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

Director of Graduate Programs: Jessica Ware, Ph.D. (jware@newark.rutgers.edu)

Chair: Claus Holzapfel, Ph.D. (holzapfe@newark.rutgers.edu)

Website: https://sasn.rutgers.edu/academics-admissions/academic-departments/biological-sciences

Members of the Biological Sciences Graduate Faculty:

Philp Barden; Ph.D., American Museum of Natural History Richard Gilder Graduate School
Evolutionary biology

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

Angelo Soto Cento; Ph.D., Florida
Evolutionary biology

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

Brooke Flammang; Ph.D., Harvard
Organismal biology

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

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 (France)
Behavioral ecology

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

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

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

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

Horacio Rotstein; Ph.D., Israel Institute of Technology
Biophysical and dynamic mechanisms

Sara Ruane; Ph.D., CUNY
Evolutionary biology

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

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

Kristen Serveri; Ph.D., Northeastern
Neuroscience

Daphne Soares; Ph.D., Maryland
Neuroecology

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

Jessica Ware, Biological Sciences; Ph.D., Rutgers
Evolutionary biology

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

Gregory Webber; Ph.D., Thomas Jefferson
Molecular cell biology

Associate Members of the Biological Sciences Graduate Faculty:

Amitabha Bose

Frank Gallagher

Bart Krekelberg

Adam Kustka

James Tepper

NTT (Nontenure Track) Faculty and Instructors:

Rola Bekdash

Miguel Cervantes

Darshan Desai

Caroline Devan

Mary Konsolaki

Thomas Pietri

Susan Seipel

Maria Stanko

John Yarotsky

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

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

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