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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.
Department Chair
Anderson, Richard V.
Find Faculty & Staff:
Faculty (Arranged by Major Research Focus)
Botany & Mycology
- Edwards, H. Herbert
Fungal infection in plants, soybean rust disease
- Jenkins, Sean E., Director, Kibbe Life Station
Landscape & fire ecology, forest & grassland ecology, plant ecology
- Meiers, Susan T.
Algal ecology & biogeography, algal systematics, animal behavior
- Ribbens, Eric, R.M. Myers Herbarium Curator
Plant ecology & taxonomy, distribution of native Illinois cacti
- Romano, Susan P.
Large river vegetation & landscape ecology, forest & wetland management, GIS
- 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
- Gonzalez, Fernando [more information soon]; F-Gonzalez@wiu.edu
Molecular biology
- 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
Functional morphology, vertebrate paleobiology, geometric morphometrics
- Engel, Jeff E.
Neurobiology, behavior, biology of aging
- Hum-Musser, Sue
Plant-Insect pathogen interactions, molecular biology
- 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
Science Education
Directors, Faculty Advisors, and Curators
Staff
Emeritus Faculty