Full Time Faculty

• All office and laboratory locations are in the New Science Building, Queens College, unless otherwise indicated.
• All phone numbers are (718) 99#-####.

Sebastian Alvarado   (Ph.D., McGill University)

Neuroepigenetics, DNA methylation, histone modification, pigmentation, nucleome, behavior

• Office E-102, phone 7-3431 |  Lab E-101, phone 7-3517
• sebastian.alvarado@qc.cuny.edu
• Website

 

Mitchell Baker   (Ph.D., University of California at Davis)

Behavioral ecology, resistance evolution

• Office D-324; phone 7-3425  |  Lab D-315/317; phone 7-3404, 7-3505
• [email protected]
• Website

 

Saima Cheema   (Ph.D., City University of New York)

[email protected]

 

 

 

Joanna Coleman   (Ph.D., University of Calgary)

Urban ecology, biodiversity conservation, human dimensions, urban sustainability

• Office E-116  |  Lab E-141
• [email protected]
• Website   |   Lab Website

 

John Dennehy   (Ph.D., Clark University)

Experimental evolution, bacteriophage biology, evolutionary ecology

• Office D-322; phone 7-3411  |  Lab D-343; phone 7-3233
• [email protected]
• Website   |   Lab Website

 

Karl Fath   (Ph.D.Case Western Reserve University)

Cell polarity, Golgi membrane trafficking, cytoskeletal motors

• Office E-122; phone 7-3424  |  Lab E-133; phone 7-3157
• [email protected]
• Website

 

Nathalia Glickman Holtzman (Interim Associate Provost of Innovation and Student Success) (Ph.D., University of Oregon)

Developmental genetics and organ morphogenesis in zebrafish

• Office D-328; phone 7-3678  |  Lab E-335; phone 7-3529
• [email protected]
• Website

 

David C. Lahti  (Ph.D., University of Michigan)

Natural selection, trait evolution, animal behavior, cultural evolution

• Office E-120; phone 7-3422  |  Lab E-117; phone 7-3519
• [email protected]
• Website  |  Lab website

 

PoKay Ma  (PhD., Washington University, St. Louis)

Neurophysiology, nervous system and behavior

• Office E-106; phone 7-3412
• [email protected]
• Website

 

Alicia Meléndez   (Ph.D., Columbia University)

Developmental genetics and autophagy in C. elegans

• Office D-338; phone 7-4580  |  Lab D-311/315/306; phone 7-4580
• [email protected]
• Website

 

Esther Muehlbauer   (Ph.D., New York University)

Estuarine ecology, herpetology, evolution

• Office E-118; phone 7-4566
• [email protected]

 

 

Cathy Savage-Dunn   (Ph.D., Columbia University)

Developmental genetics and molecular biology of C. elegans

• Office D-330; phone 7-3440  |  Lab D-349; phone 7-3403
• [email protected]
• Website

 

Timothy Short  (Biology Department Chair) (Ph.D., Stanford University)

Molecular biology, plant physiology

• Office E-108; phone 7-3414  |  Lab E-137; phone 7-3567
• [email protected]
• Website

 

Jon A. Sperling   (Ph.D., University of Michigan)

 

• Office Remsen Hall 9; phone (718) 520-7657
• [email protected]
• Website

 

Maral Tajerian   (Ph.D., McGill University)

Brain physiology, extracellular matrix plasticity, chronic pain

• Office E-104, phone 7-3437 |  Lab E-101, phone 7-3517
• [email protected]
• Website

 

 

Mika Vesanen   (Ph.D., University of Helsinki)

[email protected]

 

 

 

John Waldman   (Ph.D., City University of New York)

Ecology, evolution, conservation biology

• Office D-320; phone 7-3603
• [email protected]
• Website   |   Institute for Sustainable Cities Bio

 

Daniel Weinstein  (Dean of Faculty, School of Mathematics and Natural Sciences) (Ph.D., The Rockefeller University)

Vertebrate molecular embryology, mechanisms of cell fate suppression

• Office E-124; phone 7-4552  |  Lab E-121; phone 7-4258
• [email protected]
• Website

 

Zahra Zakeri   (Ph.D., St. John’s University)

Molecular developmental biology, regulation of gene expression in cell death, development, and disease

• Office E-114; phone 7-3417  |  Lab E-143; phone 7-3429
• [email protected]
• Website

 

Emeritus Faculty

 

Robert E. Calhoon   (Ph.D., Purdue University)

Quantitative genetics, selection and mating systems, genetics of natural populations

 

 

 

Peter Chabora   (Ph.D., Cornell University)

Population ecology, evolution of parasite-host interactions

[email protected]

 

 

 

Andrew Greller

Bioclimatology, forest ecology, tropical botany

[email protected]

Website

 

 

Roberta Koepfer   (Ph.D., City University of New York)

Speciation, behavioral ecology

[email protected] 

 

 

 

Corinne Michels   (Ph.D., Columbia University)

Molecular genetics, regulation of gene expression, yeast genetics

[email protected]

 

 

Jared L. Rifkin  (Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University)

Cell physiology, developmental mechanisms and chemotaxis in cellular slime molds

[email protected]

 

 

Uldis Roze   (Ph.D., Washington University)

Natural history, mammalogy, biology of the porcupine

[email protected]

Website

 

Jeanne Szalay

Cell biology, tumor biology, metastasis, immunology