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Click the name of a Department of Biology faculty member to learn more about his/her research.

  • Full-Time Faculty
  • Special Assistant Professors
  • Adjunct Faculty

Full-Time Faculty

Dennis Burke
Laboratory Director
Phone: (516) 463-5530
Office: Gittleson 217
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Russell Burke
Urban ecology, vertebrate (mostly reptile) ecology, evolution & conservation, disease ecology
Phone: (516) 463-7272
Office: Gittleson 128
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Beverly Clendening
Developmental biology, sex determination, molecular mechanisms
Phone: (516) 463-5528
Office: Gittleson 326
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Peter Daniel
Chemosensory systems of crustaceans
Phone: (516) 463-6718
Office: Gittleson 222
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Justin DiAngelo
Molecular control of glucose and fat metabolism using Drosophila as my model system
Phone: (516) 463-7336
Office: Gittleson 306D
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Lisa Filippi
Behavioral ecology, evolution of parental care (primarily in insects), urban ecology, insect diversity in urban habitats
Phone: (516) 463-5831
Office: 102A Gittleson
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Maureen Krause
Graduate Coordinator
Molecular ecology of marine invertebrates
Phone: (516) 463-6178
Office: Gittleson 309
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Charles Peterson
Ecological and evolutionary physiology, vertebrate ecology, herpetology
Phone: (516) 463-5517
Office: Gittleson 10
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Christopher Sanford
Functional morphology and hydrodynamics of feeding and locomotion in fishes and evolution of new behaviors
Phone: (516) 463-5526
Office: Gittleson 302
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Ronald Sarno
Ecology and evolution, molecular genetics, behavioral ecology, population ecology, and conservation biology
Phone: (516) 463-4266
Office: Gittleson 228
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Robert Seagull
Department Chair
Cotton fiber development, regulation of plant cell growth, hormones and plant development
Phone: (516) 463-5267
Office: Gittleson 130
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Laura Vallier
Developmental genetics, gene regulation, C. elegans development, non-neuronal functions of LIM-homeodomain transcription factors, differentiation
Phone: (516) 463-6719
Office: Gittleson 103
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Joanne Willey
Bacteriology, prokaryotic cell biology and biochemistry
Phone: (516) 463-6542
Office: Gittleson 325
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Jason Williams
Biology of marine invertebrates, particularly crustacean and polychaete symbionts (parasites and commensal species)
Phone: (516) 463-5524
Office: Gittleson 309A
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Special Assistant Professors

Jonelle Orridge
Aquatic ecology, invertebrate ecology, urban ecology
Office: Gittleson 324A
Email


Roger S. Greenwell, Jr.
Microbiology, cell signaling, transcriptional regulation, signal transduction, protein purification, oxidative stress responses
Office: 103 Gittleson Hall
Email

Carol St. Angelo
Phone: (516) 463-5522
Office: Gittleson 125
E-mail | Bio

 

Adjunct Faculty

Carolee Caffrey
Phone: (516) 463-5960
Office: Gittleson 125
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Alan Hecht
Phone: (516) 463-5518
Office: Gittleson 127
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Salvatore Masi
Phone: (516) 463-5518
Office: Gittleson 127
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Emanuel Pepitone
Phone: (516) 463-5518
Office: Gittleson 127
E-mail


John Perrotto
Phone: (516) 463-5518
Office: Gittleson 130
E-mail


Carol St. Angelo
Phone: (516) 463-5522
Office: Gittleson 125
E-mail | Bio