BIOLOGY FACULTY

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Boca Raton Campus

• Daniel F. Austin, Professor, Emeritus Professor
  Ph.D., Washington University, St. Louis -- Fellow of the Linnean Society, London; Evolutionary and systematic biology; population dynamics and natural history of nonindigenous and endangered species.
• David M. Binninger, Associate Professor & Associate Chair
  Ph.D., University of North Carolina -- Molecular biology; role of oxidative damage to proteins on aging and neurodegenerative diseases
• W. Randy Brooks, Professor
  Ph.D., Florida State University -- Behavioral ecology of symbiotic tropical marine organisms, particularly cnidarians; marine biology.
• James X. Hartmann, Professor
  Ph.D., Michigan State University -- Immunology; marine biotechnology; cancer research.
• Theodor Haerry, Assistant Professor,
  Ph. D., University of Basel, 1994 -- Interactions between Drosophila TGF-beta signaling pathway. Using molecular, biochemical, genetic, and genomic approaches in fruit flies as model system, we investigate the role of all TGF-beta signaling pathways in cell growth and proliferation and their contribution to cancer.
• Marguerite Koch-Rose, Associate Professor
  Ph.D., University of Miami -- Wetland, estuarine, and marine plant ecology; plant ecophysiology; aquatic plant community dynamics.
• Peter Lutz, Professor; McGinty Eminent Scholar in Marine Biology
  Ph.D., Glasgow University -- Respiratory and osmotic physiology of marine animals; cerebral metabolism of lower vertebrates.
• Sheila A. Mahoney, Professor
  Ph.D., Washington State University -- Physiology, energetics, and ecology of birds; breeding biology and dietary requirements of seabirds; aviculture.
• G. Alex Marsh, Professor
  Ph.D., Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences -- Ecology of tropical and marine estuarine invertebrates; benthic community structure; seagrass epifaunal communities.
• Sarah Milton, Research Professor
  Ph.D., University of Miami -- Physiology of sea turtles.
• Ramaswamy Narayanan, Professor
  Ph.D.,National University of Ireland, Dublin -- Molecular biology of cancer, Recombinant DNA Technology, Antisense techniques to inhibit gene expression, Biotechnology and Bioinformatics.
• Guritno Roesijadi, Professor & Chair
  Ph.D., Texas A&M University -- Comparative physiology, biochemistry, and toxicology; Trace element metabolism; Cellular function of metallothionein; Environmental health and ecotoxicology
• Michael Salmon, Professor
  Ph.D., University of Maryland -- Marine organism behavior, particularly ecology of mating systems, orientation mechanisms, and role of sensory processes in adaptive behavior.
• Herbert H. Stewart, Professor
  Ed.D., Columbia University -- Science education; plant physiology; synthesis and function of polymeric plant growth hormones.
• Herbert Weissbach, Distinguished Research Professor and Director,Center for Molecular Biology and Biotechnology
  Ph.D., 1953 -- Member, National Academy of Sciences; Molecular biology, Biochemistry, control of gene expression, stress response.
• Jeanette Wyneken, Assistant Professor
  Ph.D., University of Illinois -- Functional morphology of lower vertebrates, especially reptiles; evolution of locomotory mechanisms; sea turtle behavior.

Davie Campus

• John D. Baldwin, Assistant Professor
  Ph.D, University of California, Davis, 1997 -- Cell and Developmental Biology, Research: Mechanisms involved in fertilization and early development, and identifying the components that are responsible for controlling these events.
• Nwadiuto Esiobu, Assistant Professor
  Ph.D., University of Louvain, Belgium -- Microbiology, Research: Microbial diversity, environmental microbiology and bioremediation, bacteriology, soil microbiology, nitrogen fixation, microbial ecology, microbial genetics.
• James Kumi-Diaka, Associate Professor
  D.V.M., Ph.D., Ahmaeu Bello University, Nigeria, 1974, 1981 -- Role of Genistein in testicular - prostatic physiology & pathology.
• H. Jay Lyons, Associate Professor
  Ph.D., University of New Mexico, 1973 -- Cellular Physiology: Molecular processes governing secretion of melanocyte stimulating hormone.
• John C. Volin, Associate Professor and Acting Director of Environmental Sciences
  Ph.D., University of Wisconsin - Madison, 1994 -- Ecology: impact of environmental stresses, such as air pollution or exotic invasive plants on growth and physiology of native plant communities.

  Jupiter Campus

• Denise L. Herzing, Research Professor
  Ph.D., Union Graduate School -- Marine mammal behavior, especially dolphins; biocommunication.

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