Biology
Graduate faculty
- Associate Professor
- L4 Cowley Hall
- scolavito@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6998
Specialty areas:
Genetics of Breast Cancer Stem-like Cells
Please contact me if you have interest in graduate studies in my laboratory.
- Professor
- L3 Cowley Hall
- scooper@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6983
Specialty areas:
Effects of hibernation on blood clotting in 13-lined ground squirrels.
- Associate Professor
- L4 Cowley Hall
- adavelos@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8239
- Teaching Professor
- L3 Cowley Hall
- fellis@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.5066
Specialty areas:
Cellular and Molecular Biology
- Assistant Teaching Professor
- L2 Cowley Hall
- jfreund@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6455
Specialty areas:
Stream Ecology, Fisheries Ecology, Trout Stream Habitat Management, Interactions of Aquatic and Terrestrial Ecosystems
- Associate Professor
- Cowley Hall
- agalbraith@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8246
Specialty areas:
Genetics, genetic disorders, genetics, molecular biology, genetics, baker's yeast, genetics, antimicrobials, genetics....
- Associate Teaching Professor
- Cowley Hall
- kgreany@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6544
Specialty areas:
nutrition and chronic disease, nutrition through the lifespan
- Professor
- L3 Cowley Hall
- tking-heiden@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6463
Specialty areas:
Reproductive physiology, reproductive toxicology, and developmental toxicology.
- Professor
- L3 Cowley Hall
- bklein@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6995
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.
- Associate Professor
- Health Science Center
- mlitster@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8476
Specialty areas:
Anatomy Education
- Professor
- Cowley Hall
- sliu@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6971
Specialty areas:
Gastrointestinal Physiology
- Assistant Professor
- Cowley Hall
- mmika@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.5270
Specialty areas:
Breeding ecology, life history, phylogeography, and evolution in birds
- Professor
- 3018 Cowley Hall
- jmiskowski@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6456
- Laboratory Supervisor
- L3 Cowley Hall
- epaluch@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.5071
Specialty areas:
Plant Ecology and Mycology.
- Associate Professor
- L4 Cowley Hall
- asanderfoot@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8240
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.
- Professor
- L2 Cowley Hall
- gsandland@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6982
Specialty areas:
Host-parasite interactions, life-history evolution, disease ecology, invasive species dynamics, mathematical biology, toxicology
- Assistant Professor
- L2 Cowley Hall
- aschneider2@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6977
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.
- Associate Professor
- L2 Cowley Hall
- dschumann@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8242
Specialty areas:
Fisheries ecology and management, interactions among species, conservation biology, movement ecology.
Contact me if you have any interest in undergraduate or graduate (MS) research in these fields!
- Associate Professor
- Cowley Hall
- cschwartz@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6974
Specialty areas:
Neuroscience, Physiology, Hibernation biology
- Associate Professor
- L3 Cowley Hall
- bseebach@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6964
Specialty areas:
Neurophysiology, Human Anatomy & Physiology, Medical Physiology; advising Biomedical Science Concentrators and Neuroscience students
- Professor
- L2 Cowley Hall
- estrauss@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8262
Specialty areas:
Limnology, Stream and River Ecology, Water Quality
- Dean Grad & Extended Learning
- 205C Morris Hall
- mthomsen@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8245
Specialty areas:
Academic leadership; graduate program support; credit and non-credit outreach program development. Primary contact for thesis/dissertation; graduate faculty status.
- Assistant Professor
- L3 Cowley Hall
- rvandervorste@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6978
Specialty areas:
aquatic invertebrates, freshwater ecology, disturbance ecology, community ecology, conservation biology
- Associate Professor
- L3 Cowley Hall
- jwisinski@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6973
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.
- Associate Professor
- L2 Cowley Hall
- ayu@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6988
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.