Faculty

Full-Time Faculty

Lee Coates, B.A., University of Montana; Ph.D., University of New Mexico School of Medicine

Catharina Coenen (chair), undergraduate work, Universität Bremen (Germany); Ph.D., Oregon State University

Christine Donmoyer, B.S. Elizabethtown College; Ph.D. Vanderbilt University

Lauren French, B.A., Oberlin College; Ph.D., Cornell University

Bradley Hersh, B.A., Kenyon College; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tricia Humphreys, B.A., Thomas More College; Ph.D., Miami University

Ann Kleinschmidt, B.S., University of Wisconsin; Ph.D., University of California (Los Angeles)

Christopher Lundberg, B.A., Westminster College; M.S., Oregon State University

Ronald Mumme, B.S., University of South Florida; Ph.D., University of California (Berkeley)

Margaret Nelson, B.A., Williams College; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University

Milton Ostrofsky, B.A., University of Vermont; M.S., Ph.D., University of Waterloo

James Palmer, B.A., University of Pennsylvania; Ph.D., University of Texas

Susan Mayo Rankin, B.A., Ph.D., University of Texas (Austin)

Kristen Webb, B.S., Penn State Erie, The Behrend College; Ph.D., The George Washington University

Lisa Whitenack, B.S., University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign; Ph.D., University of South Florida

Scott Wissinger, B.A., Susquehanna University; Ph.D., Purdue University

Glen Wurst, B.S., Juniata College; Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh

Full-Time Staff

Liz Caskey, lab technician

Brenda Metheny, building coordinator

Lin Sutley, building coordinator

Selected Faculty Publications and Achievements

  • “Identification of carbonic anhydrase in bullfrog olfactory receptor neurons; histochemical localization and role in CO2 chemoreception.” (published in Journal of Comparative Physiology (A): Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology, co-authored with a student)
  • “Life and death in the fast lane: demographic consequences of road mortality in the Florida Scrub-Jey” (published in Conservation Biology)
  • “Auxin-cytokinin interactions.” (published in Trends in Plant Science)
  • “Tradeoffs between competitve superiority and vulnerability to predation in caddisflies along a permanence gradient in subalpine wetlands.” (published in Ecology)
  • “RNA processing and ribonucleoprotein assembly studies in vivo by RNA transfection” (published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, USA)
  • “Spatial variation in the distribution of phosphorus species in the surficial sediments of Canadohta Lake, Pennsylvania” (study of lake in local region published in The Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Science)
  • “Soil bacteria Pseudomonas putida and Alcaligenes xylosoxidans subsp. denitrificans inactive triclosan in liquid and solid sustrated” (published in FEMS Microbiology Letters)
  • “Juvenile hormone esterase activity during the reproductive cycle of the ring-legged earwig” (published in Comparative Biology and Physiology)