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Biology Faculty

Faculty Member

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Research & Scholarship


Assistant Professor
PISB 421
aa4686@drexel.edu
215.895.2526
Department
  • Department of Biology
Research & Teaching Interests

Insect olfaction; Sensory Neurobiology; Mosquito oviposition; Malaria


Professor Emeritus
PISB 416
bentzj@drexel.edu
215.895.1513

Please note: Dr. Bentz no longer accepts graduate students due to his emeritus (retired) status.
Department
  • Department of Biology
Research & Teaching Interests Biophysics of Cell Membrane Function - Membrane Transport by Multidrug Resistance Proteins, chanisms of Membrane Fusion, Peptide/Protein-Membrane Interactions

Assistant Research Professor
PISB 413
vcb33@drexel.edu
215.571.3785
Department
  • Department of Biology
Research & Teaching Interests Spinal cord injury, Neuroinflammation

Assistant Department Head, Teaching Professor
PISB 219
l.duwel@drexel.edu
215.895.2636
Department
  • Department of Biology
Research & Teaching Interests Undergraduate Education

Professor
PISB 317
fe22@drexel.edu
215.895.0220
Department
  • Department of Biology
Research & Teaching Interests

My research program is focused on understanding epigenetic mechanisms that govern higher order brain function via chromatin packaging in neurons.


Associate Professor,
College of Medicine, Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy Biology
College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Biology (courtesy appointment)
PISB 422
adg82@drexel.edu
215.571.4534
Department
  • Department of Biology
Research & Teaching Interests Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology

Associate Professor; Co-Director, Graduate Biology Program
PISB 418
Tali.gidalevitz@drexel.edu
215.571.4219
Department
  • Department of Biology
Research & Teaching Interests

My lab aims to understand the mechanisms that maintain healthy protein folding environment in the cell, and how they fail in neurodegenerative diseases and aging. We use genetic and live imaging approaches in a genetically tractable organism, C. elegans, as discovery tools, and apply the findings to mammalian systems.


Professor Emeritus
PISB 316
Goodricc@drexel.edu
215.895.2626

Please note: Dr. Goodrich no longer accepts graduate students due to her emerita (retired) status.
Department
  • Department of Biology
Research & Teaching Interests Development of simple behaviors after birth in relation to known developmental events in the mouse brain

Teaching Professor
PISB 221 G
meh27@drexel.edu
215.895.2064
Department
  • Department of Biology
Research & Teaching Interests

Stream Ecology, Food Webs


Assistant Professor; Co-Director, Graduate Biology Program
PISB 420
kari.f.lenhart@drexel.edu
215.895.6772
Department
  • Department of Biology
Research & Teaching Interests

Associate Teaching Professor
PISB 221 E
rpl25@drexel.edu
215.895.6936
Department
  • Department of Biology
Research & Teaching Interests

Rho GTPases, regulation of actin cytoskeleton, regulation of G protein-coupled receptors by receptor kinases and arrestins


Assistant Teaching Professor
PISB 221
aem442@drexel.edu
Department
  • Department of Biology
Research & Teaching Interests

Molecular paleontology; anatomy; microbiology; SEA-PHAGES; bacteriophages; STEM education


Professor Emerita

donna.murasko@drexel.edu
215.895.1892

Please note: Dr. Murasko no longer accepts graduate students due to her emerita (retired) status.
Department
  • Department of Biology
Research & Teaching Interests Changes in immune response with increasing age, immune response to viruses, CD8 T cell response in virus infections

Professor; Chair, Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee
PISB 318
oconnomp@drexel.edu
215.895.2637
Department
  • Department of Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Science
  • Department of Biology
Research & Teaching Interests

Physiological ecology; Physiology; Modelling; Allometry.


Professor
PISB 324
so356@drexel.edu
Department
  • Department of Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Science
  • Department of Biology
Research & Teaching Interests

Animal behavior, neuroecology, social insects, tropical ecology, thermal physiology


Associate Professor; Interim Department Head
PISB 419
3245 Chestnut Street,
Philadelphia, PA 19104

rjp336@drexel.edu
215.895.1476
Department
  • Department of Biology
Research & Teaching Interests

My lab, The Petrie Dish focuses its research efforts in areas including: extracellular matrix, cell motility, cytoskeleton, mechanotransduction, cell-matrix interactions, cell biology, and intracellular signaling.


Assistant Professor of Biology
PISB 320
Mp3754@drexel.edu
Department
  • Department of Biology
Research & Teaching Interests Evolution; Genetics; Adaptation; Integrative Biology; Urban; Climate

Assistant Teaching Professor
PISB 413
jjr325@drexel.edu
215.571.3785
Department
  • Department of Biology
Research & Teaching Interests

Ephrins; Spinal cord injury; Neuroinflammation; Cell death; Dependence receptors; Pain


Professor
PISB 325
jar337@drexel.edu
215.895.1643
Department
  • Department of Biology
  • Department of Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Science
Research & Teaching Interests Symbiosis; Ants; Aphids; Genomics; Evolution; Molecular Ecology

Associate Professor
PISB 417
nianli.sang@drexel.edu
215.895.6885
Department
  • Department of Biology
Research & Teaching Interests Molecular, Cellular and Biochemical Bases of Major Human Diseases

Associate Teaching Professor of Biology


Department
  • Department of Biology
Research & Teaching Interests Human physiology; pedagogical research, air quality and health outcomes

Executive Vice Provost for Research & Innovation; Professor
104 Left Bank
Aleister.Saunders@drexel.edu
215.895.6091
Department
  • Department of Biology
Research & Teaching Interests Biochemistry, Genetics, Molecular/Cellular Biology

Assistant Teaching Professor
PISB 221
mas952@drexel.edu
Department
  • Department of Biology
Research & Teaching Interests
  • Cell Biology
  • Genetics
  • History of Science
  • Synthetic Biology
  • Drug Discovery

Associate Teaching Professor
PISB 221 A
kps43@drexel.edu
215.571.3469
Department
  • Department of Biology
Research & Teaching Interests Organismal Biology, Ecology, Herpetology, STEM Education

Associate Professor, Department of Biology; Co-Director of the Center for the Advancement of STEM Teaching and Learning Excellence (CASTLE); Institutional Leader for CIRTL at Drexel
PISB 425
jss75@drexel.edu
Department
  • Department of Biology
Research & Teaching Interests

STEM Education; Effective and Inclusive Teaching; Evidence-Based Teaching; Faculty and Future Faculty Pedagogical Development; Experiential Learning; Epigenetics; Learning and Memory


Teaching Professor
PISB 221 F
mmt73@drexel.edu
215.895.2684
Department
  • Department of Biology
Research & Teaching Interests Organismal Biology (Physiology / Anatomy / Dev Bio), Microbiology

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