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 (Calsbeek, Hill, Hoppa, Laidre, McPeek, Witters) BIOL 23, 27, 32, 33, 37, 49, 74.01, 74.02, PSYC 26, 65

BIOCHEMISTRY (Amodeo, Bickel, Dolph, Griffin, Lee, Schaller, Smith, Witters) BIOL 37, 40, 41, 45, 46, 66, 69, 71, 78, CHEM 52/58, 61, 63, 67, ENGS 30/PHYS 30, ENGS 64

CELL BIOLOGY (Amodeo, Bezanilla, Bickel, Dolph, Griffin, Grotz, He, Hill, Hoppa, Lee, Schaller, Smith, Witters) BIOL 37, 40, 41, 42, 45, 46, 66, 67, 69, 71, 78, CHEM 52/58, 67, ENGS 30/PHYS 30, ENGS 64

DEVELOPMENT (Griffin, He, Jack, Peterson) BIOL 24, 28, 40, 41, 43, 45, 76

ECOLOGY (Ayres, Calsbeek, Chen, Cottingham, Laidre, McPeek, Pries) BIOL 21, 22, 23, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 31, 32, 33, 50.01, 50.02, 51, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, CHEM 52/58, ENVS 79, 80

EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY (Calsbeek, McPeek, Nadell) BIOL 21, 23, 27, 28, 29, 31, 45, 48, 50, 51, 58, 59, 60, 63

GENETICS (Amodeo, Bickel, Dolph, Griffin, Guerinot, He, Jack, McClung) BIOL 41, 43, 45, 46, 66, 71, 76

GENOMICS, BIOINFORMATICS AND COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY (Cottingham, McClung, McPeek, Nadell, Zhaxybayeva) BIOL 28, 29, 45, 47, 59, and appropriate COSC, MATH and ENGS courses

HUMAN BIOLOGY (Dolph, Hill, Hoppa, Smith, Witters) BIOL 24, 37, 40, 41, 42, 43, 45, 46, 48, 49, 50.01, 50.02, 66, 67, 69, 71, 74, 78, CHEM 52/58

MOLECULAR ECOLOGY (Calsbeek, McPeek, Nadell) BIOL 21, 31, 40, 45, 51, 58

MOLECULAR EVOLUTION (McPeek, Nadell, Peterson, Zhaxybayeva) BIOL 28, 40, 45, 47, 48

PALEOBIOLOGY (Peterson) BIOL 24, 28, 63, EARS 31, 40, 45-47, 68, 72

PHYSIOLOGY AND ORGANISMAL BIOLOGY (Ayres, Calsbeek, Hill, Hoppa, Laidre, McPeek, Witters) BIOL 24, 31, 37, 42, 49, 52, 74, 78, CHEM 52/58

PLANT BIOLOGY (Ayres, Bezanilla, Guerinot, Jack, McClung, Schaller) BIOL 21/51, 22, 31, 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
  • Magdalena Bezanilla, office LSC 334
    Cell Biology
    Plant Biology
  • Sharon Bickel, office LSC 237
    Biochemistry
    Cell Biology
    Genetics
  • 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
  • Erik Griffin, office LSC 348
    Cell Biology
    Development
    Genetics
  • Natasha Grotz, office LSC 231
    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
    Development
    Genetics
    Plant Biology
  • Mark Laidre, office LSC 221
    Behavior and Neurobiology
    Ecology
    Evolution
  • Wei Lih Lee, office LSC 224
    Biochemistry
    Cell Biology
  • Carey Nadell, office LSC 326
    Microbiology
    Biological Modelling
  • C. Robertson McClung, office LSC 323
    Genetics
    Plant Biology
  • 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 Pries, office LSC 349
    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