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2014-2015 Graduate Catalog 
    
2014-2015 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:
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
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

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
Zijuan Liu, Ph.D., Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 
    (China)
Susmit Suvas, Ph.D., IMTECH (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)
Sarah Hosch, Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Lan Jiang, 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
Scott Tiegs, Ph.D., Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
    (Zurich)
Randal Westrick, Ph.D., University of Michigan

Adjunct professors:
Ronny Otero, M.D., Wayne State University

Adjunct associate professors:

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

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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