Department of Biological Sciences
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Graduate Programs in Biological Sciences

The Department of Biological Sciences offers a MSc program in Biological Sciences and participates in several interdeparmtental graduate programs listed below.
Faculty - research perspectives

James P. Amon  Conservation ecology, wetlands restoration.

Larry G. Arlian  Immune response to the dust mite S. scabiei.

Scott E. Baird  Genetics of reproductive isolation, morphological evolution, nematode natural history.

Huntting W. Brown  Environmental Law, risk management and communication.

G. Allen Burton  Identification of significant effects and stressors in aquatic systems where sediment and stormwater contamination is a concern, ecosystem risk assessment.

Wayne W. Carmichael  Environmental Toxicology, Secondary metabolism in algae

Don Cipollini  Physiology, ecology and evolution of plant defenses

David L. Goldstein  Physiological responses to environmental stress, including the balance of salt and water, influence of diet composition, and effects of toxicants.

Keith A. Grasman  Ecotoxicological effects of environmental contaminants on fish-eating birds.

Barbara E. Hull Biology of skin, wound healing, and cellular immunity.

Larry D. Isaacs  Development of human motor skills and neuromuscular strength and power.

Susan Kirch  Genetics of neural network formation.

Dan E. Krane  Molecular evolution, evolution of SINEs, DNA forensics.

Mark D. Mamrack  Calcium/calmodulin-dependent cell-cycle regulation.  Calmodulin-dependent kinase II and calmodulin-dependent phosphatase (PP2B or calcineurin).

Mill W. Miller  Effects of altered glycosylation upon microtubule function and protein nuclear transport, interaction between Rev, a regulatory HIV protein, and microtubules.

Phyllis Pacifico  Director, Clinical Laboratory Sciences

Roberta L. Pohlman  Excercise physiology.

James R. Runkle  Woodland community and population ecology.

James Tomlin  Science education.

Thomas Van't Hof  Comparative physiology, endocrinology, physiological ecology and chronobiology.

Marcia Wendeln  Instructor, freshman laboratory coordinator.

Michele G. Wheatly  Comparative physiology, cellular mechanisms of calcium transport.

Timothy S. Wood  Invertebrate ecology, bryozoology.