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2013-2014 Graduate Catalog 
    
2013-2014 Graduate Catalog [Not Current Academic Year. Consult with Your Academic Advisor for Your Catalog Year]

Department of Biology and Biochemistry


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Ricardo Azevedo. Associate Professor and Associate Chair for Graduate Affairs of Biology and Biochemistry. B.Sc., University of Lisbon, Portugal; Ph.D., University of Edinburgh, U.K.

Steven Bark. Assistant Professor of Biology and Bichemistry. PhD., The Scripps Research Institute.

Richard Bond. Professor of Pharmacology and of Biology and Biochemistry. B.S., St. Thomas University, Miami, FL; B.S. in Pharmacy, University of Houston; Ph.D., University of Houston.

Rathindra N. Bose.  Vice Chancellor/President for Research and Technology Transfer. B.Sc (Hons) and M.Sc., Rajshshahi University, Bangladesh; PhD., Georgetown University.

James Briggs. Associate Professor and Chair of Biology and Biochemistry. B.S., University of Texas at El Paso; Ph.D., Purdue University.

Sang-Hyuk Chung.  Assistant Professor of Biology and Biochemistry. B.S. and M.S., Korea University, Korea; PhD., Baylor College of Medicine.

Blaine J. Cole. Professor of Biology and Biochemistry. B.S., University of Kansas; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University.

Tim Cooper. Assistant Professor of Biology and Biochemistry. Ph.D., University of Canterbury, New Zealand.

Brigitte Dauwalder. Assistant Professor of Biology and Biochemistry. Ph.D., University of Zürich, Switzerland.

Anne H. Delcour. Professor of Biology and Biochemistry. B.S., University of Liege, Belgium; Ph.D., Cornell University.

Stuart E. Dryer. Moores Professor of Biology and Biochemistry. B.A., University of Iowa; M.S., University of Arizona; Ph.D., St. Louis University.

Arnold Eskin. Moores Professor of Biology and Biochemistry. B.S., Vanderbilt University; Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin.

Donald Fox. Professor of Optometry and of Biology and Biochemistry. B.S., Miami University; Ph.D., University of Cincinnati Medical School.

George E. Fox. Professor of Biology and Biochemistry. B.S.Ch.E., Ph.D., Syracuse University.

Robert Fox.  Professor of Biology and Biochemistry. B.S., University of Pittsburgh; PhD., Yale University.

Tony Frankino. Assistant Professor of Biology and Biochemistry. Ph.D., Indiana University.

Daniel Frigo. Assistant Professor of Biology and Biochemistry. B.S., University of Notre Dame; PhD., Tulane University.

Laura Frishman. John and Rebecca Moores Professor/Associate Dean for Graduate Studies/Research of Optometry, Professor of Biology and Biochemistry. B.A., Vassar College; M.S., Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh.

Masaya Fujita. Associate Professor of Biology and Biochemistry. B.S., Hiroshima University, Japan; Ph.D., Osaka University, Japan.

Xiaolian Gao. Professor of Biology and Biochemistry. B.S., Beijing Institute of Chemical Engineering; Ph.D., Rutgers.

Dan Graur. Moores Professor of Biology and Biochemistry. B.Sc., M.Sc. Tel Aviv University; Ph.D., University of Texas at Houston.

Preethi Gunaratne. Assistant Professor of Biology and Biochemistry. B.S., University of Colombo, Sri Lanka; M.S. and Ph.D., Cornell University.

Jan-Åke Gustafsson. Robert A. Welch Professor of Bilogy and Biochemistry. M.D. and PhD., Karolinska Institute, Sweden.

Krešimir Josić. Associate professor of Mathematics and of Biology and Biochemistry. B.S., University of Texas, Austin; PhD., Pennsylvania State University.

Seema Khurana. Professor of Biology and Biochemistry. B.Sc. and M.Sc., Panjab University, India; PhD., Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, India.

Brian Knoll. Associate Professor of Pharmacology, and of Biology and Biochemistry. B.S., University of Notre Dame; Ph.D., University of Arizona.

J. Leigh Leasure. Associate Professor of Psychology and of Biology and Biochemistry. B.S., University of Richmond; Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin.

Chin-Yo Lin.  Assistant Professor of Biology and Biochemistry. B.S., Brigham Young University; PhD., Harvard University.

Alison McDermott. Golden-Golden Professor of Optometry, and of Biology and Biochemistry. B.S., University of Surrey, U.K.; PhD., Imperial College, London, U.K.

Elizabeth Ostrowski. Assistant Professor of Biology and Biochemistry. B.S., University of Virginia, Charlottsville; PhD., Michigan State University.

Deborah Otteson. Assisant Professor of Optometry and of Biology and Biochemistry. B.S., Michigan State University; PhD., University of Michigan.

Steven Pennings. Professor of Biology and Biochemistry. B.S., Brown University; Ph.D., University of California.

Michael A. Rea. Professor of Biology and Biochemistry. B.S., Indiana State University; Ph.D., Indiana State University.

Gregg Roman. Assistant Professor of Biology and Biochemistry. B.S., University of New Hampshire; Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania.

Amy K. Sater. Associate Professor of Biology and Biochemistry. B.S., University of California, Santa Cruz; M.S., Stanford University; Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin.

Robert Schwartz.  Cullen Distinguished Professor of Biology and Biochemistry. B.S., Brooklyn College; PhD., University of Pennsylvania.

Philip Snider. Associate Professor of Biology and Biochemistry. B.S., University of Richmond; M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University.

Maria Victoria Tejada-Simon. Assistant Professor of Pharmacology and of Biology and Biochemistry. B.S., Universidade Complutense, Madrid, Spain; Ph.D., Michigan State University.

Yuhong Wang. Assistant Professor of Biology and Biochemistry. B.S., Peking University, China; PhD., Johns Hopkins University.

Margaret Warner. Professor of Biology and Biochemistry. PhD., McGill University, Canada.

Dan E. Wells. Professor and Chair of Biology and Biochemistry. B.A., M.A., California State University; Ph.D., Indiana University, Bloomington.

William R. Widger. Professor of Biology and Biochemistry. B.A., S.U.C. at Oneowta; Ph.D., State University of New York at Albany.

Diane C. Wiernasz. Associate Professor of Biology and Biochemistry. A.B., Smith College; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University.

Cecilia Williams. Assistant Professor of Biology and Biochemistry. B.S. and PhD., KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden.

Richard Willson. Professor of Chemical Engineering and of Biology and Biochemistry. B.S., California Institute of Technology; Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Hye-Jeong Yeo. Associate Professor of Biology and Biochemistry. B.S., Seoul National University, Korea; M.S., Université Joseph Fourier (Grenoble I), France; Ph.D., Université Montpellier II, France.

Zhang Weihua. Assistant Professor of Biology and Biochemistry. B.S., Harbin Medical University, Helongjiang, China; PhD., Karolinska Institute, Sweden.

Xiaoliu Shaun Zhang. Professor of Biology and Biochemistry. M.B., Wuhan Medical College, Wuhan, China; M.D., Tongi Medical Unversity, Wuhan, China; PhD., Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.

Jokubas Ziburkus. Assistant Professor of Biology and Biochemistry. B.S., Hillsdale College; Ph.D., Louisiana State University Health Science Center.

Rebecca Zufall. Assistant Professor of Biology and Biochemistry. B.S., Cornell University; Ph.D., Duke University.