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Biology Department Faculty and Staff

Full-time Faculty

Carl D. Anthony, Associate Professor
Behavioral ecology, Evolution, Herpetology (especially kin selection, cannibalism, competition, life history evolution)

Miles M. Coburn, Professor (In Memoriam)
Evolutionary relationships among freshwater fishes, especially cyprinids; ecology of urban streams

Rebecca E. Drenovsky, Associate Professor
Plant physiology and ecology, with an emphasis on plant-soil interactions

Jeffrey R. Johansen, Professor
Phycological research, including diatoms as water quality indicators, cyanobacterial systematics, and floristics of terrestrial algae

Erin E. Johnson, Assistant Professor
Regulation of iron metabolism and infectious disease

James L. Lissemore, Associate Professor and Department Chair
Molecular genetics, Genetics

Michael P. Martin, Associate Professor
Regulation of transcription and protein-DNA interactions

Ralph A. Saporito, Assistant Professor
Chemical ecology, Aposematism, Herpetology, Predator-prey interactions, Tropical ecology

Christopher A. Sheil, Associate Professor
Systematic herpetology, Skeletal morphology, and Evolutionary development

Catherine Wheeler, Laboratory Instructor
Microbiology

Cyrilla H. Wideman, Professor
Physiology, Endocrinology, Neuroscience

Retired Faculty

Valerie R. Flechtner, Professor
Molecular genetics, Microbiology, Phycology (especially green algae living in soils)

Gwendolyn Kinebrew, Associate Professor
Developmental and cellular biology

Part-Time Faculty

Dr. Chantal Akerib Office: W 247 Phone: 216-397-4973 Email:cakerib@jcu.edu	Dr. Tracey L. Bonfield Office: W 247 Phone: 216-397-4973 Email: tbonfield@jcu.edu
Dr. Yezid Gutierrez Office: W 249 Phone: 216-397-4490 Email:ygutierrez@pol.net	Dr. Cari-Ann Hickerson Office: W 242 Phone: 216-397-4489 Email:chickerson@jcu.edu
Dr. Kal Ivanov Office: W 247 Phone: 216-397-4973 Email:kivanov@jcu.edu	Dr. Sean Kessler Office: W 249 Phone: 216-397-4490 Email: skessler@jcu.edu
Dr. Barbara Kuri Office: W 247 Phone: 216-397-4973 Email:bkuri@jcu.edu	Ms. Anna Magill Office: W 248 Phone: 216-397-4399 Email: amagill@jcu.edu
Dr. Heidi Moawad Office: W 248 Phone: 216-397-4399 Email: hmoawad@jcu.edu	Dr. Julie Rennison Office: W 248 Phone: 216-397-4399 Email:jrennison@jcu.edu
Dr. Samantha Stubblefield Park Office: W 249 Phone: 216-397-4490 Email: spark@jcu.edu	Dr. Elke White Office: W 247 Phone: 216-397-4973 Email: emwhite@jcu.edu

Staff
Barbara Ivec, Secretary
Phone: 216-397-4251
Email: bivec@jcu.edu

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