BCB Faculty

The following UI faculty members constitute the BCB faculty, and may serve as major professors on BCB thesis committees. Faculty members may be added to or removed from this list periodically, at the discretion of the BCB faculty. “Area” is the primary designation of the faculty member for determining diversity on graduate committees and lab rotations.





Dr. Zaid Abdo - Assistant Professor

Department: Mathematics
Research: Bioinformatics, Statistical Genetics, Bayesian Stats, Mathematical Biology
BCB Areas: Computational, Mathstat
V: 208.885.5901
E: zabdo@uidaho.edu
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Dr. Celeste Brown - Associate Research Professor

Department: Biological Sciences
Research: Bioinformatics, Protein Flexibility 
BCB Areas: Biological, Computational, Mathstat
V: 208.885.4012
E: celesteb@uidaho.edu
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Dr. Brian Dennis - Professor

Department: Fish and Wildlife Resources and Division of Statistics
Research: Mathematical Statistics and Ecology
BCB Areas: Biological, Mathstat
V: 208.885.7423
E: brian@uidaho.edu
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Dr. Larry Forney - Professor

Department: Biological Sciences
Research: Microbial Ecology
BCB Area: Biological
V: 208.885.6011
E: lforney@uidaho.edu
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Dr. James A. Foster - Professor

Department: Biological Sciences
Research: Evolutionary Computation, Algorithm Design
BCB Area: Computational
V: 1.800.824.2889, press 1, then 7062
E: foster@uidaho.edu 


 
Dr. Frank Gao - Associate Professor

Department: Math
Research: Mathematical Statistics
BCB Areas: Mathstat, Computational
V: 208.885.5274
E: fuchang@uidaho.edu
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Dr. Luke Harmon - Assistant Professor

Department: Biological Sciences
Research:
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V: 208.885.0346
E: lukeh@uidaho.edu
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Dr. Robert Heckendorn - Associate Professor

Department: Computer Science
Research: Theory of Genetic Algorithms
BCB Area: Computational
V: 208.885.7076
E: heckendo@cs.uidaho.edu
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Dr. Paul Joyce - Professor
Department: Mathematics, Statistics
Research: Mathematical Statistics, Stochastic Processes Population Biology
BCB Areas: Mathstat, Computational
V: 208.885.6338
E: joyce@uidaho.edu
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Dr. Alexander V. Karasev- Assistant Professor

Department: Plant, Soil and Entomological Sciences
Research: Molecular Biology, Plant Virology
BCB Area: Biological
V: 208.885.2350
E: akarasev@uidaho.edu



Dr. Stephen Krone - Professor

Department: Mathematics
Research: Stochastic Processes, Population Biology
BCB Areas: Mathstat, Computational
V: 208.885.6317
E: krone@uidaho.edu
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Dr. Mike Laskowski - Professor

Department: Biological Sciences
Research: Cell Signaling
BCB Area: Biological
V: 208.885.6696
E: mlaskow@uidaho.edu
selected publications list on home page… 



Dr. Stephen Lee - Associate Professor
Department: Statistics
Research: Neural Networks and Computational Statistics
BCB Areas: Mathstat, Computational
V: 208.885-7701
E: stevel@uidaho.edu
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Dr. Scott Nuismer - Associate Professor

Department: Biological Sciences
Research: Coevolutionary genetics
BCB Areas: Biological, Mathstat
V: 208.885.4096
E: snuismer@uidaho.edu
Nuismer lab   publications… 



 
Dr. Ronald Robberecht - Professor

Department: Rangeland Ecology
Research: Plant response to the environment & scientific visualization in ecology
BCB Areas: Biological, Computational
V: 208.885.7404
E: ecology@uidaho.edu
publications…   EcologyOnline.net



 
Dr. Barrie Robison - Assistant Professor
Department: Biological Sciences
Research: Fish Genomics
BCB Areas: Biological, Mathstat
V: 208.885.7137
E: brobison@uidaho.edu
Robison Lab…   publications…



 
Dr. Erica Bree Rosenblum - Assistant Professor

Department: Biological Sciences
Research: Genomics, Adaption, Disease
BCB Area: Biological
V: 208.885.1007
E: rosenblum@uidaho.edu
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Dr. Terence Soule - Professor

Department: Computer Science
Research: Evolutionary Computation
BCB Area: Computational
V: 208.885.7789
E: tsoule@cs.uidaho.edu
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Dr. Deborah Stenkamp - Associate Professor

Department: Biological Sciences
Research: Vertebrate Retinal Development and Regeneration
BCB Area: Biological
V: 208.885.8963
E: dstenkam@uidaho.edu 
publications   lab


 
Dr. Jack Sullivan - Professor

Department:Biological Sciences
Research: Molecular systematics, phylogeography
BCB Areas: Biological, Computational, Mathstat
V: 208.885.9049
E: jacks@uidaho.edu
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Dr. Eva Top - Professor

Department: Biological Sciences
Research: Microbial Ecology, Plasmid Evolution
BCB Area: Biological
V: 208.885.5015
E: evatop@uidaho.edu
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Dr. Lisette Waits - Associate Professor
Department: Fish and Wildlife Resources
Research: Conservation Genetics, Ecology
BCB Area: Biological
V: 208.885.7823
E: lwaits@uidaho.edu
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Dr. Holly A. Wichman - Professor

Department: Biological Sciences
Research: Experimental Evolution, Genetics
BCB Area: Biological
V: 208.885.7805
E: hwichman@uidaho.edu
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Dr. Christopher Williams - Professor

Department: Statistics
Research: Statistical Genetics and Biostatistics
BCB Areas: Mathstat, Biological
V: 208.885.2802
E: chrisw@uidaho.edu


 

Dr. F. Marty Ytreberg - Assistant Professor

Department: Physics
Research: Computational and Theoretical Molecular Biophysics
BCB Area: Computational
v: 208.885.6908
e: ytreberg@uidaho.edu

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