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Biology

Graduate faculty

Sierra Colavito

Specialty areas:

Genetics of Breast Cancer Stem-like Cells

Please contact me if you have interest in graduate studies in my laboratory.

Scott Cooper

Specialty areas:

Effects of hibernation on blood clotting in 13-lined ground squirrels.

Anita Davelos
Faye Ellis

Specialty areas:

Cellular and Molecular Biology

Jason Freund

Specialty areas:

Stream Ecology, Fisheries Ecology, Trout Management, Interactions of Aquatic and Terrestrial Ecosystems

Anne Galbraith

Specialty areas:

Genetics, genetic disorders, genetics, molecular biology, genetics, baker's yeast, genetics, antimicrobials, genetics....

Kris Greany

Specialty areas:

nutrition and chronic disease, nutrition through the lifespan

Tisha King Heiden

Specialty areas:

Reproductive physiology, reproductive toxicology, and developmental toxicology.  

Barrett Klein

Specialty areas:

Animal behavior, entomology, social insect biology, sleep biology, scientific visualization, intersection of entomology and art, cultural entomology (how insects affect human culture).

If you are a student interested in joining the Pupating Lab to conduct research as an undergraduate or in UWL's master's program, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Jennifer Klein

Specialty areas:

molecular biophysics, cell biology, molecular biology, biochemistry, mathematical biology, molecular ecology

 

Megan Litster

Specialty areas:

Anatomy Education

Sumei Liu

Specialty areas:

Gastrointestinal Physiology

Markus Mika

Specialty areas:

Breeding ecology, life history, phylogeography, and evolution in birds

Todd Osmundson

Specialty areas:

Mycology (Fungal Biology), Biodiversity & conservation, Biogeography, Bioinformatics, DNA barcoding, Metagenomics, Phylogenetics, Population genetics, and Systematics. Please contact me if you have any interest in undergraduate or graduate (MS) research in these topics.

Elisabeth Paluch

Specialty areas:

Plant Ecology and Mycology.

Anton Sanderfoot

Specialty areas:

Plant cell biology, protein secretion, genetic screens, molecular biology, microscopy

Please contact me if you have any interest in undergraduate or graduate (MS) research!

Also contact me with any questions about use of the Microscopes in the Howard Imaging Center on campus.

Gregory Sandland

Specialty areas:

Host-parasite interactions, life-history evolution, disease ecology, invasive species dynamics, mathematical biology, toxicology

Adam Schneider

Specialty areas:

Parasitic plants
Native plants of Wisconsin
Plant taxonomy and systematics
Natural history collections
Citizen science (e.g. iNaturalist)
Currently seeking undergraduate and graduate research students.

David Schumann

Specialty areas:

Fisheries ecology and management, interactions among species, conservation biology, and movement ecology. 

Contact me if you have any interest in undergraduate or graduate (MS) research in these fields!

Christine Schwartz

Specialty areas:

Neuroscience, Physiology, Hibernation biology

Bradley Seebach

Specialty areas:

Neurophysiology, Human Anatomy & Physiology, Medical Physiology; advising Biomedical Science Concentrators and Neuroscience students

Eric Strauss

Specialty areas:

Limnology, Stream and River Ecology, Water Quality

Meredith Thomsen

Specialty areas:

Academic leadership; graduate program support; credit and non-credit outreach program development. Primary contact for thesis/dissertation; graduate faculty status. 

Ross Vander Vorste

Specialty areas:

aquatic invertebrates, freshwater ecology, disturbance ecology, community ecology, conservation biology

Jaclyn Wisinski

Specialty areas:

Platelets prevent blood loss from the vasculature and changes in the abundance and/or function of platelet compromises their ability to execute that function. Too many (thrombocythemia) or too few (thrombocytopenia) circulating platelet increase risk of thrombosis and hemorrhage, respectively. The primary goal of my research is to understand what regulates platelet production by megakaryocytes.

Alder Yu

Specialty areas:

I study circadian rhythms and the health effects of disrupting these daily rhythms, using fruit flies as a model system.  I am particularly interested in the effect of circadian rhythm disruption on metabolism and DNA damage repair.