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 |
Professor |
Ecology and Evolution of Insect-Plant Interactions |
| R. Craig Albertson |
Associate Professor |
Evolutionary Developmental Biology |
| Peter Alpert |
Professor |
Plant Ecology and Conservation Science |
| Courtney C. Babbitt |
Assistant Professor of Biology and Commonwealth Honors College |
Evolutionary Genomics |
| Madelaine E. Bartlett |
Assistant Professor |
Plant Evo-Devo |
| Tobias Baskin |
Professor |
Regulation of Plant Morphogenesis During Growth & Development |
| Jeffrey Blanchard |
Associate Professor |
Anaerobic Microbiology, Microbial Ecology and Evolution, Genomics, Bioinformatics |
| Steven D. Brewer |
Senior Lecturer II |
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 and Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education and Development |
Neuromuscular Junction: Development and Maintenance |
| Cristina Cox Fernandes |
Lecturer/Adjunct Research Associate Professor |
Diversity of Amazonian Fishes |
| Gerald B. Downes |
Associate Professor |
Motor Behavior and Epilepsy |
| Michelle Facette |
Assistant Professor |
Plant Biology |
| Karine Fenelon |
Assistant Professor |
Synaptic Transmission and Neural Circuits Underlying Sensory Information Filtering |
| Laura I. Francis |
Senior Lecturer |
Molecular Mechanisms of Cell Function |
| Lillian Fritz-Laylin |
Assistant Professor |
Quantitative Evolutionary Cell Biology |
| Alexander R. Gerson |
Assistant Professor |
Integrative Eco-physiology - Environmental Physiology of Birds |
| Priyanjali Ghosh |
Visiting Assistant Professor |
Developmental Neurobiology |
| Samuel P. Hazen |
Associate Professor |
Regulatory Genomics of Plant Growth |
| Christiane I. Healey |
Senior Lecturer |
Ecology, Evolution, and Animal Behavior |
| Peter W. Houlihan |
Senior Lecturer II |
Animal Behavior, Vertebrate Ecology, and Conservation Biology |
| Duncan J. Irschick |
Professor |
Functional Morphology, Evolution, and Behavioral Ecology |
| Elizabeth M. Jakob |
Professor and Associate Dean for Student Success, Graduate School |
Behavioral Ecologist |
| Jody Jellison |
Professor |
Plant Biology |
| 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 |
| Paul S. Katz |
Professor and Director of Neuroscience |
Evolution, Development, and Function of Neural Circuits underlying Behavior |
| Jeffrey Laney |
Lecturer |
Biochemistry, Molecular Biophysics, and Molecular Biology |
| Skye Long |
Lecturer |
Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Neuroscience |
| Kari D. Loomis |
Lecturer |
Cancer Genetics/ Cell signaling/ cell cycle regulation |
| Thomas J. Maresca |
Associate Professor |
Cell Division |
| Michele Markstein |
Assistant Professor |
Stem Cells and Cancer |
| Rosa Moscarella |
Lecturer |
Genetics Education |
| Benjamin Normark |
Professor and Department Chair |
Evolution of Unusual Genetic Systems |
| Akiko Okusu |
Lecturer |
Invertebrate Evolution and Phylogeny |
| Stephanie L. Padilla |
Assistant Professor |
Neural Circuits |
| Sarah Pallas |
Associate Professor |
Developmental neuroscience, Sensory neurophysiology |
| Randall W. Phillis |
Associate Professor |
Neurogenetics of Drosophila |
| Jeffrey Podos |
Professor |
Mechanisms and Evolution of Vertebrate Behavior; Bioacoustics |
| Adam Porter |
Associate Professor |
Evolutionary Biology; Computational Biology |
| Alan M. Richmond |
Senior Lecturer II/Curator |
Herpetology |
| Margaret Riley |
Professor |
Microbial Ecology and Antimicrobial Drug Discovery |
| Caleb M. Rounds |
Lecturer |
Plant Physiology |
| Lawrence M. Schwartz |
Eugene M. and Ronnie Isenberg Professor of Integrated Science |
Programmed Cell Death |
| Tristram G. Seidler |
Extension Assistant Professor/Curator |
Plant Diversity, Ecology, and Conservation |
| Rachid Skouta |
Research Assistant Professor |
Chemistry and Biology |
| Andrew J. Spracklen |
Lecturer |
Actin Cytoskeleton & Cell Adhesion during Development |
| Elena Vazey |
Assistant Professor |
Neuromodulation and Neurodegeneration |
| Patricia Wadsworth |
Professor |
Mitotic spindle assembly and function |
| Elsbeth Walker |
Professor |
Plant Genetics and Physiology |
| Amanda Woerman |
Assistant Professor |
Neurodegeneration and Protein Misfolding |
| Caralyn Zehnder |
Lecturer |
Population & Community Ecology, Entomology, and Science Education |
| R. Thomas Zoeller |
Professor |
Thyroid Hormone Action on Brain Development and Environmental Disruption of Thyroid Hormone Action |
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