Department of Biology Faculty

Richard Veit, Chairperson

Chang-Hui Shen, Deputy Chair

• Frank Burbrink - Associate Professor (systematics of reptiles)
• Albert Burchsted - Assistant Professor (ecology, behavior, song learning in birds)
• Gregory Cheplick - Professor (ecology of coastal plant populations, plant competition)
• Leonard Ciaccio – Professor
• Rebecca Chamberlain - Lecturer
• Robert Corin - Associate Professor (cell biology)
• Margaret Dooley - Associate Professor (genetics, microorganisms as a source of alternative fuels)
• Abdesslam El Idrissi - Associate Professor (Neuronal plasticity and mechanisms of Epileptogenesis)
• Jimmie Fata – Assistant Professor (Molecular mechanisms underlying mammary gland development and cancer)
• Jianying Gu – Assistant Professor (Gene expression analysis, comparative and evolutionary genomics)
• Charles Kramer - Professor (reproductive endocrinology of fish, neuroendocrine control of sex change)
• William L'Amoreaux - Associate Professor (matrix metalloproteinase production in proliferative diseases; tick salivary gland physiology)
• Jacqueline LeBlanc - Professor (embryonic cell determination, gastrulation)
• Robert Matlock – Assistant Professor (theoretical ecology, conservation biology and agroecology)
• Elena McCoy - Associate Professor (microbial metabolism and detection of DNA-damaging agents; coordinator, Medical Technology program)
• Shaibal Mitra - Assistant Professor (Avian ecology, evolution, and conservation; specifically migration, host-parasite interactions, and mating systems)
• John Oppenheimer - Associate Professor (animal ecology, wetlands ecology, impacts of pollutants on human health)
• Jose Ramirez - Assistant Professor (Neurophysiology of ion channels)
• Chang-Hui Shen – Associate Professor (mechanism of gene expression; Deputy Chair)
• Richard Veit - Professor (bird population dynamics, foraging strategy, seabird ecology; Department Chair)
• William G. Wallace - Associate Professor (metal toxicity and trophic transfer in aquatic ecosystems)
• Andrzej Wieraszko - Professor (mechanisms regulating nerve cell activity)

Emeritus Faculty

• Joel Schwartz – Professor Emeritus
• Joseph Albanese - Professor Emeritus
• Howard Baumel - Professor Emeritus
• Fred Bohensky - Professor Emeritus
• Sharon Bramson - Professor Emeritus
• J. Henry Clitheroe - Professor Emeritus
• Sasha Koulish - Professor Emeritus
• Ann Merlino - Professor Emeritus
• Martin Rosen - Associate Professor
• Joseph Vagvolgyi - Associate Professor

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