Biological Sciences
Science Building 338
(509) 963-2731
biology@cwu.edu
Stream ecosystem ecology, nitrogen cycling, human-ecosystem interactions
Ecology, behavior, and physiology of reptiles in the Pacific NW, southwestern USA, and western Mexico
Reproductive biology focused on hormonal control of ovarian function and development
**ON SABBATICAL LEAVE DURING THE 2020-2021 ACADEMIC YEAR**
Amphibians, management and preservation of tropical rainforests
Regulation of behavior in the nematode, C. elegans
Evolutionary vertebrate morphology, herpetology
Plant evolutionary genetics
Cellular immune responses to hookworm and Leishmania infections
Terrestrial ecology: small mammals, species interactions, connectivity
Info coming soon
Animal biology, physiology
Plant ecology
Physiological and ecological aspects of cold tolerance in insects and amphibians
Ecology & fisheries biology
Mycology, molecular systematics, molecular ecology and amphibian disease
Aspects of metabolism and how it influences cell fate
Microbial ecology and physiology, microbes of saline alkaline lakes
**ON SABBATICAL LEAVE DURING THE 2020-2021 ACADEMIC YEAR**
Plant physiology, photosynthesis, and photosynthetic responses to the environment
Sensory Physiology
Neuro-cognitive basis of critical thinking, assessment of science learning
Phylogeny of conifers, chloroplast genome evolution, conservation and ecological genetics of local plants
Ecological and evolutionary genomics, rapid evolution and conservation biology
Protozoan parasites, paraflagellar rod proteins in kinetoplastids, cell motility, immunology
Ecology and evolution of animal behavior (especially communication systems), primatology
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