Department of Biological Science

Biology education, student learning, educational technology, plant ecology, urban agriculture

Innate immunity; Phagocytosis; Genetic Approaches to Cell Biology; Blood Cells; Drosophila

Marine community ecology, species interactions, abiotic factors influencing species distributions

Biology education - Impact of student attitudes and expectations on learning. Spider silk...

Molecular biology of microbe-host interactions; genes and signals in the symbiosis...

Regulation of photosynthetic gene expression in plant cells, nuclear-chloroplast interactions,...

Molecular, structural and cellular biology of transient receptor potential (TRP) ion channels...

Plant evolutionary genomics, plant systematics, bioinformatics, and molecular evolution....

Locomotion and endothermy in fishes, comparative physiology and biochemistry

Immune response to infection, immunotherapy, tumor metastasis, neuroimmune communication, stress...

Animal phylogeny, evolution of Mollusca, marine zoology, systematics, population genetics, bioinformatics

Fish reproductive physiology and endocrinology, histology, and toxicology

Biology education, student learning, animal communication, functional morphology.

Ecology and physiology of fish-plant interactions in coastal seas and tropical rain forests,...

Environmental microbiology, microbial metal oxidation and reduction, Cyanobacterial...

Cell biology and ultrastructure of ascidian gametes during fertilization

Molecular mechanisms of Notch receptor signaling by typical and atypical ligands; developmental...

Comparative genomics; bioinformatics; phylogenetics; molecular evolution and biochemistry of...

Role of ion channels in sensing and adaptation to environmental conditions in protozoan...

Functional Anatomy, Biomechanics, Biomimetics, and Biomaterials