College of Arts and Sciences

Department of Biology

Faculty & Staff

Affiliated Professors

Maggie Eppstein
Jerome Fiekers
Cynthia Forehand
Ellen Marsden
Jason Stockwell

Adjunct Professors

William Ardren
Lionel Arnaud
Patricia Dorn
Jeffrey Freeman
Karen Hinkle
David Lucero
Ellen Martinsen
Maria Carlota Monroy
Michael Romano
Steve Shapiro
Charles Woods

Post Doctoral Associates

Reid Brennan

Name

Title / Areas of Expertise

Email

Name

Ingi Agnarsson

Title / Areas of Expertise

Associate Professor, Howard Professor of Natural History and Zoology

Systematics

Email

Ingi.Agnarsson@uvm.edu

Name

Bryan Ballif

Title / Areas of Expertise

Professor

Signal transduction, proteomics, neuroscience

Email

bballif@uvm.edu

Name

Kristin Bishop

Title / Areas of Expertise

Lecturer

Comparative vertebrate anatomy, vertebrate zoology, evolution, and general biology

Email

kbishopv@uvm.edu

Name

Alison K. Brody

Title / Areas of Expertise

Professor

Plant-animal interactions

Email

Alison.Brody@uvm.edu

Name

Jaeda Coutinho-Budd

Title / Areas of Expertise

Assistant Professor

Cell signaling, glial biology, neural development

Email

Jaeda.Coutinho-Budd@uvm.edu

Name

Jan Decher

Title / Areas of Expertise

Research Associate

Mammalogy, Zoogeography, Conservation Biology

Email

J.decher@zfmk.de

Name

Bin Deng

Title / Areas of Expertise

Research Associate Professor

Proteomics research

Email

Bin.Deng@uvm.edu

Name

Alicia Ebert

Title / Areas of Expertise

Associate Professor

Eye development

Email

Alicia.Ebert@uvm.edu

Name

Charles J. Goodnight

Title / Areas of Expertise

Professor

Population genetics

Email

charles.goodnight@uvm.edu

Name

Nicholas J. Gotelli

Title / Areas of Expertise

George H. Perkins Professor of Zoology

Organization of animal and plant communities

Email

Nicholas.Gotelli@uvm.edu

Name

Kenneth Helms

Title / Areas of Expertise

Research Affiliate

Email

khelms@uvm.edu

Name

Sara Helms Cahan

Title / Areas of Expertise

Department Chair & Associate Professor

Social Insect Ecology

Email

Sara.Cahan@uvm.edu

Name

Linden Elizabeth Higgins

Title / Areas of Expertise

Lecturer & Research Affiliate

STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) for adults.

Email

Linden.Higgins@uvm.edu

Name

Ying Wai Lam

Title / Areas of Expertise

Research Associate Professor

Proteomics, Biological mass spectrometry

Email

Ying-Wai.Lam@uvm.edu

Name

Brent L. Lockwood

Title / Areas of Expertise

Assistant Professor

Evolutionary genetics, ecological physiology and protein evolution

Email

bllockwo@uvm.edu

Name

Laura J. May-Collado

Title / Areas of Expertise

Research Associate & Lecturer; Life Science Scholar Program Director

My research interests span topics on evolution, animal communication, soundscapes, marine conservation and behavior of marine vertebrates.

Email

lmaycoll@uvm.edu

Name

Andrew Mead

Title / Areas of Expertise

Research Associate

Evolution of muscle
Integrative biology of muscle
Roll of muscle in aging and chronic disease

Email

Andrew.Mead@uvm.edu

Name

John Mitchell

Title / Areas of Expertise

Senior Lecturer

Epidermis; skeletal cardiac and smooth muscle; development, differentiation and remodeling of lung

Email

john.mitchell@uvm.edu

Name

Melissa Pespeni

Title / Areas of Expertise

Assistant Professor

Ecological genomics, population genetics, evolutionary biology, physiology

Email

Melissa.Pespeni@uvm.edu

Name

Rachel Plouffe

Title / Areas of Expertise

Lecturer

Email

Rachel.Plouffe@uvm.edu

Name

Lori Stevens

Title / Areas of Expertise

Professor

Population genetics

Email

lori.stevens@uvm.edu

Name

Jim O. Vigoreaux

Title / Areas of Expertise

Breazzano Family Green and Gold Professor, Associate Provost

Muscle biology

Email

Jim.Vigoreaux@uvm.edu

Name

Easton R. White

Title / Areas of Expertise

Research Associate

Quantitative ecology, fisheries, conservation biology, and science education

Email

Easton.White@uvm.edu

Name

Sarah Wittman

Title / Areas of Expertise

Lecturer

Email

Sarah.Wittman@uvm.edu

Name

Fan Zhang

Title / Areas of Expertise

Research Associate Professor

Bioinformatics, machine learning, sequencing data analysis, proteomics data analysis, pathway analysis

Email

Fan.Zhang@uvm.edu