Degree Programs Offered: Master of Science, Masters of Business and Science, Doctor of Philosophy

Director of Graduate Programs: Edward Bonder, Ph.D., Room 206, Boyden Hall (973-353-5347)

Website: http://www.ncas.rutgers.edu/department-biological-sciences/graduate-programs

Members of the Biological Sciences Graduate Faculty:

Edward M. Bonder, Biological Sciences; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Cell and developmental biology

Dirk Bucher, Biological Sciences-NJIT; Ph.D., Free University of Berlin

Dan Bunker, Biological Sciences-NJIT; Ph.D., Pittsburgh
Community ecology

Ann Cali, Biological Sciences; Ph.D., Ohio State
Parasitic protistology and ultrastructure

Radoslaw Dobrowolski, Biological Sciences; Ph.D., Bonn
Wnt signaling and neurodegenerative disease

Eric Fortune, Biological Sciences-NJIT; Ph.D., Chicago
Systems physiology

Gerald D. Frenkel, Biological Sciences; Ph.D., Harvard
Biochemistry

Wilma J. Friedman, Biological Sciences; Ph.D., Rockefeller
Molecular neurobiology

Nan Gao, Biological Sciences; Ph.D., Vanderbilt
Mechanism of mitotic division and cell polarity in somatic stem cell and cancer cell

Simon Garnier, Biological Sciences-NJIT; Ph.D., Toulouse
Behavioral ecology

Jorge Golowasch, Biological Sciences-NJIT; Ph.D., Brandeis
Neuroscience

Claus Holzapfel, Biological Sciences; Ph.D., Göttingen (Germany)
Community ecology

Andrew E. Kasper, Biological Sciences; Ph.D., Connecticut
Paleobotany

Haesun Kim, Biological Sciences; Ph.D., Cincinnati
Cell and molecular biology of myelinating glial cells

Edward G. Kirby, Biological Sciences; Ph.D., Florida
Developmental physiology of plants

Patrice Maurel, Biological Sciences; Ph.D., Paul Sabatier (France)
Cell biology of axoglial interactions

Douglas W. Morrison, Biological Sciences; Ph.D., Cornell
Behavioral ecology

Farzan Nadim, Biological Sciences-NJIT; Ph.D., Boston
Neuroscience and computational biology

Alex Rodriguez, Biological Sciences; Ph.D., Rutgers
Investigating the role of local protein synthesis on epithelial cell junction formation

Gareth Russell, Biological Sciences-NJIT; Ph.D., Tennessee
Computational ecology

Karina Schafer, Biological Sciences; Ph.D., Duke
Ecosystems ecologist

Tracy Tran, Biological Sciences; Ph.D., California (Los Angeles)
Molecular mechanisms of axon guidance and synapse formation

Jessica Ware, Biological Sciences; Ph.D., Rutgers
Systematics and evolution of odonata and dictyopyera

Gregory F. Weber, Biological Sciences; Ph.D., Virginia
Cell biology and biophysics

Associate Members of the Biological Sciences Graduate Faculty:

Elizabeth D. Abercrombie, CMBN; Ph.D., Princeton
Central monoaminergic systems

Frank Jordan, Chemistry; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Enzyme mechanisms; protein NMR

Richard Mendelsohn, Chemistry; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Biophysical chemistry; spectroscopy of biological membranes

Joan I. Morrell, CMBN; Ph.D., Rochester Medical
Neuroanatomy

James M. Tepper, CMBN; Ph.D., Colorado
Neurobiology of monoamines

Adjunct Members:

Ali Abdi, NJIT; Ph.D., Minnesota
Computational biology

Francisco J. Artigas, MERI; Ph.D., Ohio
Environmental science

Amitabha Bose, Math-NJIT; Ph.D., Brown
Applied mathematics

Edgardo Farinas, NJIT; Ph.D., California (Santa Cruz)
Protein engineering, design, and optimization

Steven Levinson, New Jersey Medical School: Ph.D., North Carolina (Chapel Hill)
Regenerative potential of CNS stem cells and pregenitors to brain injuries and diseases

Treena Livingston, NJIT; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Biomedical engineering

Victor Matveev, Math-NJIT; Ph.D., SUNY (Stony Brook)
Mathematical and computational modeling of synaptic function

Robert M. Miura, Math-NJIT; Ph.D., Princeton
Mathematical neuroscience and ion diffusion in the brain

Cyrill Muratov, Math-NJIT; Ph.D., Boston
Modeling and analysis of cell-cell communication in development

Camelia Prodan, Physics-NJIT; Ph.D., Houston
Biophysics of cytoskeleton

Horacio G. Rotstein, Math-NJIT; Ph.D., Technion
Phase transition dynamics with memory

Kim Russell, Biological Sciences-NJIT; Ph.D., Tennessee
Community ecology

Sanjay Tyagi, New Jersey Medical School; Ph.D., Maryland
Dynamics of synthesis of mRNA and their intracellular transport

Peddrick Weis, New Jersey Medical School; Ph.D., New York
Mechanisms for acquiring tolerance to heavy metals

Professor Emeriti:

Harvey H. Feder, Biological Sciences; Ph.D., Oregon Medical School

Lion Gardiner, Biological Sciences; Ph.D., Rhode Island

G. Miller Jonakait, Biological Sciences-NJIT; Ph.D., Cornell Medical
Developmental neuroscience

David Kafkewitz, Biological Sciences, Emeritus; Ph.D., Cornell
Microbiology

Judith S. Weis, Biological Sciences, Emerita; Ph.D., New York
Marine biology