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 |
|---|---|---|
| R. Craig Albertson |
Assistant Professor |
Evolutionary Developmental Biology |
| 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 |
| Ana L. Caicedo |
Associate Professor |
Plant Molecular Evolution and Evolutionary Genomics |
| Elizabeth A. Connor |
Associate Professor |
Neuromuscular Junction: Development and Maintenance |
| Gerald B. Downes |
Associate Professor |
Development and function of spinal cord networks |
| Samuel P. Hazen |
Assistant Professor |
Regulatory Networks and Natural Variation in Plant Cell Wall Biosynthesis |
| 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 |
| Thomas J. Maresca |
Assistant Professor |
Cell Division |
| Randall W. Phillis |
Associate Professor |
Neurogenetics of Drosophila |
| Margaret Riley |
Professor |
Microbial Molecular Evolution and Ecology |
| Lawrence M. Schwartz |
Eugene M. and Ronnie Isenberg Professor of Integrated Science |
Programmed Cell Death |
| 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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