These are the Biology faculty in whose labs undergraduate students can conduct independent research projects.  Click on the faculty members’ names for a more detailed description of their research interests and for links to their research group’s web pages (if available).

Jonathan T. Fingerut, Assistant Professor
Ph.D. University of California, 2003
Population ecology and hydrodynamics in stream insect systems

Eileen D. Grogan, Professor
Ph.D. College of William and Mary, 1994
Study of chondrichthyan evolution. Functional and developmental morphology of the cranium, the immune and vascular system.

Christina King Smith, Professor
Ph.D. University of Maryland, 1992
The cytoskeleton, mechanisms of intracellular motility in teleost retinal epithelial cells, and regulation of organelle motility.

Julia Y. Lee, Assistant Professor
Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, 2002
The cell biology and genetics of ageing.

Michael P. McCann, Professor
Ph.D. Stanford University, 1992
Gene regulation during development in the plant pathogenic fungus Ustilago maydis.

Scott P. McRobert, Professor
Ph.D. Temple University, 1988
Studying the relationships between animal behavior, ecology, and evolution, using Drosophila, fresh-water fish and turtles as experimental organisms.

Karen M. Snetselaar, Professor and Chair
Ph.D. Univ. of Georgia, 1993
Developmental biology of the plant pathogenic fungus Ustilago maydis, its behavior during mating and its interactions with the host plant.

Clint Springer, Assistant Professor
Ph.D. West Virginia Univ.
Plantecological physiology and the effects of carbon dioxide enrichement.

Paul M. Tefft, Associate Professor
Ph.D. Southern Illinois University, 1984
Development, control and behavior of plant parasitic nematodes.

John J. Tudor, Professor
Ph.D. Univ. of Kentucky, 1977
Molecular basis of interaction between the predacious bacterium Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus and its prey cells.

James J. Watrous, Professor and Graduate Director
Ph.D. Georgetown University, 1972
Computer modeling of biological systems and chaotic interactions.