Faculty and Staff

Department of Biological Sciences

Chair

Dr. Philip E. Auron
Chair, Department of Biological Sciences
Professor
Eukaryotic gene regulation and signal transduction.

201 Mellon Hall
Office Phone: 412.396.5657
Dept. Secretary Phone: 412.396.6332
Fax: 412.396.5907
E-mail: auronp@duq.edu

Faculty

Dr. Mary Alleman
Associate Professor
Regulation of gene expression during development; plant genome structure. Dr. Alleman is accepting Ph.D. students and undergraduates into her lab for in the 2009/2010 academic year.

Office Phone: 412.396.1660
Email: alleman@duq.edu

Dr. Peter Castric
Professor
Glycosylation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa pili. Dr. Castric is accepting Ph.D. students and undergraduates into his lab for in the 2009/2010 academic year.

Office Phone: 412.396.6319
Email: castric@duq.edu

Dr. Richard P. Elinson
Professor
Evolutionary change in vertebrate embryos. Dr. Elinson is accepting M.S. thesis students and undergraduates into his lab for in the 2009/2010 academic year.

Office Phone: 412.396.5640
Email: elinson@duq.edu

Dr. David Lampe
Associate Professor
Biochemistry and molecular genetics of mariner family transposable elements. Dr. Lampe is accepting Ph.D. students into his lab for in the 2009/2010 academic year.

Office Phone: 412.396.6322
Email: lampe@duq.edu

Dr. Lisa Ludvico
Assistant Professor
Forensic DNA and science education.

Office Phone: 412.396.6680
Email: Ludvico@duq.edu

Dr. Joseph R. McCormick
Associate Professor
Genetic dissection of prokaryotic cytokinesis.

Office Phone: 412.396.4775
Email: mccormick@duq.edu

Dr. Susan A. Moore
Assistant Professor
Science Education.

Office Phone: 412.396.1129
Email: moores1452@duq.edu

Dr. Becky Morrow
Assistant Professor
Pathophysiology, comparative physiology, veterinary medicine and science education.

Office Phone: 412.396.6317
Email: morrowb@duq.edu

Dr. Jana Patton-Vogt
Associate Professor
Molecular genetics of phospholipid metabolism in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Dr. Patton-Vogt is accepting Ph.D. students and undergraduates into her lab for the 2009/2010 academic year. Dr. Patton-Vogt is the Undergraduate Program Director.

Office Phone: 412.396.1053
Email: pattonvogt@duq.edu

Dr. John Archie Pollock
Associate Professor
Multi-gene analysis of neural fate determination: Signal transduction to transcriptional regulation in the developing fly eye.

Office Phone: 412.396.5565
Cell Phone: 412.855.4043
Email: pollock@duq.edu

Dr. Brady Porter
Associate Professor
Genetics of natural populations, evolution, molecular ecology of fishes. Dr. Porter is accepting undergraduates into his lab for in the 2009/2010 academic year.

Office Phone: 412.396.5786
Email: porterb@duq.edu

Dr. Michael Seaman
Assistant Professor
Molecular evolution and population genetics of primates, genome evolution. Dr. Seaman is accepting Ph.D. students into his lab for in the 2009/2010 academic year.

Office Phone: 412.396.4597
Email: seamanm@duq.edu

Dr. Kyle Selcer
Associate Professor
Role of estrogens and androgens in reproduction and cancer. Dr. Selcer is accepting Ph.D. students and undergraduates into his lab for in the 2009/2010 academic year.

Office Phone: 412.396.5967
Email: selcer@duq.edu

Dr. W. Bruce Sneddon
Assistant Professor
G Protein coupled receptor signaling and trafficking. Dr. Sneddon is accepting Ph.D. students into his lab for in the 2009/2010 academic year.

Office Phone: 412.396.5615
Email: sneddonw@duq.edu

Dr. John F. Stolz
Director, Center for Environmental Research and Education
Professor, Environmental Microbiology
Environmental microbiology, anaerobic respiration, biomineralization, and bioremediation. Dr. Stolz is accepting undergraduates into his lab for in the 2009/2010 academic year.

Office Phone: 412.396.6333
Email: stolz@duq.edu

Dr. Nancy Trun
Associate Professor
Chromosome folding in bacteria and application-based service learning (ABSL) as an educational model. Dr. Trun is accepting undergraduates into her lab for in the 2009/2010 academic year.

Office Phone: 412.396.1853
Email: trun@duq.edu

Dr. Sarah Woodley
Assistant Professor
Sex differences in the brain and behavior. Dr. Woodley is accepting Ph.D. students into her lab for in the 2009/2010 academic year.