Faculty and Staff

Advising: Physiology, Pre-Physical Therapy, General Biology

Research Interests: I am interested in the communication that occurs between cells during embryonic development, and the miscommunication that results in diseases such as cancer.

Advising: Wildlife Biology, Ecology, Mammalogy & General Biology

Research Interests: Wildlife ecology and management, population ecology.

Teaching: Introductory Biology, Plant Kingdom, Plant Physiology

Research Interests: Plant nutrition & abiotic stress, including the effects of mineral deficiencies and toxic metals upon plants.

Teaching: Human Anatomy & Physiology; courses in the Cellular and Molecular Track of the Neuroscience major

Research Interests: In vitro and in vivo model systems of psychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders to study genetic and environmental links associated with neurodevelopment...

Advising: Ecology, Physiology, Zoology.

Research Interests: Taxonomy, phylogenetic systematics, evolution, physiology, parasitology, conservation, ecology, and biogeography of the freshwater crabs of Africa and Madagascar. Research interests also include the freshwater crabs of Asia, Aus...

Advising: Zoology, Parasitology, Evolutionary Biology, Pre-Vet

Research Interests: Historical biogeography of Holarctic mammals and their parasites, host-parasite co-evolution 

Advising: Fisheries & Wildlife Management, Ecology

Research Interests: Applied fisheries ecology; dynamics of fish communities and populations.

Advising: General Biology, Ecology, Zoology

Research Interests: Behavioral ecology, life history evolution, herpetology

Advising: Pre-Veterinarian Medicine, Zoology

Teaching: Human Anatomy & Physiology, Medical Microbiology

Advising: Fisheries and Wildlife Management, Ecology

Research Interests: Wildlife responses to global environmental change, large landscape conservation, human-wildlife conflict mitigation.

Advising: Fisheries & Wildlife Management, Marine Biology, Physiological Ecology

Research Interests: Fish biology, physiological ecology, migration.

Advising: Ecology, General Biology, Zoology

Research Interests: Conservation genetics, ornithology, animal behavior, evolution.

Advising: Botany, General Biology, Microbiology

Research Interests: Research in my lab involves the study of plant-microbe interactions. The overarching theme involves investigating the microbial ecology of plant-associated microbes and applying that knowledge to improve plant growth.

Advising: Neuroscience, Neurophysiology, Physiology, Cell and Molecular Biology.

Research Interests: The role of neurotrophic factors and gonadal steroids in the maintenance of neuromuscular junctions and motorneuron dendritic morphology. The influence of gonadal steroids on the physiological functioning...

Advising: General Biology, Cellular or Molecular Biology, Physiology.

Research Interests: The current focus of my research is the nature of protein/chitin interactions in the arthropod exoskeleton or cuticle. I am investigating the protein domains required for cuticular proteins to bind to the polysaccha...

Advising: Ecology, General Biology, Botany

Research Interests: Ecology of endangered plant flora; roles of disturbances (fire, wind) and large mammals on community and landscape dynamics.

Advising: Microbiology, Medically-related Professional Fields, General Biology

Research Interests: Gene regulation in bacteria, medical microbiology, RNA degradation, regulators of bacterial virulence gene expression, and toxin secretion systems.

Advising: Invertebrate Zoology, Ecology, General Biology.

Research Interests: Stream ecology, ecohydrology, aquatic invertebrate community ecology and bioenergetics, ecology of Lake Superior, upper peninsula stream conservation.

Advising: Biology, Zoology, Genetics

Research Interests: Population and evolutionary genetics

James coordinates laboratories for BI 100, BI 111, and BI 112, and teaches labs for Biology courses as needed.