Faculty

Peter Armbruster
Davis Family Professor

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Interests: Evolutionary dynamics of range expansion, adaptation genomics, diapause.

Shweta Bansal
Associate Professor

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Interests: Network modeling of disease; quantitative disease ecology; epidemiology and public/animal health problems.

Edward Barrows
Professor

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Interests: Insect ecology, invasive species.

Shaun Brinsmade
Assistant Professor

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Interests: Bacterial pathogenesis; nutrient sensing.

Isaac Cervantes-Sandoval
Assistant professor

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Interests: Molecular and cellular mechanisms of learning and memory; forgetting memories using the fruit fly as an animal model.

Mun Chun Chan
Associate Teaching Professor

Interests: Disease of the skeletomuscular and cardiovascular systems; Science education.

Kaitlyn Choi
Assistant Teaching Professor

Interests: Embryonic development, epigenetic, undergraduate science education.

Kasey Christopher
Assistant Teaching Professor

Interests: Embryonic development, genetics, science education

Thomas Coate
Assistant Professor

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Interests: Developmental neuroscience; axon guidance; inner ear neurobiology.

Heidi Elmendorf
Associate Professor

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Interests: Cell biology of Giardia; genome organization and structure.

Jennifer Fox
Teaching Professor and Director of the Biology Major

Interests: Life history evolution; ecological genetics.

Linda Green
Teaching Professor

Interests: Community ecology of freshwater systems; anthropogenic impacts on ecosystems, particularly the biology of climate change.

Haiyan He
Assistant Professor

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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.

Matthew Hamilton
Associate Professor

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Interests: Population genetics and mathematical biology.

Michael Hickey
Assistant Teaching Professor

Interests: Immunology; undergraduate education.

Jeffrey Huang
Associate Professor

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Interests: CNS neuron-glia interactions, myelin biogenesis, inflammation, and regeneration.

Daniel Isaac
Biology Program Manager

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Interests: bacterial stress response, enterotoxigenic E. coli pathogenesis, the history of neuroscience, undergraduate and graduate student education and mentoring.

Sarah Johnson
Assistant Professor

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Interests: Geobiology, astrobiology.

Peter P. Marra
Professor and Director of the Georgetown Environment Initiative
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Interests: TBA

Kathleen Maguire-Zeiss
Professor
Research Building EPO8

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Interests: Neuroinflammation; misfolded protein disorders; neuron-glia communication; neurodegenerative diseases

Janet Mann
Professor

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Interests: Behavior of dolphins; mother-calf interactions; social networks.

Timothy Newfield
Assistant Professor

Interests: Historical epidemiology; interdisciplinary premodern environmental history; orgins and late Holocene history of infectious diseases of humans and livestock.

Joseph Neale
Emeritus Professor

Interests: NAAG neuropeptide, pain reception.

Manus Patten
Teaching Professor

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Interests: Evolutionary genetics.

Leslie Ries
Assistant Professor

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Interests: Butterfly community dynamics; biogeography, climate and land-use change, ecological and biodiversity informatics.

Ronda Rolfes
Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies

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Interests: Regulation of gene expression; Genetics of yeasts Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Candida albicans.

Mark Rose
Paduano Distinguished Professor and Chair

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Interests: Cell biology in the budding yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae; cell and nuclear fusion, regulation of meiosis.

Anne Rosenwald
Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies

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Interests: Protein trafficking in Saccharomyces cerevisiae; cell wall biosynthesis in Candida glabrata; microbial genomics.

Elena Silva
Professor

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Interests: Nervous system development.

Steven Singer
Professor and Director of Biology of Global Health Major

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Interests: Host-parasite interactions, Giardia immunology.

Martha Weiss
Professor and Director of the Environmental Biology Major

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Interests: Evolutionary ecology; plant-animal interactions and butterfly learning, wasp learning and caterpillar behavior.

Gina Wimp
Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies

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Interests: Community ecology; Genetic and environmental factors that structure biodiversity.

Adjunct Faculty

Amy Walsh

Erin Sorrell