Biological Sciences Faculty and Staff, 2014

 

FACULTY MEMBERS

  

Clay Arango, Associate Professor

Stream ecosystem ecology, nitrogen cycling, human-ecosystem interactions

 

  

Daniel Beck, Professor

Ecology, behavior, and physiology of reptiles in the Pacific NW, southwestern USA, and western Mexico

 

  

April Binder, Associate Professor

Reproductive biology focused on hormonal control of ovarian function and development

 

Lucy Bottcher, Senior Lecturer

Amphibians, management and preservation of tropical rainforests

 

  

Lucinda Carnell, Professor 

Regulation of behavior in the nematode, C. elegans

**ON SABBATICAL LEAVE DURING THE 2019-2020 ACADEMIC YEAR**

  

Tom R. Cottrell, Professor Emeritus

Plant ecology in areas of fire disturbance, rare plant habitats

 

  

David Darda, Professor

Evolutionary vertebrate morphology, herpetology

 

  

Jennifer Dechaine, Associate Professor

Plant evolutionary genetics

 

  

Blaise Dondji, Professor

Cellular immune responses to hookworm and Leishmania infections

 

  

Kristina Ernest, Professor

Terrestrial ecology: small mammals, species interactions, connectivity

 

  

Fabiola Serra Fuertes, Senior Lecturer

Animal biology, physiology

 

  

Eric Graham, Lecturer

Plant ecology

 

  

Jason Irwin, Professor

Physiological and ecological aspects of cold tolerance in insects and amphibians

 

  

Paul James, Professor

Ecology & fisheries biology

 

  

Jim Johnson, Professor 

Mycology, molecular systematics, molecular ecology and amphibian disease

 

  

Holly Pinkart, Professor / Department Chair

Microbial ecology and physiology, microbes of saline alkaline lakes

 

  

Mary Poulson, Professor

Plant physiology, photosynthesis, and photosynthetic responses to the environment

 

  

Wayne Quirk, Professor

Sensory Physiology

 

  

Ian Quitadamo, Professor

Neuro-cognitive basis of critical thinking, assessment of science learning

 

 

Linda Raubeson, Professor        

Phylogeny of conifers, chloroplast genome evolution, conservation and ecological genetics of local plants

 

  

Alison Scoville, Associate Professor

Ecological and evolutionary genomics, rapid evolution and conservation biology

 

  

Gabrielle Stryker, Associate Professor

Protozoan parasites, paraflagellar rod proteins in kinetoplastids, cell motility, immunology

 

 

Lixing Sun, Professor

Ecology and evolution of animal behavior (especially communication systems), primatology