Faculty & Research

Full and Part-time Faculty

Harry Bernheim, Associate Professor*: Human Physiology and Immunology
Frances Sze-Ling Chew, Professor*: Ecology
David E. Cochrane, Professor: Cellular Physiology of the Mast Cell
George S. Ellmore, Associate Professor*: Experimental Plant Anatomy and Morphology
Susan G. Ernst, Professor: Developmental Biology
Ross S. Feldberg, Associate Professor*: Biochemistry
Catherine H. Freudenreich, Associate Professor: Genome Stability in Yeast
Juliet A. Fuhrman, Associate Professor, Chair: Immunology and Infectious Disease
Michelle Gaudette, Lecturer*: Molecular Biology, Gene Regulation of Development
Sara M. Lewis, Professor: Evolutionary and Behavioral Ecology
Margaret A. Lynch, Lecturer*: Cell Biology of Plant and Animal Cells
Kelly McLaughlin, Associate Professor: Molecular Development (Organogenesis)
Mitch McVey, Assistant Professor: Molecular biology, genomic instability
Sergei Mirkin, Professor, White Family Chair in Biology: Genetics and Molecular Biology
Colin M. Orians, Professor: Plant Ecology and Plant-Herbivore Interactions
Jan A. Pechenik, Professor: Invertebrate Zoology and Marine Biology
J. Michael Reed, Professor: Conservation Biology
L. Michael Romero, Professor: Physiology and Neuroendocrinology of Stress in Vertebrate
Eli Siegel, Professor*
Philip Starks, Associate Professor: Behavioral Ecology
Barry A. Trimmer, Professor, Henry Bromfield Pearson Professor of Natural Sciences: Neurobiology: Cellular and Molecular Processes in Behavior

* indicates faculty members who are not currently accepting graduate students

Astier Almedom, Professor of Practice in Humanitarian Policy and Global Public Health: Thesis and Faculty Advisor to Ayron Strauch and Jocelyn Muller

Adjunct Faculty

David Kaplan, Adjunct Professor: Chemical & Biological Engineering; Biotechnology, Biomaterials, Tissue Engineering
Mark Pokras, Adjunct Associate Professor, Grafton Campus

Post Doctoral Associates

Luke Butler, in the laboratory of: Michael Romero
Lionel Gellon, in the laboratory of: Catherine Freudenreich
Alexander Shishkin, in the laboratory of Sergei Mirkin
John Rieffel, in the laboratory of: Barry A. Trimmer
William Woods, in the laboratory of: Barry A. Trimmer
Qinglei Ming, in the laboratory of: Sara Lewis

Technical Staff

Wayne Rosky, Animal Care Specialist
Alice Miller, in the laboratory of Mitch McVey


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