adopting an organism-centric viewpoint demands that we look downwards to molecular biology, upwards to ecology and evolution, and sideways to physiology and behavior. On this program he teaches the ecology section of the class.