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2023-2024 Graduate Catalog 
    
2023-2024 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:
Gerard Madlambayan
375 Dodge Hall
(248) 370-3550
 madlamba@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
Sheldon R. Gordon, Ph.D., University of Vermont
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)
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)
Shailesh K. Lal, Ph.D., University of Nebraska
Scott Tiegs, Ph.D., Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
    (Zurich)
A. Valance Washington, Southern Methodist University

Associate professors:
Amy Banes-Berceli, Ph.D., Michigan State University
Fabia U. Battistuzzi, Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University
Keith A. Berven, Ph.D., University of Maryland
Sara Blumer-Schuette, Ph.D., Michigan State University
Chhabi K. Govind, Ph.D., National Institute of 
Immunology (India)
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)
Thomas Raffel, Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University
Mi Hye Song, Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley
Randal Westrick, Ph.D., University of Michigan
Satish K. Walia, Ph.D., Mahrishi Dayanand University
    (India)
Douglas L. Wendell, Ph.D., University of California,
    Davis

 

Assistant professors:
Elizabeth Delorme-Axford, Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Mary A. Jamieson, Ph.D. University of Colorado
Taras K. Oleksyk, Ph.D., University of Georgia
Sang Rhee, Ph.D. Louisiana State University Baton Rouge
Luis Villa-Diaz Ph.D. Kobe University  (Japan)

Adjunct professors:
Sumit Dinda, Ph.D., Oakland University
Andrew F. X. Goldberg, Ph.D., Brandeis University
Howard Klausner, MD, University of Michigan
Mary Tracy Bee, Ph.D., Wayne State University

Adjunct associate professors:
Ashok Kumar, Ph.D., Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (India)
Ronny Otero, M.D. Howard University College of Medicine
Mark Sturtevant, Ph.D., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Special instructors:
Subha Bhaskarn, Ph.D., Oakland University
Mary E. Craig, M.S., University of Sheffield (United Kingdom)
Sarah Hosch, Ph.D., University of Minnesota
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

    DoctoralMastersGraduate Certificate

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