Biology Department Personnel
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Nita Bharti
- Assistant Professor of Biology, Lloyd Huck Early Career Professor
(814)863-9545
Victoria Braithwaite
- The Dorothy and Lloyd Huck Chair in Behavioral Biology
- Professor of Fisheries and Biology
(814)865-4675
Douglas Cavener
- Professor and Verne M. Willaman Dean, Eberly College of Science
(814)865-9591
Gong Chen
- Professor and Verne M. Willaman Chair in Life Sciences
- Lab Head of Charles H. "Skip" Smith Life Sciences Laboratory
(814)865-2488
Yintong Chen
- Molecular, Cellular & Integrative Biosciences, Ph.D. Program
(814) 863-4779
Daniel Cosgrove
- Professor and Holder of the Eberly Chair in Biology
- Note: for the Head of the Biology Department, contact Dr. Tracy Langkilde
(814)863-3892
Barbara DeHart
- Director of Undergraduate Biology Advising,
- Assistant Teaching Professor, Human Anatomy
(814)865-2329
Mengyang Feng
- Molecular, Cellular & Integrative Biosciences, Ph.D. Program
(814)865-5563
Charles Fisher
- Professor and Distinguished Senior Scholar of Biology, Associate Dean for Graduate Education
(814)865-3365
Siyang Hao
- Molecular, Cellular & Integrative Biosciences, Ph.D. Program
(814)863-3546
Carla Hass
- Teaching Professor and Associate Head for Curricular Coordination
(814)863-4708
Xiaoyi Hou
- Molecular, Cellular & Integrative Biosciences, Ph.D. Program
(814) 863-2992
Jingjie Hu
- Molecular, Cellular & Integrative Biosciences, Ph.D. Program
(814)865-1769
Theodora Kaiser (Maravegias)
- Molecular, Cellular & Integrative Biosciences, Ph.D. Program
Xiaojun (Lance) Lian
- Assistant Professor of Biology
- Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- The Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences
(814) 865-8093
Bernhard Luscher
- Professor of Biology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and Psychiatry
(814)865-5549
Hong Ma
- Professor of Biology
- Huck Distinguished Research Professor of Plant Molecular Biology
- Associate Dean for Research and Innovation
(814) 865-5343
Sally Mackenzie
- Lloyd and Dottie Huck Chair for Functional Genomics
- Professor for Biology and Plant Science
(814) 863-8324
Jennelle Malcos
- Associate Teaching Professor
- Associate Director, Center for Excellence in Science Education in Eberly College of Science
(814) 867-3338
James Marden
- Professor of Biology, &
- Assoc. Director, Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences
(814)863-3842
Ronald Markle
- Professor of Biology
- Director, Pre-Medicine and Science majors
(814)865-7620
Yurika Matsui
- Molecular, Cellular & Integrative Biosciences, Ph.D. Program
(814)863-3546
Gang Ning
- Director of Microscopy & Cytrometry Facility, senior research associate, biology
(814)863-0994
George Perry
- Harry J. & Elissa M. Sichi Early Career Professor in Anthropology
- Associate Professor of Anthropology and Biology
(814)863-7654
Andrew Read
- Director, Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences
- Evan Pugh Professor of Biology and Entomology
- Eberly Professor of Biotechnology
(814)867-2396
Marilyn Roossinck
- Professor of Plant Pathology and Environmental Microbiology and Biology
(814)865-2292
Stephen Schaeffer
- Professor of Biology, Associate Department Head of Graduate Education
- Biology Ombudsperson
(814)865-3269
Claire Thomas
- Associate Professor of Biology and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
(814)863-0716
Xin Wang
- Molecular, Cellular and Integrative Biosciences, Ph.D. Program
(814)863-2992
John Waters
- Teaching Professor, Biology and Anthropology
- Associate Head, Biology Undergraduate Education
(814) 863-1154
Yunqing Zhou
- Molecular, Cellular, & Integrative Biosciences, Ph.D. Program
(814) 865-2847