Biology




Faculty

Janet Bester Meredith
Assistant Professor
At SPU since 2003.
Research Areas: Neural basis of behavior
Courses Taught: Anatomy and Physiology, Animal Behavior

Cynthia Bishop
Assistant Professor
B.S., Seattle Pacific University, 1980; D.V.M., Washington State University, 1984. At SPU since 2000.
Research Area: Exotic Animal Health
Courses Taught: General Biology, Animal Physiology, Vertebrate Biology, Bioscience

Bruce Congdon
Professor; Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences
B.S., College of the Ozarks, 1979; M.S., Colorado State University, 1981; Ph.D., University of California, Riverside, 1985. At SPU since 1985.

Web Page http://www.spu.edu/depts/cas/deanwelcome.asp
Research Areas: Ecology, Terrestrial Invertebrate Biology
Courses Taught: Forest Ecology

Ryan Ferrer
Assistant Professor
At SPU since 2007.
Research Areas: Chemical ecology
Courses Taught: General Biology, Bioscience

Cynthia Fitch
Associate Professor
Coordinator, Pre-professional Health Sciences Program
B.S., McMurry College, 1985; Ph.D., Iowa State University, 1990; At SPU since 1994.
Research Areas: Molecular Biology, Human Physiology
Courses Taught: Bioscience, Genetics, Issues and Values in Biology

Eric Long
Assistant Professor

B.S., Wheaton College, 1998; M.S. University of North Dakota, 2001; Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University, 2005; At SPU since 2006.
Research Areas: Wildlife Management, Ecology
Courses Taught: General Biology, Ecology, Conservation Biology, Biostatistics

Timothy Nelson
Professor; Chair
Director of Blakely Island Field Station

B.S., Seattle Pacific University, 1987; Ph.D., University of Washington, 1995. At SPU since 1991.
Web Page http://myhome.spu.edu/tnelson/
Research Areas: Marine Plant Ecology, Biomathematics
Courses Taught: General Biology, Plant Taxonomy, Marine Botany, Tropical Marine Biology, Plant Physiology

Charlotte Pratt
Assistant Professor
At SPU since 2004.
Research Areas: Biochemistry, Immunology
Courses Taught: General Biology, Immunology, Bioscience

Richard Ridgway
Associate Professor
B.S., Seattle Pacific University, 1977; M.S., Washington State University, 1983; Ph.D., 1988. At SPU 1978-80 and since 1991.
Research Areas: Neurobiology, Cell Biology
Courses Taught: General Biology, Cell Biology, Marine Invertebrate Zoology, Neurobiology, Histology

Cara Wall-Scheffler
Assistant Professor
B.A., Seattle Pacific University, 2000; M. Phil., University of Cambridge, 2001; Ph.D., 2005. At SPU since 2007.
Research Areas: Human Evolutionary Biology, Physiology
Courses Taught: Anatomy and Physiology, Evolutionary Mechanisms, Biological Anthropology

Derek Wood
Assistant Professor
At SPU since 2004.
Research Areas: Genomics of Soil Bacteria
Courses Taught: Bioscience, Microbiology, Plant Physiology



   

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