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Research/Interests in the Department of Biological Sciences

bullet Research Centers
bullet Cell Differentiation and Development Center (CDDC)
bullet Education
  • Dr. LoCascio - Science education including teaching methodologies, laboratory experience, and student assessment in post secondary schools.
bullet Environmental/Organismal Biology
bullet Anatomy
  • Dr. Strait - Collection and 3D characterization of fossil mammals from an earliest Wasatchian (Wa0) locality in the southeastern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming.
bullet Aquatic Ecology
bullet Botany
  • Dr. Evans - Ethnobotany
bullet Environmental Microbiology
  • Dr. Somerville - Antibiotic-resistant bacteria as bioindicators of water quality.
bullet Evolution
  • Dr. Fet -Various aspects of evolution, genetics, biogeography and taxonomy of scorpions.
bullet Herpetology
  • Dr. Pauley - All aspects of West Virginian and Appalachian herpetofauna, with personal research specializing in West Virginia's federally threatened Cheat Mountain Salamander.
bullet Invertebrate Zoology
  • Dr. Joy - Parasitology
bullet Mammology
  • Dr. Hight - Mammals of West Virginia
  • Dr. Strait - Collection and 3D characterization of fossil mammals from an earliest Wasatchian (Wa0) locality in the southeastern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming.
bullet Mycology
bullet Paleontology
  • Dr. Strait - Collection and 3D characterization of fossil mammals from an earliest Wasatchian (Wa0) locality in the southeastern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming.
bullet Plant Ecology
  • Dr. Evans - Ethnobotany
  • Dr. Gilliam - The movement and cycling of plant nutrients within terrestrial ecosystems.
  • Dr. May - Responses of plant nutrient dynamics and ecosystem functions to both natural stresses and environmental stresses that have been induced or amplified by human activities.
bullet Remote Sensing
  • Dr. Brumfield - Manipulating satellite imagery to provide various environmental information.
bullet Scorpiology
  • Dr. Fet -Various aspects of evolution, genetics, biogeography and taxonomy of scorpions.
bullet Molecular and Cell Biology
bullet Genetics (Chromatin)
  • Dr. Georgel - Chromatin structure and function, the GAGA transcription factor as a functional substitute for a nucleosome, and MeCP2 (Methyl CpG Binding Protein)-mediated chromatin folding.
bullet Developmental Genetics
bullet Microbiology
  • Dr. Binder - Infectious diseases.
  • Dr. Gain
bullet Mycology
bullet Physiology
  • Dr. Blough - The molecular mechanisms associated with contractile signal transduction in skeletal and smooth muscle and how these signals are regulated with exercise and aging.
  • Dr. Mallory - Reproductive physiology.
bullet Plant Cell Biology
  • Dr. Harrison - Regulation of the biosynthesis of the plant hormone ethylene.
  • Dr. Valluri - Elicitation of medically important plant metabolites.
bullet Reproductive Biology
  • Dr. Mallory - Reproductive physiology.
  • Dr. Zhu - Sperm-egg interactions.

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