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2017-2019 Graduate Catalog 
    
2017-2019 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Biological Sciences


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375 Dodge Hall • (248) 370-3550 • Fax (248) 370-4225  (map)
www.oakland.edu/biology

 

Chair:
Douglas Wendell
316 Dodge Hall
(248) 370-4457
wendell@oakland.edu

Professors emeriti:
Francis M. Butterworth, Ph.D., Northwestern University
John D. Cowlishaw, Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University
George J. Gamboa, Ph.D., University of Kansas
Esther M. Goudsmit, Ph.D., University of Michigan
R. Douglas Hunter, Ph.D., Syracuse University
Charles B. Lindemann, Ph.D., State University of
New York at Albany
Virinder K. Moudghil, Ph.D., Banaras Hindu University
  (India)
Asish C. Nag, Ph.D., University of Alberta (Canada)
John R. Reddan, Ph.D., University of Vermont
Nalin J. Unakar, Ph.D., Brown University

Professors:
G. Rasul Chaudhry, Ph.D., University of Manitoba
  (Canada)
Sheldon R. Gordon, Ph.D., University of Vermont
Shailesh K. Lal, Ph.D., University of Nebraska

Associate professors:
Amy Banes-Berceli, Ph.D., Michigan State University
Keith A. Berven, Ph.D., University of Maryland
Arik Dvir, Ph.D., The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  (Israel)
Chhabi K. Govind, Ph.D., National Institute of 
Immunology  (India) (Israel)
Fay M. Hansen, Ph.D., Medical College of Wisconsin
Anne L. Hitt, Ph.D., Vanderbilt University
Lan Jiang, Ph.D., Chinese Academy of Sciences,
Beijing  (China)
Zijuan Liu, Ph.D., Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 
    (China)
Gerard Madlambayan, Ph.D., University of Toronto
    (Canada)
Scott Tiegs, Ph.D., Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
    (Zurich)
Satish K. Walia, Ph.D., Mahrishi Dayanand University
    (India)
Douglas L. Wendell, Ph.D., University of California,
    Davis

 

Assistant professors:
Fabia U. Battistuzzi, Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University
Sara Blumer-Schuette, Ph.D., Michigan State University
Mary A. Jamieson, Ph.D. University of Colorado
Thomas Raffel, Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University
Sang Rhee, Ph.D. Louisiana State University Baton Rouge
Mi Hye Song, Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley
Luis Villa-Diaz Ph.D. Kobe University  (Japan)
Randal Westrick, Ph.D., University of Michigan

Adjunct associate professors:
Sumit Dinda, Ph.D., Oakland University
Andrew F. X. Goldberg, Ph.D., Brandeis University
Mary Tracy Bee, Ph.D., Wayne State University

Adjunct assistant professor:
Ashok Kumar, Ph.D., Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (India)
Sarah Hosch, Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Mark Sturtevant, Ph.D., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Special instructors:
Mary Ann Bednarski, Ph.D., Michigan State University
Mary E. Craig, M.S., University of Sheffield (United Kingdom)
Michael O’Regan, Ph.D., Wayne State University
Jonathan F. Yates, Ph.D., University of Cincinnati

 

Research areas and facilities

The Department of Biological Sciences, housed in both Dodge Hall and the Math and Science Center, is engaged in a variety of research programs including behavior, biochemistry, bioinformatics, biophysics, cell/molecular biology, ecology, evolution, genetics, genomics, immunology, microbiology, and physiology.

Programs

    DoctoralMaster’sGraduate Certificate

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