The Department of Biology includes a core of federally funded, research active faculty dedicated to the training of undergraduate and graduate (including Ph.D.) students, postdoctoral researchers, and research assistant professors, towards the aim of publishing high level papers that advance scientific understanding.

PhD opportunities
PhD opportunities
PhD opportunities

Core research areas include:

ECOLOGY & INTEGRATIVE BIOLOGY

Aquatic and terrestrial environments | protists, plants, and animals

Erik Cordes during the ROC HITS Costa Rica Margin Expedition
Erik Cordes during the ROC HITS Costa Rica Margin Expedition

 

Jocelyn Behm (community assembly in human-dominated landscapes)

Erik Cordes (ecology of deep-sea coral reefs, natural hydrocarbon seeps, and hydrothermal vents)

Alison Gould (microbial symbioses in fish from evolution to molecular level)

S. Blair Hedges (planetary environment and the evolution of life)

Matthew R. Helmus (macro-ecological, macro-evolutionary, and human impact)

Bob Sanders, JayDiii Grattepanche and Chris Carnivale on the helo (helicopter) deck on the RVIB Palmer in Antarctica.
Bob Sanders, JayDiii Grattepanche and Chris Carnivale on the helo (helicopter) deck on the RVIB Palmer in Antarctica.

 

Tonia Hsieh (animal locomotion)

Sudhir Kumar (molecular evolution and biomedicine)

Robert W. Sanders (aquatic microbial ecology)

Brent Sewall (emerging threats to biodiversity and effective strategies for conservation)

Rachel Spigler (plant evolutionary ecology)

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Ecology and Integrative Biology Directory (Faculty and Students)
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EVOLUTIONARY GENOMICS

Model, software, and database development | Evolution of pathogens, phylomedicine, lineage-specific and functional divergence

Blair Hedges getting off a helicopter for a science expedition in Haiti
Blair Hedges getting off a helicopter for a science expedition in Haiti

Maciej F. Boni (drug resistance in Malaria and human influenza) 

Ananias A. Escalante (drug resistance in Plasmodium falciparum)

S. Blair Hedges (planetary environment and the evolution of life)

Jody Hey  (adaptation and speciation)

Rob Kulathinal (selection and genetic drift)

Sudhir Kumar (molecular evolution and biomedicine)

David Liberles (computational comparative genomics, and molecular evolution)

Sergei Pond (Viral evolution)

Rachel Spigler (plant evolutionary ecology)

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Evolutionary Genomics Directory (Faculty and Students)
Directory (Faculty and Student) Evolutionary Genomics Directory (Faculty and Students)

MOLECULAR & CELLULAR BIOLOGY

Neurobiology, developmental biology, pathogenesis, cancer research and molecular transport mechanisms and gene expression

Transient Receptor Potential (TRP) channel superfamily plays a central role in transducing diverse sensory stimuli in eukaryotes.
Transient Receptor Potential (TRP) channel superfamily plays a central role in transducing diverse sensory stimuli in eukaryotes.
Photo credit: Eugene Palovcak, Lucie Delemotte, Michael Klein, and Vincenzo Carnevale

Shohreh Amini (HIV-1-induced neurological dysfunctions)

Darius Balciunas (tissues regeneration)

Vincenzo Carnevale (sequence-structure-function relations in proteins)

Mark A. Feitelson (chronic hepatitis B infection and hepatocellular carcinoma)

Antonio Giordano (cancer research and molecular medicine)

Raymond Habas (role of the Wnt during embryogenesis and tumorigenesis)

Zebrafish epifluorescence
Photo credit: Balciunas Lab

Michael L. Klein FRS (properties of molecular solids and liquids)

Sudhir Kumar (molecular evolution and biomedicine)

Weidong Yang (single-molecule biophysics and super-resolution microscopy)

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Molecular and Cellular Biology Directory (Faculty and Students)
https://cst.temple.edu/about/faculty-staff/program/molecular-and-cellular-biolog… Molecular and Cellular Biology Directory (Faculty and Students)

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