University of Michigan
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

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Diarmaid Ó Foighil

Diarmaid Ó Foighil

  • Professor
    Director and Curator, Museum of Zoology
    Associate Chair for Museum Collections
  • Ph.D. Biology, University of Victoria (Canada), 1987

Contact information

  • University of Michigan
    1025 Museums Building
    1109 Geddes Ave
    Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1079
  • Phone: (734) 647-2193
  • Fax: (734) 763-4080
  • Email: diarmaid@umich.edu

Teaching

At present, I teach two primary courses: Animal Diversity (Bio 288) and Introductory Biology (Bio 162).

Bio 288’s focus is primarily on the Metazoa (multicellular animals) and we take a genealogical approach to addressing the evolutionary history of extant and extinct animal forms. We emphasize as much as possible live material in our comparative labs and as most animal diversity is marine and invertebrate, this gives many students their first up close look at living invertebrates such as echinoderms and cephalopods.

Bio 162 is the large enrollment Introductory Biology class and I teach the 2nd (ecology and evolution) half.