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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