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, growth control, and the visual system

Sam Fey - Website
(on Junior sabbatical spring 2021)
Population ecology; species interactions; global change ecology

Keith Karoly - Website
Plant evolution; evolution of plant mating systems

Jay Mellies - Website
(on sabbatical 2020-21)
Microbiology; pathogenesis

Aaron Ramirez - Website
Translational ecology, fire and drought, socio-ecological systems

Suzy Renn - Website
(Chair- 2020-2022)
Behavioral biology; genomic analysis of animal behavior

Anna Ritz - Website
Computational biology; genome structural variation; signaling pathways

Sarah Schaack - Website
Genetics/genomics; transposable elements; mutation

Janis Shampay - Website
Molecular biology; chromosome structure and function

Erik Zornik - Website
Neurobiology, neural basis of behavior

Staff

Greta Glover - Email
Instrumentation Biologist
(503) 517-7623

Kristy Gonyer - Email
Administrative Coordinator

Kristine Hayes
Lab & Biology Stockroom Manager

Ned Knight - Details
Departmental Associate

Presence O'Neal - Email
Science Outreach Coordinator

Katie Reichard- Details
Departmental Associate

Emeritus Faculty & Retired Colleagues

Steven D. Black - Website
Developmental biology

Carey Booth - Details
Departmental Associate, retired 2020

Bert G. Brehm
Plant evolutionary biology

David A. Dalton - Website
Plant physiology; biological nitrogen fixation; forest ecophysiology

Robert H. Kaplan - Website
Evolutionary ecology; population biology; conservation biology

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

Research Associates & Visiting Researchers

Andrew Anderson
Senior Research Associate (Renn Lab)
(Visiting Professor 2019-20)

Charlotte Barkan
Senior Research Associate (Zornik Lab)

Jeremy Coate - Website
Senior Research Associate (Schaack Lab)
(Visiting Professor 2017-2019)
Plant evolutionary biology; polyploidy; genomics

Josh Faber-Hammond
Senior Research Associate (Renn Lab)

Erin Howell
Research Associate (Cerveny Lab)

Jeehoon Jung
Research Associate (Applewhite Lab)

Tamara Layden
Research Associate (Fey Lab)

Amy Platenkamp
Resesarch Associate (Applewhite Lab)

Hannah Prather
Postdoctoral Research Associate (Ramirez Lab)

Theresa Steele
Research Associate (Zornik/Schaack Lab)

Past Colleagues

You can find additional history of the Biology Department here.

Todd Schlenke - Website
(Visiting Professor 2014-2016, Now teaching at University of Arizona)
Evolutionary genetics, host-parasite interactions.

(Reed Biology 1972-2012)
Regulatory biology; neurochemistry, cellular neurophysiology

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