Skip to main content
Skip to search
School of Arts and Sciences
Information For
Current Students
Prospective Undergraduate Students
Prospective Graduate Students
Faculty
Staff
Alumni
Find Faculty
Apply
Give
Open search
Close search
Open menu
Close menu
Department of Biology
About
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice
Open Positions
Contact Us
Prospective Students
Why Study Biology at Tufts?
FAQs for Prospective Graduate Students
Graduate Admissions and Aid
Academics
Undergraduate Programs
Graduate Programs
Courses
People
Faculty
Research Associates
Staff
Advisory Board for MS in Biology
Current Graduate Students
Recent Graduate Alumni
Undergraduate Student Ambassadors
Research
Research Areas
Labs
Centers and Programs
Undergraduate Research Opportunities
Resources
FAQs for Undergraduates
Undergraduate Advising
Awards and Funding Opportunities
Internships and Job Opportunities
Graduate Student Forms and Procedures
Graduate Student Organizations
News & Events
News
Alumni Newsletter
Faculty Highlights
Student and Post Doc Highlights
Events
Seminar Series
Information For
Current Students
Prospective Undergraduate Students
Prospective Graduate Students
Faculty
Staff
Alumni
Find Faculty
Apply
Give
Faculty
Faculty
Core Faculty
Catherine Freudenreich
Professor and Department Chair
Genetics and Molecular Biology. Genome instability, particularly at sites of repetitive and structure-forming DNA.
George Ellmore
Associate Professor and Department Associate Chair
Ecology, Behavior and Evolution and Global Change Biology
Lauren Crowe
Lecturer
Frank David
Professor of the Practice
Biopharma strategy, regulation, & policy
Robert de Bruijn
Lecturer
Stress Physiology, Animal Behavior, Wildlife Endocrinology, Conservation Physiology, Active Learning Strategies, Evidence-Based Pedagogy & Best Practices
Erik Dopman
Associate Professor
Evolution and Genetics of Natural Populations
Scott Frost
Research Assistant Professor
Sarah Hengel
Assistant Professor
Alfredo Hernandez
Assistant Professor
Enzymology of DNA replication, mitochondrial DNA, nucleic acid biochemistry, and non-canonical DNA structures.
Fatima Hussain
Assistant Professor
Vaginal Microbiome Microbial Ecology and Evolution Phage-Bacteria Interactions Bacterial Immunity
Mimi Kao
Associate Professor
Neural basis of vocal communication
Michael Levin
Vannevar Bush Professor
Morphological and behavioral information processing in living systems
Katherine Mattaini
Lecturer
Helen McCreery
Lecturer
Kelly McLaughlin
Associate Professor
Molecular Development (Organogenesis: Development, Remodeling, Regeneration)
Mitch McVey
Professor
DNA repair, DNA damage tolerance, molecular biology, Drosophila genetics, aging, mutagenesis
Ekaterina Mirkin
Senior Lecturer
Genetics
Sergei Mirkin
Professor and White Family Chair in Biology
Genetics and Molecular Biology
Colin Orians
Professor and Director of Environmental Studies
Agroecology, climate change, climate adaptation, plant-herbivore interactions
Michael Reed
Professor
Avian ecology and conservation biology
Michael Romero
Professor
Stress Physiology and Field Endocrinology
Philip Starks
Associate Professor
Animal Behavior: Recognition systems, evolution of sociality, parasite and host relationships, behavioral & chemical communication, invasion genetics
Barry Trimmer
Henry Bromfield Pearson Professor of Natural Science
Control of locomotion and the neural processes that organize sensory and motor information
Eric Tytell
Associate Professor
Biomechanics and Neural Control of Locomotion
Lawrence Uricchio
Youniss Family Assistant Professor of Innovation
Population genetics, evolution, ecology, computational biology
Benjamin Wolfe
Associate Professor
Ecology and evolution of microbial communities
Affiliate Faculty
Elizabeth Crone
Affiliate
Population ecology and dynamics
Julia Gouvea
Associate Professor
David Kaplan
Distinguished Professor, Stern Family Professor of Engineering
biopolymer engineering, biomaterials, material science, tissue engineering, bioengineering, cellular agriculture
Zarin Machanda
Usen Family Career Development Assistant Professor
wild chimpanzee health and behavior, primate conservation, evolution of leadership
Daniel Promislow
Senior Scientist, Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging
Part-time Faculty
Dany Adams
Lecturer
Anjali Bhardwaj
Instructor
Monir Ejemel
Part-time Lecturer
Hannah Gavin
Lecturer
molecular microbiology; microbial ecology; bacteria; bacteriophage
Christopher Richardson
Lecturer
Ganapathy Sriram
Lecturer
Emeriti Faculty
June Aprille
Professor Emerita
Harry Bernheim
Associate Professor Emeritus
Francie Chew
Professor Emerita
Susan Ernst
Professor Emerita
Ross Feldberg
Associate Professor Emeritus
Juliet Fuhrman
Associate Professor Emerita
Immunology and Infectious Disease
Michelle Gaudette
Senior Lecturer Emerita
Sara Lewis
Professor Emerita
Insect behavior, ecology and evolution; firefly conservation
Jan Pechenik
Professor Emeritus
Marine Biology and Invertebrate Development
Eli Siegel
Professor Emeritus
