The Department of Biology offers graduate programs of study leading to M.S. and Ph.D. degrees. Areas of research interest of individual faculty are:
Dr. Stephen Brewer: fire ecology, plant ecology, invasive species
Dr. Carol Britson: human physiology
Dr. Richard Buchholz: animal behavior, host-parasite coevolution
Dr. Lainy Day: behavioral neuroscience, neuroplasticity, evolution of cognition & motor-learning
Dr. Stephen D'Surney: genetic toxicology, fish genetics, molecular genetics
Dr. Wendy Garrison: seed dispersal
Dr. Gary Gaston: coral reef ecology, benthic invertebrates
Dr. Denis Goulet: behavioral & reproductive ecology of coral reef fish
Dr. Tamar Goulet: symbiosis & host-symbiont semotypic combinations, marine ecology, coral reefs, coral-algal physiology
Dr. Jason Hoeksema: ecological & evolutionary consequences of species interactions, focusing especially on plants and mycorrhizal fungi
Dr. Marjorie Holland: aquatic botany, wetland ecology
Dr. Colin Jackson: microbial ecology & diversity
Dr. Mika Jekabsons: mechanisms of apoptosis, cell physiology & mitochondrial physiology
Dr. Bradley Jones: cell differentiation, nervous system development, drosophila genetics
Dr. Paul Lago: insect taxonomy
Dr. Lucile McCook: plant systematics, orchids
Dr. Murray Nabors: plant physiology
Dr. Clifford Ochs: biogeochemistry & plankton ecology, large river ecology
Dr. Glenn Parsons: shark physiology & natural history, stress physiology
Dr. David Reed: conservation & population ecology, life history evolution, population & quantitative genetics
Dr. Gail Stratton: spiders, systematics, behavior
Dr. Stephen Threlkeld: trophic interactions |