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 Professor	216 Fordham Hall (919) 843-4780 shawn@med.unc.edu	Telomere replication and germ cell immortality
Albert S. Baldwin William Rand Kenan, Jr. Distinguished 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 Professor (Emeritus)	439 Wilson Hall (919) 962-6933	Cytogenetics of Neurospora
Victoria L. Bautch Beverly Long Chapin Distinguished Professor	415 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 and Chair of Biology	623 Fordham Hall (919) 962-1182 kerry_bloom@unc.edu	Molecular Biology; Chromosome and Spindle Dynamics
John Bruno Professor	340 Wilson Hall (919) 962-1038 (Office) jbruno@unc.edu	Marine and Climate Change Ecology
Christina Burch Professor	3163 Genome Sciences Building 919-962-4445 cburch@bio.unc.edu	Experimental Evolution of Viruses
Sabrina Burmeister Associate Professor	2250 Genome Sciences Building (919)-843-5105 sburmeister [at] unc.edu	Neurobiology & behavior
Jennifer Coble Teaching Associate Professor; UNC BEST Program Coordinator	110 Wilson Hall (919) 962-3705 jcoble@bio.unc.edu	Curriculum and Instruction
Frank Conlon Professor	220 Fordham Hall (919) 843-5500 frank_conlon@med.unc.edu	Developmental Genetics
Gregory P. Copenhaver Professor; Director of Graduate Studies (MCDB)	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) 423-8236 steve_crews@unc.edu	Drosophila Nervous System Development; Gene Regulation
Jeff Dangl HHMI Investigator and John N. Couch Professor	4260 Genome Sciences Building (919) 962-4469 dangl@email.unc.edu	Plant and Pathogen Genetics, Genomics and Cell Biology, Plant Disease Resistance and Plant Metagenomics
Jean S. DeSaix Teaching Professor	302 Coker Hall (919) 962-1068 jdesaix@email.unc.edu	Curriculum and Instruction
Jill Dowen Assistant Professor, Biochemistry and Biophysics Department, Biology Department	3360 Genome Sciences Building (919) 962-8132 jilldowen@unc.edu	Three-dimensional genome architecture and gene regulation in development and disease
Robert J. Duronio Professor; Director of the Integrative Program for Biological and Genome Sciences	3350 Genome Sciences Building (919) 962-4568 duronio@med.unc.edu	Epigenetic Control of the Cell Cycle During Development
Mara Evans STEM Teaching Assistant Professor	104A Wilson Hall (919) 843-7107 mara1@email.unc.edu	Curriculum and Instruction
Alan Feduccia S. K. Heninger Distinguished Professor (Emeritus)	216 Wilson Hall (919) 962-3050 feduccia@bio.unc.edu	Avian Evolution, Paleobiology and Systematics
F. Joel Fodrie Adjunct Associate Professor, Biology Department	157 Coker Hall, 3431 Arendell Street, Morehead CIty, NC (252) 726-6841 ext. 149 jfodrie@email.unc.edu	Coastal Biological Oceanography
Terry Furey Associate Professor	5022 Genetic Medicine Building (919) 966-7033 tsfurey@unc.edu	Genetics of gene regulation in complex traits; Computational genomics; Crohn’s disease (IBD)
Paul Gabrielson Adjunct Assistant Professor	3144 Genome Sciences Building drseaweed@hotmail.com	Biodiversity and Biogeography of Marine Algae (seaweeds)
Alaina Garland Teaching Assistant Professor	135 Wilson Hall agarland@email.unc.edu
Patricia G. Gensel Professor	414 Coker Hall (919) 962-6937 pgensel@bio.unc.edu	Paleobotany
Amy Gladfelter Associate Professor	516 Fordham Hall (919) 962-7289 amyglad@email.unc.edu	Cytoskeleton dynamics, biophysical cell biology, cytoplasm organization
Bob Goldstein James L. Peacock III Distinguished 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 Professor	2254 Genome Sciences Building (919) 962-0757 thedrick@email.unc.edu	Biomechanics and Animal Locomotion
Toshihide Hige Assistant Professor	3157 Genome Sciences Building (919) 962-4736 hige@email.unc.edu	Neurophysiology and Behavior in Drosophila
Kelly A. Hogan STEM Teaching Professor Associate Dean of Instructional Innovation	104B Wilson Hall (919) 843-6047 Kelly_Hogan@unc.edu	Curriculum and Instruction: Inclusive learning in large STEM courses
Max H. Hommersand Professor (Emeritus)	407 Coker Hall (919) 962-6938 hommersand@bio.unc.edu	Morphology; Systematics and Biogeography of the Marine Algae
Allen Hurlbert Associate Professor	331 Wilson Hall (919) 843-9930 hurlbert@bio.unc.edu	Biodiversity, biogeography, and macroecology
Corey Johnson Teaching Associate Professor Associate Chair of Biology	Wilson Hall 210 (919) 843-6962 johnsonc@bio.unc.edu
Alan M. Jones Kenan Distinguished Professor	312 Coker Hall (919) 962-6932 alan_jones@unc.edu	Signal Perception and the Regulation of Growth and Development
Corbin Jones Professor	3159 Genome Sciences Building (919) 962-4443 cdjones@email.unc.edu	Evolutionary Genetics and Genomics
Joseph Kieber Kenan Distinguished Professor	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	313B Wilson Hall (Lab) (919) 962-5017 (Lab Office) billkier@bio.unc.edu	Biomechanics of marine invertebrates and musculoskeletal systems
Joel G. Kingsolver Kenan Distinguished Professor	108 Coker Hall (919) 843-6291 jgking@bio.unc.edu	Evolutionary and physiological ecology
Alain Laederach Associate Professor	3354 Genome Sciences Building 919-962-4565 alain@unc.edu	Disease-associated mutations and their effect on RNA Structure
Catherine Lohmann Teaching Assistant Professor	402 Coker Hall (919) 962-3216 clohmann@email.unc.edu	Behavior, Neuroscience, Sensory Biology, and Conservation of Marine Animals
Kenneth J. Lohmann Charles P. Postelle, Jr. Distinguished Professor	403 Coker Hall (919) 843-4508 klohmann@email.unc.edu	Behavior, Neuroscience, Sensory Biology, and Conservation of Marine Animals
Amy Shaub Maddox Associate Professor	408 Fordham Hall 919-843-3228 asm@unc.edu	Cytoskeletal Dynamics and Cell Division
Paul Maddox Assistant Professor	4358 Genome Sciences Building 919-843-8637 pmaddox@unc.edu	Mitotic Mechanisms and Chromosome Dynamics
Gustavo Maroni Professor (Emeritus)	G015D Steele Building (919) 929-8863 gmaroni@unc.edu	Gene Organization and Expression in Drosophila
Christopher Martin Assistant Professor	2256 Genome Sciences Building (919) 962-4841 chmartin@unc.edu	Evolution, Ecology, and Genomics
William F. Marzluff William Rand Kenan Professor	208 Fordham Hall (919) 962-2140 marzluff@med.unc.edu	Regulation of RNA Metabolism in Animal Cells
Gregory Matera Professor & Associate Chair of Biology	3352 Genome Sciences Building (919) 962-4567 matera@unc.edu	RNA Biology and Chromatin
Steven W. Matson Professor Dean of The Graduate School	315 Fordham Hall (919) 962-0005 smatson@bio.unc.edu	DNA Helicases in Nucleic Acid Metabolism
Ann G. Matthysse Professor	304 Coker Hall (919) 962-6941 ann_matthysse@unc.edu	Initial Interactions Between Pathogenic Bacteria and Plant Surfaces
Daniel Matute Assistant Professor	3161 Genome Sciences Building (919) 962-4442 dmatute@email.unc.edu	Evolutionary Biology
Daniel J. McKay Assistant Professor, Biology Department and Genetics Department; Integrative Program for Biological and Genome Studies (iBGS)	3358 Genome Sciences Building (919) 843-2064 dmckay1@email.unc.edu	Developmental Genomics
Laura Miller Professor of Biology and Mathematics	4358 Genome Sciences Building (919) 843-4557 lam9@unc.edu	Biological Fluid Dynamics, Marine Invertebrate Zoology, Mathematical Biology
Donald W. Misch Associate Professor (Emeritus)	135 Wilson Hall (919) 962-3751 mischplace@mindspring.com
Charles E. Mitchell Professor	411 Coker Hall (919) 843-7745 mitchell@bio.unc.edu	Disease Ecology, Plant-Microbe Interactions, Community Ecology
Helmut C. Mueller Professor (Emeritus)	hmueller@email.unc.edu
Punita Nagpal Research Assistant Professor	318 Coker Hall (919) 843-4027 punita@email.unc.edu	Plant Signal Transduction and Development
Zachary Nimchuk Assistant Professor	4155 Genome Sciences Building 919-962-4460 zackn@email.unc.edu	Plant developmental genetics and stem cell regulation
Clifford R. Parks Professor (Emeritus)	cparks@bio.unc.edu	Species Structure and Evolution
Robert K. Peet Research Professor	413 Coker Hall (919) 962-6942 peet@unc.edu	Plant Ecology, Plant Geography, EcoInformatics
Mark Peifer Michael 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 Professor	320 Wilson Hall (919) 962-6958 dpfennig [at] unc [dot] edu	Evolution, Ecology, and Developmental Biology
Karin Pfennig Professor	319 Wilson Hall (919) 843-5590 kpfennig@unc.edu	Ecology, Behavior, and Evolution
Patricia J. Pukkila Professor (Emerita)	201 Fordham Hall 919-967-4476 pukkila@unc.edu	Controlling Events in Meiosis
Jason W. Reed Associate Professor	305 Coker Hall (919) 962-5640 jreed@email.unc.edu	Plant Signal Transduction and Development
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 Teaching Assistant Professor	101 Graduate Student Center (919) 962-2505 brybar@unc.edu
Edward D. Salmon Research Professor (Retired James Larkin and Iona Mae Ballou Distinguished Professor)	608 Fordham Hall (919) 962-2265 tsalmon@email.unc.edu	Microscopy, 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	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 Professor	2258 Genome Sciences Building (919) 843-2692 servedio@email.unc.edu	Evolutionary Theory
Elizabeth Shank Associate Professor	4157 Genome Sciences Building 919-962-4459 eshank@unc.edu	Chemically mediated interactions between microbes
Gidi Shemer Teaching Associate Professor/Faculty Advisor	213A Coker Hall (919) 962-0684 bishemer@email.unc.edu	Advising, Curriculum and Instruction
Celia E. Shiau Assistant Professor	4352 Genome Sciences Building (919) 962-7010 shiauce@unc.edu	Crosstalk between immune and nervous systems; macrophages and microglia; immune activation and inflammation; vertebrate development
Kevin Slep Associate Professor	402 Fordham Hall (919) 962-4858 KSlep@bio.unc.edu	Cytoskeletal Structure and Dynamics
Keith W. Sockman Associate Professor	2260 Genome Sciences Building (919) 843-1989 kws@unc.edu	Reproductive Ecology, Ethology, and Physiology
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
Blaire Steinwand STEM Teaching Assistant Professor	212 Coker Hall (919) 962-9433 blairejs@email.unc.edu	Curriculum and Instruction
Alan E. Stiven Professor (Emeritus)	429 Wilson Hall alan_stiven@unc.edu	Population Biology and Community Ecology
David Straight Research Assistant Professor (Emeritus)	(919) 962-2267 davids@email.unc.edu
Bryan Stuart Adjunct Associate Professor, Biology Department	318 Wilson Hall (919) 707-8861 bryan.stuart@naturalsciences.org	Biodiversity, systematics, and conservation of amphibians and reptiles
Brian Taylor Assistant Professor	301A Coker Hall bkt2@live.unc.edu	Animal Navigation, Modeling of Animal Behavior, Bio and Nature Inspired Engineering
Jian-Ke Tie Research Associate Professor	438 Wilson Hall (919) 962-2267 jktie@email.unc.edu
Caroline Tucker Assistant Professor	334B Wilson Hall (919) 843-6378 carolinetucker@unc.edu	Community Ecology, Quantitative Ecology, Biodiversity
James Umbanhowar Teaching Assistant Professor/Consultant	4252 Genome Sciences Building jumbanho@email.unc.edu	Population and Community Ecology; Mathematical Biology
Todd J. Vision Associate Professor	3155 Genome Sciences Building (919) 962-4479 tjv@bio.unc.edu	Computational genetics, genome evolution and the architecture of complex traits
Damon Waitt Director of NC Botanical Garden Professor of the Practice	100 Old Mason Farm Road (919) 962-2184 dwaitt@unc.edu
Alan S. Weakley Adjunct Associate Professor; Director, UNC Herbarium	419 Coker Hall (919) 619-1101 weakley@unc.edu	Plant Systematics, Floristics, Biogeography, Conservation Planning, Bioinformatics, Vegetation Classification and Mapping
Michael Werner Research Assistant Professor	408 Fordham Hall wernerm@email.unc.edu
Peter S. White Professor	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 Associate Professor	2252 Genome Sciences Building (919) 843-8663 willett4@email.unc.edu	Molecular population and evolutionary genetics
Scott Williams Adjunct Assistant Professor, Biology Department	605A Brinkhous-Bullitt Building (919) 966-2737 scott_williams@med.unc.edu	Developmental and stem cell biology of epithelia; asymmetric cell division
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.

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