Faculty

Meet the Biology Faculty

Biology faculty at Knox are actively engaged in ongoing research programs, many funded by private and federal sources. Their programs are expressly designed to offer interested students the chance to learn by working as research assistants, both during the academic year and the summer.

Additional information and e-mail contacts for faculty members are available through their linked profile Web pages.

Linda Dybas
Watson Bartlett Professor of Biology
Dr. re. biol. hum., University of Ulm, Germany, 1976.
"I use fruit fly larvae for research on the effect of environmental stresses such as elevated temperature and dietary alcohols."

James Mountjoy
Associate Professor of Biology
Ph.D., McGill University, 1994

Jennifer Templeton
Associate Professor of Biology
Ph.D., Concordia University, 1993
"The focus of my studies is on learning, memory, and foraging behavior, and involves experimental work in the field and lab."

Judith Thorn
Associate Professor of Biology
Ph.D., University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 1995
"Function of song repertoires in Yellow-throated Vireos, including field work in Costa Rica on song variation in woodcreepers and song-sharing in White-breasted Wood-Wrens."

Esther Penick
Assistant Professor of Biology
Ph.D. Wayne State University, 2000

Mathys Meyer
Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology
Ph.D., University of Illinois, 2009
Cooperating faculty from other programs

Janet Kirkley
Professor of Biochemistry
Ph.D., George Washington University, 1992
"My research program is devoted to investigating factors that control the size and character of the immune response."

Emeritus faculty
Billy Wayne Geer
Clara A. Abbott Professor Emeritus of Biology

Eugene Arthur Perry
Professor Emeritus of Biology

Peter Schramm
Watson Bartlett Professor Emeritus of Biology