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Uwe Beffert, Research Assistant Professor of Biology
Alzheimer’s disease, apolipoproteins, lipoprotein receptors, brain development, neuronal migration, autism, cytoskeleton
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Gary Benson, Associate Professor of Biology and Computer Science; Program in Bioinformatics
algorithm development for DNA sequence analysis
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Jennifer Bhatnagar, Associate Professor of Biology; Director, Biogeoscience Program
Microbial Ecology, Biogeochemistry, Ecosystem Science
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Cynthia A. Bradham, Associate Professor of Biology; Associate Chair, Cell & Molecular Biology
developmental biology; embryonic pattern formation; systems biology
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Peter Buston, Associate Professor of Biology; Associate Dean of the Faculty for the Natural Sciences
Evolutionary Ecology, Animal Behavior, Marine Ecology and Biological Oceanography.
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Sofía Casasa, Assistant Professor of Biology
Eco-evo-devo, phenotypic plasticity, insect development, horned beetles, nematodes, transcriptomics, functional genetics
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John L. Celenza, Associate Professor of Biology; Director, Program in Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Co-Chair, Biology Anti-Racism Committee
plant development, defense, and metabolism; genetics, biochemistry and molecular biology
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Lynne Chantranupong, Assistant Professor of Biology
Neurobiology, Cell and Molecular Biology, Behavior, Signal transduction, Metabolism, Organellar Biology, Metabolomics, Proteomics
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Jerry Chen, Associate Professor of Biology
Large-scale neuronal networks, sensorimotor integration, decision making, neurodevelopment, non-linear microscopy
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Brian Cleary, Assistant Professor of Computing and Data Sciences, Biomedical Engineering, Biology, and Bioinformatics
Tissue organization, cellular pathways, causal modeling, statistical learning
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Elizabeth Co, Senior Lecturer in Biology
science education, human immunology and reproduction
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Sarah W. Davies, Associate Professor of Biology
ecological genomics, population genetics, molecular ecology, coral ecology, climate change, symbiosis
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Ian Davison, Associate Professor of Biology
pheromones and innate social behaviors; novel imaging tools for behaving animals; pathophysiology of injury
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Ethan Deyle, Research Assistant Professor of Biology
Quantitative Ecology, Environmental Data Science, Nonlinear Dynamics, Applied Complex Systems, Marine Ecology
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John R. Finnerty, Associate Professor of Biology; Associate Chair, Ecology, Behavior & Evolution
Evolutionary and ecological developmental biology; evolutionary and ecological genomics; marine biodiversity; global change biology; coral conservation.
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Ana Fiszbein, Assistant Professor of Biology
Gene regulation; RNA processing; systems biology of co-transcriptional programs; computational genomics; role of gene architecture in cancer development and therapy
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Horacio Frydman, Associate Professor of Biology
host-microbe interactions at the molecular, cellular and organismal level; mechanisms of bacterial transmission through stem-cell niche infection
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Robinson W. Fulweiler, Professor of Biology and Earth & Environment
Biogeochemistry and Marine Ecology
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Juan Fuxman Bass, Associate Professor of Biology
immune regulation, gene regulatory networks, systems biology, disease mutations, inflammation, transcription factors
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Mikel Garcia-Marcos, Professor of Biochemistry and Biology
Intercellular communication, receptor signaling, GTPases, synthetic biology tools, molecular basis of disease, cancer, neurotransmission, embryonic development
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Thomas Gilmore, Professor of Biology; Director of Graduate Admissions, Program in Molecular Biology, Cell Biology & Biochemistry; Chair, Appointment, Promotion, and Tenure Committee
molecular biology, cell biology, signal transduction, cancer, molecular ecology
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Les Kaufman, Professor of Biology
marine biology, evolutionary ecology, and conservation biology
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Cheryl Knott, Professor of Anthropology, Biology, and Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies
primate, great ape and orangutan behavior and physiology; reproductive ecology, energetics and endocrinology; nutritional ecology; life history and human evolution; sexuality and sexual conflict theory; wildlife and habitat conservation
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Joe Larkin, Assistant Professor of Biology and Physics
Bacterial communities, cell-to-cell communication, bacterial electrophysiology
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Jen-Wei Lin, Associate Professor of Biology; Associate Chair, Neurobiology
membrane excitability and synaptic plasticity
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Phillip S. Lobel, Professor of Biology
ichthyology; behavioral ecology and taxonomy of fishes
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Edward L. Loechler, Professor of Biology
molecular biology; mechanisms by which carcinogens cause mutations and cancer
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Hengye Man, Professor of Biology
Brain development, neuron morphogenesis, synapse formation, synaptic plasticity, AMPA type glutamate receptor, protein ubiquitination and degradation, autism, Intellectual disability, Alzheimer’s disease
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Jeffrey Marlow, Assistant Professor of Biology; Chair, Graduate Committee
microbial ecology, environmental microbiology, global change biology, metabolic activity, geobiology, astrobiology
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Kim McCall, Professor of Biology; Director, Master’s Studies
Drosophila developmental biology, cell death, oogenesis
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Sean P. Mullen, Professor of Biology
Adaptation and speciation; hybrid zones; the evolution of mimicry and wing pattern variation in butterflies; evolutionary genetics; comparative and population genomics; bioinformatics
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Mario Muscedere, Master Lecturer in Biology; Director, Undergraduate Program in Neuroscience
Science education and undergraduate mentorship, social behavior, neuroethology, behavioral ecology
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Karina Scavo Lord, Lecturer in Biology and the Boston University Marine Program (BUMP)
Marine ecology and conservation, evolutionary and ecological genomics, coral reefs, eelgrass meadows
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Christopher Schmitt, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Biology;
Affiliated Faculty, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studiesprimate growth and development, ontogeny and etiology of obesity, population and functional genomics, quantitative genetics, primate behavioral ecology and life history
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Daniel Segrè, Professor of Biology, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Engineering
systems biology, evolution of biochemical networks, genomics, metabolic engineering, microbial ecology
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Trevor W. Siggers, Associate Professor of Biology
systems biology of the immune and inflammatory systems, gene regulation in immune and inflammatory systems, inflammatory diseases, transcriptional networks, DNA-binding of transcription factors and transcriptional regulatory complexes, computational genomics, cis-regulatory logic in transcription
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Michael D. Sorenson, Professor of Biology
Avian behavioral ecology, speciation, population genomics, and molecular systematics
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Kathryn Spilios, Master Lecturer in Biology; Director, Instructional Labs; Director, Learning Assistant Program; Director, Academic Planning
Science education, entomology
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Lynette Strickland, Assistant Professor of Biology
Evolutionary genetics, ecological genetics and genomics, ecological entomology, biodiversity genomics, tropical ecology, beetles
Integrated studies of biodiversity genomics
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Nancy Sullivan, Professor of Biology and Virology, Immunology & Microbiology
HIV entry and resistance to neutralizing antibodies; Filovirus vaccines and immune mechanism; Filovirus glycoprotein mediated pathogenicity, virus entry and antibody vulnerabilities; Pandemic Preparedness; SARS-CoV-2
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Tuan Leng Tay, Assistant Professor of Biology; Assistant Professor of Anatomy and Neurobiology
neurobiology, neuroimmunology, neurodevelopment, neurodegeneration, traumatic brain injury, brain repair, microglia, glia
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Pamela Templer, Distinguished Professor and Chair of Biology
plant and microbial ecosystem ecology; biogeochemistry
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Dean R. Tolan, Professor of Biology; Director, Undergraduate Studies
biochemistry, enzymology, molecular and human genetics of enzymes in sugar metabolism
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James F. A. Traniello, Professor of Biology
behavior, ecology and evolution of social insects; neuroethology; social brain evolution; behavioral development and senescence; evolution of division of labor
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John Tullai, Senior Lecturer in Neuroscience and Biology
growth factor-mediated cell survival, cancer biology, transcription network mapping, gene regulation, neuroscience, endocrinology, neuroendocrinology, physiology, carcinogenesis, cell biology, molecular biology, transcription regulation
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Karen Warkentin, Professor of Biology; Professor of Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies
phenotypic plasticity; integrative and comparative biology; adaptive embryo behavior; hatching as a life history transition; substrate vibration as an information channel; herpetology; tropical biology; sex, gender and sexuality; diversity and inclusion as imperatives for scientific progress
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Fred E. Wasserman, Associate Professor of Biology
Animal behavior, bird song, territoriality
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David J. Waxman, Professor of Biology, Medicine, and Biomedical Engineering; Program in Bioinformatics
Genomic and epigenetic mechanisms controlling liver gene expression; molecular endocrinology and cell signaling through transcriptional networks; role of angiogenesis and innate immune system in cancer therapy and pharmacology; nuclear receptors and responses to environmental chemicals
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Zeba Wunderlich, Associate Professor of Biology; Director, Program in Molecular Biology, Cell Biology & Biochemistry
regulation of gene expression; enhancers; developmental biology; systems biology; innate immunology
Adjunct Faculty
Lisa Sorenson, Adjunct Associate Professor and Co-Chair, West Indian Whistling-Duck Working Group of the Society of Caribbean Ornithology Conservation Biology, Behavioral Ecology, and Hormonal Mechanisms of Behavior in Birds
Kelly Swing, Director, Ecuador Tropical Ecology Program and Adjunct Professor of Biology
Affiliated Faculty
Postdoctoral Associate Teaching Scholars (PATS)
The Postdoctoral Associate Teaching Scholars (PATS) Program at Boston University’s Department of Biology is designed for early-career Ph.D. recipients who are preparing for academic careers with a strong teaching component. This program provides postdoctoral scholars with the opportunity to gain substantial teaching experience while also engaging in research or curriculum development.
Emeritus and Retired Faculty
- Michael Baum
- Gloria V. Callard
- Ian P. Callard
- Geoffrey M. Cooper
- Gillian Cooper-Driver
- Vincent Dionne
- William Eldred
- Stjepko Golubic
- Gary Jacobson
- Francis Monette
- Gail Patt
- Christopher Schneider
- Sidney L. Tamm
- Ivan Valiela
- Eric Widmaier
In Memoriam