Department Faculty

Lynn M. Bedard

Assistant Professor of Biology

Contact Information:
237 Olin Biological Sciences Building
Phone: (765) 658-4149
E-mail: lynnbedard@depauw.edu


Area of Specialty
Microbiology and Molecular Biology

(On leave Fall 2008)
Lynn Bedard

Lynn's Website


James H. Benedix, Jr.

Ph.D. Biology  (Kansas State University)
Associate Professor of Biology

Area of Specialty:  Behavioral Ecology and Evolutionary Ecology

Contact information: 
110 Olin Biological Sciences Building
Phone: (765) 658-4771
E-mail: jbenedix@depauw.edu

Jim Benedix

Jim's Website


Lea Daniel

Assistant Professor of Biology

Area of Specialty: Microbiology

Contact Information:
128 F. W. Olin Biological Sciences Building
Phone: (765) 658-4008
E-mail: leaspyres@depauw.edu


Dana A. Dudle

Biology Department Chair

Associate Professor of Biology

Area of Specialty: Plant Biology, Evolution

Contact information: 
Olin 114 Biological Sciences Building
Phone: (765) 658-4773
E-mail: ddudle@depauw.edu

Dana Dudle

Dana's website


Paula Evans

Ph.D., Biochemistry (Purdue University)
DNA Sequencing Lab (Olin 219) Supervisor/Coordinator
Part-time Instructor in Biology and Chemistry

Area of Specialty: Biochemistry, Cell Biology, DNA Sequencing

Contact information:
233 Olin Biological Sciences Building
Phone: (765) 658-4782
E-mail: pevans@depauw.edu

Chester S. Fornari

Ph.D. Microbiology and Molecular Genetics (University of Illinois),
Professor of Biology and Biochemistry

Area of Specialty: Molecular Genetics,
Genomics & Bioinformatics, Microbiology

Contact information:
232 Olin Biological Sciences Building
Phone: (765) 658-4781
E-mail: cfornari@depauw.edu

Chet's website


Vanessa Fox

Assistant Professor of Biology & Nature Park Coordinator

Contact information: 
128 F. W. Olin Biological Sciences Building
Phone: (765) 658-4772
E-mail: vartman@depauw.edu

Area of Specialty:  Ecology

Nature Park Web site


Wade N. Hazel  

Professor of Biology

Contact information:
214 F. W. Olin Biological Sciences Building
Phone: (765) 658-4778
E-mail: wnh@depauw.edu

Area of Specialty: Ecological and Evolutionary Genetics

(On leave 2008-09)

Wade Hazel

Wade's Website


Kevin S. Kinney 

Associate Professor of Biology

Contact information:
210 F. W. Olin Biological Sciences Building
Phone: (765) 658-6399
E-mail: kkinney@depauw.edu

Area of Specialty: Physiology, Immunology


 

Kevin Kinney

Kevin's website


Pascal Lafontant

Ph.D. Biomedical Sciences (Baylor College of Medicine)
Assistant Professor of Biology

Area of Specialty:  Biomedical, Physiology

Contact Information:
Olin Biological Sciences Building
Phone:  765-658-4776
E-mail:  pascallafontant@depauw.edu

Henning Schneider 

Ph.D. Biology (University of Konstanz, Germany)
Associate Professor of Biology

Area of Specialty: Molecular Neurobiology, Physiology, and Neuroethology

 

Contact Information:
236 Olin Biological Sciences Building
Phone: (765) 658-6453
E-mail: hschneider@depauw.edu

Henning's website



Delores Seketa

M.A. (DePauw University)
Part-time Instructor of Biology; Supervisor
of Laboratories

Area of Specialty: Diversity

Contact Information:
144 Olin Biological Sciences Building
Phone: (765) 658-4779
E-mail: dseketa@depauw.edu

Dee Seketa

Bruce S. Serlin

Ph.D. (University of Texas-Austin))
Associate Professor of Biology

Area of Specialty: Cellular Biology

 

Contact Information:
204 Olin Biological Sciences Building
Phone: (765) 658-4770
E-mail: dance@depauw.edu



Robert J. Stark

Ph.D. Biology (Temple University)
Professor of Biology

Area of Specialty: Anatomy, Neurobiology, Organismal Biology

Contact Information:
133A Olin Biological Sciences Building
Phone: (765) 658-4767
E-mail: robertstark@depauw.edu

(On leave 2008-09)

Robert Stark


Janet Vaglia

Assistant Professor of Biology

Area of Specialty: Developmental Biology

Contact Information:
208 F. W. Olin Biological Sciences Building
Phone: (765) 658-4785
E-mail: jvaglia@depauw.edu

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Janet Vaglia

Janet's website


David Andrew Zuwerink

Assistant Professor of Biology

 

Area of Specialty:Ornithology
(More)

 

Contact Information:
118 F. W. Olin Biological Sciences Building
Phone: (765) 658-5362
E-mail: andyzuwerink@depauw.edu

Emeritus Faculty

William Preston Adams
Ph.D. (Harvard University)
Professor Emeritus of Botany
James R. Gammon
Ph.D. Zoology
Professor Emeritus of Zoology
Contact information:
E-mail: jrgammon@depauw.edu
Charles E. Mays
Ph.D. Arizona State University
Professor Emeritus of Biology

 

Biology Department Staff

Greenhouse Curator

KrystalKrystal Belcher

Contact Information:
Greenhouse
Olin Biological Sciences Building
Phone: (765) 658-4769
E-mail: kbelcher@depauw.edu


Laboratory Managers

 

Betsy Bowlin

Betsy Bowlin

Biology Laboratory Coordinator/Storeroom Manager
B.S. Medical Technology
(Indiana University)


Contact Information:
229 Olin Biological Sciences Building
Phone: (765) 658-4774
E-mail: bbowlin@depauw.edu

 

 

Biology Laboratory & Facilities Manager

Contact information:
003 Olin Biological Sciences Building
Phone: (765) 658-4783
E-mail: 

 

Biology Department Secretary

 

Jayne Williams
Jayne Williams

Contact information:
129 Olin Biological Sciences Building
Phone: (765) 658-4775
E-mail:
jaynewil@depauw.edu