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Full-time faculty in Biology

Members of the Biology Department available to serve as graduate student advisors include full-time faculty members in the department and adjunct members of the department whose primary appointments are with other institutions in the St. Louis area, including the Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis Zoo, and Sigma Chemical Company. Members of the Doctoral Faculty, who are available to supervise Ph.D. students, are indicated by an asterisk (*).

Shirley T. Bissen* Developmental biology; control of cell division
John G. Blake* Avian population and community ecology
Godfrey R. Bourne* Animal behavior; tropical field ecology
Albert Derby* Developmental biology; nerve regeneration
Harvey P. Friedman Immunology; cell-cell recognition
Lawrence D. Friedman Genetics; mutator genes
Charles R. Granger* Science education
James H. Hunt* Entomology; evolution of wasp social systems
Elizabeth A. Kellogg Plant molecular systematics
Carol A. Kelly* Plant evolutionary ecology; phenotypic plasticity
Bette A. Loiselle* Tropical ecology and conservation biology; GIS
Amy F. MacRae* Genetics and molecular evolution; transposons
Robert J. Marquis* Evolutionary ecology; plant-herbivore interactions
Susanne S. Renner* Plant systematics; pollination and reproductive biology
Robert E. Ricklefs* Evolutionary ecology; historical biogeography
Victoria Sork* Population biology; conservation genetics of trees
Jane A. Starling Biochemistry and physiology of parasites
Peter F. Stevens  Plant Systematics, history of plant classification
Zuleyma Tang-Martinez* Animal behavior; chemical communication
Teresa Thiel* Molecular biology and biotechnology; cyanobacteria
Lon A. Wilkens Neurobiology; sensory systems of aquatic animals

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Adjunct faculty in ecology, evolution, and systematics
at the Missouri Botanical Garden

Bruce Allen
 Ihsan A. Al-Shehbaz  Brassicaceae
Marshall R. Crosby
Thomas B. Croat* Araceae
William G. D'Arcy
floristics and biogeography
Larry E. DeBuhr
Peter Goldblatt* Liliaceae, biogeography
Michael H. Grayum Araceae, floristics
Barry E. Hammel Cyclanthaceae, floristics
Peter C. Hoch Onagraceae
Timothy Killeen
Robert E. Magill*
James S. Miller*
David A. Neill
Peter H. Raven* Onagraceae, biogeography
Peter M. Richardson* biochemical plant systematics
George E. Schatz Annonaceae; Madagascar
Charlotte Taylor Rubiaceae
Hendrik H. vanderWerff* Lauraceae
James L. Zarruchi Apocynaceae, Fabaceae

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Adjunct faculty in ecology, evolution, and systematics
at other institutions

Cheryl S. Asa St. Louis Zoo, comparative reproductive physiology of vertebrates
Stanton Braude evolution of behavior; studies of the naked mole-rat
Deborah A. Clark Organization for Tropical Studies
David B. Clark Organization for Tropical Studies
Terry L. Erwin Smithsonian Institution

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Adjunct faculty in cell and molecular biology, and biotechnology

Sandra S. Alters
David F. Russell

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