USC Department of Biology
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Faculty Roster

Arnheim, Norman
Distinguished Professor, Ester Dornsife Chair in Biological Sciences, and Professor of Biological Sciences and Biochemistry
Keywords: human germline mutation , human recombination and genetic disease
Boehm, Christopher
Professor of Anthropology and Biological Sciences
Keywords: Evolutionary Theory, Moral Origins, Political Anthropology, Primatology, Feuding and Warfare
Bottjer, David
Professor of Earth Sciences and Biological Sciences
Keywords: paleobiology, paleontology, geobiology, paleoecology, evolution of animals, Triassic environments, biogenic sedimentary structures, mass extinctions, stromatolites, wrinkle structures, Doushantuo, Cambrian, tiering, anoxia, black shales, reefs, shell beds, echinoderms, molluscs, ocean acdification, end-Permian mass extinction, end-Triassic mass extinction, brozoans, bivalves, gastropods, microbial structure, astrobiology, Preambrian, Neoproterozoic, seafloor precipitates, embryos
Bottjer, Sarah
Professor of Biological Sciences and Psychology
Keywords: learning, memory, developmental neurobiology, vocal learning, electrophysiology, synaptic plasticity, neuroethology, songbird
Delgado, Roberto
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Keywords: Non-human Primates, Communication, Sexual Selection, Social Organization, Behavioral Flexibility, Geographic Variation, Ecology, Wildlife Conservation
Donovan, Casey
Professor of Kinesiology and Biological Sciences
Keywords: glucose sensing, hypoglycemia, peripheral afferents, carbohydrate metabolism, diabetes
Edmands, Suzanne
Associate Professor of Biological Sciences
Keywords: conservation, evolution, population genetics, breeding, genetic structure, marine populations, copepod
Finch, Caleb
University Professor, ARCO/William F. Kieschnick Chair in the Neurobiology of Aging and Professor of Gerontology and Biological Sciences
Keywords: Alzheimers Disease, Biological Causes of Aging, Human Longevity
Finkel, Steven
Associate Professor of Biological Sciences
Keywords: bacteria, microbial genetics, aging, DNA, RNA, survival in bacteria, evolution in bacteria, environment, stationary phase of bacterial life cycle
Flashner, Henryk
Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering and Biology
Liman, Emily
Associate Professor of Biological Sciences
Keywords: sensory transduction, ion channels, pheromone, olfactory system, molecular neurobiology, TRP channel, taste, pain
Longo, Valter
Associate Professor of Gerontology and Biological Sciences
Manahan, Donal
Professor of Biological Sciences
Keywords: Animal environmental physiology; Biological adaptations to temperature and food; Biology of temperate, polar, tropical, and deep-sea species; Antarctic marine biol.; Hydrothermal vent biology; Developmental biology; Evolutionary biology; Marine invertebrate life history; Larval ecology; Aquaculture.
Mc Nitt-Gray, Jill
Associate Professor of Kinesiology, Biological Sciences, and Biomedical Engineering
Keywords: biomechanics, multijoint movement, impact, motor control, neuroscience, mechanical engineering, injury prevention, performance, sport , clinical populations, ergonomics, rehabilitation engineering
Nordborg, Magnus
Associate Professor of Biological Sciences
Keywords: Population genetics, molecular evolution, genetic mapping, linkage disequilibrium, evolution, Arabidopsis, adaptation, flowering, computational biology, bioinformatics, biostatistics
Nuzhdin, Sergey
Professor
Keywords: population genetics quantitative genetics transposable elements genomics bioinformatics life span Drosophila melanogaster Medicago truncatula Pea aphids
Requejo, Philip
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Stanford, Craig
Professor of Anthropology and Biological Sciences
Keywords: Primate Behavior and Ecology, Human Evolution, Great Apes, Tropical Forest Ecology
Tavaré, Simon
George and Louise Kawamoto Chair in Biological Sciences and Professor of Biological Sciences, Preventive Medicine and Mathematics
Keywords: statistics, coalescent processes, linkage disequilibrium mapping, tumor progression and DNA methylation, microarray data, motif detection, probabilistic combinatorics
Turcotte, Lorraine
Associate Professor of Kinesiology and Biological Sciences
Keywords: hormones, fatty acids, muscle cells, skeletal muscle, obesity, insulin resistance, metabolism, signal transduction
Yamashita, Nayuta
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Keywords: Primates, Morphology, Madagascar, Lemurs, Diet, Tooth, Behavior, Ecomorphology, Evolution