The Biology Department Graduation is June 15th from 1-4pm in Hoffmann Hall. There will be a short 

ceremony followed by refreshments in the lobby. Guests are welcome! Please click the link below and

tell us if you will be attending. Thank you!

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The Biology Department has 24 faculty, about 1000 undergraduate majors, and over 70 graduate students and post-docs. Our faculty take an integrative approach to biology, encompassing all levels of biological organization from molecules to ecosystems. Our Department is committed to excellence in both research and teaching, and we strive to provide a rigorous, balanced education in Biology for all our students.

We share our offices and laboratories with Physics, Chemistry and Environmental Science Departments in the SRTC and Science Building 1. This close proximity with other disciplines helps foster interdisciplinary research at Portland State University. Teaching and research laboratories are further supported by the Herbarium, Invertebrate and Vertebrate Museums, extremophile DNA and microbial culture collections, an aquatic organism rearing facility, greenhouses and an electron microscope facility.

Planning to visit? We are located in SRTC rm 246 between SW Mill and Montgomery on SW 10th Ave. For directions, see the PSU campus map. If you don't find what you need here, please contact the department.

Recent News: 

Dr. Deb Duffield was featured in the Oregonian for her work with two whales that washed up on shore recently. You can read about it here: http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2012/01/two_d...

Julia Ruppell, PhD, Murphy was recently awarded a Fulbright for her work with the crested gibbon in Laos. You can see her talk about her research here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSPk6AenNr8&feature=player_embedded

Nicole Paterson, an undergraduate researcher in the Stedman lab was just awarded a $5000 NASA Oregon Space Grant Undergraduate Research Scholarship for work on a novel DNA polymerase from an acidic hot lake.

Published: 

Lutterschmidt, D.I.  Chronobiology of reproduction in garter snakes:  Neuroendocrine mechanisms and geographic variation.  General and Comparative Endocrinology, in press.  Invited Review. 

Redmond, L.J., and M.T. Murphy. 2011. Multistate mark-recapture analysis reveals no effect of blood sampling on survival and recapture of Eastern Kingbirds (Tyrannus tyrannus). Auk 128:514-521

Deshler, J., and M.T. Murphy. 2012. The breeding biology of the Northern Pygmy-owl: Do the smallest of the small have an advantage? Condor. 114: in press.