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, Chair
Watson Bartlett Professor of Biology
Dr. re. biol. hum., University of Ulm, Germany, 1976.
"I use marine sipuncular worms to study immunological and regenrative responses to various environmental challenges."

Stuart Allison
Professor of Biology, Director of Green Oaks Biological Field Station
Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, 1991
"I am fascinated by how plant communities recover from disturbance, in particular from human disturbance."

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, 1997

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

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