Ibrahim Z. Ades, Associate Professor; Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles, 1976. Regulatory processes that govern eukaryotic cell development.

George Anastos, Professor Emeritus (retired).

Ricardo C. Araneda, Assistant Professor (beginning Fall 2006); Ph.D., Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1997. Neuromodulation and sensory physiology of the olfactory system; mechanisms underlying the processing of olfactory
information in the context of behavior.

Alexandra E. Bely,Assistant Professor;Ph.D., State University of New York-Stony Brook, 1999. Evolution of regeneration and segmentation mechanisms in annelids; asexual reproduction; animal body plan evolution.

Gerald Borgia, Professor; Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1978. Evolution of mate choice; social structure and patterns of aid-giving behavior; sociobiology.

Michael J. Braun, Adjunct Professor (Smithsonian Laboratory of Molecular Systematics); Ph.D., Louisiana State University Medical Center, 1983. Molecular approaches to evolutionary biology; recovering genetic information from ancient DNA; avian hybrid zones.

Denise L. Breitburg, Adjunct Professor (Smithsonian Environmental Research Center); Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara, 1984. Marine and estuarine ecology; relationship between behavior and community ecology; behavior and ecology of fishes.

Karen Carleton, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., University of Colorado, 1987. Evolution of visual systems, visual communication and speciation, phototransduction, sensory genomics.

Catherine E. Carr, Professor; Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, 1984. Cellular mechanisms of sound localization in birds; evolution of the auditory system.

Cristian I. Castillo-Davis, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Harvard University, 2003. The genetic basis of phenotypic change, the evolution of gene regulation and gene networks, computational biology and statistics.

Eugenie Clark, Professor Emerita; Ph.D., New York University, 1950. Marine biology and animal behavior; ichthyology.

D. Wayne Coats, Adjunct Professor (Smithsonian Environmental Research Center); Ph.D., University of Maryland, 1977. Protistology, with emphasis on ciliate and dinoflagellate ecology, structure and function, and taxonomy.

Avis H. Cohen, Professor; Ph.D., Cornell University, 1977. Motor physiology and control; neuromorphic engineering; computational neuroscience with an emphasis on systems of coupled oscillators.

Marco Colombini, Professor; Ph.D., McGill University, 1974. Structure and mode of action of membrane transport systems; molecular basis for voltage control of channel-forming proteins.

Reid Compton, Director of Undergraduate Studies and Lecturer.

John O. Corliss, Professor Emeritus (retired).

Michael P. Cummings, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Harvard University, 1992. Molecular evolution, bioinformatics, computational biology.

Charles Delwiche, Affiliate Associate Professor (joint appointment with Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, UMCP); Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1990. Plant molecular systematics and plastid evolution.

James M. Dietz, Professor; Ph.D., Michigan State University, 1981. Behavioral ecology and conservation biology of neotropical mammals.

Robert J. Dooling, Affiliate Professor (Department of Psychology, UMCP); Ph.D., St. Louis University, 1975. Comparative psychoacoustics, hearing, vocal communication, and vocal learning in animals; hair cell regeneration and recovery of auditory function.

Michele R. Dudash, Associate Professor; Ph.D., University of Illinois at Chicago, 1987. Plant population biology; inbreeding depression; mating system evolution.

William Fagan, Associate Professor; Ph.D., University of Washington, 1996. Conservation Biology, Community Ecology, Theoretical Ecology.

Charles B. Fenster, Associate Professor; Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1988. Plant evolution biology; mating systems; epistasis.

Robert Fleischer, Adjunct Professor, (National Zoo); Ph.D., University of Kansas, 1983. Evolutionary genetics, molecular genetics, ornithology. 

Irwin N. Forseth, Jr., Associate Professor; Ph.D., University of Utah, 1982. Plant physiological ecology; heliotropism; nitrogen metabolism.

Douglas E. Gill, Professor; Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1971. Population dynamics; evolution of life-history parameters; host-parasite coevolution; plant-animal interactions.

Eric S. Haag, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Indiana University, 1997. Molecular and functional evolution of nematode sex determination genes.

A. James Haley, Professor Emeritus (retired).

Matthew P. Hare, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., University of Georgia, 1996. Population and conservation genetics of marine organisms, invasion biology, phylogeography, and host-parasite co-evolution.

William J. Higgins, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Florida State University, 1973. Neuromodulation; opiate receptors; intercellular communication among unicellular organisms.

Richard Highton, Professor Emeritus; Ph.D., University of Florida, 1956. Systematics and molecular evolution of plethodontid salamanders.

Anson Hines, Adjunct Professor (Smithsonian Environmental Research Center); Ph.D., Berkeley, 1976. Ecology of marine and estuarine invertebrates; predator-prey interactions.

William Hodos, Affiliate Professor (Department of Psychology, UMCP); Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1960. Vision and visual system in birds; comparative neuroanatomy; evolution of brain and behavior; animal intelligence.

Robert Infantino, Associate Dean and Lecturer in Biology.

David W. Inouye, Professor; Ph.D., University of North Carolina, 1976. Plant demography; plant-ant mutualisms; behavior and ecology of bumblebees; pollination biology.

Fatimah Linda Jackson, Affiliate Professor (Department of Anthropology, UMCP); Ph.D., Cornell University, 1981; Human evolutionary biology; biological effects of cultural behaviors, especially dietary practices, on human biological diversity and microevolution.

William R. Jeffery, Professor; Ph.D., University of Iowa, 1971. Evolution of developmental mechanisms in chordates.

Jeffrey Jensen, Lecturer; Ph.D., Harvard University, 1993. Evolution and functional morphology of fishes.

Patrick Kanold, (Assistant Professor, Biology) Mechanisms and circuits involved in the maturation of the cortical circuitry, development of patterned projection in the brain and the relation of synaptic maturation to critical periods, and development of the central auditory system.

Matthew W. Kelley, Adjunct Associate Professor, (National Institutes of Health); Ph.D., University of Virginia, 1993. Development of vertebrate auditory system, determination of cell fate, cellular patterning.

Devra G. Kleiman, Adjunct Professor (National Zoo); Ph.D., University College, London, 1969. Social, reproductive, and developmental behavior of mammals; mammalian mating systems, especially monogamy.

Thomas D. Kocher, Professor: Ph.D., University of Colorado, 1986; Molecular evolution, population genetics, evolution of development, genetics of speciation, evolution of sex determination.

Penny Koines, Instructor.

Hey-Kyoung Lee, Assistant Professor; Ph. D., Brown University, 1997. Cellular/molecular mechanisms of synaptic plasticity underlying memory formation; synaptic function in mouse models of Alzheimer's disease.

Cynthia F. Moss, Affiliate Professor (Department of Psychology, UMCP); Ph.D., Brown University, 1986; Comparative sensory physiology and behavior; auditory information processing in bats; psychophysical studies of spatial perception by sonar.

Steve Mount, Affiliate Associate Professor (Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, UMCP); Ph.D., Yale University, 1983. Pre-mRNA splicing signals.

Stephen J. O'Brien, Adjunct Professor (National Institutes of Health): Ph.D., Cornell University, 1971; Molecular genetics, population genetics, developmental and cell biology, immunology and reproductive physiology.

J. Dennis O'Connor, Professor; Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1968. Developmental biology and the mode of action of steroid hormones.

Justicia Opoku-Edusei, Instructor.

Richard Payne, Professor and Chair; Ph.D., Australian National University, 1982. Mechanisms of visual excitation in photoreceptors by injecting messenger molecules into cells and monitoring intracellular calcium release and the activity of ionic channels.

Kennedy Paynter, Research Associate Professor and Director, MEES Graduate Program; Ph.D., Iowa State University, 1985. Invertebrate biology; comparative physiology; biochemistry; restoration ecology.

Sidney K. Pierce, Professor Emeritus and Chair of Biology, University of South Florida; Ph.D., Florida State University, 1970; Control of membrane permeability to ions and amino acids; cell hydration control.

Christopher Platt, Adjunct Professor (National Institutes of Health); Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, 1972. Sensory physiology; vestibular system; fine structure; comparative physiology.

David Poeppel, Professor (joint appointment with Department of Linguistics, UMCP); Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995. Neural basis of speech and language, functional brain imaging.

Arthur N. Popper, Professor; Ph.D., CUNY Graduate Center, 1969. Function, development and evolution of T6 auditory system in non-mammalian vertebrates.

Michael Potter, Adjunct Professor (National Institutes of Health); M.D., University of Virginia, 1949. Mouse immunogenetics; BALB/c monoclonal antibodies; genetic polymorphisms in wild mice.

Elizabeth Quinlan, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., University of Illinois at Chicago, 1993. Development of the vertebrate visual system, cellular and molecular basis of learning and memory.

Marjorie L. Reaka-Kudla, Professor; Ph.D., Berkeley, 1975. Coral reef ecology; ecology and behavior of mantis shrimp; evolutionary ecology of life-history patterns in Crustacea.

Kerry L. Shaw, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Washington University in St. Louis, 1993. Genetics, behavior and ecology of speciation; molecular genealogies of species groups; genetics and evolution of behavior and mating systems; sexual selection in insects.

Jonathan Simon, Assistant Professor (joint appointment with Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering); Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara, 1990. Neural processing, auditory computation, neurophysiology.

Eugene B. Small, Associate Professor; Ph.D., UCLA, 1964. Ultrastructural morphology and comparative morphogenesis within the Ciliophora; ciliate ecology and life history.

Daphne Soares, Assistant Professor; Evolution of the nervous system and behavior of a model fish, Astyanax fasciatus, using molecular, cellular and genetic approaches.

Sergei Sukharev, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Moscow State University, 1987. Molecular mechanisms of mechanosensation; mechano-activated ion channels, their structure and mechanisms of gating by membrane stretch.

Sarah A. Tishkoff, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Yale University, 1996. Human evolutionary genetics; the genetic basis of human disease.

Sara Via, Professor; Ph.D., Duke University, 1983. Evolutionary biology, evolutionary and ecological genetics, coevolution, population biology.

Gerald S. Wilkinson, Professor; Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, 1984. Behavioral ecology and evolution; social behavior and communication in bats; sexual selection and morphological evolution in stalk-eyed flies.

David D. Yager, Affiliate Associate Professor (Department of Psychology, UMCP); Ph.D., Cornell University, 1989. Neuroethology and sensory biology; evolution of sensory systems; hearing in insects; CNS processing of auditory information.

Elizabeth Zimmer, Adjunct Associate Professor (Smithsonian Institution); Ph.D. Molecular systematics of plants, ribosomal DNA and angiosperm systematics.