Full-Time Faculty

Dr. Crystal Weyman

Professor & Chair
Office: SR 266, 267
Email: c.weyman@csuohio.edu
Expertise: Cell biology - signaling pathways regulating proliferation, differentiation, apoptosis, and transformation of skeletal myoblasts
 

Dr. Ruchi Bhattacharya

Assistant Professor
Office: SR G72
Email: r.bhattacharya14@csuohio.edu
Expertise: biogeochemistry, paleolimnology, computational geoscience

Dr. G. Valentin Boerner

Professor
Office: SR 280B
Email: g.boerner@csuohio.edu
Expertise: Molecular Genetics - functional analysis of chromosome dynamics
 

Dr. Andrea Corbett

Associate College Lecturer
Office: SI 214
Email: a.corbett@csuohio.edu
Expertise: Plant ecology - plant competition, root-soil dynamics, community ecology, community diversity, secondary succession in old-fields, invasive species, solar tracking in arctic flowers
 

Dr. Merlin Nithya Gnanapragasam

Associate Professor
Office: SR 275
Email: m.gnanapragasam@csuohio.edu
Expertise: Erythroid proliferation and differentiation
 

Dr. Brice Grunert

Assistant Professor
Office: SR G70
Email: b.grunert@csuohio.edu
Expertise: remote sensing, GIS, geospatial datasets, ecosystem processes
 

Dr. Kailash Gulshan

Assistant Professor
Office: SI 319
Email: k.gulshan@csuohio.edu
Expertise: cardiovascular disease, lung cancer, autophagy, inflammation, interleukins, sphingolipids
 

Dr. Meagan Harless

Associate College Lecturer
Office: SI 233
Email: m.harless@csuohio.edu
Expertise: herpetology; community ecology; ecotoxicology of pollutants in freshwater systems; conservation biology; parasitology in amphibians
 

Dr. Peng Jiang

Assistant Professor
Office: FH 468
Email: p.jiang@csuohio.edu
Expertise: data science, computational biology, bioinformatics, biostatistics, machine learning, gene regulation, developmental & regenerative biology
 

Dr. Anton A. Komar

Professor
Office: SR 259, 258
Email: a.komar@csuohio.edu
Expertise: molecular biology: translational regulation of gene expression
 

Dr. Roman Kondratov

Professor
Office: SR 270
Email: r.kondratov@csuohio.edu
Expertise: molecular mechanisms of aging and circadian rhythms
 

Dr. Robert A. Krebs

Professor
Office: SR G74
Email: r.krebs@csuohio.edu
Expertise: Evolutionary biology - historical changes in freshwater mussel (Unionidae) distributions; models of genetic changes associated with colonization and isolation in refugia; mussel conservation
 

Dr. Bibo Li

Professor
Office: SR 261
Email: b.li37@csuohio.edu
Expertise: Molecular biology - telomere functions; pathogenesis of Trypanosoma brucei (a protozoan parasite causing sleeping sickness in humans and Nagana in cattle) in relation to telomere function and regulation of surface antigen switching to avoid immune responses
 

Dr. Zihan Lin

Assistant Professor
Office: SI 229
Email: z.lin88@csuohio.edu
Expertise: environmental-health nexus, geospatial data science, urban green space

Dr. Barsanjit Mazumder

Professor
Office: SI 263
Email: b.mazumder@csuohio.edu
Expertise: Molecular biology - molecular mechanisms of cardiovascular disease; post-transcriptional regulation of pro-inflammatory gene expression in endothelial cells, monocytes, and macrophages
 

Dr. Kevin Mueller

Associate Professor
Office: SR G73
Email: k.mueller89@csuohio.edu
Expertise: global change ecology; biodiversity; biogeochemistry; plant functional traits; land management; urban ecology; environmental pollution; paleoclimate & paleoecology; plant lipids & biomarkers (chemical fossils)  
 

Dr. Emily Rauschert

Associate Professor
Office: SR G66
Email: e.rauschert@csuohio.edu
Expertise: Plant ecology - population and spatial dynamics, dispersal, species coexistence, biological invasions and biotic homogenization
 
 

Dr. Tobili Y. Sam-Yellowe

Professor
Office: SI 213
Email: t.sam-yellowe@csuohio.edu
Expertise: microbiology, immunology, and parasitology: mechanisms of erythrocyte invasion in malaria; role of apical complex organelles in merozoite invasion in Plasmodium falciparum and P. chabaudi
 

Dr. Dennis Sampson

Associate College Lecturer
Office: SI 211
Email: d.a.sampson@csuohio.edu
Expertise: infectious disease microbiology, plant mating systems, plant stress physiology
 
 

Dr. Aaron Severson

Associate Chair 
Office: SR 280C
Email: a.severson@csuohio.edu
Expertise: meiosis, DNA replication, generation of sister chromatid cohesion, homolog pairing, and crossover recombination, and unique pattern of chromosome segregation
 

Dr. Girish Shukla

Professor
Office: SR 262
Email: g.shukla@csuohio.edu
Expertise: molecular biology of RNA - in vivo and in vitro mechanisms of nuclear pre-mRNA splicing, structure-function of small RNAs, understanding the role of miRNAs in prostate cancer, modulation of androgen receptor by miRNAs in prostate cancer
 

Dr. Jackson Taylor

Assistant Professor
Office: SI 230
Email: j.taylor60@csuohio.edu
Expertise: genetic regulation of aging and lifespan
 

Dr. John Van Stan

Associate Professor
Office: SR G75
Email: j.vanstan@csuohio.edu
Expertise: environmental science and geography, landscape ecology, wetlands, environmental science & policy
 

Dr. B. Michael Walton

Associate Professor
Office: SR 279,280
Email: b.walton@csuohio.edu
Expertise: ecological physiology and evolutionary biology: studies of behavioral energetics, whole-organism performance, and the relationship of these variables to growth and survival in natural populations of reptiles and amphibians
 

Dr. Julie Wolin

Associate Professor
Office: SR G67
Email: j.wolin@csuohio.edu
Expertise: Environmental science - diatom assemblage analysis applied to current environmental impact studies and to paleolimnological reconstructions

Dr. Jingqi Yan

Assistant Professor
Office: SR 260
Email: j.yan37@csuohio.edu
Expertise: neuroscience, biophysics, brain function and pathophysiology of autism and metabolic disorders
 

Dr. Fasong Yuan

Professor
Office: SI 228
Email: f.yuan06@csuohio.edu
Expertise: geology and environmental science: geochemical and isotopic tracers to investigate physical processes occurring in lakes and rivers, aqueous and environmental geochemistry to assess anthropogenic disturbances, environmental indicators for modern and ancient aquatic systems