Faculty and Staff - Department of Biology

Advising: Physiology, Pre-Physical Therapy, General Biology

Research Interests: Developmental biology, cancer biology, intercellular communication

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, effects of mineral deficiencies and toxic metals on plants

Advising: Physiology, Anatomy, Ecology, General Biology

Research Interests: Environmental physiology, energetics, ornithology, flexible responses to environmental stress 

Advising: Zoology, Parasitology, Evolutionary Biology

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

Advising: Anatomy, Physiology

Research Interests: Ecological animal physiology, physiological responses to climate change

Advising: General Biology, Ecology, Zoology

Research Interests: Behavioral ecology, life history evolution, herpetology

Advising: Forensic Biology, Taphonomy

Research Interests: Aberrant bone formation, taphonomy of tissue decomposition

Advising: Fisheries and Wildlife Management, Ecology

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

Advising: General Biology, Pre-Med, Pre-PA, Pre-PT/AT, careers in laboratory research, and graduate school

Research Interests: Role of early wound signaling in regulating wound healing outcome

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: Plant-microbe interactions and ecology, plant-microbe applications in agriculture

Advising: Fish biology, Conservation genetics

Research Interests: Fisheries genetics and conservation biology

Advising: Forensic Biology, Ecology, Entomology, Forensic Biological Anthropology

Research Interests: Postmortem interval estimation (PMI), Decomposition Ecology, Prime Drivers of Decomposition, Intrinsic Factors, Toxicology, Entomology

Advising: Biology, cellular & molecular biology, and biomedical sciences 

Research Interests: STEM education pedagogy

Advising: Ecology, General Biology, Botany

Research Interests: Plant ecophysiology, climate change biology, grassland ecology

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

Research Interests: Maintenance of neuromuscular junctions and motorneuron dendritic morphology, physiological functioning of sexually dimorphic nuclei in the endocrine hypothalamus

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

Advising: evolutionary biology, behavioral ecology, zoology

Research Interests: ecology and evolution of behavior, natural history

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, toxin secretion systems

Advising: Biology, Zoology, Genetics

Research Interests: Population and evolutionary genetics

Advising: Fisheries & Wildlife Management, Freshwater Ecology

Research Interests: Invertebrate biology, aquatic ecology