Faculty & Staff

Faculty | Department Managers | Emeritus Faculty | Research Faculty and Postdocs

Faculty

Faculty	Contact	Teaching and/or Research Interests
Daniel Ballhorn Professor	ballhorn@pdx.edu	Plant defenses and interactions
Michael Bartlett Associate Professor	micb@pdx.edu	Cellular and molecular biology
Kim Brown Associate Professor	kibr2@pdx.edu	Fish genetics
Bradley Buckley Associate Professor	bbuckley@pdx.edu	Physiology and adaptation to extreme environments
Justin Courcelle Professor	justc@pdx.edu	DNA repair, DNA replication, genome stability
Mitch Cruzan Professor	cruzan@pdx.edu	Plant ecology, evolutionary biology
Deborah Duffield Professor	duffield@pdx.edu	Marine Mammals, Marine Biology
Sarah Eppley Professor	eppley@pdx.edu	Plant Ecology
Thomas Hancock Assistant Professor	thancock@pdx.edu	Human Anatomy and Physiology
Stefanie Kautz Teaching Associate Professor	skautz@pdx.edu	Plant biology and defenses
Annie Lindgren Assistant Research Professor Interim Associate Vice President for Research	arl3@pdx.edu	Deep sea biology
Jan Just Teaching Assistant Professor	justjan@pdx.edu	Fundamentals of Biology, Histology, Anatomy and Physiology
Susan Masta Associate Professor	smasta@pdx.edu	Biodiversity, evolution, arthropods
Jason Podrabsky Professor	podrabsj@pdx.edu	Developmental biology, genomics, epigenetics, metabolic dormancy
Radhika Reddy Assistant Teaching Professor	rreddy@pdx.edu	Principles of Biology, Neurophysiology, Sensory Physiology
Luis Ruedas Professor and Chair	ruedas@pdx.edu	Vertebrate taxonomy and systematics, evolution, and ecology
Erin Shortlidge Associate Professor	eshort@pdx.edu	Biology education research
Jeffrey Singer Professor	jsinger@pdx.edu	Ubiquitin signaling
Ken Stedman Professor	kstedman@pdx.edu	Extreme viruses, astrovirology, vaccine stabilization
Anne Thompson Assistant Professor	awt@pdx.edu	Microbial ecology of the oceans
Emily Wolfe Instructor	emwolfe@pdx.edu

Department Managers

Staff	Contact
Sarah Bartlett Department Manager	sbart2@pdx.edu
Megan Meyers Biology Teaching Lab Manager	memeyers@pdx.edu
Monica Ito Support Team	sablan@pdx.edu
Linda Taylor Greenhouse Manager	taylor5@pdx.edu
Leah Tuor Biology Undergraduate Academic Services Manager	leaht@pdx.edu
Michael Wendel Biology Teaching Lab Manager	mww3@pdx.edu
Kathryn Wonder Biology Teaching Lab Manager	wonder@pdx.edu
Isabella Connelly Support Team	wonder@pdx.edu

Emeritus Faculty

Faculty	Contact	Research Interests
Clyde Calvin	calvinc@pdx.edu	Vascular plant anatomy
Larry Crawshaw	crawshawl@pdx.edu	Comparative physiology of temperature regulation
Stan Hillman	hillmans@pdx.edu	Amphibian physiology
Ed Lippert	algae@frontier.com	Algology, mycology
Rob Millette	peregrine@rof.net	Molecular virology
Michael Murphy	murphym@pdx.edu	Birds and ecology
Lester Newman	newmanl@pdx.edu	Genetics
Anna-Louise Reysenbach	bwar@pdx.edu	Microbial ecology of high temperature ecosystems
Leonard Simpson	simpsol@pdx.edu	Invertebrate structure and function
Robert Tinnin	dbtinnin@gmail.com	Ecology
Randy Zelick	zelickr@pdx.edu	Neurobiology

Research Faculty, Staff, and Postdocs

Position	Contact	Research Interests
Charmain Tan Courcelle Adjunct Research Assistant Professor	charmc@pdx.edu	DNA replication, DNA repair, genome maintenance and stability
Gazal Kalyan Research Associate in Podrabsky Lab	gazal@pdx.edu	Omics, Bioinformatics, Data Science
Ignacio “Nacho” de la Higuera Research Associate in Stedman Lab	ide@pdx.edu	Virus Origins, Structure and Evolution
Anvita Kerkar Postdoctoral scholar in Thompson Lab	kerkar@pdx.edu	Biological Oceanography, Microbial ecology
Amie Romney Interim Director, Center for Life in Extreme Environments Postdoctoral scholar in Podrabsky Lab	arom2@pdx.edu	Cell and Developmental Biology, Environmental Interactions on Developmental Phenotype
Diyala Shihadih Postdoctoral scholar in Shortlidge Lab	diyala@pdx.edu	Undergraduate biology education, Equitable teaching, TA - Teaching Professional Development
Emily St. John Research Assistant in Reysenbach Lab	em9@pdx.edu	Microbial Ecology
Camille Wendlandt Adjunct Research Associate in Thompson Lab	camillew@pdx.edu	Microbial ecology, Symbiosis, Host-microbe interactions