CHAIR OF THE DEPARTMENT: Professor Coruzzi
DIRECTOR OF UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES:Professor Scicchitano
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES:Clinical Assistant Professor Tan

Biology is concerned with the workings of life in all its varied forms. Over the past decade, biology has been revolutionized with the development of powerful molecular, cellular, genomic, and bioinformatic techniques that are now being applied across the spectrum of the science, from genetics and differentiation to biomedical applications and animal behavior. The principal aim of the Department of Biology is to provide a broad and intensive background in the modern life sciences for those interested in careers in the biological sciences, including health-related fields. An important emphasis of the department is preprofessional training, and the department has an unusually successful record in placing students in graduate, medical, and dental schools around the country.

        Graduates of the Department include Nobel laureates, winners of other major awards and prizes, members of prestigious academic societies, and many other notable scientists and educators. The department has a distinguished and diverse faculty that carries out research in state-of-the-art laboratories in the fields of molecular biology, biochemistry, genetics, evolution, differentiation, plant biology and development, cell biology, cellular and molecular immunology, virology, physiology, microbiology, biophysics, neurobiology, genomics, bioinformatics, and systems biology. . The Department has strong interactive ties with the University’s Center for Genomics and Systems Biology as well as other institutions in the surrounding area, including the American Museum of Natural History, the New York Botanical Garden, and Cold Spring Harbor Labs.

Faculty

Professors Emeriti:
Dowling, Kambysellis, Mitra, Strand

Carroll and Milton Petrie Professor of Biology:
Coruzzi

Silver Professor; Professor of Biology:
Desplan

Collegiate Professor; Professor of Biology:
Scicchitano

Professors:
Aoki, Azmitia, Borowsky, Broyde, Purugganan, Reiss, Sanes, Scott, Shapley, Small, Tranchina

Associate Professors:
Blau, Chiaromonte, Fitch, Piano, Rampino, Reyes, Rushlow, Volk

Assistant Professors:
Birnbaum, Bonneau, Eichenberger, Gunsalus, Kussell, Siegal

Clinical Assistant Professors:
Kirov, Tan, Velhagen

Visiting Professors:
DeSalle, Litt, Macino, Rajewsky

Adjunct Instructors:
Brenner, Grew, Lee, Maenza-Gmelch, Rogers

Affiliated Faculty:
Cameron, Daly, Litt, Martienssen, McCombie, Mikkelsen, Rosenbaum, Stevenson