Faculty Advisors
Please keep in mind that this list is not rigid or exhaustive. The courses listed for each area are suggestions to help you get started. Students are not required to limit themselves to courses listed under a single area.
Possible Areas of Concentration and Faculty Advisors
BEHAVIOR AND NEUROBIOLOGY (Behrman, Calsbeek, Ghosh, Hill, Hoppa, McPeek, Witters) BIOL 27, 35, 37, 74.01, 74.02, PSYC 26, 65
BIOCHEMISTRY (Amodeo, Bezanilla, Dolph, Lee, Schaller, Smith, Witters) BIOL 37, 40, 41, 44, 45, 46, 66, 69, 71.01, 71.02, 78, CHEM 52/58, 63, ENGS 30/PHYS 30, ENGS 64
CELL BIOLOGY (Amodeo, Bezanilla, Dolph, Ghosh, Grotz, He, Hill, Hoppa, Lee, Schaller, Smith, Witters) BIOL 37, 40, 41, 42, 44, 45, 46, 66, 69, 71.01, 71.02, 78, CHEM 52/58, 67, ENGS 30/PHYS 30, ENGS 64
DEVELOPMENT (Behrman, He, Jack, Peterson) BIOL 24, 28, 40, 41, 45, 76
ECOLOGY (Behrman, Ayres, Calsbeek, Chen, Cottingham, McPeek, Hicks Pries) BIOL 21, 22, 23, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 31, 50.02, 51, 54, 53, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59.01, 60.01, 60.02, 61, CHEM 52/58, ENVS 23, 79
EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY (Behrman, Calsbeek, McPeek, Nadell) BIOL 21, 27, 28, 29, 31, 45, 50.02, 51, 58, 59, 60.01, 60.02, 63
GENETICS (Amodeo, Behrman, Dolph, Ghosh, Guerinot, He, Jack) BIOL 41, 43, 44, 45, 46, 66, 71.01, 71.02, 76
GENOMICS, BIOINFORMATICS AND COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY (Cottingham, McPeek, Nadell, Zhaxybayeva) BIOL 28, 29, 45, 47, 59.01, and appropriate COSC, MATH and ENGS courses
HUMAN BIOLOGY (Dolph, Hill, Hoppa, Smith, Witters) BIOL 24, 37, 40, 41, 42, 44, 45, 46, 49, 50.01, 50.02, 66, 67, 69, 71.01, 71.02, 74.01, 74.02, 78, CHEM 52/58
MOLECULAR ECOLOGY (Calsbeek, McPeek, Nadell) BIOL 21, 31, 40, 44, 45, 46, 51, 58
MOLECULAR EVOLUTION (McPeek, Nadell, Peterson, Zhaxybayeva) BIOL 28, 40, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48
PALEOBIOLOGY (Peterson) BIOL 24, 28, 63, EARS 31, 40, 45-47, 68, 72
PHYSIOLOGY AND ORGANISMAL BIOLOGY (Behrman, Ayres, Calsbeek, Hill, Hoppa, McPeek, Witters) BIOL 24, 31, 35, 37, 42, 74.01, 74.02, 78, CHEM 52/58
PLANT BIOLOGY (Ayres, Bezanilla, Guerinot, Jack, Hicks Pries, Schaller) BIOL 21, 22, 31, 51, 55, 57, 58, CHEM 52/58
Please remember that this list is not rigid or exhaustive. If you want to engineer an area of concentration that is not listed, that is fine. Any Biology faculty member may serve as your advisor, even if they are not listed under a specific area of concentration (provided they feel comfortable advising you). Our hope is that together with your advisor you will design a major that fulfills your unique interests and goals.
Advisors and Their Area of Concentration
- Amanda Amodeo, office LSC 223
Cell Biology
Genetics - Matt Ayres, office LSC 125
Ecology
Physiology and Organismal Biology - Emily Behrman, office LSC 335
Ecology
Developmental Biology
Genetics - Magdalena Bezanilla, office LSC 231
Cell Biology
Plant Biology - Ryan Calsbeek, office LSC 338
Behavior and Neurobiology
Ecology
Evolutionary Ecology
Molecular Ecology
Physiology and Organismal Biology - Celia Chen, office LSC 126
Ecology - Kathy Cottingham, office LSC 008A
Ecology
Genomics
Bioinformatics and Computational Biology - Patrick Dolph, office LSC 351
Biochemistry
Cell Biology
Genetics
Human Biology - Dipon Ghosh, office LSC 334
Cell Biology
Behavior and Neurobiology
Developmental Bioloogy
Genetics - Natasha Grotz, office LSC 234
Cell Biology - Mary Lou Guerinot, office LSC 325
Genetics
Plant Biology - Bing He, office LSC 350
Cell Biology
Developmental Biology
Genetics - Robert Hill, office LSC 322
Neurobiology
Physiology - Michael B. Hoppa, office LSC 324
Neurobiology
Cell Biology - Thomas Jack, office LSC 331
Developmental Biology
Genetics
Plant Biology - Wei Lih Lee, office LSC 224
Biochemistry
Cell Biology - Carey Nadell, office LSC 326
Microbiology
Biological Modelling - Mark McPeek, office LSC 022
Behavior and Neurobiology
Ecology
Evolutionary Ecology
Genomics
Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Molecular Ecology
Molecular Evolution
Physiology and Organismal Biology - Kevin Peterson, office LSC 321
Molecular Evolution
Paleobiology - Caitlin Hicks Pries, office LSC 332
Ecosystem Ecology
Biogeochemistry
Soil Ecology - Eric Schaller, office LSC 339
Biochemistry
Cell Biology
Plant Biology - Elizabeth Smith, office LSC 226
Biochemistry
Cell Biology
Human Biology - Lee Witters, office LSC 122
Behavior and Neurobiology
Biochemistry
Cell Biology
Human Biology
Physiology and Organismal Biology - Olga Zhaxybayeva, office LSC 333
Genomics
Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Molecular Evolution