College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences

We live in a world of unprecedented advances in the biological sciences. Biologists now have the molecular tools and the theoretical models required to answer long-standing questions in genetics, neuroscience, evolution, cell biology, and many other disciplines.

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Chair's Welcome

Welcome! We aim to be one of the best integrative biology departments in the country. Our faculty, students, and postdoctoral scholars are engaged in research and teaching at the crest of modern biology using a diversity of organisms and modern approaches to gain the widest possible perspectives on biological organization and function. Evolution provides a unifying theme for the department, with research foci in biophysics, sensory neuroscience, developmental biology, evolutionary genetics, behavioral ecology, conservation biology, and ecology.

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Featured Faculty

Bill JefferyWilliam (Bill) Jeffery

Professor

Dr. Jeffery studies problems at the interface of developmental and evolutionary biology. He is the world expert on the developmental and evolutionary genetics of the blind cavefish, Astyanax mexicanus. His work is the most convincing evidence that loss of eyes is the result of selection and not from some random process, and has inspired other researchers to take up Astyanax as a model system for studying eye loss and evolution in general. He is also interested in the ancestry of the neural crest and regeneration in chordates. For this research he uses sea squirts (ascidians), especially Ciona intestinalis, which has a completely sequenced genome.

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