Faculty

This Faculty Directory page displays an alphabetical list of the entire faculty of the Biology Department at UNC, including research faculty, lecturers, and emeritus professors.  To view directories of the research faculty, subdivided into areas of research strength, visit the Research Area of our website.

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Name	Contact Info	Research Description
Shawn Ahmed Associate Professor	216 Fordham Hall (919) 843-4780 shawn@med.unc.edu	Telomere replication and germ cell immortality
Albert S. Baldwin Kenan Professor	22-000 Lineberger Cancer Center (919) 966-3652 abaldwin@med.unc.edu	Regulation of gene expression, and control of oncogenesis and apoptosis.
Edward G. Barry Emeritus Professor	439 Wilson Hall (919) 962-6933	Cytogenetics of Neurospora
Victoria L. Bautch Professor	502 Fordham Hall (919) 966-6797 bautch@med.unc.edu	Animal Models of Vascular Development and Endothelial Cell Biology
Kerry S. Bloom Thad L. Beyle Distinguished Professor	623 Fordham Hall (919) 962-1182 kerry_bloom@unc.edu	Molecular Biology; Chromosome and Spindle Dynamics
John Bruno Professor	335 Wilson Hall (919) 962-1038 (Office) jbruno@unc.edu	Marine and Climate Change Ecology
Lauren B. Buckley Assistant Professor	340 Wilson Hall (919) 843-8732 buckley@bio.unc.edu	Biogeography of climate change
Christina Burch Associate Professor	3157 Genome Sciences Building 919-962-4445 cburch@bio.unc.edu	Experimental Evolution of Viruses
Sabrina Burmeister Associate Professor	231 Wilson Hall (919)-843-5105 sburmeister [at] unc.edu	Neurobiology & behavior
Jennifer Coble Lecturer	110 Wilson Hall (919) 962-3705 jcoble@bio.unc.edu	Curriculum and Instruction
Frank Conlon Associate Professor	220 Fordham Hall (919) 843-5500 frank_conlon@med.unc.edu	Developmental Genetics
Gregory P. Copenhaver Associate Professor	4161 Genome Sciences Building (919) 962-4457 gcopenhaver at bio.unc.edu	Genetics
Stephen Crews Professor of Biochemistry & Biophysics, Adjunct Professor of Biology	321 Fordham Hall (919) 962-4380 steve_crews@unc.edu	Drosophila Nervous System Development; Gene Regulation
Jeff Dangl John N. Couch Professor	4260 Genome Sciences Building (919) 962-4469 dangl@email.unc.edu	Plant Genetics and Cellular Biology; Plant Disease Resistance and Plant Metagenomics
Jean S. DeSaix Master Lecturer	302 Coker Hall (919) 962-1068 jdesaix@email.unc.edu	Curriculum and Instruction
Mara C. Duncan Assistant Professor	304 Coker Hall (919) 843-8435 mduncan@bio.unc.edu	The role of membrane traffic in global physiological changes
Robert J. Duronio Professor	3350 Genome Sciences Building (919) 962-4568 duronio@med.unc.edu	Developmental control of the cell cycle
Alan Feduccia S. K. Heninger Distinguished Professor (Emeritus)	216 Wilson Hall (919) 962-3050 feduccia@bio.unc.edu	Avian Evolution, Paleobiology and Systematics
Terry Furey Assistant Professor	5022 Genetic Medicine Building (919) 966-7033 tsfurey@unc.edu	Chromatin accessibility and gene regulation; Integrative analysis of complex traits
Patricia G. Gensel Professor	403 Coker Hall (919) 962-6937 pgensel@bio.unc.edu	Paleobotany
Lawrence I. Gilbert Professor (Emeritus)	137 Wilson Hall (919) 966-2055 lgilbert@unc.edu	Insect Endocrinology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Bob Goldstein Professor	616 Fordham Hall (919) 843-8575 bobg@unc.edu	Cell Polarity, Morphogenesis, and Evolution of Development
Sarah R. Grant Research Associate Professor	4258 Genome Sciences Building (919) 962-4470 sgrant@email.unc.edu	The suite of pathogenicity factors in Pseudomonas syringae
Albert K. Harris Professor	103 Wilson Hall (919) 966-1230 akharris@bio.unc.edu	Cell Motility & Pattern Formation
Tyson L. Hedrick Assistant Professor of Biology	G40a Wilson Hall (919) 962-0757 thedrick@email.unc.edu	Biomechanics and Animal Locomotion
Kelly A. Hogan Senior Lecturer & Advisor	104B Wilson Hall (919) 843-6047 leek@email.unc.edu	Curriculum and Instruction
Max H. Hommersand Professor (Emeritus)	407 Coker Hall (919) 962-6938 hommersand@bio.unc.edu	Morphology; Systematics and Biology of the Marine Algae
Allen Hurlbert Assistant Professor	331 Wilson Hall (919) 843-9930 hurlbert@bio.unc.edu	Biodiversity, biogeography, and macroecology
Corey Johnson Lecturer	104A Wilson Hall (919) 843-6962 johnsonc@bio.unc.edu	Curriculum and Instruction: Vertebrate Morphology and Morphogenesis, Human Anatomy & Physiology
Alan M. Jones Professor	312 Coker Hall (919) 962-6932 alan_jones@unc.edu	Signal Perception and the Regulation of Growth and Development
Corbin Jones Associate Professor	3159 Genome Sciences Building (919) 962-4443 cdjones@email.unc.edu	Evolutionary Genetics and Genomics
Joseph Kieber Professor & Associate Chair of Biology	4163 Genome Sciences Building (919) 962-4455 jkieber@bio.unc.edu	Molecular Genetic Analysis of Ethylene and Cytokinin Action in Arabidopsis
William M. Kier Professor and Chair	313B Wilson Hall (Lab) 205 Coker Hall (Chair) (919) 962-5017 (Lab Office) (919) 962-8321 (Chair's Office) billkier@bio.unc.edu	Biomechanics of marine invertebrates and musculoskeletal systems
Joel G. Kingsolver William Rand Kenan, Jr. Professor	334A Wilson Hall (919) 843-6291 jgking@bio.unc.edu	Evolutionary and physiological ecology
Alain Laederach Assistant Professor	3354 Genome Sciences Building 919-962-4565 alain@unc.edu	Disease-associated mutations and their effect on RNA Structure
Jason Lieb Professor	3163 Genome Sciences Building (919) 962-4439 jlieb@bio.unc.edu	Specificity and Function in Protein-Genome Interactions
Catherine Lohmann Lecturer	129 Wilson Hall (919) 962-2536 clohmann@email.unc.edu	Behavior, Neuroscience, Sensory Biology, and Conservation of Marine Animals
Kenneth J. Lohmann Charles P. Postelle, Jr. Distinguished Professor	G30A Wilson Hall (919) 962-1332 klohmann@email.unc.edu	Behavior, Neuroscience, Sensory Biology, and Conservation of Marine Animals
Gustavo Maroni Professor (Emeritus)	G015D Steele Building (919) 929-8863 gmaroni@unc.edu	Gene Organization and Expression in Drosophila
William F. Marzluff William Rand Kenan Professor	208 Fordham Hall (919) 962-8920 marzluff@med.unc.edu	Regulation of RNA Metabolism in Animal Cells
Gregory Matera Professor	3352 Genome Sciences Building (919) 962-4567 matera@unc.edu	RNA Processing: Biogenesis of Small Ribonucleoproteins in Health and Disease
Steven W. Matson Professor	315 Fordham Hall (919) 962-0005 smatson@bio.unc.edu	DNA Helicases in Nucleic Acid Metabolism
Ann G. Matthysse Professor	103 Coker Hall (919) 962-6941 ann_matthysse@unc.edu	Initial Interactions between bacterial plant pathogens and host cells
Laura Miller Associate Professor of Biology and Mathematics	447 Chapman Hall (919) 904-0442 lam9@unc.edu	Mathematical Physiology
Donald W. Misch Associate Professor (Emeritus)	135 Wilson Hall (919) 962-3751 mischplace@mindspring.com
Charles E. Mitchell Associate Professor	411 Coker Hall (919) 843-7745 mitchell@bio.unc.edu	Disease Ecology
Helmut C. Mueller Professor (Emeritus)	304 Wilson Hall (919) 962-3059 hmueller@email.unc.edu
Punita Nagpal Research Assistant Professor	318 Coker Hall (919) 962-2161 punita@email.unc.edu	Plant Signal Transduction and Development
Clifford R. Parks Professor (Emeritus)	(919) 962-6944 cparks@bio.unc.edu	Species Structure and Evolution
Robert K. Peet Professor	413 Coker Hall (919) 962-6942 peet@unc.edu	Plant Ecology, Plant Geography, EcoInformatics
Mark Peifer Hooker Distinguished Professor	521 Fordham Hall (919) 962-2271 peifer@unc.edu	Cell adhesion, signal transduction, and cytoskeletal regulation in development and disease
Charles H. Peterson Professor (Marine Sciences)	Institute of Marine Sciences (252) 726-6841 cpeters@email.unc.edu	Interdisciplinary Marine Conservation Ecology
David W. Pfennig Caroline H. and Thomas S. Royster Professor	304 Wilson Hall (919) 962-6958 dpfennig [at] unc [dot] edu	Evolutionary Biology and Ecology
Karin Pfennig Associate Professor	318 Wilson Hall (919) 962-6782 kpfennig@email.unc.edu	Ecology, Behavior, and Evolution
Patricia J. Pukkila Professor	202 Fordham Hall (919) 966-5576 pukkila@unc.edu	Controlling Events in Meiosis
Jason W. Reed Associate Professor	104 Coker Hall (919) 962-5699 jreed@email.unc.edu	Plant Signal Transduction and Development
Seth R. Reice Associate Professor (Emeritus)	244 Wilson Hall (919) 962-1375 sreice@bio.unc.edu	Stream Community and Ecosystem Ecology
Steve Rogers Associate Professor	422 Fordham Hall (919) 843-7342 srogers@bio.unc.edu	Cell Biology of the Cytoskeleton, Cell Migration, and Morphogenesis
Brian J. Rybarczyk Lecturer	101 Graduate Student Center (919) 962-2505 brybar@unc.edu
Edward D. Salmon James Larkin and Iona Mae Ballou Distinguished Professor	608 Fordham Hall (919) 962-2265 tsalmon@email.unc.edu	Microtubule Assembly, Microtubule Motors, and The Mechanism of Chromosome Movement
Tom K. Scott Professor (Emeritus)	135 Wilson Hall (919) 962-3701 tscott@unc.edu	Growth and Development of Higher Plants
Lillie L. Searles Associate Professor & Associate Chair of Biology	508 Fordham Hall (919) 966-4989 lsearles@email.unc.edu	Regulation of nuclear RNA degradation/RNA quality control
Jeff Sekelsky Professor	303 Fordham Hall (919) 843-9400 sekelsky@unc.edu	DNA Repair and Recombination
Maria R. Servedio Associate Professor	234A Wilson Hall (919) 843-2692 servedio@email.unc.edu	Evolutionary Theory
Elizabeth Shank Assistant Professor	Genome Sciences Building 4157 919-962-4459 eshank@unc.edu	Chemically mediated interactions between microbes
Gidi Shemer Lecturer/Advisor	Coker 213A (919) 962-0684 bishemer@email.unc.edu	Advising, Curriculum and Instruction
Kevin Slep Assistant Professor	402 Fordham Hall (919) 962-4858 KSlep@bio.unc.edu	Cytoskeletal Structure and Dynamics
Keith W. Sockman Associate Professor	G43 Wilson Hall (919) 843-1989 kws@unc.edu	Behavioral, Physiological, and Neuro-Ecology
Darrel W. Stafford Professor	442 Wilson Hall (919) 962-0597 dws@email.unc.edu	Molecular Biology
Barbara Stegenga Teaching Lab Supervisor	211 Coker Hall (919) 966-3180 bstegenga@bio.unc.edu	Curriculum and Instruction, Student Advising
Alan E. Stiven Professor (Emeritus)	429 Wilson Hall (919) 962-8316 alan_stiven@unc.edu	Population Biology and Community Ecology
David Straight Research Assistant Professor	438A Wilson Hall (919) 843-8576 davids@email.unc.edu
Jianke Tie Research Assistant Professor	446 Wilson Hall (919) 962-2267 jktie@email.unc.edu
James Umbanhowar Research Assistant Professor	210 Wilson Hall (919) 843-7107 jumbanho@email.unc.edu	Population and Community Ecology; Mathematical Biology
Todd J. Vision Associate Professor	4252 Genome Sciences Building (919) 962-4479 tjv@bio.unc.edu	Computational genetics, genome evolution and the architecture of complex traits
Alan S. Weakley Adjunct Assistant Professor	419 Coker Hall (919) 619-1101 weakley@unc.edu	Plant Systematics, Floristics, Biogeography, Conservation Planning, Bioinformatics, Vegetation Classification and Mapping
Peter S. White Professor; Director, NC Botanical Garden	406 Coker Hall (919) 962-6939 (Biology) peter.white@unc.edu	Plant Community Ecology, Conservation Biology, Biodiversity
R. Haven Wiley Professor Emeritus	323 Wilson Hall (919) 962-1340 haven_wiley@unc.edu	Animal Behavior, Communication, and Social Organization
Christopher S. Willett Research Assistant Professor	235 Wilson Hall (919) 843-8663 willett4@email.unc.edu	Molecular population and evolutionary genetics
Elaine Yeh Research Associate Professor	603 Fordham Hall (919) 962-2331 elaine_yeh@unc.edu	Nuclear division in yeast: cell cycle control; microtubule motor proteins and the cytoskeleton.