undergraduate

Faculty Teaching and Research Interests

Nikki L. Adams

Invertebrate Zoology, Functional Invertebrate Zoology, Marine Biology, Developmental Biology and Ecological Physiology of Marine Invertebrates, UV Photobiology and Photochemistry.

Fred P. Andoli (Emeritus)

Genetics; Evolution; Vertebrate Zoology, especially herpetology.

Michael Black

Cell and Molecular Biology, Microbial Pathogenesis, Host-Pathogen Interactions (including molecular mechanisms of disease and the immune response), Virology; Biology Education.

Robert J. Brown (Emeritus)

Computer Applications; Human Anatomy and Physiology; Comparative Animal Physiology.

Raul J. Cano (Emeritus)

Medical Mycology; Parasitology; Molecular Biology.

Jaime S. Colome (Emeritus)

Biochemistry; Cell Physiology; Genetics; Molecular Biology; Virology; Embryology; Developmental Biology; Epidemiology.

Alvin A. DeJong (Emeritus)

Physiology, especially comparative and environmental.

Susan Elrod

Genetics, Microbial Biotechnology, Fungal Molecular Genetics, Fungi in Bioremediation, Mycological Ecology.

Pat Fidopiastis

Food Microbiology, General Microbiology, Molecular Biology, Virology, Bacterial Pathogenesis.

David V. Grady (Emeritus)

General, Medical and Public Health Microbiology; Hematology; Immunology; Microbial Taxonomy; Medical Laboratory Technology; Bacteriophage (bacterial viruses); Serology.

Michael T. Hanson (Emeritus)

Habitat Management; Population Dynamics; Mammalogy.

Ken Hillers

Genetics; Molecular Biology; Chromosome Biology; Cell Division.

Ed Himelblau

Biology Education; Plant Physiology; Genetics.

V L Holland (Emeritus)

Plant and Restoration Ecology; Field Botany; California Vegetation.

Elena Keeling

Cell Biology, Genetics, Developmental Biology, and Science Education.

David J. Keil

Plant Taxonomy; Cytotaxonomy; Field Botany; Plant Ecology; Biogeography; Evolution; Rare and Endangered Plants; California Vegetation; Systematics of Asteraceae; Flora of San Luis Obispo County; Floristics of California, Arizona; thistle taxonomy.

Christopher L. Kitts

Bacterial Physiology; Microbial Ecology; Bacterial Energy Transduction; Biodegradation; Microbial Ecology in Bioremediation; Intestinal Microbial Ecology.

Anthony E. Knable (Emeritus)

Fish and Wildlife Management; Conservation Biology.

Charles A. Knight Plant Evolutionary Biology; Physiology; Ecology;Statistical Methods in Biology; Photosynthesis; Whole Genome Evolution in Plants; Plant Distribution and Abundance in the California Flora.
Gita R. Kolluru Ecology and Evolution, Animal Behavior.
Mark A. Kubinski (Emeritus)

General Microbiology; Food and Dairy Microbiology.

Kingston L. Leong (Emeritus)

Biological Control; Insect Ecology; Monarch Butterfly Biology; Restoration of Overwintering Habitats for Monarch Butterflies.

Mark Moline

Biological Oceanography, Phytoplankton Ecology, Phytoplankton Physiology, Photobiology, Bio-optics, Remote Sensing, Biogeochemistry.

Royden Nakamura

Biology of Fishes; Aquaculture; Marine Ecology; Fisheries; Conservation Biology.

John D. Perrine Conservation biology, wildlife management, vertebrate ecology, mammalogy, environmental science, history of biology, relationship between science and policy.
E. Kay Perryman (Emeritus)

Endocrinology, Reproductive Physiology and Histology, especially control of pigmentation, cytokine-mediated inflammation and thermoregulation; computer-assisted instruction in physiology and histology.

Matt Ritter

Botany; Plant Molecular and Developmental Biology; Plant Biotechnology; Genetic Engineering; Agriculture; Crop Improvement; Sustainable Agriculture; Economic Botany; Plant Ecology; Restoration Ecology.

Scott Steinmaus

Invasive Plant Biology; Plant Biotechnology; Plant Ecophysiology.

Christy Strand Neuroendocrinology, Animal Behavior, Environmental Physiology, Physiology, Anatomy.
Emily Taylor

Environmental Physiology, Ecology, Animal Behavior, Herpetology.

Lars Tomanek

Ecological Physiology of Marine Invertebrates; Proteomics; Global Climate Change; Biochemical Temperature Adaptation.

Francis X. Villablanca

Molecular and Organismal Evolution, Molecular Systematics, Population Genetics, Conservation Genetics, Invasion Genetics, Statistical Phylogeography, Demography in natural populations, Phylochronology, Mammalogy and Ornithology.

Larisa K. Vredevoe

Medical/Veterinary Entomology, Parasitology, Medical Bacteriology, Tick-Borne Pathogens of humans and animals.

Dirk R. Walters (Emeritus)

Plant Taxonomy; Plant Ecology, especially plant demography; Local Flora; Economic Plants.

Dean Wendt

Physiology and Ecology of Marine Invertebrate Animals including factors that influence larval settlement and metamorphosis, energetics, use of dissolved organic matter, development of non-toxic marine coatings.

Candace Winstead

Immunology; Virology; Host-pathogen Evolution; Medical Microbiology.

Marie Yeung

Food and dairy microbiology, Molecular detection and epidemiology of foodborne pathogens, Probiotic activities.

*Michael Yoshimura

Plant Pathology; Plant Virology; Mycology.

* Department Chair

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