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 |
Professor |
Evolutionary Developmental Biology |
| Courtney C. Babbitt |
Associate Professor of Biology and Commonwealth Honors College |
Evolutionary Genomics |
| Madelaine E. Bartlett |
Associate Professor/Director of Natural History Collections |
Plant Evo-Devo |
| Tobias Baskin |
Professor |
Regulation of Plant Morphogenesis During Growth & Development |
| Jeffrey Blanchard |
Associate Professor |
Microbiomes, Ecology, Evolution, Genomics, Bioinformatics |
| Steven D. Brewer |
Senior Lecturer II |
Science Education; Instructional Technology |
| Bruce Byers |
Associate Professor, Chief Undergraduate Advisor |
Songbird Vocalizations |
| Ana L. Caicedo |
Professor |
Plant Molecular Evolution and Evolutionary Genomics |
| Elizabeth A. Connor |
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 |
Associate Professor |
Integrative Eco-physiology - Environmental Physiology of Birds |
| Samuel P. Hazen |
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 |
Interim Dept. Chair, 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 |
Senior Lecturer II |
Biochemistry, Molecular Biophysics, and Molecular Biology |
| Kari D. Loomis |
Senior Lecturer |
Cancer Genetics/ Cell signaling/ cell cycle regulation |
| Thomas J. Maresca |
Associate Professor |
Cell Division |
| Rosa Moscarella |
Senior Lecturer |
Genetics Education |
| Benjamin Normark |
Professor |
Evolution of Unusual Genetic Systems |
| Akiko Okusu |
Senior 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 |
| Margaret Riley |
Professor |
Microbial Ecology and Antimicrobial Drug Discovery |
| Jessica M. Rocheleau |
Lecturer |
Molecular and Cellular Biology |
| Caleb M. Rounds |
Senior 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 |
| Andrew Stephens |
Assistant Professor |
Molecular and Cellular Biology |
| 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 |
Senior Lecturer |
Population & Community Ecology, Entomology, and Science Education |
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