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Chandrashekhar Joshi
"Cellulose is the fiber of human civilization."

Chandrashekhar P. Joshi

  • Department Chair and Professor, Biological Sciences
  • Affiliated Professor, CFRES

Links of Interest

Research Interests: Biological Sciences

  • Plant Molecular Genetics

Areas of Expertise: Biology and Forestry

  • Cellulose and lignin biosynthesis in trees
  • Wood formation
  • Tree growth and development
  • Engineering trees
  • Forest bioinformatics
Trisha Colling

Trisha Colling

  • Research Coordinator

Teaching Interests

  • Biological Sciences
  • Chemistry of Living Streams
  • Botany
  • Freshman Orientation 

Research Interests

  • Plant Molecular Genetics
  • Auxin Transport 
Tori Connors

Tori Connors

  • Departmental Coordinator
Claire Danielson

Claire Danielson

  • MLS Clinical Practicum Coordinator
  • Instructor

Teaching Interests

  • Clinical Practicum and Career Preparation Seminar
  • Medical Lab Instrumentation
  • Medical Bacteriology
  • Phlebotomy 
Rupali Datta

Rupali Datta

  • Acting Biological Sciences Department Chair (Spr 2020)
  • Professor, Biological Sciences

Links of Interest

Specialties

  • Plant Biochemistry
  • Environmental Remediation
  • Plant-Microbe Interactions
John Durocher

John J. Durocher

  • Associate Professor, Biological Sciences
  • Affiliated Associate Professor, Kinesiology and Integrative Physiology

Research Interests

  • Clinical and Applied Human Physiology
  • Autonomic Regulation of Arterial Blood Pressure
  • Metabolic Syndrome
  • Mindfulness and Cardiovascular Health
  • Physiological Responses to Stress and Exercise
  • Specificity of Exercise Testing and Prescription
Karyn Fay

Karyn Fay

  • Director, Medical Laboratory Science Program, Biological Sciences
  • Professor of Practice, Biological Sciences

Teaching Interests

  • Hematology
  • Immunohematology
  • Clinical Chemistry
  • Medical Laboratory Administration and Management
  • Medical Mycology/Virology
Paul Goetsch

Paul D. Goetsch

  • Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences

Areas of Expertise

  • Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry
  • Genomics / Bioinformatics

Research Interests

  • Developmental Biology
  • Transcriptional Biology
  • Cancer Biology
Michael Gretz

Michael R. Gretz

  • Professor, Biological Sciences
  • Director, Chemical Advanced Resolution Methods Laboratory

Links of Interest

Research Interests

  • Algal Extracellular Polymers and Biocomposites - Regulation of Biogenesis
Raquel Heitor

Raquel Heitor

  • Office Assistant, Biological Sciences
Erika Hersch-Green

Erika I. Hersch-Green

  • Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences

Links of Interest

Current Research Interests

  • Plant Evolutionary Ecology
  • Ecological and Community Genetics
  • Genome Size and Polyploidy Evolution
  • Invasive Species Biology and Integrated Socio-Environmental Systems
Casey Huckins

Casey J Huckins

  • Professor, Biological Sciences

Research Expertise

  • Ecology of lakes, streams, and their riparian interface with terrestrial systems
  • Fish ecology, biology, functional morphology
  • effects of land use on ecological systems
  • Biomonitoring for research and restoration
  • Effects of Invasive Species
Charles Kerfoot

Charles Kerfoot

  • Professor, Biological Sciences
  • Adjunct Professor, Geological and Mining Engineering and Sciences

Links of Interest

Research Interests

  • Aquatic Ecology
  • Paleoecology
Amy Marcarelli

Amy M Marcarelli

  • Associate Professor, Biological Sciences

Links of Interest

Research Interests

  • Limnology
  • Ecosystem Ecology of Streams and Rivers
  • Biogeochemistry
Brigitte Morin

Brigitte Morin

  • Senior Lecturer, Biological Sciences

Teaching Interests

  • Clinical Lab Techniques
  • Clinical Immunology and Serology
  • Human Anatomy and Physiology
  • Human Nutrition
  • Parasitology
Gord Paterson

Gord Paterson

  • Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences

Areas of Expertise

  • Legacy and emerging pollutants
  • Ecotoxicology
  • Great Lakes fisheries
  • Multiple stressors
  • Fisheries bioenergetics

Research Interests

  • Using pollutants as ecological tracers
  • Overwintering bioaccumulation and bioamplification
  • Energy dynamics in Great Lakes food-webs
  • Energetic costs of multiple stressors
John Romanowski Jr

John J Romanowski Jr

  • Laboratory Supervisor
Xiaoqing Tang

Xiaoqing Tang

  • Associate Professor, Biological Sciences

Research Interests

  • Diabetes
  • Obesity
  • Insulin Production, Secretion, and Signaling
  • microRNA and Human Diseases (Diabetes, Cancers, etc.)
  • microRNA Technologies for Plants and Animals: Small Tandem Target Mimic (STTM) and MicroRNA Array
Guiliang Tang

Guiliang Tang

  • Professor, Biological Sciences

Links of Interest

Specialties

  • Gene Silencing
  • RNA Interference (RNAi)
  • MicroRNA (miRNA)
  • RNA Silencing in Plant Germ Extract and Drosophila Embryo Lysate.
  • Fungal RNAi and microRNA
  • MicroRNA Technologies: Small Tandem Target mimic (STTM) and MicroRNA Array
  • Plant Electrophysiology in Plant microRNA STTM lines and Venus flytrap.
Xiaohu (Mark) Tang

Xiaohu (Mark) Tang

  • Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences

Links

  • CV

Research Interests

  • Cancer Genetics and Metabolism
  • Mechanisms of Cancer Initiation and Progression
  • Functional Genomics and Bioinformatics
  • Interactions of Diet and Nutrition with Cancer
Stephen Techtmann

Stephen Techtmann

  • Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences

Research Interests

  • Environmental Microbiology
  • Next-generation sequencing technology and bioinformatics
  • Microbial physiology and biochemistry
  • Microbes as sensors for the environmental impacts of oil and gas production
  • Microbially-mediated remediation of crude oil contamination
Dave Toczydlowski

Dave Toczydlowski

  • Research Engineer/Scientist, Biological Sciences
Ebenezer Tumban

Ebenezer Tumban

  • Associate Professor, Biological Sciences
  • Director and Advisor, Graduate Program

Research Interests

  • Infectious diseases, human papillomaviruses
  • Virus-like particles, prophylactic and therapeutic vaccines
  • Vaccine formulations
  • Peptide mimotopes discovery
Trista Vick-Majors

Trista Vick-Majors

  • Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences

Links of Interest

Faculty Webpage

Google Scholar Profile

Subglacial Antarctic Lakes

Research Interests

  • Microbial Ecology
  • Biogeochemistry
  • Limnology
  • Cryosphere 
Travis Wakeham

Travis R. Wakeham

  • Biological Sciences Advisor
  • Instructor

Links of Interest

Thomas Werner

Thomas Werner

  • Associate Professor, Biological Sciences

Links of Interest

Research Interests

  • Evolution
  • Genetics
  • Toxicology
  • Developmental Biology
Chunxiu (Traci) Yu

Chunxiu (Traci) Yu

  • Research Assistant Professor

Research Interests

  • Brain and Behavior
  • Deep Brain Stimulation
  • Parkinson's Disease
  • Alzheimer's Disease
  • Reward-Guided Learning
  • Addiction
  • Attention 
Lucille Zelazny

Lucille Zelazny

  • Research Assistant, Biological Sciences