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

Tobias Baskin

Professor

Regulation of Plant Morphogenesis During Growth & Development

Jeffrey Blanchard

Associate Professor

Microbiomes, Ecology, Evolution, Genomics, Bioinformatics

Bruce Byers

Associate Professor, Chief Undergraduate Advisor

Songbird Vocalizations

Ana L. Caicedo

Professor

Plant Molecular Evolution and Evolutionary Genomics

Cristina Cox Fernandes

Lecturer/Adjunct Research Associate Professor

Diversity of Amazonian Fishes

Gerald B. Downes

Professor

Motor Behavior and Epilepsy

Alexander R. Gerson

Associate Professor

Integrative Eco-physiology - Environmental Physiology of Birds

Christiane I. Healey

Senior Lecturer II

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, Department Chair

Developmental Neurobiology: Axon Guidance and Forebrain Patterning

Paul S. Katz

Professor and Director of Neuroscience

Evolution, Development, and Function of Neural Circuits underlying Behavior

Joshua Lonthair

Lecturer

Conservation Physiology of Fishes

Benjamin Normark

Professor

Evolution of Unusual Genetic Systems

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

Maria Stager

Assistant Professor

 

Elsbeth Walker

Professor

Plant Genetics and Physiology