Telephone: (919) 962-6938

E-mail: hommersand@bio.unc.edu

Office: 407 Coker Hall

Mailing Address:
CB# 3280, Coker Hall
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-3280

Publications | Lab

Max Hommersand's area of research is the morphology, systematics and biography of the marine algae, with emphasis on the red algae. He has a world-wide collection of over thirty thousand specimens of marine algae for use in developmental studies. Research facilities include a Zeiss photomicroscope for light microscopy, three large culture rooms for growing algae, and other facilities for investigating the evolutionary biology and phylogeny of the marine algae.