Faculty

All OEB faculty are listed below. To help applicants to our graduate program locate a faculty sponsor, the faculty list can be filtered by four broad research areas.

Click on any OEB faculty member's name to view their contact information on our directory page.

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Name Research Interests
Baskin, Tobias
Associate Professor
Biology		 Growth and morphogenesis of plants
Bittman, Eric L.
Professor
Biology		 Neural basis of circadian rhythms and photoperiodism
Castro-Santos, Ted
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Biology		 Swimming performance and passage at barriers
Dumont, Betsy
Professor
Biology		 Mammalian morphology and evolution
Gillis, Gary B.
Assistant Professor
Biological Sciences, Mount Holyoke College		 Biomechanics and neuromuscular control of vertebrate locomotion
Godfrey, Laurie R.
Professor
Anthropology		 Primatology, paleontology and evolutionary theory
Hagadorn, James
Assistant Professor
Geology, Amherst College		 Marine paleocommunities including microbial and metazoan life
Kunkel, Joseph
Professor
Biology		 Developmental physiology
Leckie, Mark
Professor
Geosciences		 Foraminiferal paleoecology and evolutionary history; paleoceanography
Letcher, Benjamin
Adjunct Associate Professor
Natural Resources Conservation		 Population ecology of anadromous fish
McCormick, Stephen D.
Adjunct Associate Professor
Biology		 Physiology and endocrinology of migratory fishes
Patek, Sheila
Assistant Professor
Biology		 Evolutionary biomechanics of movement and communication
Podos, Jeffrey
Professor
Biology		 Mechanisms and evolution of vertebrate behavior, bioacoustics
Sievert, Paul R.
Research Associate Professor
Natural Resources Conservation		 Conservation biology, physiological ecology and biostatistics
Smith, L. David
Associate Professor
Biological Sciences, Smith College		 Ecology and evolution of marine predator-prey interactions
Tilley, Stephen G.
Professor
Biological Sciences, Smith College		 Genetic differentiation and speciation in salamanders