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Uwe Beffert, Research Assistant Professor of Biology
Alzheimer’s disease, apolipoproteins, lipoprotein receptors, brain development, neuronal migration, autism, cytoskeleton
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Gary Benson, Associate Professor of Biology and Computer Science; Program in Bioinformatics
algorithm development for DNA sequence analysis
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Jennifer Bhatnagar, Associate Professor of Biology
Microbial Ecology, Biogeochemistry, Ecosystem Science
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Cynthia A. Bradham, Associate Professor of Biology
developmental biology; embryonic pattern formation; systems biology
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Peter Buston, Associate Professor of Biology; Director of the BU Marine Program
Evolutionary Ecology, Animal Behavior, Marine Ecology and Biological Oceanography.
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Sofía Casasa, Assistant Professor of Biology
Eco-evo-devo, phenotypic plasticity, insect development, horned beetles, nematodes, transcriptomics, functional genetics
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John L. Celenza, Associate Professor of Biology; Director, Program in Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
plant development, defense, and metabolism; genetics, biochemistry and molecular biology
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Lynne Chantranupong, Assistant Professor of Biology
Neurobiology, Cell and Molecular Biology, Behavior, Signal transduction, Metabolism, Organellar Biology, Metabolomics, Proteomics
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Jerry Chen, Associate Professor of Biology
Large-scale neuronal networks, sensorimotor integration, decision making, neurodevelopment, non-linear microscopy
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Brian Cleary, Assistant Professor of Computing and Data Sciences, Biomedical Engineering, Biology, and Bioinformatics
Tissue organization, cellular pathways, causal modeling, statistical learning
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Elizabeth Co, Senior Lecturer in Biology
science education, human immunology and reproduction
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Alberto Cruz-Martín, Assistant Professor of Biology
Neural circuits, Cognitive function, Neurodevelopmental disorders
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Sarah W. Davies, Assistant Professor of Biology
ecological genomics, population genetics, molecular ecology, coral ecology, climate change, symbiosis
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Ian Davison, Associate Professor of Biology
pheromones and innate social behaviors; novel imaging tools for behaving animals; pathophysiology of injury
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Anna Devor, Associate Professor in BME and Biology
neuroscience, neuroengineering, optical imaging, fMRI, blood flow, hemodynamics
Neurobiology
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Ethan Deyle, Research Assistant Professor of Biology
Quantitative Ecology, Environmental Data Science, Nonlinear Dynamics, Applied Complex Systems, Marine Ecology
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John R. Finnerty, Associate Professor of Biology
Evolutionary and ecological developmental biology; evolutionary and ecological genomics; marine biodiversity; global change biology; coral conservation.
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Ana Fiszbein, Assistant Professor of Biology
Gene regulation; RNA processing; systems biology of co-transcriptional programs; computational genomics; role of gene architecture in cancer development and therapy
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Horacio Frydman, Associate Professor of Biology
host-microbe interactions at the molecular, cellular and organismal level; mechanisms of bacterial transmission through stem-cell niche infection
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Robinson W. Fulweiler, Professor of Biology (jointly with Earth & Environment)
Biogeochemistry and Marine Ecology
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Juan Fuxman Bass, Associate Professor of Biology
immune regulation, gene regulatory networks, systems biology, disease mutations, inflammation, transcription factors
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Mikel Garcia-Marcos, Professor of Biochemistry and Biology
Intercellular communication, receptor signaling, GTPases, synthetic biology tools, molecular basis of disease, cancer, neurotransmission, embryonic development
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Jeffrey Gavornik, Assistant Professor of Biology
cortical circuits, synaptic plasticity as the basis of learning and memory, the neural representation and processing of time, the biophysical basis of visual perception
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Thomas Gilmore, Professor of Biology; Director, Program in Molecular Biology, Cell Biology & Biochemistry
molecular biology, cell biology, signal transduction, cancer, molecular ecology
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Les Kaufman, Professor of Biology
marine biology, evolutionary ecology, and conservation biology
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Cheryl Knott, Professor of Anthropology, Biology, and Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies
primate, great ape and orangutan behavior and physiology; reproductive ecology, energetics and endocrinology; nutritional ecology; life history and human evolution; sexuality and sexual conflict theory; wildlife and habitat conservation
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Joe Larkin, Assistant Professor of Biology and Physics
Bacterial communities, cell-to-cell communication, bacterial electrophysiology
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Jen-Wei Lin, Associate Professor of Biology
membrane excitability and synaptic plasticity
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Phillip S. Lobel, Professor of Biology
ichthyology; behavioral ecology and taxonomy of fishes
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Edward L. Loechler, Professor of Biology
molecular biology; mechanisms by which carcinogens cause mutations and cancer
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Hengye Man, Professor of Biology
Brain development, neuron morphogenesis, synapse formation, synaptic plasticity, AMPA type glutamate receptor, protein ubiquitination and degradation, autism, Intellectual disability, Alzheimer’s disease
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Jeffrey Marlow, Assistant Professor of Biology
microbial ecology, environmental microbiology, global change biology, metabolic activity, geobiology, astrobiology
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Kim McCall, Professor of Biology
Drosophila developmental biology, cell death, oogenesis
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Sean P. Mullen, Professor of Biology
Adaptation and speciation; hybrid zones; the evolution of mimicry and wing pattern variation in butterflies; evolutionary genetics; comparative and population genomics; bioinformatics
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Mario Muscedere, Senior Lecturer in Biology; Director, Undergraduate Program in Neuroscience
Science education and undergraduate mentorship, social behavior, neuroethology, behavioral ecology
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Ranjan Muthukrishnan, Research Assistant Professor
community ecology, marine ecology, coral reefs, invasive species, ecological modeling
EBE and Marine Biology
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Katya Ravid, Barbara E. Corkey Professor of Medicine; Professor of Biochemistry, Biology, Health Sciences; Director, Evans Center for Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research and BU Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research Office
Blood Stem Cells and Blood Cancer; Thrombosis and Purine Signaling; Vascular Biology
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Randi Rotjan, Research Associate Professor of Biology; Senior Lecturer; Director of Masters Studies
Marine ecology, conservation biology, behavioral ecology, organismal physiology, coral reefs
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Christopher Schmitt, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Biology;
Affiliated Faculty, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studiesprimate growth and development, ontogeny and etiology of obesity, population and functional genomics, quantitative genetics, primate behavioral ecology and life history
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Daniel Segrè, Professor of Biology, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Engineering
systems biology, evolution of biochemical networks, genomics, metabolic engineering, microbial ecology
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Trevor W. Siggers, Associate Professor of Biology
systems biology of the immune and inflammatory systems, gene regulation in immune and inflammatory systems, inflammatory diseases, transcriptional networks, DNA-binding of transcription factors and transcriptional regulatory complexes, computational genomics, cis-regulatory logic in transcription
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Michael D. Sorenson, Professor of Biology
Avian behavioral ecology, speciation, population genomics, and molecular systematics
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Kathryn Spilios, Director of Instructional Labs; Director of the Learning Assistant Program; Master Lecturer in Biology
Science education, entomology
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Lynette Strickland, Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences
Evolutionary genetics, ecological genetics and genomics, ecological entomology, biodiversity genomics, tropical ecology, beetles
Integrated studies of biodiversity genomics
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Tuan Leng Tay, Assistant Professor of Biology; Assistant Professor of Anatomy and Neurobiology
neurobiology, neuroimmunology, neurodevelopment, neurodegeneration, traumatic brain injury, brain repair, microglia, glia
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Pamela Templer, Professor and Chair of Biology
plant and microbial ecosystem ecology; biogeochemistry
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Dean R. Tolan, Professor of Biology; Director of Undergraduate Studies
biochemistry, enzymology, molecular and human genetics of enzymes in sugar metabolism
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James F. A. Traniello, Professor of Biology
behavior, ecology and evolution of social insects; neuroethology; social brain evolution; behavioral development and senescence; evolution of division of labor
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John Tullai, Lecturer in Neuroscience and Biology
growth factor-mediated cell survival, cancer biology, transcription network mapping, gene regulation, neuroscience, endocrinology, neuroendocrinology, physiology, carcinogenesis, cell biology, molecular biology, transcription regulation
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Karen Warkentin, Professor of Biology; Professor of Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies
phenotypic plasticity; integrative and comparative biology; adaptive embryo behavior; hatching as a life history transition; substrate vibration as an information channel; herpetology; tropical biology; sex, gender and sexuality; diversity and inclusion as imperatives for scientific progress
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Fred E. Wasserman, Associate Professor of Biology
Animal behavior, bird song, territoriality
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David J. Waxman, Professor of Biology, Medicine, and Biomedical Engineering; Program in Bioinformatics
Genomic and epigenetic mechanisms controlling liver gene expression; molecular endocrinology and cell signaling through transcriptional networks; role of angiogenesis and innate immune system in cancer therapy and pharmacology; nuclear receptors and responses to environmental chemicals
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Zeba Wunderlich, Associate Professor of Biology
regulation of gene expression; enhancers; developmental biology; systems biology; innate immunology
Postdoctoral Associate Lecturers
Affiliated, Adjunct, and Visiting Faculty
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Lisa Sorenson, Adjunct Associate Professor and Co-Chair, West Indian Whistling-Duck Working Group of the Society of Caribbean Ornithology
Conservation Biology, Behavioral Ecology, and Hormonal Mechanisms of Behavior in Birds
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Kelly Swing, Director, Ecuador Tropical Ecology Program and Adjunct Professor of Biology
- Ellen Faszewski, Associate Dean for Student Affairs and Clinical Professor, Wheelock College of Education & Human Development
- Eva Garrett, Assistant Professor of Anthropology
- Sriharsa Pradhan, Adjunct Professor; Distinguished Scientist at New England Biolabs
Emeritus and Retired Faculty
- Jelle Atema
- Michael Baum
- Gloria V. Callard
- Ian P. Callard
- Geoffrey M. Cooper
- Gillian Cooper-Driver
- Vincent Dionne
- William Eldred
- Elizabeth Godrick
- Stjepko Golubic
- Ulla Hansen
- Gary Jacobson
- Francis Monette
- Gail Patt
- Christopher Schneider
- Sidney L. Tamm
- Ivan Valiela
- Eric Widmaier
In Memoriam