Faculty and Instructors

Faculty

Name Email Phone Area
Heather Bergan-Roller hroller@niu.edu N/A Biology Education Research
Michael Henson mhenson@niu.edu N/A Aquatic Microbiology
Bill Martin wmartin1@niu.edu N/A Biology Education
Neil W. Blackstone neilb@niu.edu 815-753-7899 Ecology and Evolution
Barrie P. Bode bodebp@niu.edu 815-753-1753 Director of COVID-19 Facilities Cancer Biology and Molecular Physiology
Ana Calvo amcalvo@niu.edu 815-753-0451 Microbiology, Molecular Mycology
Olivier Devergne odevergne@niu.edu 815-753-7446 Cell and Developmental Biology, Epithelial Cell Polarity
Holly Jones hjones@niu.edu N/A Conservation biology; restoration ecology
(Joint appointment with Institute for the Study of the Environment, Sustainability and Energy)
Bethia H. King bking@niu.edu N/A
Ecology and Evolution
Jennifer Koop jkoop@niu.edu N/A
Evolutionary Biology, Invasion Biology, Population Genetics, Conservation Biology
Virginia L. Naples vlnaples@niu.edu 815-753-7819 Ecology and Evolution
Karen E. Samonds ksamonds@niu.edu 815-753-3201 Anatomy and Paleontology
Pallavi Singh psingh1@niu.edu 815-753-7839 Human/animal microbiome, Bacterial pathogens, comparative genomics, one health, food safety
Garry Sunter gsunter@niu.edu  815-753-1753 Plant Sciences
Wesley Swingley wswingley@niu.edu N/A
Microbial Ecology
Linda S. Yasui lyasui@niu.edu 815-753-3521 Cell Biology
Shengde Zhou szhou@niu.edu 815-753-7842 Microbial genetics, molecular biology, metabolic engineering, biotechnology

Teaching Faculty/Instructors

Name Email Phone Area
Christina Cline ccline3@niu.edu 815-753-1753 Anatomy and Physiology, Histology, Anatomy Education
Kara Coffman-Rea kcoffman1@niu.edu 815-753-1753 Anatomy, Physiology, Neurobiology
W. Scott Grayburn N/A 815-753-0368 Molecular Core Lab
Clare Kron ckron1@niu.edu  N/A Genetics, Molecular and Cell Biology

Joint Appointments

Name Email Primary Appointment
Beth Gaillard gaillard@niu.edu Chemistry and Biochemistry
Mitchell Irwin mirwin@niu.edu Anthropology
Melissa Lenczewski lenczewski@niu.edu Geology/Environmental Geosciences
Reed Scherer reed@niu.edu Geology/Environmental Geosciences

Postdoctoral Researchers

Name Email Lab Affiliation
Jennifer Bell jbell7@niu.edu  Swingley
Alba Nava Fereira anavafereira@niu.edu Sunter
Natalia Lucinda Pacheco Chaves natalia.lucindap@niu.edu Sunter

Emeriti Faculty

Name Email
Jozef J. Bujarski jbujarski@niu.edu
Richard B. King rbking@niu.edu
Melvin R. Duvall mel-duvall@niu.edu
Richard R. Hahin hahin@niu.edu
Gabriel P. Holbrook gholbrook@niu.edu
R. Meganathan rmeganathan@niu.edu
Peter L. Meserve pmeserve@uidaho.edu
Jon S. Miller jsmiller@niu.edu
Paul D. Sorensen psorensen@niu.edu
Joel Stafstrom stafstrom@niu.edu 
Ronald Toth rtoth@niu.edu
Patricia S. Vary pvary@niu.edu
Carl N. Von Ende cvonende@niu.edu
Jerrold H. Zar jhzar@niu.edu