Biology Faculty

TEACHING FACULTY, OFF-CAMPUS FACULTY, EMERITUS

RESEARCH FACULTY

GODFREY BOURNE
Associate Professor
Office: R103 Research Building. Tel: 516-6674
e-mail: bourne@jinx.umsl.edu
Animal behavior, tropical field ecology

LON CHUBIZ
Assistant Professor
Office: R340 Research Building.
e-mail: chubizl@umsl.edu
Microbiology

AIMEE DUNLAP
Assistant Professor
Office: 204 Stadler. Tel: 314 516-6578
e-mail: aimee.dunlap@umsl.edu
Evolution of cognition, foraging, behavioral ecology

CHARLES GRANGER
Professor
Office: R239a Research Building. Tel: 516-6226
e-mail: granger@umsl.edu
Science Education.

MICHAEL HUGHES
Assistant Professor
Office: S404 Stadler Hall. Tel: 516-7985
e-mail: michael.evan.hughes@gmail.com
Circadian rhythms, physiology, and genomics

ROBERT MARQUIS
Professor
Office: R342 Research Building. Tel: 516-6213
e-mail: robert_marquis@umsl.edu
Evolutionary ecology, plant-herbivore interactions

NATHAN MUCHHALA
Assistant Professor
Office: R428 Research Building
e-mail: n_muchhala@yahoo.com
Evolutionary ecology, tropical pollination systems, plant speciation

WENDY OLIVAS 
Associate Professor, Chair Biology Department
Office: S404b Stadler Hall Tel: 516-4241, 516-4177
e-mail: olivasw@umsl.edu
Molecular biology, RNA stability

PATRICIA PARKER
E. Desmond Lee Professor
Office: R442 Research Building. Tel: 516-7274, 516-7277, 516-6576
e-mail: pparker@umsl.edu
Behavioral Ecology

ROBERT RICKLEFS
Curators Professor
Office: R454 Research Building. Tel: 516-5101
e-mail: ricklefs@umsl.edu
Evolutionary ecology, historical biogeography

MINDY STEINIGER
Assistant Professor
Office: R424 Research Building. Tel: 516-7013
e-mail: steinigerm@umsl.edu
Molecular biology, RNA processing

PETER STEVENS
Founders Professor
Office: R223d Research Building, R327 Research Building. Tel: 516-6215, 577-0861
e-mail: peter.stevens@mobot.org
Plant Systematics, history of plant classification

TERESA THIEL
Professor, Associate Dean, Director of Graduate Studies
Office: R440 Research Building. Tel: 516-6208, 516-5402
e-mail: thiel@umsl.edu
Molecular biology and biotechnology, cyanobacteria

XUEMIN (SAM) WANG
E. Desmond Lee and Family Fund Endowed Professor 
Office: R341 Research Building. Tel: 516-6219
Lab: Research Bldg R335, R337, R339 
e-mail: wangxue@umsl.edu
Plant Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

BETHANY ZOLMAN
Associate Professor
Office: S448 Research Building. Tel: 516-6205
email: zolmanb@umsl.edu
Plant genetics and cell biology

TEACHING FACULTY

AMBROSE (TREY) KIDD
Assistant Teaching Professor
Office: R224 Research Building. Tel: 516-6209
e-mail: kidda@umsl.edu

LORI PAUL
Assistant Teaching Professor
Office: R225 Research Building. Tel: 516-6216
e-mail: llp@umsl.edu

MARC SPINGOLA
Associate Teaching Professor
Office: R242 Research Building. Tel: 516-6749
e-mail: spingola@umsl.edu
Molecular Biology.

CHRISTOPHER WOLIN
Assistant Teaching Professor
Office: R241 Research Building. Tel: 516-6210
e-mail: wolinc@umsl.edu

OFF-CAMPUS FACULTY

DAVID CLARK 
Research Professor and Adjunct Associate Professor
Office: off-campus. Tel: 719 310-4180
e-mail: dbclark50@yahoo.com
Tropical forest ecology, forest carbon cycling, high-spatial-resolution 
remote sensing, tropical tree demography, global change biology, 
biodiversity monitoring, long-term ecological studies

DEBORAH CLARK
Research Professor and Adjunct Associate Professor
Office: off-campus. Tel: 719 310-4180
e-mail: deborahanneclark@gmail.com
Tropical forest ecology, forest carbon cycling, global change

EMERITUS

LON WILKENS
Professor Emeritus
Office: R240 Research Building. Tel: 516-6222
e-mail: lon_wilkens@umsl.edu
Neurobiology, sensory systems of aquatic animals

ZULEYMA TANG-MARTINEZ
Professor Emeritus
Office: R322 Research Building. Tel: 516-6498
e-mail: zuleyma@umsl.edu
Animal behavior, chemical communication