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Program Contacts Department Chair Chair, Graduate Studies
Chair, Undergraduate Studies
Advisor, Professional Science
Master's Program Pre Medical Programs Coordinator
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Full Time Faculty The faculty in the Biology Department are committed to teaching and research excellence. All are active researchers who consistently publish articles in top-quality journals and present their findings at professional meetings. Our faculty also serve as mentors to undergraduate and graduate students as they complete independent research projects. |
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Victoria
Connaughton, PhD Associate Professor and Chair Neurobiology / Larval Ecology Phone: 202.885.2194 vconn@american.edu | website |
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David
Angelini, PhD Assistant Professor Developmental Evolution & Genetics Phone: 202.885.2178 angelini@american.edu | website |
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David
Carlini, PhD Associate Professor Molecular Evolution & Genetics Phone: 202.885.2184 carlini@american.edu | website |
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Kathleen
DeCicco-Skinner , PhD Assistant Professor Cancer Biology Phone: 202.885.2193 decicco@american.edu | website |
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Daniel
Fong, PhD Associate Professor Evolutionary Ecology Phone: 202.885.2174 dfong@american.edu | website |
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Catherine
Schaeff, PhD Associate Professor Conservation Biology Phone: 202.885.2175 schaeff@american.edu | website |
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Christopher
Tudge, PhD Assistant Professor Invertebrate Biology Phone: 202.885.2033 ctudge@american.edu | website |
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Nancy
Zeller, PhD Laboratory Director Phone: 202.885.2191 nzeller@american.edu | website |
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| Environmental Sciences Faculty | ||
Kiho
Kim, PhD Associate Professor and Chair Marine Ecology Phone: 202.885.2181 kiho@american.edu | website |
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Stephen
MacAvoy , PhD Assistant Professor Biogeochemistry/Environmental Science Phone: 202.885.3003 macavoy@american.edu | website |
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Karen
Bushaw-Newton, PhD Assistant Professor Microbial Ecology & Biogeochemistry Phone: 202.885.2203 bushaw@american.edu | website |
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| Research Faculty | ||
Daryl
J. Boness, PhD National Zoological Park Washington, DC dboness@nzp.si.edu |
Research
interests: aquatic mammal behavior, genes and behavior, reproductive
behavior of aquatic mammals. |
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Bette
Chambers, PhD Director of Early Learning Success for All Foundation Baltimore, MD bchambers@successforall.net |
Research
interests: directs the development, implementation, and research
of the early childhood curricula. Research interests: learning
through interpersonal interaction and assessment of curriculum
models. |
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Martin
Connaughton, PhD |
Research interests:
ichthyology, studying the biology of fish, particularly muscle
physiology and the use of bioacoustics |
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Frank
D. Ferrari, PhD Department of Systematic Biology National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution Washington, DC 20560-0534 phone:301/238-3797 fax: 301/238-3361 ferrarif@si.edu |
Research
interests: crustacean development, particularly on how the exoskeleton
of the limbs of copepods and related microcrustaceans is patterned
during development |
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Research
interests: evolutionary genetics, molecular genetics, bird behavior
and evolution. |
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Richard
McCarron, PhD Head, Resuscitive Medicine Department Naval Research Center Walter Reed Army Institute of Research Silver Spring, MD 20910 Phone: 301.319.7474 | Fax:301.319.7698 Richard.McCarron@med.navy.mil |
Research interests: studies severe hemorrhage with hemorrhagic shock (HS) with emphasis on life-saving interventions: hemostasis (stopping the bleeding), and resuscitation (restoring the delivery of oxygen to the body’s tissues). Research in blast biophysics and physiology to characterize central nervous system (CNS) and pulmonary injury following blast exposure. |
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Jon
Norenburg,
PhD Department of Systematic Biology National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution Washington, DC 20560-0534 Phone 202-633-9278 norenbur@onyx.si.edu |
Research
interests: evolution and diversification of the phylum Nemertea,
through use of phylogenetic systematics to integrate and organize
studies of comparative morphology (histochemical, histological
and ultrastructural), life-history attributes, and molecular sequence
data. |
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LTC
Michael T. O'Neil, PhD |
Research interests:
the mechanisms of drug action and resistance in human malaria.
My projects include: performing P. falciparum gene knockout
studies to determine if specific human homologues can complement
function, studying the mechanism of action of liver stage drugs,
determining Plasmodium species and genotype field isolates
from Central America and Asia, and performing drug susceptibility
studies on Plasmodium falciparum. |
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Rosanna
Taylor, PhD USDA - Agricultural Service Washington, DC rtindc@aoi.com |
Research
interests: identification of plant natural products bound to cellulose
membranes |
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Emeritus
Faculty |
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William
C. Banta, PhD |
Research
Interests: invertebrate
zoology, marine biology and ecology, the biology of water pollution. |
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Barbara
J. Clarke, PhD |
Research
Interests: developmental
biology, pattern formation, neural crest cell differentiation,
cancer cell differentiation. |
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Richard
H. Fox, PhD |
Research
Interests: microbial
physiology, the genetic basis of bacterial psychrophily, micrococcal
bacteriocins. |
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George
Loeb, PhD |
Research
interests: interface between materials science and biology. |
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