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full-time faculty
adjunct
emeritus
postdoctoral researchers
department staff
graduate students
The Department of Biological Sciences has eighteen
full-time, ten adjunct, and one emeritus faculty members. Several
part-time faculty appointments are filled by professorial-level
persons from the Smithsonian Institution, National Institutes
of Health, and other area universities--either as teachers
of undergraduate and graduate courses or as adjuncts
in support of individual graduate students.
Courses listed below numbered 100-199 are advanced
undergraduate courses, courses
numbered above 199 are graduate courses. Tutorial and
research courses at both the undergraduate and graduate
levels may be offered by any faculty member, and these
are not listed below.
FULL-TIME FACULTY
All Departmental faculty are engaged in scholarship
and participate actively in professional societies and
in University governance. Several faculty hold government
and private foundation grants in support of their research.
Many faculty serve on peer review committees
to review research articles for scholarly journals
and to evaluate grant funding proposals.
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Marc
W. Allard, Louis Weintraub Associate Professor;
Ph.D., Harvard
Molecular systematics; evolution and phylogenetics
of the Mammalia. |
Seminar: Current Topics in Systematic Biology (1
or 2) (BiSc
207)
Phylogenetic Systematics (4) (BiSc
210)
Molecular Evolution (4) (BiSc
224)
Molecular Phylogenetics (4) (BiSc
225)
Mammal Phylogeny (4) (BiSc
226)
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Kenneth
M. Brown, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Michigan State.
Developmental biology; role of neurohormones in
early embryogenesis; developmental toxicology and
stress protein induction. |
Developmental Biology (4) (BiSc
114)
Experimental Developmental Biology (4) (BiSc
115)
Seminar: Developmental Biology (3) (BiSc
249)
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John
R. Burns, Professor; Ph.D., Massachusetts.
Histology; reproductive biology and comparative morphology
of fishes. |
The Diversity of Life (3) (BiSc
3)
Introductory Biology: The Biology of Organisms (4) (BiSc
13)
Histology (4) (BiSc
118)
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Sheri
Church, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Virginia
Evolutionary biology; speciation and molecular evolution. |
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James
M. Clark, Ronald Weintraub
Professor; Ph.D., Chicago.
Paleontology and systematics of tetrapods; field
collection of dinosaur-age fossils. |
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Robert
P. Donaldson, Professor; Ph.D., Michigan State.
Cell and molecular biology, plant biochemistry;
proteins of glyoxysomal (peroxisomal) membranes;
electron transport; peroxisomal targeting sequence
receptor; iron reduction. |
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Patrick
S. Herendeen, Robert Griggs Associate Professor;
Ph.D., Indiana.
Plant systematics and paleontology: systematics
of the legume family, especially Caesalpinioideae;
early fossil history of flowering plants. |
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Patricia Hernandez, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Harvard.
Evolution of developmental mechanisms; vertebrate embryology/pattern formation; functional morphology
and anatomy of vertebrates; Ichthyology. |
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Gustavo
Hormiga, Ruth Weintraub Professor,
Ph.D., Maryland.
Systematics of spiders; evolutionary biology of
spiders, especially orb weavers and their relatives.
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Aleksander Jeremic, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Iowa State University.
Molecular Neuroendocrinology; Nanobiology; Brain and Islet Amyloidosis
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Diana
E. Johnson, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Chicago.
Population genetics; evolution of gene families, genetic variation in populations, gene discovery |
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John
Lill, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Missouri-St. Louis.
Plant-insect interactions, insect ecology and evolution. |
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Diana
L. Lipscomb, Professor; Ph.D., Maryland.
Evolutionary biology; evolution of protozoa; origin
of multicellular plants and animals; systematic
theory, especially cladistics. |
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Henry
Merchant, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Rutgers.
Ecology; population energetics and dynamics; community
and ecosystem analysis; biology of urban areas.
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David
W. Morris, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Leeds
(England).
Molecular genetics; genetic manipulation of microorganisms
for methanol and ethanol fuel production from organic
waste; molecular biology of medicinal plants.
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Randall
K. Packer, Professor; Ph.D., Pennsylvania State.
Electrolyte and acid-base balance, especially in mammals; kidney function.
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L.
Courtney Smith, Professor; Ph.D.,
UCLA.
Molecular evolution of immune systems; cell
and molecular biology of immune responses in echinoderms.
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Frank
J. Turano, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Miami
(Ohio).
Plant molecular biology and biochemistry; ligand-gated
ion channels; nitrogen metabolism; calcium or calmodulin-activated
enzymes; iron reduction. |
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Elizabeth
F. Wells, Associate Professor; Ph.D., North
Carolina.
Systematics, chemotaxonomy, and molecular systematics
in flowering plants; plant ecology; medicinal plants.
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ADJUNCT
Carole Baldwin, Ph.D. -
Fishes,
National Museum of Natural History.
Eric Brown,
Ph.D. - Division of Molecular Biology, Center
for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, US Food and Drug Administration.
Matthew Carrano,
Ph.D. - Paleobiology, National Museum
of Natural History.
Jonathan Coddington,
Ph.D. -
Entomology, National Museum of Natural History.
Kevin de Queiroz, Ph.D. -
Reptiles and Amphibians,
National Museum of Natural History.
Kristian Fauchald, Ph.D. -
Invertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History.
Benjamin Fisher, Ph.D. -
Developmental Toxicity, Covance Laboratories.
Peter L. Goering, Ph.D. -
Center for Devices and Radiological Health,
US Food and Drug Administration
Kenneth Ingham, Ph.D. -
Biochemistry
Department, Holland Red Cross Laboratories.
Lynne Parenti, Ph.D. -
Fishes,
National Museum of Natural History.
F. Christian Thompson, Ph.D. -
Entomology (USDA Systematic Entomology Laboratory),
National Museum of Natural History.
Stan Weitzman, Ph.D. -
Fishes,
National Museum of Natural History.
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EMERITUS
Terry L. Hufford, Emeritus Professor; Ph.D., Ohio State.
Taxonomy, morphology, and ecology of freshwater
diatoms; science education, university and pre-college
levels.
Robert
E. Knowlton, Professor; Ph.D., North
Carolina.
Invertebrate zoology; marine biology; physiological
ecology and morphogenesis of decapod crustacean
larvae under natural and experimental conditions.
VISITING PROFESSORS
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Lihong Tu,
Postdoctoral Scientist; Ph.D.
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POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHERS
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Dimitar Dimitrov,
Postdoctoral Scientist; Ph.D., Universidad de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
Systematics of Araneoid Spiders. |
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Young-Ok Kim,
Postdoctoral Scientist; Ph.D., Yonsei University, Korea.
Molecular and Functional analysis of immune-related genes from Marine Invertebrates. |
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DEPARTMENTAL STAFF
Hoda Fatah,
Senior Secretary
Katherine Hoffman,
Supervisor of Store
Robert Perry,
Greenhouse Manager
Gavin P. Riordan,
Sequencing Manager
Tara Scully,
Lab Coordinator
Evelyn Williams,
Executive Aide
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