Faculty and Staff

The Smith College Biological Sciences Department is located in Sabin-Reed Hall in the Clark Science Center. The adminstrative offices can be contacted by voice: (413) 585-3806, and fax: (413) 585-3786.

Faculty	Field	Home Page	Email	Ext.
Margaret Anderson, Professor	Physiology of excitable cells			3821
Michael Barresi, Assistant Professor	Developmental Biology Physiology			3697
Richard T. Briggs, Professor	Electron microscopy, cytochemistry, comparative immunology			3823
C. John Burk, Professor Emeritus				3813
Robert L. Dorit, Associate Professor	Experimental molecular evolution, antibiotic design			3638
Adam Hall, Associate Professor	Molecular mechanisms of anesthetic action			3467
Virginia Hayssen, Professor	Mammalian reproductive evolution, agouti-locus pleiotropy, Senior Editor, Journal of Zoology (London)			3856
Elizabeth B. Horner, Professor Emeritus				3812
Gabrielle Immerman Lecturer	Horticulture			2742
Laura A. Katz, Professor	Eukaryotic microbiology, genome evolution, phylogeography			3825
Graham R. Kent, Senior Instructor of Laboratories	Laboratory development and software to model and simulate processes taught in introductory biology			3820
Denise Lello, Lecturer	Plant Ecology			3758
Michael Marcotrigian, Professor	Plant Development, Micropropagation, and Breeding			2741
Robert B. Merritt, Professor	Population Genetics, Genetics			3819
Esteban Monserrate, Lecturer	Environmental microbiology of coral diseases and bioremediation			3851
Rob Nicholson, Lecturer	Economic Botany			2747
Richard F. Olivo, Professor	Neurobiology and the neural basis of behavior			3822
Paulette M. Peckol, Professor	Coral reef ecology, algal ecology, chemical defense			3844
Lori Saunders, Laboratory Instructor				3973
Gail, Scordilis Adjunct Assistant Professor				3879
Stylianos P. Scordilis, Professor	Cell biology, molecular physiology, exercise and muscle biochemistry			3824
L. David Smit, Associate Professor	Marine invertebrate zoology & ecology, invasion biology			3828
Stephen G. Tilley, Professor, Department Chair	Evolutionary biology and biodiversity			3817
Carolyn M. Wetzel, Assistant Professor	Plant physiology; chloroplast development and function			3687
Paul R. Wetzel Research Associate	Plant Ecology, Wetlands, Restoration Ecology			3687
Christine A. White-Ziegler, Associate Professor	Bacterial pathogenesis, microbial stress response, transcriptional regulation			3815
Judith L. Wopereis, Instructor of Laboratories and Microscopy Facility Manager	Microscopy, image analysis, plant-microbe interactions.			3829
Steven A. Williams, Professor	Molecular biology, genomics, and bioinformatics of parasites causing filariasis and river blindness			3826

Revised 09/18/2008