Department of Biological Sciences Faculty

Chair

Loxterman, Janet L., Professor, Biological Sciences.  B.S. 1992, Lehigh University; M.S. 1995, Virginia Commonwealth University; Ph.D. 2001, Idaho State University.  (1996)

Associate Chair

Grinath, Anna S., Associate Professor, Biological Sciences. B.A. 2007, Middlebury College; M.S. 2012, Ph.D. 2017, Florida State University.  (2019)

Professors

Anderson, Curtis W., Professor, Biological Sciences.  B.S. 1989, Southwest Missouri State University; M.S. 1992, Ph.D. 1996, Northern Arizona University.  (1998)

Baxter, Colden V., Professor, Biological Sciences.  B.A. 1993, University of Oregon; M.S. 1997, University of Montana; Ph.D. 2002, Oregon State University.  (2004)

Bearden, Shawn E., Professor, Biological Sciences.  B.S. 1994, University of Virginia; M.S. 1996, George Mason University; Ph.D. 2000, Florida State University.  (2005)

Delehanty, David J., Professor, Biological Sciences.  B.S. 1985, University of Minnesota; M.S. 1991, University of North Dakota; Ph.D. 1997, University of Nevada, Reno.  (2000)

Finney, Bruce P., Professor, Biological Sciences.  B.S. 1979, University of Montana; Ph.D. 1987, Oregon State University.  (2008)

Groome, James R., Professor, Biological Sciences.  B.A. 1981, Wake Forest University; Ph.D. 1988, University of New Hampshire.  (2003)

Keeley, Ernest R., Professor, Biological Sciences.  B.S. 1990, M.S. 1993, Concordia University; Ph.D. 1998, University of ­British Columbia.  (1999)

Lohse, Kathleen A., Professor, Biological Sciences.  B.S. 1993, B.A. 1993, Cornell University; Ph.D. 2002, University of California, Berkeley.  (2010)

Meldrum, D. Jeffrey, Professor, Biological Sciences.  B.S. 1982, M.S. 1984, Brigham Young University; Ph.D. 1989, State University of New York at Stony Brook.  (1993)

Sheridan, Peter P., Professor, Biological Sciences.  B.A. 1984, M.S. 1991, Rutgers University; Ph.D. 1996, University of Cincinnati.  (2001)

Thomas, Michael A.,  Professor, Biological Sciences.  B.S. 1991, University of Nebraska; M.S. 1994, Kansas State University; Ph.D. 2000, Pennsylvania State University.  (2003)

Associate Professors

Aho, Ken A., Associate Professor, Biological Sciences.  B.S. 1996, Idaho State University; M.S. 2007, Ph.D. 2006, Montana State University.  (2007)

Martin, Julia E., Associate Professor, Biological Sciences.  B.S. 2004, M.S. 2006, University of California, Northridge; Ph.D. 2013, University of Illinios at Urbana-Champaign.  (2017)

Pilarski, Jason Q., Associate Professor, Biological Sciences and Dental Sciences.  B.S. 1993, M.S. 2000, Indiana University; Ph.D. 2006, Northern Arizona University.  (2011)

Pradhan, Devaleena S., Associate Professor, Biological Sciences.  B.S. 2004, M.S. 2012, University of British Columbia; Ph.D. 2014, Georgia State University.  (2018)

Reinhardt, Keith, Associate Professor, Biological Sciences.  B.S. 1994, College of William & Mary; M.S. 2001, University of Virginia; Ph.D. 2009, Wake Forest University.  (2012)

Serve, Kinta, Associate Professor, Biological Sciences.  B.S. 2005, Colorado Mesa University; M.S. 2010, Washington State University; D.A. 2013, Idaho State University.  (2018)

Assistant Professors

Chakraborty, Anirban, Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences. B.S. 2004, University of Calcutta; M.S. 2006, Forest Research Institute; Ph.D. 2012, Indiana University Bloomington. (2021)

de la Cruz, Lizbeth, Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences. B.S. 2012, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico; Ph.D. 2017, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (2023)

Grinath, Joshua B., Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences. B.S. 2004, Cornell University; Ph.D. 2014, Florida State University.  (2021)

Lane, Kristin D., Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences. B.S. 1997, Christopher Newport University; M.S. 2007, Old Dominion University; Ph.D. 2013, Virginia Commonwealth University. (2021)

Peecook, Brandon R., Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences; Assistant Curator, Idaho Museum of Natural History. B.S. 2009, University of Michigan; Ph.D. 2016, University of Washington.  (2019)

Ray, Heather J., Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences. B.S. 2006, Oregon State University; M.S. 2009 University of Texas at San Antonio; Ph.D. 2016, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.  (2020)

Turner, Kathryn G., Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences. B.A., B.S. 2005, University of Texas Austin; Ph.D. 2015, University of British Columbia.  (2019)

Senior Lecturer

Shurley, Jack F., Senior Lecturer, Biological Sciences.  B.S. 2001, M.S. 2003, Ph.D. 2007, Idaho State University.  (2006)  

Associate Lecturers

Abbruzzese, Jennifer, Associate Lecturer, Biological Sciences.  B.A. 1996, M.S. 2000, Utah State University.  (2012)

Fultz, Jessica, Associate Lecturer, Biological Sciences.  B.S. 2001, M.S. 2005, Montana State University.  (2008)

Assistant Lecturers

Adams, Sherry, Assistant Lecturer, Biological Sciences. B.S. 2006, University of Central Missouri; M.S. 2009, Ph.D. 2015, University of Florida. (2021)

Marion, M. Susan, Assistant Lecturer, Biological Sciences. B.S. 1985, University of North Dakota; M.S, Ph.D. 1992, University of North Dakota, Ph.D. 2009 University of California, Davis.  (2019)

Schwarz, Eliezer M., Assistant Lecturer, Biological Sciences. B.A. 2000, Brandeis University; Ph.D. 2010 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.  (2019)

Stewart, Ian, Assistant Lecturer, Biological Sciences.  B.S. 2014; M.S. 2018, University of Colorado, Denver.  (2018)

Swenson, Michael, Assistant Lecturer, Biological Sciences. B.S. 1997, Saint Cloud State University. M.S. 2004, Idaho State University. (2022)

Emeriti

Akersten, William A., Associate Professor, Biological Sciences and Geosciences; Curator, Vertebrate Paleontology, Idaho Museum of Natural History.  1985-2009

Anderson, Robert C., Professor, Zoology.  1969-2007

Bowmer, Richard G., Professor, Botany.  1961-1997

Bowyer, R. Terry, Professor, Biological Sciences.  2004-2015

Farrell, Larry D., Professor, Microbiology.  1972-2008

Frank, Barbara, Senior Lecturer/Advisor. 1999-2021

Griffith, John S., Professor, Biology.  1977-1999

Hill, Jeffrey Patten, Associate Professor, Biological Sciences. 1991-2021

Holte, Karl E., Professor, Botany; Curator, Museum.  1965-1997

House, Edwin W., Chief Research Officer; Professor, Physiology.  1966-2004

Inouye, Richard S., Professor, Ecology.  1987-2010

Linder, Allan, Professor, Biological Sciences.  1963-1988

McCune, Joan H., Professor, Microbiology.  1980-2001

McCune, Ronald W., Professor, Biochemistry.  1970-2004

Magnuson, Timothy S., Professor, Microbiology. 2001-2019

Minshall, G. Wayne, Professor, Zoology and Ecology.  1966-2003

Peterson, Charles R., Professor, Biological Sciences.  1988-2021

Rodnick, Kenneth J., Professor, Biological Sciences.  1993-2018

Rose, Fred L., Professor, Biological Sciences.  1969-2000

Rose, William Jack, Professor, Biological Sciences. 1987-2022

Scalarone, Gene M., ­Professor, Biological Sciences.  1980-2017

Seeley, Rodney R., Professor, Physiology.  1973-2008

Smith, Rosemary J., Professor, Biological Sciences.  1999-2018

Spall, Richard D., University Ombudsman; Professor, Pathology.  1981-2003

Spiegel, Kathleen, Clinical Professor, Clinical Laboratory Science.  1991-2007

Stephens, Trent D., Professor, Biology.  1981-2011

Streubel, Donald P., Professor, Biology.  1974-1999

Trost, Charles H., Professor, Biological Sciences; Curator, Museum.  1968-2000

Williams, Charles F. (Rick),Associate Professor, Biological Sciences.  1999-2018

Winston, Vern D., Professor, Microbiology. 1980-2021