Faculty

Our cross-college program draws faculty members from various departments, including biology, plant biology, and microbiology and molecular genetics to teach the BioCore courses, serving over 1000 life science students each semester.

BioCore Faculty

Bryan Ballif

Professor

Signal transduction, proteomics, neuroscience

Bballif@uvm.edu (802) 656-1389

Terrence P. Delaney

Associate Professor

  • Plant disease resistance signaling
  • Plant-pathogen interactions
  • Fungal biology
  • Molecular genetics

Terrence.Delaney@uvm.edu (802) 656-0416

Karsten Fatur

Lecturer

Ethnobotany, medicinal plants, psychoactive plants, field botany 

Karsten.Fatur@uvm.edu

Nicholas Gotelli

Endowed Professor • Department of Biology

Organization of animal and plant communities

Nicholas.Gotelli@uvm.edu (802) 656-0450

Ryann Guayasamin

Lecturer

Molecular mechanisms of disease, oncolytic viruses, cancer biology and immunology, neurodegenerative disorders, and professional development and mentoring.

Ryann.Guayasamin@uvm.edu (802) 656-4585

M. Elise Lauterbur

Assistant Professor

Evolutionary ecology, evolutionary genomics, population genetics, comparative genomics, computational methods development, bioinformatics, conservation genomics

mlauterb@uvm.edu

Ellen Martinsen

Lecturer • Vertebrate Collections Manager

Ellen.Martinsen@uvm.edu

Emily Mikucki

Lecturer

Ecological and evolutionary physiology, climate change and seasonal biology, professional development

Emily.Mikucki@uvm.edu (802) 656-0613

Jane Molofsky

Professor

  • Evolution of invasiveness
  • Population dynamics
  • Coexistence in plant communities

Jane.Molofsky@uvm.edu (802) 656-0430

Jill Preston

Associate Professor • Department of Plant Biology

Evolutionary genetics of plant development

Jill.Preston@uvm.edu (802) 656-0637

Leo Tsz Ho Tang

Assistant Professor

Neurobiology of Learning, Insulin signaling in the nervous system, Synapse regulation

leo.tang@uvm.edu

Alan Chant 

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Microbiology & Molecular Genetics

Raquel Lima Cordon

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Biology
BCOR 1400 & 1450
Email: raquel.lima@uvm.edu
Phone: (802) 656-2930

Marni Slavik

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Microbiology & Molecular Genetics
BCOR 2995/3995