Faculty Listing

Below is an alphabetical listing of all Biology faculty. Please note you can search by first or last name. All of Biology faculty are affiliated with at least one of the four interdisciplinary graduate programs and you can limit your search to only those faculty affiliated with a particular program. In addition, you can search for only those faculty who can chair graduate student Masters or PhD committees. You can also search for only those faculty who are emeriti/retired or only those who are still current. And you can combine these criteria to further limit your search.

Name Title Research Interests
Peter Alpert

Associate Professor

Plant Ecology and Conservation Science

Tobias Baskin

Professor

Regulation of Plant Morphogenesis During Growth & Development

Magdalena Bezanilla

Assistant Professor

Molecular Mechanisms Behind Plant Cell Growth

Eric L. Bittman

Professor

Circadian Rhythms, Reproduction, and Seasonal Changes in Brain Function

Steven D. Brewer

Assistant Professor

Science Education; Instructional Technology

Bruce Byers

Associate Professor

Songbird Vocalizations

Ana L. Caicedo

Assistant Professor

Plant Molecular Evolution and Evolutionary Genomics
Theodore Castro-Santos

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Biomechanics and Behavior of Migratory Fishes; Bioengineering of Fish Passage Structures

J. Zane Barlow Coleman

Senior Lecturer

Elizabeth A. Connor

Associate Professor

Neuromuscular Junction: Development and Maintenance

Margery C. Coombs

Professor

Vertebrate Paleontology

Gerald B. Downes

Assistant Professor

Development and function of spinal cord networks

Elizabeth R. Dumont

Professor

Vertebrate Morphology

Cristina Cox Fernandes

Adjunct Research Assistant Professor and Curator of Fishes

Community Ecology and Evolution of Sexual Dimorphism of Fishes

Kelly J. Gauger

Adjunct Research Assistant Professor

Molecular Pathways Involved in the Pathogenesis of Breast Cancer

Judith E. Goodenough

Senior Lecturer

Circadian phototactic rhythm in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

Samuel P. Hazen

Assistant Professor

Regulatory Networks and Natural Variation in Plant Cell Wall Biosynthesis

Peter W. Houlihan

Senior Lecturer

Duncan J. Irschick

Associate Professor

Functional Morphology, Evolution, and Behavioral Ecology

Abigail Jensen

Associate Professor

Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms of Vertebrate Retinal Development and Retinal Disease
Rolf O. Karlstrom

Professor

Developmental Neurobiology: Axon Guidance and Forebrain Patterning
Joseph G. Kunkel

Professor

Pattern Formation and Development

Wei-Lih Lee

Assistant Professor

Mechanism of Dynein-Mediated Nuclear Migration and Spindle Positioning

Stephen D. McCormick

Adjunct Professor

Environmental and endocrine control of osmoregulation, growth, migration, development and reproduction in teleosts, primarily anadromous fishes.

John R. Nambu

Associate Professor

Gene Regulation and Programmed Cell Death in Drosophila Development

W. Brian O'Connor

Professor

Sheila Patek Assistant Professor Ecological Physiology
Randall W. Phillis

Associate Professor

Neurogenetics of Drosophila

Jeffrey Podos

Associate Professor

Mechanisms and Evolution of Vertebrate Behavior; Bioacoustics

Alan M. Richmond

Lecturer/Curator

Herpetology

Margaret Riley

Professor

Microbial Molecular Evolution and Ecology

Lawrence M. Schwartz

Professor

Programmed Cell Death

Dennis G. Searcy

Professor

Cellular Evolution and Physiology

Karen B. Searcy

Lecturer/Curator

Plant Reproductive Ecology

Patricia Wadsworth

Professor

Cell Biology of Microtubules

Elsbeth Walker

Associate Professor

Plant Development and Molecular Genetics

R. Thomas Zoeller

Professor

"Thyroid Hormone Action on Brain Development" and "Environmental Disruption of Thyroid Hormone Action"