Faculty
NWU Biology Department  

 

Cody Arenz

Education:
                   Ph.D. in Biology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
                   B.S. in Zoology, Oklahoma State University

Research Interests:
                   Animal behavior and more specifically Behavioral ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology.

Courses:
                   Perspectives in Biological Science, Liberal Arts Seminar, Biology of Animals, Animal Behavior, Evolution, Conservation Biology, Field Ornithology, and Tropical Ecology (Costa Rica Trip over winter term)
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Dale Benham

Education:
                 Ph.D. in Botany, Northern Arizona University
                 M.S. & B.S. in Biology, Angelo State University
                 A.S. in Biology, South Plains College.

Research Interests:
                 include aerobiology studies, speciation and evolution
of plants, especially ferns; reproductive biology of plants; pollination
ecology; fern gametophyte development and breeding systems studies; floristics

Courses:
              Biology of Plants, Introduction to Environmental Science, Plant Taxonomy, Liberal Arts Seminar, Perspectives in Biological Science.

William Boernke, Ph.D.

Education:
                   Ph.D. in Zoology, University of Minnesota
                   B.S. in Zoology, University of Minnesota

Research Interests:
                   My interests include Cell Biology, Biochemistry, Animal Physiology, and Bioethics. My research has been primarily in the area of enzymology, and I have started doing some Bioinformatics the past few summers at Argonne National Laboratory.

Courses:
                   Cell biology, Biochemistry, Animal Physiology, and Bioethics.

Jerry Bricker

Education:
                   Ph.D. in Botany, Arizona State University
                   M.S. in Botany, Arizona State University
                   B.S. in Biology, Western Michigan University

Research Interests:
                   My current research interests include topics related to plant taxonomy and plant disease. Projects currently under way include:
AshY phytoplasmas, revision of the North American species of Descurainia, a cladistic analysis of the Elaeocarpaceae: Morphological evidence.

Other areas of research activity that I am currently involved in are: 1) DNA analysis of Pyrrocoma insecticruris using the ITS-1 (nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer) and ITS-2 loci, and, 2) an ITS analysis of the genus Oönopsis (Asteraceae).

Courses:
                   Biology of Plants, Ecology, Liberal Arts Seminar, Belize Trip (Belize trip over winter term).

Jackie Canterbury

Education:
                   Ph.D.in progress, in Physiology, University of NE-Lincoln
                   M.S. in Avian Physiology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
                   B.A. University of Washington

Research Interests:
                  Ornithology and conservation biology
                   

Courses:
                  Perspectives in Biological Science, Human Anatomy and Physiology
                  

Glen Dappen

Education:
                   Ph.D.
                   B.S.

Research Interests:
                   Nematology
                   

Courses:
                   Histology, Comparative Anatomy, Biology of Animals
                  

Garry Duncan

Education:
                   Ph.D. in Genetics, University of Arizona
                   M.S. in Zoology, Arizona State University
                   B.S. in Zoology, Arizona State University

Research Interests:
                   Use of Polymerase Chain Reaction and DNA nucleotide sequencing in studying genetic variation in natural populations of black flies and nematodes.
                   Use of microarray technology in the analysis of genetic expression profiles of the virus PBCV-1.

Courses:
                   Genetics, Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, Evolution
                  

Jeff Isaacson

Education:
                   Ph.D. in Immunobiology, Iowa State University
                   D.V.M., Kansas State University
                   B.S. in Biology, Nebraska Wesleyan University

Research Interests:
                   The effects of bovine leukemia virus on the host immune system

Courses:
                   Microbiology, Immunology, Cell Biology Laboratory, Liberal Arts Seminar
                  

Cindy Marolf

Education:
                   M.S. in Veterinary Science, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
                   B.S. in Animal Science, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Research Interests:
                   

Courses:
                   Human Anatomy and Physiology, Perspectives in Biological Science, Human and Comparative Physiology
                  

Angela McKinney-Williams

Education:
                   Ph.D.
                   B.S.

Research Interests:
                   

Courses:
                  

 


 


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