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: Ecology, Physiology, Zoology

Research Interests: Taxonomy, phylogenetic systematics, evolution, physiology, parasitology, conservation, ecology, and biogeography of the freshwater crabs of Africa, Madagascar, Asia, Australia, Europe, and Central and South America

Advising: Zoology, Parasitology, Evolutionary Biology

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

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

Research Interests: STEM education pedagogy

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

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: 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.