BIOLOGY FACULTY

Dr. Jennifer Apple

Assistant Professor

Ecology and evolution of plant-insect interactions; molecular ecology

Dr. George Briggs

Associate Professor & Chair

Physiological Plant Ecology, Carbon Allocation in Plants, Physiological Responses to Stress in Plants

Dr. Ming-Mei Chang

Associate Professor

Plant Molecular Biology

Dr. Abbi Cox

Assistant Professor

Epithelial development. Cell adhesion and the actin cytoskeleton in morphogenesis

Dr. Kristina Hannam

Associate Professor

Conservation Biology, Behavioral Ecology, Host-Parasite Interactions

Dr. Gregg Hartvigsen

Professor

Modeling Biological Systems, Terrestrial Plant Ecology

Dr. John Haynie

Associate Professor

Developmental Biology, Developmental Genetics, Regeneration, Pattern Formation in Drosophila

Dr. Harold Hoops

Professor

Cell Ultrastructure, Structure Morphogenesis, and Physiology of the Green Algal Flagellar Apparatus

Dr. Jani Lewis

Associate Professor

Biology of Cell Junctions

Dr. Janice Lovett

Associate Professor

Molecular Biology, Drosophila Spermatogenesis, Genomic Evolution

Dr. Duane McPherson

Associate Professor

Neural Substrates of Behavior, Neurophysiology of Swimming in Aplysia, Immunocytochemistry of Neurotransmitter Substances, Behavioral Ecology and Conservation of Sea Turtles

Dr. Kevin Militello

Assistant Professor

Promoter elements, antisense RNAs, genomics, and bioinformatics of the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum and other protozoan parasites

Dr. Susan Bandoni Muench

Professor

NOTE:  On sabbatical Fall 2009.

Systematics of Parasitic Helminths, Phylogenetic Reconstruction, Host-Parasite Coevolution & Biogeography

Dr. Robert O'Donnell

Distinguished Teaching Professor

Immunology, Tumor Immunology

Dr. Robert Simon

Professor

Water Microbiology with an emphasis on Bacterial Source Typing; The Microbiology of Social Networks

Dr. Ray Spear

Professor

Forest Ecology, Quaternary Plant Ecology, Dynamics of Tree-Line Communities and Rates of Vegetation Change

Dr. Edwin Spicka

Associate Professor

Zoology, Human Anatomy and Reproduction

Dr. Cynthia Briggs

Teaches Biology of Insects, Nutrition, Heredity, Animal Physiology Lab and Medicinal Plants Biology Seminar

Dr. Barbara Davis

Teaches Anatomy Laboratory

Cheryll Reynolds        (part-time, mornings)

Keyboard Specialist II

Premed Advisory Committee Secretary, Student Payroll Manager