Emeritus Faculty Directory
Joseph Altman
Professor Emerita Or Emeritus
Memoriam Emeritus - 4/19/2016
John Anderson
Professor
(Eukaryotic gene expression) Control of eukaryotic gene expression and replication; DNA structure; virus evolution.
Arthur Aronson
Professor
Memoriam Emeritus - 9/17/2025
Timothy Baker
Professor emerita or emeritus
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
Professor emerita or emeritus
Memoriam Emeritus - 11/27/2018
Jeffrey Bolin
Professor
Associate Vice President for Research CoS
(Structural molecular biology; biochemistry) Protein structure and function; X-ray crystallography; metalloenzymes; biodegradation of PCBs and related compounds.
J. Alfred Chiscon
Professor emerita or emeritus
Biology Teaching - The Social Impact of the Biological Sciences
Martha Chiscon
Professor emerita or emeritus
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
Henry Koffler Distinguished Professor of Biological Sciences
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.
Professor emerita or emeritus
(Microbiology) Adaptation to osmotic stress, regulation of thermotolerance, mechanism of transcriptional regulation of Mg 2+ genes in Salmonella enterica .
Richard Dilley
Professor emerita or emeritus
Photosynthesis, Membrane Biochemistry, Plant Physiology – photosynthesis research
Professor
(Neuroscience and Developmental Biology) Development of the inner ear; Zika virus infection of the brain and inner ear
Michael Forman
Professor emerita or emeritus
Structural, Developmental Biology - photosynthesis research
Professor
Department of Biological Sciences 25%
Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs 75%
(Neurobiology) Intracellular organelle transport in neurons.
Richard Howard
Professor
Ecology, Evolutionary Biology and Behavior
Robert Hurst
Professor emerita or emeritus
Memoriam Emeritus - 4/30/2019
Laurie Iten
Associate Professor
(Developmental biology) Animal development and regeneration.
Stephen Konieczny
Professor
(Eukaryotic molecular biology) Gene expression during mammalian development; cancer model systems.
Allan Konopka
Professor emerita or emeritus
Microbiology, Microbial Ecology - physiology of microorganisms in either natural or man-made ecosystems
Mark Levinthal
Professor emerita or emeritus
Memoriam Emeritus
- 10/23/2020
Morris Levy
Professor emerita or emeritus
Evolution and Population Biology
Professor emerita or emeritus
(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
Professor emerita or emeritus
Memoriam Emeritus - 4/4/2017
William Pak
Professor emerita or emeritus
Molecular Neurogenic
Nancy Pelaez
Associate Professor
(Physiology) Vascular smooth muscle physiology and signal transduction, physiology and evolution, physiology education.
Samuel Postlethwait
Professor emerita or emeritus
Memoriam Emeritus - 1/15/2019
Kerry Rabenold
Professor emerita or emeritus
Conservation, Behavioral and Community Ecology - ecological research
William Ray
Professor emerita or emeritus
Enzymology – chemical catalysis
Kenneth Robinson
Professor
Developmental Physiology
Michael Rossmann
Hanley Distinguished Professor of Biological Sciences;
National Academy of Science
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.
Professor
(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.
Elizabeth Taparowsky
Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education
(Eukaryotic molecular biology) Oncogene expression in eukaryotic cells.
Irwin Tessman
Memoriam Emeritus - 11/4/2016
Joseph Vanable
Professor emerita or emeritus
Developmental Biology
Peter Waser
Professor
Animal Behavior - cooperative breeding
Jacob Wiebers
Professor emerita or emeritus
Memoriam Emeritus - 1/5/2021