Department of Biological Sciences

Boyden Hall, Room 206

973-353-5347

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

Newark College of Arts and Sciences offers multiple major and minor degree programs in the biological sciences (biology, cell and molecular biology, ecology and evolution, plant biology, neurobiology). Bachelor of arts and bachelor of science degrees are both conferred. The biology major is offered jointly by Rutgers University-Newark and the New Jersey Institute of Technology.

(Federated with New Jersey Institute of Technology)

Professors:

Edward M. Bonder, B.A., Ph.D., Pennsylvania

Ann Cali, B.S., Florida; M.S., Ph.D., Ohio State, emeritus

Wilma Friedman, B.A., Oberlin College; Ph.D., Rockefeller 

Jorge Golowasch (NJIT), B.A., Universidad de Chile; Ph.D., Brandeis

Farzan Nadim (NJIT), B.S., Northeastern; M.A., Ph.D., Boston

Horatio Rotstein (NJIT), B.S., Universidad Nacional del Sur (Argentina); M.S., Ph.D., Technion, Israel Institute of Technology (Israel)

Associate Professors:

Dirk Bucher (NJIT), Diploma in Biology, Ph.D., Free University of Berlin

Daniel Bunker (NJIT), B.S., Evergreen State College; Ph.D., Pittsburgh

John H. Crow, B.A., Whittier College; Ph.D., Washington State (affiliate)

Radek Dobrowolski, Diploma in Biology, Ph.D., University of Bonn (Germany)

Eric Fortune (NJIT), B.S., Ph.D., Chicago

Nan Gao, B.S., Soochow (China); M.S., Fudan (China); Ph.D., Vanderbilt

Simon Garnier (NJIT), B.S., Bordeaux II (France); M.S., Ph.D., Toulouse (France)

Claus Holzapel, B.S., Hamburg (Germany); M.S., Ph.D., Göttingen (Germany) (affiliate)

Lily Khadempour, B.S., M.S., British Columbia (Canada); Ph.D., Wisconsin (Madison) (affiliate)

Haesun Kim, B.S., Seoul National; M.S., Toledo; Ph.D., Cincinnati

Gareth J. Russell (NJIT), B.A., Oxford; Ph.D., Tennessee

Karina V. R. Schafer, B.S., Bayreuth (Germany); Ph.D., Duke (affiliate)

Daphne Soares (NJIT), Ph.D., Maryland

Tracy S. Tran, B.S., M.S., Ph.D., California (Los Angeles)

Assistant Professors:

Phillip Barden (NJIT), B.S., Arizona State; Ph.D., American Museum of Natural History Richard Gilder Graduate School

Jean-Pierre Etchegaray, B.S., Austral (Chile); Ph.D., Rutgers

Brooke Flammang, M.S., California State; Ph.D., Harvard

Marcelo Gehara, B.S., Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (Brazil); M.S., Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil); Ph.D., Technical University of Braunschweig (Germany) (affiliate)

Gal Haspel (NJIT), B.Sc., Ph.D., Ben Gurion (Israel)

Sara Ruane, B.S., Massachusetts (Amherst); M.S., Central Arkansas; Ph.D., CUNY (affiliate)

Kristen Severi (NJIT), B.S., Dickinson College; Ph.D., Northeastern

Angelo Soto-Centeno, B.S., Interamerican University of Puerto Rico; M.S., Eastern Michigan; Ph.D., Florida (affiliate)

Ching-On Wong, B.S., Ph.D., Chinese University of Hong Kong (China)