Biochemistry
Program
Biochemistry
Major
•Principle Biochemistry Faculty
•Contributing Biology Faculty
•Contributing Chemistry Faculty
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following list is a summary of the main research interests of the
contributing Biology Department Faculty. For a more detailed description
of their projects visit the faculty web pages on the Biology web
site at http://www.bio.umb.edu. Conservation genetics; conservation and management of biodiversity; ecology and economics of non-timber forest products; tropical biology. Website: http://www.atree.org Gregory Beck, Ph.D. (Associate Professor) 617-287-6619, W-3-004, greg.beck@umb.edu Evolutionary immunology; evolution of host defense mechanisms, phagocyte-bacteria interaction, acute-phase response, and molecular immunology. Website: http://asterias.bio.umb.edu Jennifer Bowen, Ph.D. (Assistant Professor) W-3-008, jennifer.bowen@umb.edu Aquatic biogeochemistry; microbiology; functional genomics. Solange Brault, Ph.D. (Associate Professor) 617-287-6683, W-3-032, solange.brault@umb.edu Population and conservation ecology, population dynamics models, marine mammals and bird demography. Website: http://www.bio.umb.edu/facstaff/faculty_Brault.html
Reproductive endocrinology - the mechanism of action of the gonadotropic protein hormones on their target cells and the metabolism of these hormones; biological determinants of human reproduction; biomarkers of reproduction in health and disease. Website: http://kcampbell.bio.umb.edu/ Alan Christian, Ph.D. (Associate Professor) 617-287-6639, W-3-010, alan.christian@umb.edu Aquatic and fresh water mussel ecology and conservation; ecosystem ecology; structure, function, and nutrient cycling; landscape ecology; watershed land use; land cover and spatial patterns of organisms and abiotic factors; food web and community ecology; age and growth; fecundity, life history analysis; and molecular ecology: population genetics and phylogenetics. Website:
http://faculty.www.umb.edu/alan.christian/index.php Cell biology, genetics, and molecular biology of plants: environmental and developmental control of cell division in Arabidopsis thaliana, and phytoremediation. Website: http://www.acc.umb.edu/ John P. Ebersole, Ph.D. (Associate Professor) 617-287-6681, W-3-030, john.ebersole@umb.edu Community structure of coral reef fishes as influenced by natural events (hurricanes) and by human activities involving mechanical damage (ship groundings), and toxic releases. Website: http://www.bio.umb.edu/facstaff/faculty_Ebersole.html Ron J. Etter, Ph.D. (Professor) 617-287-6613, W-3-025, ron.etter@umb.edu Evolution and ecology of marine invertebrates, geographic variation in mitochondrial DNA; life history evolution; the effects of spatial and temporal variation in biotic interactions on population dynamics and community structure. Website: http://www.etterlab.umb.edu Katherine Gibson, Ph.D. (Assistant Professor) 617-287-6614, W-3-012, katherine.gibson@umb.edu Molecular genetics of bacterial-plant symbiosis; signal transduction; regulation of bacterial cell cycle progression. Website: http://www.bio.umb.edu/facstaff/faculty_Gibson.html Andrew J. Grosovsky , Ph.D. (Professor and Dean of the College of Science and Mathematics) 617-287-5777, W-2-023, andrew.grosovsky@umb.edu Genomic instability; homologous recombination; mutagenesis and DNA repair; environmental carcinogenesis. Website: http://www.bio.umb.edu/facstaff/faculty_Grosovsky.html Robert W. Guimond, Ph.D., J.D. (Professor and Director of Undergraduate Advising) 617-287-6654, M-2-127, robert.guimond@umb.edu Vertebrate physiology, bio-medical law, comparative respiratory physiology and gas exchange patterns in amphibious vertebrates. Website: http://www.bio.umb.edu/facstaff/faculty_Guimond.html Linda Huang, Ph.D. (Associate Professor) 617-287-6674, W-3-006, linda.huang@umb.edu Cell
biology of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, signal transduction and regulation
of cell morphology.
Website: http://www.bio.umb.edu/facstaff/faculty_Huang.html Richard Kesseli, Ph.D. (Professor and Biology Graduate Program Director) 617-287-6627, W-3-024, rick.kesseli@umb.edu Molecular genetics and comparative and evolutionary genomics. Website:
http://www.genetics.umb.edu/ Molecular and developmental biology; use of recombinant DNA technology to study gene regulation during spermatogenesis in the mouse. Website:
http://www.bio.umb.edu/facstaff/faculty_Kleene.html
Neurobiology; research focuses on the role of dopamine in regulating motor behavior and neuronal activity in the rat basal ganglia. Website: http://www.bio.umb.edu/facstaff/faculty_Pollack.html Michael A. Rex, Ph.D. (Professor) 617-287-6678, W-3-027, michael.rex@umb.edu Systematics, zoogeography and ecology of deep-sea gastropod mollusks in the Atlantic Ocean: theoretical, comparative and experimental aspects of island biogeography. Website: http://www.bio.umb.edu/facstaff/faculty_Rex.html
Microbial ecology, especially the biodegradation of organic pollutants in aquatic ecosystems and the population dynamics and diversity of pollutant-degraders and public health bacteria in aquatic sediments. Website:
http://microbe.bio.umb.edu/ W-3-007, rachel.skvirsky@umb.edu Molecular genetics; microbiology; extracellular secretion in bacteria. Website: http://www.bio.umb.edu/facstaff/faculty_Skvirsky.html Robert Stevenson, Ph.D. (Associate Professor) 617-287-6572, M-1-523, robert.stevenson@umb.edu Animal physiology, physiological ecology, conservation biology, conservation physiology, conservation education, micrometeorology, energetics, locomotion, temperature regulation, muscle physiology, scaling, insect flight. Website: http://efg.cs.umb.edu/
M-3-116, alexey.veraksa@umb.edu Cell and molecular biology of Drosophila development; cell signaling; proteomics and mass spectrometry; developing new methods to analyze protein-protein interactions; network biology. Website: http://www.bio.umb.edu/facstaff/faculty_VeraksaA.html Brian T. White, Ph.D., (Associate Professor) 617-287-6630, W-3-003, brian.white@umb.edu Science education; investigation of students changing conceptions of science (especially Biology); development and evaluation of teaching materials including computer software. Website: http://intro.bio.umb.edu/BW/research.html H. Garrison Wilkes, Ph.D., (Professor) 617-287-6662, M-2-330 Evolution under domestication, the origin and evolution and maize and its New World relatives, the origin and development of Meso-American habitat disturbance and manipulation in the quest of food; stability models in indigenous agricultural systems both New and Old; plant germplasm resources; general economic botany. Website: http://www.bio.umb.edu/facstaff/faculty_Wilkes.html
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