USC Department of Biology
People Undergraduate Marine Environmental Biology Molecular and Computational Biology Integrative and Evolutionary Biology Neuroscience

Faculty Roster

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
Donovan, Casey
Professor of Kinesiology and Biological Sciences
Keywords: glucose sensing, hypoglycemia, peripheral afferents, carbohydrate metabolism, diabetes
Flashner, Henryk
Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering and Biology
Longo, Valter
Associate Professor of Gerontology and Biological Sciences
McNitt-Gray, Jill L.
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
Stanford, Craig
Professor of Anthropology and Biological Sciences
Keywords: Primate Behavior and Ecology, Human Evolution, Great Apes, Tropical Forest Ecology
Turcotte, Lorraine
Associate Professor of Kinesiology and Biological Sciences
Keywords: hormones, fatty acids, muscle cells, skeletal muscle, obesity, insulin resistance, metabolism, signal transduction