Emeritus - Department of Biological Sciences

Joseph Altman

Memoriam Emeritus - 4/19/2016

John Anderson

andersjn@purdue.edu

(Eukaryotic gene expression) Control of eukaryotic gene expression and replication; DNA structure; virus evolution.

Arthur Aronson

aronson@purdue.edu

Microbiology, Molecular Biology

Timothy Baker

tsb1@purdue.edu

Structural Biology - coordinated application of high resolution cryo-electron microscopy (cryoEM) and three-dimensional (3D) image reconstruction techniques to study virus structure and to answer questions about how viruses infect a wide range of hosts including animals, plants, fungi, and bacteria.

Anna Berkovitz

Memoriam Emeritus - 11/27/2018

Jeffrey Bolin

jtb@purdue.edu

(Structural molecular biology; biochemistry) Protein structure and function; X-ray crystallography; metalloenzymes; biodegradation of PCBs and related compounds.

C david Bridges

bridgesc@purdue.edu

(Biochemistry; physiology) Biochemistry and physiology of the visual process; evolution of vision; transport and utilization of vitamin A in the body; genes for retinoid-binding proteins, hereditary retinal degenerations.

J. alfred Chiscon

chisconj@purdue.edu

Biology Teaching - The Social Impact of the Biological Sciences

Martha Chiscon

mchiscon@purdue.edu

Immunobiology, Developmental Biology - instrumental in organizing the Women in Science program, and designed and taught Women and the Science Disciplines, the first course of its kind in the nation to be taught at a college of science

William Cramer

waclab@purdue.edu

Structure/function of membrane proteins involved in charge translocation and protein import: photosynthetic electron transport and energy transduction; cytochrome complexes; colicins: ion channels, cellular import, receptor function; antibiotic-resistant cytotoxin; structure-function/membrane interactions of Parkinson protein, -synuclein.

Laszlo Csonka

csonka@purdue.edu

(Microbiology) Adaptation to osmotic stress, regulation of thermotolerance, mechanism of transcriptional regulation of Mg ²⁺ genes in Salmonella enterica .

Richard Dilley

dilleyr@purdue.edu

Photosynthesis, Membrane Biochemistry, Plant Physiology – photosynthesis research

Donna Fekete

dfekete@purdue.edu

(Neuroscience and Developmental Biology) Development of the inner ear; Zika virus infection of the brain and inner ear

Michael Forman

forman@purdue.edu

Structural, Developmental Biology - photosynthesis research

Peter Hollenbeck

phollenb@purdue.edu

(Neurobiology) Intracellular organelle transport in neurons.

Richard Howard

rhoward@purdue.edu

Ecology, Evolutionary Biology and Behavior

Robert Hurst

Memoriam Emeritus - 4/30/2019

Laurie Iten

liten@purdue.edu

(Developmental biology) Animal development and regeneration.

Stephen Konieczny

sfk@purdue.edu

(Eukaryotic molecular biology) Gene expression during mammalian development; cancer model systems.

Allan Konopka

akonopka@purdue.edu

Microbiology, Microbial Ecology - physiology of microorganisms in either natural or man-made ecosystems

Mark Levinthal

Memoriam Emeritus - 10/23/2020

Morris Levy

Evolution and Population Biology

Dennis Minchella

dennism@purdue.edu

(Population biology; genetics) Host-parasite coevolution; influence of parasitism on host life-history patterns; molecular ecology and genetics; genetic diversity of parasite populations

Sanford Ostroy

Memoriam Emeritus - 4/4/2017

William Pak

Molecular Neurogenic

Nancy Pelaez

npelaez@purdue.edu

(Physiology) Vascular smooth muscle physiology and signal transduction, physiology and evolution, physiology education.

Samuel Postlethwait

Memoriam Emeritus - 1/15/2019

Kerry Rabenold

rabenold@purdue.edu

Conservation, Behavioral and Community Ecology - ecological research

William Ray

Kenneth Robinson

robinsok@purdue.edu

Developmental Physiology

Michael Rossmann

Memoriam Emeritus - 5/14/2019

(Molecular biology; biophysics) Structure of picornaviruses (rhinoviruses, Mengo virus, coxsackievirus, poliovirus), parvoviruses, alphaviruses and bacteriophages, fX174, f29, T4; molecular evolution.

Louis Sherman

lsherman@purdue.edu

(microbiology) Photosynthetic membranes - structure, function, and assembly in cyanobacteria; functional genomics and impact of environmental factors on photosynthesis; analysis of global regulation with microarrays; regulation of photosynthesis and N ₂ -fixation in unicellular cyanobacteria.