Biology Faculty

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Robert Belton

Associate Professor

rbelton@nmu.edu 906-227-1582
Office Location:

2107 Weston Hall

Advising: Physiology, Pre-Physical Therapy, General Biology

Research Interests: Developmental biology, cancer biology, intercellular communication

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John G. Bruggink

Professor

jbruggin@nmu.edu 906-227-2342
Office Location:

2117 Weston Hall

Advising: Wildlife Biology, Ecology, Mammalogy & General Biology

Research Interests: Wildlife ecology and management, population ecology

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Heng-Hsuan Chu

Associate Professor

hchu@nmu.edu 906-227-2343
Office Location:

2003 Weston Hall

Teaching: Introductory Biology, Plant Kingdom, Plant Physiology

Research Interests: Plant nutrition & abiotic stress, effects of mineral deficiencies and toxic metals on plants

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Cory Elowe

Assistant Professor

celowe@nmu.edu 906-227-2163
Office Location:

2122 Weston Hall

Advising: Physiology, Anatomy, Ecology, General Biology

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

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Kurt Galbreath

Professor

kgalbrea@nmu.edu 906-227-1586
Office Location:

2119 Weston Hall

Advising: Zoology, Parasitology, Evolutionary Biology

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

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Dr. Sylvain Giroud

Sylvain Giroud

Assistant Professor

sgiroud@nmu.edu 906-227-2145
Office Location:

2114 Weston Hall

Advising: Anatomy, Physiology

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

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Brent Graves

Professor

bgraves@nmu.edu 906-227-1812
Office Location:

3015 Weston Hall

Advising: General Biology, Ecology, Zoology

Research Interests: Behavioral ecology, life history evolution, herpetology

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Jessica Juarez

Assistant Professor

jjuarez@nmu.edu 906-227-2138
Office Location:

2126 Weston Hall

Advising: Forensic Biology, Taphonomy

Research Interests: Aberrant bone formation, taphonomy of tissue decomposition

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Diana Lafferty

Associate Professor

dlaffert@nmu.edu 906-227-2227
Office Location:

2011 Weston Hall

Advising: Fisheries and Wildlife Management, Ecology

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

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Danny LeBert

Associate Professor

dlebert@nmu.edu 906-227-2207
Office Location:

2007 Weston Hall

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

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Jill B. K. Leonard

Professor and Department Head

jileonar@nmu.edu 906-227-1619
Office Location:

2001a Weston Hall

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

Research Interests: Fish biology, physiological ecology, migration

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Alec R. Lindsay

Professor

alindsay@nmu.edu 906-227-1834
Office Location:

2115 Weston Hall

Advising: Ecology, General Biology, Zoology

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

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Donna Maki

Professor

donmaki@nmu.edu 906-227-2443
Office Location:

2013 Weston Hall

Advising: Botany, General Biology, Microbiology

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

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Dr. Liz Mandeville

Liz Mandeville

Assistant Professor

lmandevi@nmu.edu 906-227-2133
Office Location:

2113 Weston Hall

Advising: Fish biology, Conservation genetics

Research Interests: Fisheries genetics and conservation biology

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Hayden McKee-Zech

Assistant Professor

hmckeeze@nmu.edu 906-277-2148
Office Location:

2124 Weston Hall

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

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

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Angela Mohrman

Instructor

angstewa@nmu.edu 906-227-2319
Office Location:

2112 Weston Hall

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

Research Interests: STEM education pedagogy

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Kim O'Keefe

Assistant Professor

kiokeefe@nmu.edu 906-227-2157
Office Location:

2015 Weston Hall

Advising: Ecology, General Biology, Botany

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

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Erich Ottem

Associate Professor

eottem@nmu.edu 906-227-1072
Office Location:

2109 Weston Hall

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

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Ahvi Potticary

Assistant Professor

apottica@nmu.edu 906-227-2364
Office Location:

2114 Weston Hall

Advising: evolutionary biology, behavioral ecology, zoology

Research Interests: ecology and evolution of behavior, natural history

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Alan J. Rebertus

Professor

arebertu@nmu.edu 906-227-2351
Office Location:

2005 Weston Hall

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

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Josh S. Sharp

Associate Professor

jsharp@nmu.edu 906-227-2380
Office Location:

2111 Weston Hall

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

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Roger (Mac) Strand

Professor

rostrand@nmu.edu 906-227-2365
Office Location:

2121 Weston Hall

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

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Katherine C. Teeter

Associate Professor

kteeter@nmu.edu 906-227-1834
Office Location:

2115 Weston Hall

Advising: Biology, Zoology, Genetics

Research Interests: Population and evolutionary genetics

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James VanOrman

Instructor

jvanorma@nmu.edu 906-227-2762
Office Location:

2615 The Science Building

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

Biology Staff

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Ruth Abbott

Student Success Specialist

rabbott@nmu.edu 906-227-2294
Office Location:

2613 The Science Building

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Lauren Anargyros

Student Success Specialist

lanargyr@nmu.edu 906-227-2381
Office Location:

2203C Weston Hall

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Kelsey Avey

Student Success Specialist

kavey@nmu.edu 906-227-1745
Office Location:

3009 Weston Hall

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Cindy Finch

Account Clerk

cfinch@nmu.edu 906-227-1723
Office Location:

2001 Weston Hall

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Janece Hanycz

Senior Secretary

jhanycz@nmu.edu 906-227-2310
Office Location:

2001 Weston Hall

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Jennifer Mital

Student Success Specialist

jmital@nmu.edu 906-227-2524
Office Location:

2814 The Science Building

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Jingfang Niu

Laboratory Supervisor

jniu@nmu.edu 906-227-2311
Office Location:

1312 Weston Hall

Past Faculty

  • Neil Cumberlidge
  • Jennifer Jezylo
  • John Rebers
  • Jackie Bird   
  • Pat Brown
  • Thomas Froiland
  • Frank Verley
  • Ronald Parejko
  • Phil Doepke
  • Lowell Neudeck
  • Lew Peters
  • William Robinson
  • Martin Kopenski
  • Don Snitgen
  • Warren VanDeBerg
  • Maynard Bowers
  • Gordan Gill

Former Lab Technician

  • Duane King

Former Secretaries

  • Patricia Wagner
  • Susie Piziali