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Biology Department Faculty


Full-Time Faculty

Staff

Emeritus Faculty

Adjunct Faculty

Adjunct Faculty (Cannon Research Center)

Adjunct Faculty (Blumenthal Cancer Center)


Full-time Faculty

Position and Research Area

Michael C. Hudson

Professor Ph.D., University of Kansas. Molecular microbiology, regulation of gene expression.

 

Mark Clemens

Professor and Vice Chair. Ph.D., St. Louis University. Vascular and metabolic physiology.

 

Lawrence S. Barden

General Advisor/Professor. Ph.D., University of Tennessee. Conservation biology, plant ecology, population ecology.

 

Richard O. Bierregaard

Adjunct Assistant Professor. PhD., University of Pennsylvania. Ecology, Conservation Biology, and Ornithology.

 

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.

 

Nishi Bryska

General Advisor/Human Anatomy & Physiology Lecturer

Lauri Byerley Research Associate Professor, University of California, Los Angeles.  Metabolism, nutrition, and cancer.

Didier Dreau

Assistant Professor. Ph.D., College of Agriculture of Rennes (France). Mechanisms of Cancer Metastasis, Vascular and Immune Interactions During Cancer Growth

 

Paula Gross Assistant Director UNC Charlotte Botanical Gardens
Ashley Hagler General Advisor/Genetics Lecturer & Lab Coordinator
Joe Harsh General Biology Lecturer

Yvette Huet-Hudson

Associate professor. Ph.D., University of Kansas Medical School. Reproductive and developmental biology.

 

Monty Hughes

Associate Professor. Ph.D., Medical University of South Carolina. Biochemical and molecular mechanisms of apoptosis, also known as programmed cell death or cell suicide.

 

Larry Leamy

Professor. Ph.D., University of Illinois. Quantitative genetics.

 

Melanie Lowder

General Advisor/Lecturer, MS., UNC Charlotte. Microbiology Lecturer/Lab Coordinator

 

Ian Marriott

Associate Professor, Ph.D., Tulane University. The initiation of immune responses.

 

Iain McKillop

Associate Professor, Ph.D., University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK (1994). Regulation of Benign and Malignant Hepatocyte Growth.

 

T. Lawrence Mellichamp

Professor. Ph.D., University of Michigan. Biology of Sarracenia pitcher plants.

 

Edward Menhinick

General Advisor/Professor. Ph.D., University of Georgia. Aquatic ecology and taxonomy.

 

Dan Nelson  

James D. Oliver

Professor. Ph.D., Georgetown University. Ecology, physiology, and metabolism of aquatic bacteria; biology of the human pathogen, Vibrio vulnificus.

 

Ronald S. Ostrowski

Retired Professor. Ph.D., University of Notre Dame. Chromosomal and molecular causes of human abnormalities.

 

Susan E. Peters

Associate professor. Ph.D., University of California, Davis. Comparative vertebrate anatomy, behavioral and anatomic aspects of locomotion.

 

Kenneth J. Piller

Research Associate Professor. Ph.D., University of Illinois at Chicago.  Plant biotechnology and edible vaccine development.

 

Christine Richardson  

Amy H. Ringwood

Assistant Professor. Ph.D., University of Hawaii. Environmental toxicology; biology and ecology of aquatic invertebrates.

 

Stanley S. Schneider

Professor. Ph.D., University of California, Davis. Animal behavior, communication and foraging in the honeybee.

 

Laura W. Schrum

Assistant Professor. Ph.D. North Carolina State University. Molecular mechanisms of liver fibrosis.

 

Inna Sokolova

Assistant Professor. Ph.D. Zoological Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia. Physiological mechanisms of environmental adaptation and stress tolerance in marine invertebrates.

 

Meredith Somerville

General Advisor/Principles of Biology Lecturer  

Todd R. Steck

Associate Professor. Ph.D., University of Rochester. Molecular microbiology; bacterial source tracking methodology, and role of dormant-like bacteria in disease.

 

Alexey Sukhotin  

Jennifer Warner

 

General Advisor/Principles of Biology Lecturer  

 

C.B. Wolfe

Undergraduate Coordinator.  General Advisor/ General Biology Lecturer & Coordinator. Ph.D., University of Tennessee.  Systematics and evolution of ectomycorrihizal fungi. 

 

Christopher Yengo

Assistant Professor. Ph.D. University of Vermont, Biophysics of contractile proteins.

 

Jian Zhang

Associate Professor. Ph.D., University of South Carolina Columbia. Vascular and molecular physiology.

 

Emeritus Faculty

Position and Research Area

Nancy Edwards

Retired Professor

 

Herbert Hechenbleikner

Retired Professor

 

Philip Hildreth

Retired Professor

 

Deborah Langsam

Retired Professor

 

James Matthews

 

 

 

 

Professor (BA-Atlantic Christian (Barton) College-1957, MS -Cornell University- 1959, PhD -Emory University-1962) President of Habitat Assessment and Restoration Program, Inc

Linda Simpson

 

 

Professor (BS Biology, UNC Charlotte-1980, MS Biology, UNC Charlotte-1982) Ms. Simpson's research focuses on virulence factors of the estuarine pathogen Vibrio vulnificus.

 

Mary Beth Thomas

 

 

 

Professor (B.A., Agnes Scott College; M.A., Ph.D., University of North Carolina).  Dr. Thomas’s research includes examination of signaling systems involved in the control of metamorphosis in cnidarians. Methods of study include pharmacological testing, immunocytochemistry (with light and electron microscopy) , and the use of molecular probes. 

 

James C. Travis

Retired Professor

 

Adjunct Faculty

Position and Research Area

Micheal Bauer

University of Hu Saraland.  Homburg, Germany

 

Lee Lewis

Research Assistant UNC Charlotte

 

Mary Ruwart

Sci-com, Burnet, Texas

 

Nury Steuerwald

Reproductive Technologies Institute

 

 

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