Biology Faculty

BSc, McGill University. MFS, MPhil, PhD, Yale University. Special interest in ecology of coral reef fish; visiting researcher at West Indies Laboratory and Smithsonian Institution; guest faculty at Queen’s University (Canada) and University of Massachusetts-Boston; grant support from American Philosophical Society, National Geographic Society, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Science Foundation, and others; author and lecturer on issues of marine ecology. SLC, 1972–

BA, Swarthmore College. PhD, University of Pennsylvania. Special interest in the molecular basis of gene regulation and the control of gene expression; specifically focused on the control of antigen-presenting genes of the immune system and the subcellular localization of the regulatory protein CIITA; author of papers on mammalian liver regeneration and CIITA activity; recipient of grants from the Irvington Institute for Biomedical Research and the National Science Foundation. SLC, 2000–

BA, Yale University. MD, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Former surgical oncologist at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia University Medical Center; Department of Surgery, College of Physicians & Surgeons, Columbia University. Author of The Thyroid Guide (HarperCollins, 2000) and Why Don’t Your Eyelashes Grow? Curious Questions Kids Ask About the Human Body (Penguin, 2008). SLC, 2010—

BSc, University of Wisconsin-Madison. PhD, University of Maryland-College Park. Research interest in molecular systematics, classification and evolution of green algae and land plants, and interest in organellar genome evolution. Currently an assistant curator at the New York Botanical Garden Cullman Molecular Systematics Program, adjunct faculty member at City University of New York, international collector of algae, and author of more than 30 papers and book chapters on algae and land plant evolution. SLC, 2008—

BA, Evergreen State College. PhD, State University of New York-Albany. Special interest in the neurobiology of circadian rhythms and in the neurobiology of learning and memory; research and papers on circadian rhythms. SLC, 1987–