Faculty
Georgianne Moore, Chair of Biology
Ecohydrology; Tree Physiology; Forest Ecology; Tropical Rainforests; Drought and Water Resources; Global Change Biology
Dmitry Apanaskevich, Professor
Systematics of ticks
Craig Aumack, NTT-Assistant Professor
Phycology; chemical ecology; sea ice; polar communities
Lorenza Beati, Professor
Ticks, Ixodida, evolution, phylogeography, population genetics
Christine Bedore, Assistant Professor
Sensory ecology; elasmobranchs; cephalopods; vision; electroreception
Brigette Brinton, Lecturer
Marine biology; animal behavior; parasitology; sustainability
Jennifer Brofft Bailey, Professor
Environmental microbiology; microbiomes; bacterial symbionts; sea turtle pathogens; science education
Lisa Brown, Assistant professor
Insect immunology; medical and veterinary entomology; vector biology
Sherri Cannon, Senior lecturer
Microbiology; bacteriology; Emerging and Infectious diseases
G. Denise Carroll, Senior Lecturer
Impacts of land use on aquatic ecosystems; science education
John Carroll, Associate professor
Benthic ecology; shellfish restoration and restoration ecology; applied coastal ecology
Michelle Cawthorn, Associate professor
Small mammals, science literacy
Wasimul Chowdhury, NTT-Assistant professor
Biosynthesis of polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) biodegradable polymers
Risa Cohen, Professor
Wetland and coastal ecology; restoration and conservation of aquatic communities; ecotoxicology
Alex Collier, Professor
Influence of predation stress on larval development; developmental plasticity of amphibians
J. Checo Colon-Gaud, Professor
Freshwater Ecology; Aquatic Invertebrates; Food Webs; Broadening Participation
Kathryn Craven, Professor
Sea turtle biology; vertebrate reproductive physiology; diamondback terrapins; marine biology; conservation of endangered/protected species
Christopher Cutler, Professor
Molecular physiology; molecular biology; eels; sharks; ion and water transport; osmoregulation; aquaporins; cotransporters
Michele Cutwa, Senior lecturer
Mosquito taxonomy and ecology; fish feeding ecomorphology; freeze-tolerance in herptiles.
Sue Ellen DeChenne-Peters, Assistant professor
Course-Based undergraduate research experiences; teaching in biology classrooms; development of science process skills
Geneva DeMars, Senior lecturer
Human reproductive endocrinology; GPCR’s and G proteins; membrane biology
Andrew Diamanduros, Academic Professional
Electron and Confocal Microscopes Use / Instruction, Immunology, Autoimmunity, Microbiology, Physiology
Austin Francis, Associate Professor
Functional and ecological morphology of fishes; vertebrate form and function; flatfish biology
Joshua Gibson, Assistant professor
Evolutionary and speciation genomics of insects; metabolic physiology; social evolution and colony recognition in ants
Daniel Gleason, Professor and Director Institute of Coastal Plain Sci.
Marine invertebrate ecology and physiology; coral reef ecology
Stephen Greiman, Assistant Professor
Parasitology; parasitic flatworm taxonomy and systematics; bacterial symbiont diversity; evolution and transmission biology; microbiomes
Sara Gremillion, Professor
Mycology, Cell Biology, Science Education
Michele Guidone, Associate professor
Marine and freshwater ecology; plant ecology; phycology; invasive species
J. Scott Harrison, Associate Professor
Ecological and evolutionary genetics of marine invertebrates; speciation and the genetic basis of reduced fitness in hybrids
Alan Harvey, Professor
Ecology of: invasive species; plant-arthropod protective mutualisms; larval tiger beetles
Jay Hodgson, Professor
Aquatic ecology; predator and prey ecology; paleoecology; pedagogy of teaching evolution
Starr Holland, NTT-Associate Professor
Neurotransplantation; brain; migraines
Dongyu Jia, Associate professor
Developmental biology; cellular and molecular biology; cancer biology; signaling pathway; fruit fly; disease models
Heather Joesting, Associate Professor
Coastal Plant Ecology, Salt Marsh Ecology, Coastal Management, Plant Physiological Ecology, Aquaponics
Alejandra Lara-Chavez, Visiting faculty
Plant tissue culture techniques; micropropagation; transformation; molecular biology; beneficial bacteria endophytes.
Lissa Leege, Professor
Plant population ecology, threats to rare species, sand dune restoration, effects of invasive species, sustainability
Johanne Lewis, Associate Professor
comparative physiology and biochemistry; environmental stress; fish
Faith Loggins, Limited Term
Marylou Machingura, Assistant professor
Molecular physiology of crop plants, yaupon holly, sorghum, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Nicholas Macias, Limited Term
Robert Mans, Associate Professor
Cellular processes underlying learning, memory and neurodegeneration; Environmental neuroscience
Scott Mateer, Professor
Regulation of actin polymerization and cell motility by the cellular protein, IQGAP 1; regulation of the activity of Protein Phosphatase 2A by the viral protein, SV40 Small T Antigen
Loren Mathews, Senior lecturer
Aquatic ecology; water quality; phytoplankton community dynamics
Lance McBrayer, Professor
Behavior; Organismal Physiology; Functional Anatomy; Ecology; Evolution
Aakash Mehta, Senior lecturer
Invasive Plant Ecology
Edward Mondor, Associate professor
Forensic entomology; Insect ecology; Decomposition; Time of death; Postmortem interval
Christina Ndaluka, Senior lecturer
Zoonotic diseases
Traci Ness, Professor
Innate immunology; bacterial and viral pathogenesis; mechanisms of immune evasion by pathogens; macrophage responses to pathogens
Carl Reiber, Professor and Provost
Physiology; developmental biology
James Roberts, Associate professor
fish ecology; vertebrate population dynamics; landscape genetics; fisheries science; conservation biology
Adam Rosso, Limited Term
Elizabeth Sargent, Lecturer
SoTL, biogeochemistry; phytoplankton ecophysiology; algal ecology
Aaron Schrey, Associate professor
Epigenetics, Population Genetics, Molecular Ecology
Ben Schumm, Limited Term
Anthony Siccardi, Assistant Professor
Aquaculture of commercially important fish and shellfish species; aquaculture nutrition; algal turf scrubber systems; sustainable aquaculture/aquaponics systems
Vinoth Sittaramane, Professor
Developmental Neurobiology, Cancer Biology, Drug Discovery, Nano-Biotechnology, Toxicology
Lace Svec, Senior Lecturer
Behavioral neurobiology; neuroendocrinology in zebra finches
Stephen Vives, Professor
Aquatic Biology, Fish Ecology, Fish Behavior, Animal Behavior
Tiehang Wu, Professor
Molecular microbial ecology; soil ecology; mycorrhizas
Jennifer Zettler, Professor Insect-plant interactions; ecological effects of invasive insects; insect-microbial symbioses; sustainable aquaculture
Emeritus faculty
John Bozeman
Wayne Krissinger
Bill Lovejoy
Kishwaur Maur
Ann Pratt
Last updated: 11/2/2022