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2013-2014 Graduate Catalog 
    
2013-2014 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Biological Sciences


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

 

Chair:
Arik Dvir
376 Dodge Hall
(248) 370-3580
dvir@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
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
Charles B. Lindemann, Ph.D., State University of
    New York at Albany
Virinder K. Moudgil, Ph.D., Banaras Hindu University
    (India)

Associate professors:

Keith A. Berven, Ph.D., University of Maryland
Arik Dvir, Ph.D., The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel)
Fay M. Hansen, Ph.D., Medical College of Wisconsin
Anne L. Hitt, Ph.D., Vanderbilt University
Shailesh K. Lal, Ph.D., University of Nebraska
Barkur S. Shastry, Ph.D., University of Mysore (India)
Satish K. Walia, Ph.D., Mahrishi Dayanand University
    (India)
Douglas L. Wendell, Ph.D., University of California,
    Davis

 

Assistant professors:
Amy Banes-Berceli, Ph.D., Michigan State University
Chhabi K. Govind, Ph.D., National Institute of Immunology,
    India
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)
Mi Hye Song, Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley
Mark Sturtevant, Ph.D., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Susmit Suvas, Ph.D., IMTECH (India)
Scott Tiegs, Ph.D., Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
    (Zurich)
Randal Westrick, Ph.D., University of Michigan

Adjunct professors:

Tom Madhavan, M.D., University of Madras (India)
Ronny Otero, M.D., Wayne State University
Barry S. Winkler, Ph.D., State University of New York
    (Buffalo)

Adjunct associate professors:

Miguelangelo J. Perez-Cruet, M.D., Tufts University
Andrew F. X. Goldberg, Ph.D., Brandeis University

Adjunct assistant professor:

Sumit Dinda, Ph.D., Oakland University

Special instructors:

Mary Ann Bednarski, Ph.D., Michigan State University
Mary E. Craig, M.S., University of Sheffield (United Kingdom)

 

Research areas and facilities

The Department of Biological Sciences, housed in both Dodge Hall and the Science and Engineering Building, 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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