Biology Faculty

Faculty in the Department of Biology either teaching or doing sustainability-related research.

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Chen, Nancy

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  • Assistant Professor

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Interests: Population genetics with pedigrees; Contemporary evolution in natural populations; Evolutionary genetics; Conservation genomics; Avian genomics

James Fry

Fry, James D

  • Associate Professor
  • Director of the Undergraduate Program in Biology and Medicine

Interests: Genetics of ecological adaptation in Drosophila; Evolutionary effects of deleterious mutations; Quantitative-genetic theory and methodology

Robert L. Minckley

Minckley, Robert L.

  • Professor of Instruction

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Interests: Ecology and evolution of host breadth in bees; Community structure of desert bees; Conservation biology of pollinators

John H. Werren

Werren, John H.

  • Research Professor
  • Nathaniel and Helen Wisch Professor in Biology

Interests: Evolutionary genetics, genomics, and proteomics. The unifying theme is how interacting elements shape systems at different levels of biological organization. A current research project focuses on combining computational and molecular evolutionary approaches to investigate protein function and protein-protein interactions relevant to biology and disease. Other research topics include the genetics of speciation, nuclear-mitochondrial coevolution, microbe-host interactions, and parasitism across biological levels.