Faculty & Staff
(2018 Biology Faculty, left to right, Anna Ritz, Aaron Ramirez, Sam Fey, Suzy Renn, Erik Zornik, Sarah Schaack, Janis Shampay, Kara Cerveny, Jay Mellies, Derek Applewhite, Keith Karoly, David Dalton, Jeremy Coate).
Faculty
Andrew Anderson - Website
Visiting Assistant Professor
Derek A. Applewhite - Website
Cellular biology, cytoskeletal dynamics, cell motility, and morphogenesis.
Kara Cerveny - Website
Developmental biology, neurogenesis, signaling pathway interplay, and the visual system.
Jeremy Coate - Website
Plant genome evolution.
Sam Fey - Website
On sabbatical 2023-24.
Species interactions, population ecology, global change ecology.
Keith Karoly - Website
Plant evolution, evolution of plant mating systems.
Jay Mellies - Website
Bacterial pathogenesis, gene regulation.
Hannah Prather- Email
Lichenology
Aaron Ramirez - Website
Translational ecology, fire and drought, socio-ecological systems.
Suzy Renn - Website
On leave 2022–24.
Integrative animal behavior.
Anna Ritz - Website
Computational biology, genome structural variation, signaling pathways.
Sarah Schaack - Website
Genetics/genomics, transposable elements, mutation.
Erik Zornik - Website
Chair
Neurobiology, neural basis of behavior.
Staff
Jeff Brown- Email
Lab Operations & Biology Stockroom Manager
Crystal Chaw - Details
Departmental Associate
Kristy Gonyer - Email
Administrative Coordinator
Siira Rieschl- Email
Science Outreach Coordinator
Kendra Walters- Email
Departmental Associate
Research Associates & Visiting Researchers
Oliver Anderson
Research Assistant (Ritz Lab)
Altaf Barelvi
Research Assistant (Ritz Lab)
Libby Brennan
Research Associate (Mellies Lab)
Danny Gibson
Research Assistant (Fey Lab)
Hannah Kuder
Research Assistant (Fey Lab)
Valerie Osterberg
Research Associate (Zornik Lab)
Emeritus Faculty & Retired Colleagues
Steven D. Black - Website
Developmental biology
Carey Booth - Details
Departmental Associate
David A. Dalton - Website
Plant physiology; biological nitrogen fixation; forest ecophysiology
Robert H. Kaplan - Website
Evolutionary ecology; population biology; conservation biology
Ned Knight - Details
Departmental Associate
Maryanne C. McClellan - Website
Cellular biology; hormonal regulation of growth and differentiation
Laurens N. Ruben - Website
Immunology
Peter J. Russell - Website
Molecular genetics: RNA virus gene expression in yeast
Janis Shampay - Website
Molecular biology, telomere structure and function.
Past Colleagues, in Memoriam
You can find additional history of the Biology Department here.
Stephen W. Arch, 1942-2013, Website, In memoriamReed Biology 1972-2012
Regulatory biology; neurochemistry, cellular neurophysiology
Bert G. Brehm, 1926-2023, In memoriam
Reed Biology, 1962-93
Plant evolutionary biology
G. Frank Gwilliam, 1925-2016, In memoriam
Reed Biology 1957-1996
Neurobiology; invertebrate zoology; marine biology
Lewis H. Kleinholz, 1910-2001, In memoriam
Reed Biology 1946-1980
Invertebrate and vertebrate endocrinology
Reed Biology 1957-1996
Plant biochemistry
2008 Phytochemistry Pioneer Award
Stafford Bequest
Stafford Award