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
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.
Pietro D'Amelio - Email
Animal Behavior
Sam Fey - Website
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
On sabbatical 2024-25.
Translational ecology, fire and drought, socio-ecological systems.
Suzy Renn - Website
Associate Dean of Faculty appointment, 2024-26
Integrative animal behavior.
Anna Ritz - Website
Chair
Computational biology, genome structural variation, signaling pathways.
Sarah Schaack - Website
Genetics/genomics, transposable elements, mutation.
Miguel Simões - Email
Neurobiology, animal physiology.
Erik Zornik - Website
Neurobiology, neural basis of behavior.
Staff
Jeff Brown- Email
Lab Operations & Biology Stockroom Manager
Crystal Chaw - Details
Lecturer and Lab Coordinator
Kayla Johnston - Email
Administrative Coordinator
Naoyuki Ochiai- Email
Instrumentation Biologist
Siira Rieschl- Email
Science Outreach Coordinator
Kendra Walters- Email
Lecturer and Lab Coordinator
Research Associates & Visiting Researchers
Andrew Anderson- Website
Visiting Researcher (Renn Lab)
Oliver Anderson
Research Assistant (Ritz Lab)
Altaf Barelvi
Research Assistant (Ritz Lab)
Bean Fischer
Research Assistant (Schaack Lab)
Danny Gibson
Research Assistant (Fey Lab)
Sabrina Edwards
Research Assistant (Mellies 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 - Details
Evolutionary ecology; population biology; conservation biology
Ned Knight - Details
Departmental Associate
Maryanne C. McClellan - Details
Cellular biology; hormonal regulation of growth and differentiation
Peter J. Russell - Details
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, 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
Laurens N. Ruben, 1947-2024, In memoriam Reed Biology 1955-1992 - Research page
Immunology
Helen A. Stafford, 1922-2011, In memoriam
Reed Biology 1957-1996
Plant biochemistry
2008 Phytochemistry Pioneer Award
Stafford Bequest
Stafford Award