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" |
