Faculty research interests and contact information.

Below are Biological Sciences faculty members who are accepting students into their labs. Please contact those whose work you find interesting to discuss potential positions.

Brian Antonsen	Dr. Antonsen’s research interests include neurophysiology and neuroethology. Dr. Antonsen’s Web Page email: antonsenb@marshall.edu Office: Science 398 Phone: (304) 696-6496
Anne Axel	Dr. Axel’s research interests include landscape ecology (especially of tropical dry forests), remote sensing and GIS analysis, and soundscape ecology. Dr. Axel’s Web Page email: axel@marshall.edu Office: Science 260 Phone: (304) 696-2426
Simon Collier	Dr. Collier’s research interests include the genetics of animal development. Dr. Collier’s Web Page email: collierp@marshall.edu Office: Science 390 Phone: (304) 696-6111
Paul Constantino	Dr. Constantino’s research interests include the evolutionary biology of humans and other primates. Dr. Constantino’s Web Page email: constantinop@marshall.edu Office: Science 202 Phone: (304) 696-6692
Victor Fet	Dr. Fet’s research interests include evolution, and the biogeography and taxonomy of arthropods. Dr. Fet’s Web Page email: fet@marshall.edu Office: Science 206 Phone: (304) 696-3116
Philippe Georgel	Dr. Georgel’s research interests include the regulation of gene expression, and epigenetics. Dr. Georgel’s Web Page email: georgel@marshall.edu Office: BBSC 241P Phone: (304) 696-3965
Frank Gilliam	Dr. Gilliam’s research interests include plant ecology and biogeochemistry, with an emphasis of forest ecosystems, including effects of nitrogen pollution on biodiversity. Dr. Gilliam’s Web Page email: gilliam@marshall.edu Office: Science 380 Phone: (304) 696-3636
Emily Gillespie	Dr. Gillespie’s research interests include plant evolution, systematics, biogeography and phylogenomics. Dr. Gillespie’s Web Page email: gillespiee@marshall.edu Office: Science 364 Phone: (304) 696-6467
Marcia Harrison	Dr. Harrison’s research interests include plant hormone physiology, environmental stress effects on plant growth, and the mathematical analysis of plant growth. Dr. Harrison’s Web Page email: harrison@marshall.edu Office: Science 200A Phone: (304) 696-4867
Jeffrey Kovatch	Dr. Kovatch’s research interests include animal physiological ecology, and behavioral ecology. Dr. Kovatch’s Web Page email: kovatch@marshall.edu Office: Science 116 Phone: (304) 696-3829
David Mallory	Dr. Mallory ’s research interests include neural/endocrine factors controlling secretion of LH and FSH, and anomalies in neural/endocrine function resulting from gestational ETOH exposure. Dr. Mallory’s Web Page email: mallory@marshall.edu Office: Science 350 Phone: (304) 696-7136
F. Robin O'Keefe	Dr. O’Keefe’s research interests include vertebrate paleobiology, and macroevolution. Dr. O’Keefe’s Web Page email: okeefef@marshall.edu Office: Science 267 Phone: (304) 696-2427
Thomas Pauley	Dr. Pauley’s research interests include herpetology. Dr. Pauley’s Web Page email: pauley@marshall.edu Office: Science 386 Phone: (304) 696-2376
Elmer Price	Dr. Price’s research interests include stem cell therapeutics. Dr. Price’s Web Page email: pricee@marshall.edu Office: Science 350 Phone: (304) 696-3611
Gary Schultz	Dr. Schultz’s research interests include environmental metagenomics. Dr. Schultz’s Web Page email: schultzga@marshall.edu Office: Science 309 Phone: (304) 696-7057
Chuck Somerville	Dr. Somerville’s research interests include environmental microbiology. Dr. Somerville’s Web Page email: somervil@marshall.edu Office: Science 270 Phone: (304) 696-2424
Nadja Spitzer	Dr. Spitzer’s research interests include modulation of neural stem cell differentiation. Dr. Spitzer’s Web Page email: spitzern@marshall.edu Office: Science 315 (inside S311A) Phone: (304) 696-7147
Suzanne Strait	Dr. Strait’s research interests include paleontology. Dr. Strait’s Web Page email: straitho@marshall.edu Office: Science 274 Phone: (304) 696-2425
Wendy Trzyna	Dr. Trzyna’s research interests include eukaryotic microbiology, and genomics. Dr. Trzyna’s Web Page email: trzyna@marshall.edu Office: Science 302 Phone: (304) 696-6791
Jagan Valluri	Dr. Valluri’s research interests include the cell-based production of bioproducts. Dr. Valluri’s Web Page email: valluri@marshall.edu Office: Science 370 Phone: (304) 696-2409
Jayme Waldron	Dr. Waldron’s research interests include conservation biology and herpetology. Dr. Waldron’s Web Page email: waldron3@marshall.edu Office: Science 326 Phone: (304) 696-3361
Guo-Zhang Zhu	Dr. Zhu’s research interests include mammalian fertilization. Dr. Zhu’s Web Page email: zhu4@marshall.edu Office: Science 394 Phone: (304) 696-2429