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

Research Interests: STEM education pedagogy and situational factors that influence student success rates in STEM courses and degree programs through the use of participant interviews, self-surveys, proctored-surveys and electro...

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: 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

Advising: Neuroscience, Physiology, Cell and Molecular Biology.

Research Interests: Neuroscience, Neuroendocrinology, Reproductive Physiology, Glial cells. My research goal is to dissect the role of glial cells in the control of reproductive function in mammals.

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