Current Faculty
Below is an alphabetical listing of Current 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. And you can combine these criteria to further limit your search.
| Name | Title | Research Interests |
|---|---|---|
| Lynn Adler |
Associate Professor |
Ecology and evolution of insect-plant interactions |
| R. Craig Albertson |
Assistant Professor |
Evolutionary Developmental Biology |
| Peter Alpert |
Professor |
Plant Ecology and Conservation Science |
| Tobias Baskin |
Professor |
Regulation of Plant Morphogenesis During Growth & Development |
| Magdalena Bezanilla |
Associate Professor |
Molecular Mechanisms Behind Plant Cell Growth |
| Eric L. Bittman |
Professor |
Circadian Rhythms, Reproduction, and Seasonal Changes in Brain Function |
| Jeffrey Blanchard |
Associate Professor |
Climate Change, Biofuels, Clostridia, Microbial Ecology and Evolution, Genomics, Bioinformatics |
| Patricia L. R. Brennan |
Research Assistant Professor |
Evolutionary Biology and Behavioral Ecology |
| Steven D. Brewer |
Assistant Professor |
Science Education; Instructional Technology |
| Bruce Byers |
Associate Professor |
Songbird Vocalizations |
| Ana L. Caicedo |
Associate Professor |
Plant Molecular Evolution and Evolutionary Genomics |
| Elizabeth A. Connor |
Associate Professor |
Neuromuscular Junction: Development and Maintenance |
| Cristina Cox Fernandes |
Lecturer/Adjunct Research Associate Professor |
Diversity of Amazonian Fishes |
| Gerald B. Downes |
Associate Professor |
Development and function of spinal cord networks |
| Elizabeth R. Dumont |
Professor |
Vertebrate Morphology |
| Laura I. Francis |
Lecturer |
Molecular Mechanisms |
| Judith E. Goodenough |
Senior Lecturer II |
Circadian phototactic rhythm in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii |
| Samuel P. Hazen |
Assistant Professor |
Regulatory Networks and Natural Variation in Plant Cell Wall Biosynthesis |
| Christiane I. Meyer Healey |
Lecturer |
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| Peter W. Houlihan |
Senior Lecturer |
Animal Behavior, Vertebrate Ecology, and Conservation Biology |
| Duncan J. Irschick |
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 |
| Wei-Lih Lee |
Associate Professor |
Mechanism of Dynein-Mediated Nuclear Migration and Spindle Positioning |
| Geng-Lin Li |
Assistant Professor |
Synaptic Transmission in Sensory Systems |
| Thomas J. Maresca |
Assistant Professor |
Cell Division |
| Michele Markstein |
Assistant Professor |
Regulation of gene expression |
| Benjamin Normark |
Associate Professor |
Evolution of unusual genetic systems |
| W. Brian O'Connor |
Professor |
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| Sheila Patek | Associate Professor | Biomechanics, Bioacoustics, Physiology, Macroevolution, Marine Biology |
| Randall W. Phillis |
Associate Professor |
Neurogenetics of Drosophila |
| Jeffrey Podos |
Professor |
Mechanisms and Evolution of Vertebrate Behavior; Bioacoustics |
| Adam Porter |
Associate Professor |
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| Alan M. Richmond |
Senior Lecturer/Curator |
Herpetology |
| Margaret Riley |
Professor |
Microbial Molecular Evolution and Ecology |
| Lawrence M. Schwartz |
Eugene M. and Ronnie Isenberg Professor of Integrated Science |
Programmed Cell Death |
| Karen B. Searcy |
Senior Lecturer/Curator |
Plant Reproductive Ecology |
| Patricia Wadsworth |
Professor |
Cell Division and Cytoskeleton |
| Elsbeth Walker |
Professor |
Plant Development and Molecular Genetics |
| R. Thomas Zoeller |
Professor |
Thyroid Hormone Action on Brain Development and Environmental Disruption of Thyroid Hormone Action |
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