Faculty

Shankari Somayaji, PhD

Associate Teaching Professor

RESEARCH CONCENTRATION: Anatomy and Physiology

Bao-Hua (Alysa) Song, PhD

Professor

RESEARCH CONCENTRATION: Plant Evolutionary and Ecological Genetics and Genomics LEARN MORE ABOUT DR. SONG’S RESEARCH LAB WORK

Todd R. Steck, PhD

Professor
Woodward 390C

RESEARCH CONCENTRATION: Molecular microbiology, cystic fibrosis microbiome, antibiotic resistance LEARN MORE ABOUT DR. STECK’S RESEARCH LAB WORK

Sarah Stellwagen, PhD

Assistant Professor

RESEARCH CONCENTRATION: Biomaterials, genetics, spider silk, bioadhesives LEARN MORE ABOUT DR. STELLWAGEN’S RESEARCH LAB WORK

Sam Suptela, PhD, MPH

Director of Assessment
Associate Teaching Professor
Science Building 204

TEACHING CONCENTRATION: Immunology, physiology, and public health

Junya Tomida, PhD

Associate Professor

RESEARCH CONCENTRATION: DNA repair, mechanisms of carcinogenesis and metastasis in prostate and breast cancers LEARN MORE ABOUT DR. TOMIDA’S RESEARCH LAB WORK

Andrew Truman, PhD

Associate Chair for Research
Professor

RESEARCH CONCENTRATION: Understanding the role of molecular chaperones in cancer using quantitative proteomics, molecular biology, systems biology and model organisms. LEARN MORE ABOUT DR. TRUMAN’S RESEARCH LAB WORK

Patricija van Oosten-Hawle, PhD

Associate Professor

RESEARCH CONCENTRATION: The regulation of organismal proteostasis in aging and age-associated diseases using genomics, proteomics and the power of the metazoan C. elegans. LEARN MORE ABOUT DR. VAN OOSTEN-HAWLE’S RESEARCH LAB WORK

Jennifer Warner, PhD

Faculty Director, LEADS Program
Teaching Professor

TEACHING CONCENTRATION: Microbiology MORE ABOUT DR. WARNER

Carrie Wells, MS, MEd, PhD

Associate Teaching Professor

TEACHING CONCENTRATION: Ecology, Conservation Biology and Scientific Writing MORE ABOUT DR. WELLS