Faculty


Our world-renowned biology faculty are passionate about teaching and research. Explore our faculty page to learn more about them and their work.

Peter Armbruster

Davis Family Professor and Co-Director of Graduate Studies
Regents Hall Science Center, room # 508
Phone: 202-687-2567
Email: paa9@georgetown.edu
Research Interests: Evolutionary dynamics of range expansion, adaptation genomics, diapause.

Armbruster Lab Website

Dylan Audette

Assistant Teaching Professor
Reiss Science Building, room 424
Phone: 202-784-5307
Email: da836@georgetown.edu
Interests: Scholarship of teaching and learning in science; transcriptional control of gene regulation; developmental biology.

Shweta Bansal

Shweta Bansal

Professor
Regents Hall Science Center, room # 510
Phone: 202-687-9256
Email: sb753@georgetown.edu
Research Interests: Network modeling of disease; quantitative disease ecology; epidemiology and public/animal health problems.

Bansal Lab Website
shauna bennett

Shauna Bennett

Assistant Teaching Professor
Regents Hall Science Center, room # 357
Phone: 202-687-5708
Email: sb1949@georgetown.edu
Research Interests: Cell and molecular biology, virology; science communication; science education.

Shaun Brinsmade

Shaun Brinsmade

Professor
Regents Hall Science Center, room # 324 
Phone: 202-687-6549
Email: sb1344@georgetown.edu
Research Interests: Bacterial pathogenesis; nutrient sensing.

Brinsmade Lab Website
Isaac Sandoval

Isaac Cervantes-Sandoval

Assistant Professor
Regents Hall Science Center, room # 414
Phone: 202-687-3853
Email: Isaac.Cervantes.Sandoval@georgetown.edu
Research Interests: Molecular and cellular mechanisms of learning and memory; forgetting memories using the fruit fly as an animal model.

Cervantes-Sandoval Lab Website

Mun Chun (MC) Chan

Associate Teaching Professor
Regents Hall Science Center, room # 355
Phone: 202-687-9254
Email: mc2198@georgetown.edu
Interests: Disease of the skeletomuscular and cardiovascular systems; Science education. 

Dail

Dail Chapman

Assistant Teaching Professor
Regents Hall Science Center, room # 341
Phone: 202-687-5734
Email: dc1350@georgetown.edu
Research Interests: molecular biophysics and neurobiology, science education

Thomas coate

Thomas Coate  

Associate Professor and Co-Director of Undergraduate Studies
Regents Hall Science Center, room # 410
Phone: 202-687-9143
Email: tmc91@georgetown.edu
Research Interests: Developmental neuroscience; axon guidance; inner ear neurobiology.

Coate Lab Website
Alexandra DeCandia

Alexandra DeCandia

Assistant Teaching Professor
Reiss Science Building, room # 422
Phone: 202-687-0310
Email; ald86@georgetown.edu
Research Interests: wildlife conservation genetics, microbiomes, and disease; science education and communication.

DeCandia Lab Website

Heidi Elmendorf

Associate Professor
Regents Hall Science Center, room # 318
Phone: 202-687-9883
Email: hge@georgetown.edu
Research Interests: Cell biology of Giardia; genome organization and structure.

Elmendorf Lab Website
Jeanetta Floyd

Jeanetta Floyd

Associate Teaching Professor
Regents Hall Science Center, room # 375
Phone: 202-687- 5639
Email: jf1605@georgetown.edu
Interests: molecular microbiology, microbial metagenomics, and science education. 

Jennifer Fox 

Teaching Professor and Director of the Biology Major
Regents Hall Science Center, room # 373
Phone: 202-687-5767
Email: jaf243@georgetown.edu
Interests: Life history evolution; ecological genetics.

Hamilton

Matthew Hamilton 

Associate Professor and Co-Director of Undergraduate Studies
Regents Hall Science Center, room # 508
Phone: 202-687-5924
Email: hamiltm1@georgetown.edu
Research Interests: Population genetics and mathematical biology. 

Hamilton Lab Website

Haiyan He

Assistant Professor
Regents Hall Science Center, room # 412
Phone: 202-687- 3834
Email: hh772@georgetown.edu
Research Interests: Experience-dependent structural and functional plasticity in the visual system; Metaplasticity; Development and refinement of the inhibitory neuronal circuit and its roles in the etiology of neurodevelopmental disorders.

He Lab Website

Jeffrey Huang

Provost’s Distinguished Associate Professor
Regents Hall Science Center, room # 406 
Phone: 202-687-1741
Email:  jh1659@georgetown.edu
Research Interests: CNS neuron-glia interactions, myelin biogenesis, inflammation, and regeneration.

Huang Lab Website
Dan Isaac

Daniel Isaac 

Biology Program Manager 
Reiss Science Building, room # 428 
Phone: 202-687-5357
Email: di75@georgetown.edu
Interests: bacterial stress response, enterotoxigenic E. coli pathogenesis, the history of neuroscience, undergraduate and graduate student education and mentoring.

Sarah Johnson

Professor
Regents Hall Science Center, room # 514
Phone: 202-687-3893
Email: sj599@georgetown.edu
Research Interests: Geobiology, Astrobiology.

Johnson Lab Website
Kathleen Maguire-Zeiss

Kathleen Maguire-Zeiss  

Professor
Research Building EPO8
Phone: 202-687-2791
Email: km445@georgetown.edu
Research Interests: Neuroinflammation; misfolded protein disorders; neuron-glia communication; neurodegenerative diseases

Maguire-Zeiss Lab Website
Janet Mann

Janet Mann

Professor
Regents Hall Science Center, room # 516 
Phone: 202-687-1307
Email: mannj2@georgetown.edu
Research Interests: Behavior of dolphins; mother-calf interactions; social networks.
Projects: Shark Bay Dolphin Project, Potomac-Chesapeake Dolphin Project

Peter Marra

Professor of Biology and Dean of The Earth Commons Institute
Regents Hall Science Center, room # 391
Phone: 202-687-3335
Email: ppm28@georgetown.edu
Research Interests: Migratory Birds, Conservation

Marra Lab Website
Timothy

Timothy Newfield 

Associate Professor
ICC – Edward B. Bunn S.J. Intercultural Center
Phone: 202-687-6061
Email: tpn11@georgetown.edu
Interests: Historical epidemiology; interdisciplinary premodern environmental history; origins and late Holocene history of infectious diseases of humans and livestock.

Manus

Manus Patten

Teaching Professor
Regents Hall Science Center, room # 347
Phone: 202-687-5731
Email: mmp64@georgetown.edu
Interests: Evolutionary genetics.

Patten Lab Website
Leslie

Leslie Ries

Associate Professor
Regents Hall Science Center, room # 530
Phone: 202-687-5678
Email: lr354@georgetown.edu
Research Interests: Butterfly community dynamics; biogeography, climate and land-use change, ecological and biodiversity informatics.
Websites: Ries Lab Website, MonarchNet, Butterfly Monitoring Network

Ronda Rolfes

Ronda Rolfes

Professor and Chair
Regents Hall Science Center, room # 308
Phone: 202-687-5881
Email: rolfesr@georgetown.edu
Research Interests:  Regulation of gene expression; Genetics of yeasts Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Candida albicans

Rolfes Lab Website

Mark Rose

Paduano Distinguished Professor
Regents Hall Science Center, room # 304
Phone: 202-687-5574
Email: mr1513@georgetown.edu
Research Interests: Cell biology in the budding yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae; cell and nuclear fusion, regulation of meiosis.

Anne Rosenwald

Vice-Dean, Earth Commons, and Biology Professor
Regents Hall Science Center, room # 306
Phone: 202-687-5997
Email:  rosenwaa@georgetown.edu
Research Interests: Protein trafficking in Saccharomyces cerevisiae; cell wall biosynthesis in Candida glabrata; microbial genomics.

Elena Silva

Professor and Vice-Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences
Regents Hall Science Center, room # 408
Phone: 202-687-0858
Email: emc26@georgetown.edu
Research Interests: Nervous system development.

Silva Lab Website

Steven Singer

Professor and Director of Biology of Global Health Major
Regents Hall Science Center, room # 310
Phone: 202-687-9884
Email: sms3@georgetown.edu
Research Interests: Host-parasite interactions, Giardia immunology.

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Angela van Doorn

Assistant Teaching Professor
Reiss Science Building, room # 407
Phone: 202-687-5596
Email: av840@georgetown.edu
Research Interests: Conservation; anthropogenic impacts on ecosystems; science education.

Martha Weiss

Professor and Director of the Environmental Biology Major
Regents Hall Science Center, room # 414
Phone: 202-687-1822
Email: weissm@georgetown.edu
Research Interests: Evolutionary ecology; plant-animal interactions and butterfly learning, wasp learning and caterpillar behavior.

Weiss Lab Website

Gina Wimp

Professor and Co-Director of Graduate Studies
Regents Hall Science Center, room # 504
Phone: 202-687-8482
Email: gmw22@georgetown.edu
Research Interests: Community ecology; Genetic and environmental factors that structure biodiversity.

Wimp Lab Website

Tiffany Zarrella

Assistant Professor 
Regents Hall Science Center, room # 318
Phone: 202-784-5084
Email: tiffany.zarrella@georgetown.edu
Research Interests: Polymicrobial interactions, bacterial behaviors, molecular microbiology.

Zarrella lab website

Emeritus Professor

Edward Barrows

Edward Barrows

Professor Emeritus
Phone: 202-687-5841
Email: barrowse@georgetown.edu
Research Interests: Insect ecology, invasive species.

Barrows Lab website
Joseph Neale

Joseph Neale  

Emeritus Professor
Phone: 202-791-7651
Email: nealej@georgetown.edu
Interests: NAAG neuropeptide, pain