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Biology Faculty January 2019
Research Faculty
Amy Adamson
Professor and Associate Dean of Research, College of Arts and Sciences
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
aladamso@uncg.edu
201 Eberhart Building
(336) 256-0312
Website
Host and viral pathogen interactions.
Ramji Bhandari
Assistant Professor
Bernard-Glickman Dean's Professor
Ph.D., Hokkaido University
rkbhanda@uncg.edu
405 Eberhart Building
(336) 256-0493
Website
Gene Environment Interactions and Epigenetics
Louis-Marie Bobay
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Institute Pasteur, Paris, France
ljbobay@uncg.edu
Eberhart Building
(336) 256-2590
Website
Microbial genomics and evolution
Mark D. Hens
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Medical University of South Carolina
mdhens@uncg.edu
424 Eberhart Building
(336) 334-4945
Cell adhesion and migration in vertebrate development.
Zhenquan Jia
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Virginia Polytechnic Insitute and State University (Virginia Tech)
z_jia@uncg.edu
321 Sullivan Science Building
(336) 256-0078
Free radical toxicology; environmental cardiovascular inflammation and injury; redox signaling; amelioration of vascular dysfunction and toxicity with bioactive compounds.
Matina Kalcounis-Rüppell
Professor and Department Head
Ph.D., University of Western Ontario
matina_kalcounis@uncg.edu
435 Eberhart Building
(336) 334-4960
Website
Acoustics, behavioral sciences, biodiversity and conservation, ultrasound, bats, and mice.
Karen S. Katula
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Northwestern University
kskatula@uncg.edu
301 Eberhart Building
(336) 334-4951
Molecular mechanisms regulating cell growth, differentiation, and cancer progression with a focus on the Wnt cell signaling pathway and gene regulation.
Bruce Kirchoff
Professor
Ph.D., Duke University
kirchoff@uncg.edu
404 Eberhart Building
(336) 334-4953
Website
Plant morphology and development, systematics
John Z. Kiss
Professor & Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences
Ph.D., Rutgers University
jzkiss@uncg.edu
416 Eberhart Building
(336) 334-5391
Plant physiology and development; space biology
Sally Koerner
Assistant Professor
Bernard-Glickman Dean's Professor
Ph.D., University of New Mexico
Sally.Koerner@uncg.edu
339 Eberhart Building
(336) 334-5393
Website
Ecology (community, ecosystem, and plant ecology); drivers of biodiversity across spatial scales and through time
John J. Lepri
Professor and Director of General Biology
Ph.D., North Carolina State University
jjlepri@uncg.edu
419 Eberhart Building
(336) 334-4132
Website
Research in mammalian reproduction, Biology Honors liaison, and teacher licensure coordinator.
Ayalew Ligaba Osena
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Okayama University
alosena@uncg.edu
363 Sullivan Science Building
(336) 256-0328
Website
Molecular biology, genomics and biotechnology, underutilized crops for food security and health, extremophiles for novel abiotic stress resilience traits
Yashomati Patel
Professor
Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University
ympatel@uncg.edu
207 Eberhart Building
(336) 256-0080
Molecular and cellular mechanisms regulating glucose homeostasis, type 2 diabetes, and breast cancer.
Promod Pratap
Adjunct Associate Professor
Ph.D., Syracuse University
pratapp@uncg.edu
322 Petty Building
(336) 334-3214
Website
Physical chemistry of membrane transport proteins.
Kasie Raymann
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Institute Pasteur, Paris, France
ktrayman@uncg.edu
321 Eberhart Building
(336) 334-4746
Website
Evolution and dynamics of microbial communities
David L. Remington
Associate Professor
Ph.D., North Carolina State University
dlreming@uncg.edu
226 Eberhart Building
(336) 334-4967
Website
Molecular genetics of plant morphological evolution, plant genomics.
Olav Rueppell
Florence Schaeffer Distinguished Professor of Science
Ph.D., University of Wuerzburg
olav_rueppell@uncg.edu
206 Eberhart Building
(336) 256-2591
Website
Causes and consequences of social evolution in insects and honey bee health.
Joseph Santin
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Wright State University
jmsantin@uncg.edu
377 Sullivan Building
(336) 334-4991
Cellular neuroscience, comparative neurobiology, electrophysiology
Malcolm D. Schug
Associate Professor and Associate Head
Ph.D., Ohio State University
mdschug@uncg.edu
301 Eberhart Building
(336) 256-0086
Website
Evolutionary genetics, molecular population genetics.
Robert H. Stavn
Professor
Ph.D., Yale University
stavnr@uncg.edu
315 Sullivan Science Building
(336) 334-4979
Website
Optical oceanography, aquatic ecology, ecology, zooplankton, and lake optics.
Paul Steimle
Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
Ph.D., Cleveland State University
p_steiml@uncg.edu
102 Eberhart Building
(336) 334-4949
Regulation of cytoskeletal dynamics and cell motility.
John Tomkiel Dean
Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies
Ph.D., University of Washington
jetomkie@uncg.edu
203 Eberhart Building
(336) 334-4980
Website
Chromosome segregation in meiosis, chromosomal proteins, Drosophila genetics.
Martin Tsz-Ki Tsui
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Minnesota
tmtsui@uncg.edu
306 Sullivan Science Building
(336) 256-0087
Website
Ecotoxicology and biogeochemistry of environmental pollutants.
Gideon Wasserberg
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel; MPH, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
g_wasser@uncg.edu
235A Eberhart Building
(336) 256-0098
Ecology of Infectious Diseases, Medical Entomology, Community Ecology, Mathematical Modeling of Infectious Diseases.
