Directory

Faculty

Pinku is smiling while leaning against a table in her research lab. She's a brunette with straight shoulder length hair wearing a black blazer with arms crossed

Pinku Mukherjee, Ph.D.

Department Chair

Irwin Belk Distinguished Professor

Pinku Mukherjee, Ph.D.

Cancer Biology and Immunology

Recipient of the 2018 First Citizens Bank Scholars Award; recipient of the 2015 O. Max Gardener Award

Woodward 246
704.687.5465
pmukherj@uncc.edu

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Stanley S. Schneider, Ph.D.

Academic Vice Chair

Professor

Stanley S. Schneider, Ph.D.

Animal behavior; communication and foraging of the honeybee

2016 UNC Board of Governors Award for Excellence in Teaching; 2015 Bank of America Award for Teaching Excellence; 2014 Inaugural recipient of CLAS Integration of Undergraduate Teaching and Research Award

Woodward 288A
704.687.8527
Stan.Schneider@uncc.edu

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Ian Marriott, Ph.D.

Vice Chair for Research

Professor

Ian Marriott, Ph.D.

The initiation of immune responses

2017 College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Award for Outstanding Teaching - Integration of Undergraduate Teaching and Research Award

Woodward 386A
704.687.8506
imarriot@uncc.edu

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Christine Richardson, Ph.D.

Graduate Program Coordinator

Professor

Christine Richardson, Ph.D.

DNA recombination and repair, chromosomal rearrangements, & hematopoietic malignancies, leukemia, ovarian cancerecotoxicology in mammals.

Professor

Woodward 386B
704.687.8683
C.Richardson@uncc.edu

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Melanie Harris, M.S.

Undergraduate Coordinator

Senior Lecturer

Melanie Harris, M.S.

Microbiology

2014 Building Educational Strengths and Talents (B.E.S.T) Outstanding Faculty Award

Woodward 241
704-687-8505
MelanieHarris@uncc.edu

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Didier Dréau, Ph.D.

Undergraduate Honors Coordinator

Associate Professor

Didier Dréau, Ph.D.

Mechanisms of Cancer Metastasis, Vascular and Immune Interactions During Cancer Growth.

2014 Outstanding Faculty Award Multicultural Academic Services

Woodward 490B
704.687.8314
ddreau@uncc.edu

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Sharon Bullock, Ph.D.

Biotechnology Minor Program Coordinator

Senior Lecturer

Sharon Bullock, Ph.D.

Molecular and Cell Biology, Biotechnology, Pathophysiology

Woodward 235B
704-687-8536
sbulloc8@uncc.edu

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Tonya C. Bates, M.S.

Senior Lecturer

Tonya C. Bates, M.S.

Microbiology

2015 College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Award for Outstanding Teaching Teaching by a Full-Time Lecturer Award

Woodward 214A
704-687-5015
Tonya.Bates@uncc.edu

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Kenneth Bost, Ph.D.

Irwin Belk Distinguished Professor

Kenneth Bost, Ph.D.

Molecular and cellular understanding of the immune response, the interactions between the nervous and immune systems, and the mechanisms involved in initiation of mucosal immunity.

Woodward 390D
704.687.8677
klbost@uncc.edu

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Tuan Cao, Ph.D.

Ecology and evolutionary biology

Lecturer

Woodward 235D
704-687-8531
ttcao@uncc.edu

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Kausik Chakrabarti, Ph.D.

Genome Replication, Dynamic structure of Telomerase, Transcriptomics, Post-transcriptional Gene Regulation in Human Parasitic and Viral Diseases.

Assistant Professor

Woodward 390A
704.687.1882
kchakrab@uncc.edu

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Richard Chi, Ph.D.

Molecular and Cell Biology. Membrane trafficking, yeast genetics, protein biochemistry, molecular biology and live cell fluorescence microscopy

Assistant Professor

Woodward 490D
704.687.8697
Richard.Chi@uncc.edu

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Mark Clemens, Ph.D.

Vascular and metabolic physiology

Professor

Woodward 486A
704.687.8682
mgclemen@uncc.edu

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Kristen Funk, Ph.D.

Neuroinflammation of neuroinfectious and neurodegenerative diseases

Assistant Professor

Woodward 381B
704.687.5554
kfunk@uncc.edu

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Samantha Furr-Rogers, Ph.D.

Immunology, physiology, and public health

Lecturer

Woodward 235F
704-687-6062
s.furr-rogers@uncc.edu

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Valery Grdzelishvili, Ph.D.

Molecular virology, anticancer therapy based on replication-competent viruses ("oncolytic virotherapy"), virus-host interactions, virus-based vectors.

Professor

Woodward 486B
704.687.7778
vzgrdzel@uncc.edu

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M. Brittany Johnson, Ph.D.

Research Assistant Professor

Woodward 375 East
704.687.8507
mjohn398@uncc.edu

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Aaron Kampe, M.S.

Field Ecology

Lecturer; Ecology Lab Coordinator/Student Gardening Advisor

Woodward 222B
704-687-1968
akampe1@uncc.edu

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Eugenia Lo, Ph.D.

Malaria epidemiology; Parasite genome evolution; Dynamics of disease transmission; Population genomics; Host-parasite evolution; Molecular genetics of invasion mechanism

Assistant Professor

Woodward 381C
704-687-8532
eugenia.lo@uncc.edu

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Paola C. López-Duarte, Ph.D.

Behavior and Ecology of Invertebrates and Fish, Larval Population Connectivity, Food Web Interactions in Coastal Communities

Assistant Professor

Woodward 486D
704.687.5083
Lopez-Duarte@uncc.edu

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Dan Nelson, Ph.D.

Research Associate Professor

Woodward 390A
704-687-8514
danelson@uncc.edu

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James D. Oliver, Ph.D.

Ecology, physiology, and metabolism of aquatic bacteria; biology of the human pathogen, Vibrio vulnificus.

Bonnie E. Cone Distinguished Professor

Woodward 381D
704.687.8516
jdoliver@uncc.edu

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Matthew W. Parrow, Ph.D.

ALGAL ECOLOGY AND PHYSIOLOGY; HARMFUL ALGAL BLOOMS; PHYLOGENETICS OF EUKARYOTIC MICROBES; APPLICATIONS OF ALGAE AND FUNGI IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

Associate Professor

Woodward 386C
704.687.7779
mwparrow@uncc.edu

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Michelle B. Pass, M.S.

Microbiology and Urban Education

Senior Lecturer and Undergraduate Laboratory Director

Woodward 235G
704-687-8519
mbpass@uncc.edu

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Adam M. Reitzel, Ph.D.

Evolution and ecology of coastal invertebrates using comparative genomics, molecular biology, population genetics, evolutionary ecology, and field studies.

Associate Professor

Woodward 381A
704.687.5018
adam.reitzel@uncc.edu

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