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 |
| Tobias Baskin |
Professor |
Regulation of Plant Morphogenesis During Growth & Development |
| Jeffrey Blanchard |
Associate Professor |
Anaerobic Microbiology, Microbial Ecology and Evolution, Genomics, Bioinformatics |
| Bruce Byers |
Associate Professor |
Songbird Vocalizations |
| Ana L. Caicedo |
Associate Professor |
Plant Molecular Evolution and Evolutionary Genomics |
| Cristina Cox Fernandes |
Lecturer/Adjunct Research Associate Professor |
Diversity of Amazonian Fishes |
| Gerald B. Downes |
Associate Professor |
Motor Behavior and Epilepsy |
| Alexander R. Gerson |
Assistant Professor |
Integrative Eco-physiology - Environmental Physiology of Birds |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Benjamin Normark |
Professor and Department Chair |
Evolution of Unusual Genetic Systems |
| 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 |
| Elsbeth Walker |
Professor |
Plant Genetics and Physiology |
| R. Thomas Zoeller |
Professor |
Thyroid Hormone Action on Brain Development and Environmental Disruption of Thyroid Hormone Action |
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