William Guy Bradley
Affiliate in Biology

Research interests include: Immunogenetics of marine mammals; feline, human, and murine AIDS

Jonathan Cohen
Assistant Professor of Biology and Marine Science

Research focuses on the physiology of marine invertebrate sensory systems.

Steven Denison
Associate Professor of Biology

Research interests include: fungal genetics and population genetics of marine organisms.

John C. Ferguson
Professor Emeritus of Biology and Marine Science

Physiology of echinoderms and other invertebrates, especially fluid volume relationships and nutrient translocations.

Denise Flaherty
Assistant Professor of Biology

Research interests include: the development and structure/function relationship of large elastic proteins in muscle, using the model genetic organism, Caenorhabditis elegans.

Elizabeth A. Forys
Professor of Biology and Environmental Science

Current research involves endangered and exotic species, restoration ecology, and spatial analysis using geographic information systems (GIS).

Teresa Gaskill
Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology

Research interests include: plant ecology , especially tropical forest ecology, restoration ecology, ecology of vines, plant ecophysiology and forest hydrology in the Brazilian Amazon and Hawaii.

Gregory L. Gerdeman
Assistant Professor of Biology

Research interests include: synaptic plasticity, the neurophysiology and evolutionary biology of endocannabinoids and cannabinoid receptors, and the neurobiology of habit formation and drug addiction.

Shannon Gowans
Assistant Professor of Biology and Marine Science

Research interests include: behavioral ecology of marine mammals, especially dolphins.

Sheila Hanes
Professor Emeritus of Biology and Marine Science

Interests include both fossil and living plants. Recent projects include studies of pine seed cone development and systematic studies of seagrass species and fern populations using molecular techniques.

Jeannine Lessmann
Assistant Professor of Biology and Marine Science

Research interests include: basic and applied ecology of salt marsh plant, mangroves and seagrasses.

Peter A. Meylan
Professor of Biology

Research interests include: morphology, systematics and ecology of reptiles, especially turtles, and the conservation biology of Florida's native herpetofauna.

Nancy Smith
Associate Professor of Biology

Research interests include: mangrove ecology, astropos life history, a nd parasite-host interactions

Sally Spence
Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology

Research interests include: the use of insertional mutagenesis as a tool for understanding gene function in embryonic development, hematopoiesis and cancer.

William A. Szelistowski
Associate Professor of Biology

Primary research interests include the ecology of marine organisms and tropical rain forest animals with work in California, the Chesapeake Bay, the Caribbean and Central America.