Faculty Labs
Monitoring biodiversity and understanding evolutionary properties of the genome.
Developmental biology, evolution development and variation in development; craniofacial and limb development.
Stem cell biology, innate immunology and cell culture methodologies and applications.
Chemical and molecular ecology, arthropod genomics & evolutionary biology; production and evolution of spider silks andvenoms.
Climate change and infectious disease in marine organisms.
Structural enzymology, catalytic mechanism, immune responses and genetic diseases.
Biodiversity, conservation biology, evolutionary biology, herpetology, pacific biogeography.
Computational biology, cancer genomics, data science, biomedical informatics.
Cell biology, neurodegenerative disease and neuroscience.
Invertebrate morphology, the functions of invertebrate organ systems, ecology and evolution.
Comparative morphology, physiology and biomechanics.
Molecular biomechanics of contractile proteins, the structure & function of motor proteins & calcium regulation of muscle contraction.
- Epigenetic inheritance of complex traits like longevity; the role of chromatin in regulating gene expression and development.
Research Opportunities in Biology - Assistant Professor Teresa Lee's Lab
Comparative immunology of fish, B cell biology, host-pathogen interactions/co-evolution and ecoimmunology.
Research Opportunities in Biology - Associate Professor Natalie Steinel's Lab
Thomas Shea's Laboratory for Neuroscience
Development and maintenance of the nervous system & its eventual degeneration in Alzheimer's Disease and Amyotropic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) using molecular, cell culture & transgenic models.
Biology education research to increase student success and retention.