Biology Faculty and Staff

Faculty

• Amy L. Thompson
  Professor and Department Chair
  Pharmacology, Cell & Molecular Biology

• Mollie F. Cashner
  Professor, Graduate Program Coordinator
  Animal Behavior, Genetics 

• Jamie Botsch
  Assistant Professor
  Aquatic Biology

• Don C. Dailey
  Professor 
  Molecular Basis of Microbial Pathogenesis

• Kayla Earls
  Assistant Professor
  Disease Ecology

• L. Dwayne Estes
  Professor and Curator of Herbarium, Director of Southeastern Grasslands Institute
  Plant Systematics

• C.M. Gienger
  Professor and Curator of the Herpetology Collection
  Ecology and Physiology of amphibians and reptiles

• Manisha Gupte
  Associate Professor
  Physiology, Cell & Molecular Biology

• Catherine Haase
  Associate Professor
  Animal Energetics, Thermal Biology, Environmental Physiology

• John Johansen
  Instructor and General Biology Coordinator

• Rebecca Blanton Johansen
  Professor and Curator of the Ichthyology Collection
  Fish Systematics, Phylogeography, and Population Genetics

• Jefferson G. Lebkuecher
  Professor
  Algal Ecology, Plant physiology

• Sergei A. Markov
  Professor
  Microbiology, Genomics, Biological Hydrogen Production

• Gilbert R. Pitts
  Professor
  Physiology, Endocrinology

• Sarah Perry
  Assistant Professor
  Cellular & Molecular Biology

• D. Michelle Rogers
  Instructor
  State Coordinator Project WET

• Cindy L. Taylor
  Professor
  Amphibian Biology

• Renhou Wang
  Assistant Professor, Plant Genomics, Genome Editing

• Jeffrey Weinell
  Assistant Professor
  Herpetology, Field Biology, Evolution, Genomics

• Stefan Woltmann
  Professor
  Avian Ecology, Conservation Genetics 

Staff

• Macharia Kirk
  Biology Laboratory Manager

• Jess Langston
  Academic Assistant to the Chair

Adjunct Faculty

• Hannah Alloway
  Introduction to Biology Lab Instructor

• Theresa Barke
  Human Anatomy and Physiology Instructor

• Alan Bottomlee
  Human Biology Instructor

• Baily Crable
  Human Anatomy and Physiology Lab Instructor

• Christopher Crouse
  Human Anatomy and Physiology Instructor

• Allison Fairchild
  Human Anatomy and Physiology Instructor

• Mason Ferrell
  General Biology Lab Instructor

• Christine Lindsey
  Human Anatomy and Physiology, Introduction to Biology Instructor

• Angela Mummaw
  Human Anatomy and Physiology and Human Biology Instructor

• Lisa Tucker
  Introduction to Biology Instructor

• Gayle Vegter
  Introduction to Biology Instructor

Emeritus Faculty

• Carol J. Baskuf
  Plant Ecology, Population Genetics

• Daniel W. Bath
  Genetics

• Edward W. Chester
  Plant Taxonomy & Plant Ecology

• John L. Butler
  Aquatic Ecology

• Willodean D. Burton
  Ecology, aquatic toxicology

• Mack T. Finley
  Aquatic Toxicology

• Steven Hamilton
  Entomology, insect systematics, aquatic biology

• Sarah Lundin-Schiller
  Cell Biology, Endocrine Disruption

• Joseph R. Schiller
  Aquatic ecology & field biology

• A. Floyd Scott
  Herpetology and Ecology

• Benjamin P. Stone
  Plant Physiology

• James F. Thompson
  Evolutionary Biology