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The Department of Biology at the University of North
Carolina at Charlotte has two major areas of emphasis. The first is biomedicine/biotechnology, which includes
a wide array of research programs in anatomy, cell biology, endocrinology,
genetics, host-pathogen interactions, immunology, microbiology, neurobiology,
and animal and plant physiology. The secondary area of emphasis is
in the area of environmental biology, which includes research programs in
behavior, conservation of biodiversity, ecotoxicology, environmental physiology,
and population genetics. The Graduate
Faculty are subdivided below to reflect these research emphases.
Note: Only Graduate Faculty can serve as major advisors. Adjunct
Graduate Faculty can serve as co-advisors. Supervisory committee
members can be selected from the Graduate and Adjunct Graduate Faculty.
Students can receive graduate level credit only for courses taught by Graduate
Faculty and Adjunct Graduate Faculty.
Biomedical/Biotechnology
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Kenneth Bost, Belk Distinguished Professor. Ph.D., University of Mississippi Medical
Center. Molecular and cellular understanding of the immune response, the interactions
between the nervous and immune systems, and the mechanisms involved in initiation of
mucosal immunity.
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Mark Clemens, professor and department
vice chair. Ph.D., St. Louis University.
Vascular and metabolic physiology.
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Dr.
Didier Dréau.
Assistant
Professor. Ph.D., College of Agriculture of Rennes (France). Mechanisms of
Cancer Metastasis, Vascular and Immune Interactions During Cancer Growth.
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Julie Goodliffe. Assistant Professor. Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University.
Molecular Genetics of Cancer.
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Valery Grdzelishvili. Assistant Professor. PhD. Moscow State University.
Molecular virology, virus-host interactions, virus-based vectors.
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Yvette
Huet, associate professor. Ph.D., University of Kansas Medical
School. Reproductive and developmental biology.
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Ian Marriott, assistant
professor. Ph.D., Tulane University. The initiation of immune
responses.
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Dan A. Nelson, research associate
professor. Ph.D., Florida State University. Tachykinin expression and
function.
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James D. Oliver, professor. Ph.D., Georgetown University. Ecology, physiology,
and metabolism of aquatic bacteria; biology of the human pathogen, Vibrio
vulnificus.
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Susan E. Peters, associate professor. Ph.D., University of California, Davis.
Comparative vertebrate anatomy, behavioral and anatomic aspects of locomotion.
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Ken Piller, research associate
professor. Ph.D., University of Illinois, Chicago. Plant biotechnology, edible
vaccine development.
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Christine
Richardson, associate professor. Ph.D. DNA repair, chromosomal
rearrangements, & hematopoietic malignancies.
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Laura Schrum, assistant professor. Ph.D.
Microbiology, North Carolina
State University. Dr. Schrum's primary research objective is to identify
the molecular mechanisms of liver fibrosis.
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Todd R. Steck, associate professor. Ph.D.,
University of Rochester. Microbial molecular genetics, environmental
microbiology, bacterial source tracking.
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Jian Zhang, assistant professor. Ph.D., University of South Carolina Columbia.
Vascular and molecular physiology.
Ecology/Environmental
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Lawrence S. Barden, professor. Ph.D., University of Tennessee. Conservation
biology, plant ecology, population ecology.
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Richard O. Bierregaard, adjunct assistant
professor. Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania. Ecology, conservation
biology, and ornithology.
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Larry J. Leamy, professor. Ph.D., University of Illinois. Quantitative genetics.
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Matthew Parrow,
assistant professor., Ph.D., North Carolina State University.
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Amy Ringwood, assistant
professor. PhD., University of Hawaii. Environmental toxicology; biology and
ecology of aquatic invertebrates.
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Stanley S. Schneider, professor. Ph.D., University of California, Davis. Animal
behavior, communication and foraging of the honeybee.
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Inna
Sokolova,
Assistant Professor. Ph.D., 1997 Zoological Institute of
Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg. Ecophysiology and ecotoxicology
of marine mollusks; metabolic response to environmental stress.
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