Quick Links & Department Events
Upcoming Biology Events Listed Below
Events
- Mar 26, 2010 - 12:00 PM
- Cheryl A. Heinz, Ph.D. - Pondering the prairie: black swallowtails pick a native prairie plant, when they can find it
- Apr 2, 2010 - 12:00 PM
- Clare Casteel, Ph.D. Candidate - Climate change & plant-insect interactions - from gene expression to ecology
- Apr 9, 2010 - All Day
- Annual Graduate Student Research Symposium
- Apr 9, 2010 - 12:00 PM
- Gregg Sass, Ph.D. - Environmental and economic impacts of Asian carp
- Apr 30, 2010 - 12:00 PM
- Jose Herrera, Ph.D. - Microfungal ecology
Faculty and Staff
Our faculty and staff are the
heart of our department. Use this page to find out who our faculty and staff
are, how to contact them, and what courses and research they are involved with.
Interim Department Chair
Michael A. Romano
Find Faculty & Staff:
Faculty (Arranged by Major Research Focus)
Botany & Mycology
- Afitlhile, Meshack
Lipid biochemistry and jasmonates
- Jenkins, Sean E., Director, Kibbe Life Station
Landscape & fire ecology, forest & grassland ecology, plant ecology
- Hum-Musser, Sue
Plant-Insect pathogen interactions, molecular biology
- Meiers, Susan T.
Algal ecology & biogeography, algal systematics, animal behavior
- Porras-Alfaro, Andrea
Mycology, Microbial Molecular Ecology
- Ribbens, Eric, R.M. Myers Herbarium Curator
Plant ecology & taxonomy, distribution of native Illinois cacti
- Romano, Susan P.
Plant Ecology and Geographic Information Systems
- Vogel, Thomas V.
Plant genetics, human reproductive biology, science education
Microbiology
- Alton, Thomas H.
Molecular biology & antimicrobial activities of plants, biology of archea, global warming
- French, Wendell L.
Virology, immunology, the role of bacteriophages in disease transmission
- Holt, Scott M.
Industrial microbiology, classical mutagenesis, molecular biology & fermentation
Zoology
- Alton, Althea K.
Biology of aging, women's health issues, genetics
- Anderson, Richard V.
Freshwater invertebrate ecology
- Bonnan, Matthew F., Curator of Vertebrate Osteology; FMEA Minor Advisor
Functional morphology, vertebrate paleobiology, geometric morphometrics
- Engel, Jeff E.
Neurobiology, behavior, biology of aging
- McCleery, Robert
Wildlife ecology and mammalogy
- McCravy, Ken, Curator of Invertebrates
Insect
ecology, forest entomology, biogeography
- Meagher, Shawn
Parasitology, genetics, conservation biology, mammalogy
- Musser, Richard O.
Plant-herbivore interactions, molecular ecology, physiological ecology
- Peer, Brian D. Curator of Birds & Mammals
Ornithology, behavioral ecology, coevolution, molecular ecology
- Romano, Michael A.Curator of Reptiles a& Amphibians
Herpetology, molecular ecology and systematics of amphibians, reptiles, and birds
- Spier, Timothy W. Curator of Fishes
Ichthyology, fresh-water fish ecology and management, GIS
- Thomas, Jeanette A.*
Marine & terrestrial mammalogy, bioacoustics, zoo animal enrichment
*IMPORTANT: Those students wishing to conduct research with Dr. Thomas MUST live in the Quad Cities, near the Quad Cities campus. NO students from the Main WIU Campus are advised by Dr. Thomas.
Science Education
Directors, Faculty Advisors, and Curators
Staff
Emeritus Faculty