Biology-UPRRP: Graduate Program: Faculty

Faculty

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Name	Unit	Research interests
James D. Ackerman	Department of Biology	Plant Systematics and Reproductive Ecology, Orchidology.
Ingi Agnarsson	Department of Biology	Systematics, Biogeography, Social Evolution, Taxonomy of Spiders, Phylogenetics of Spiders and Mammals.
Mitchell Aide	Department of Biology	Community Ecology, Restoration, Conservation.
Adriana Báez	Department of Pharmacology	Cancer Genetics, Molecular and Clinical Aspects of Cancer in Puerto Ricans.
Paul Bayman	Department of Biology	Mycology, Mycotoxins, Mycorrhizae and Endophytes.
Nicholas Brokaw	Institute for Tropical Ecosystem Studies	Patterns and Causes of Tropical Tree Diversity and Forest Structure.
David Bruck	Department of Biology	Evolution of Caribbean Drosophila.
Graciela Candelas	Department of Biology	Molecular Biology, Gene Expression and Gene Regulation.
Elvira Cuevas	Department of Biology	Ecosystem Ecology, Nutrient Cycling.
Maria G. Dominguez Bello	Department of Biology	Microbial Ecology of the Digestive Tract (Foregut Fermentation, Helicobacter Pylori), Dispersal of Antibiotic Resistance Determinants.
Gladys Escalona De Motta	Department of Biology	Neurobiology and Farmacology.
Jose E. García Arraras	Department of Biology	Neural Development and Regeneration.
Tugrul Giray	Department of Biology	Behavioral Development, Social Insects.
Carlos I. Gonzalez	Department of Biology	Molecular Biology, Control of Gene Expression.
Grizelle González	Ecosystems	Soil Organisms and Ecosystem Processes and Function.
Kai Griebenow	Department of Chemistry	Protein Structure and Stability, Enzyme Catalysis in Organic Solvents.
Edwin Hernandez	Department of Biology	Coral Reef Biology, Marine Conservation.
Tomas Hrbek	Department of Biology	Phylogenetics, Population and Quantitative Genetics, Applications to Conservation.
Rafael Joglar Jusino	Department of Biology	Herpetology, Conservation Biology.
Juan Carlos Jorge	Department of Anatomy	Neuroendocrinology and Behavior.
Jose A. Lasalde Dominicci	Department of Biology	Molecular Biology, Nicotinic Receptors.
Jean Lodge	Forest Products Laboratory	Fungus Systematics.
Ariel Lugo	Ecosystems	Tropical Forest Ecology and Management.
Carmen S. Maldonado Vlaar	Department of Biology	Behavioral Neuroscience, Neurobiology of Drug Addiction.
Steven Massey	Department of Biology	Bioinformatics and Molecular Evolution.
Elvia J. Melendez-Ackerman	Institute for Tropical Ecosystem Studies	Effects of Exotic Species on Plant Communties.
Jorge R. Ortiz Zayas	Institute for Tropical Ecosystem Studies	Carbon Metabolism in Tropical Island Streams, Applied Limnology, Water Resources Management.
Sandra Peña	Department of Biology	Molecular Neurobiology, Memory.
Alonso Ramirez	Institute for Tropical Ecosystem Studies	Aquatic Ecology.
Jason Rauscher	Department of Biology	Plant Evolutionary Genetics, Molecular Systematics, Phylogeography and Conservation.
Fernando Renaud	Department of Biology	Cellular Biology, Opiod Mechanisms.
Carla Restrepo	Department of Biology	Landscape Ecology, GIS, Seed Dispersal and Frugivory.
Loretta Roberson	Department of Biology	Physical Factors and Their Influence on the Phisiology, Morphology, and Life-histories of Marine Plants and Corals.
Eduardo Rosa Molinar	Department of Biology	Experimental Neuroembriology.
Alberto Sabat Guernica	Department of Biology	Population Ecology.
Eugenio Santiago	Department of Biology	Evolutionary Biology, Biogeography, Ethnobotany.
Annabell C. Segarra	Department of Physiology	Sexual Hormones and Drug Abuse, Neuroendocrinology of the Reproductive System.
Adelfa Serrano	Department of Microbiology and Medical Zoology	Malaria and Molecular Multiresistance to Drugs, Parasite Molecular Biology and Inmunology, .
Walter Silva	Department of Physiology	Function of Caveole and Caveoline in the Differentiation of C6glial Cells.
Richard Thomas	Department of Biology	Biogeography and Systematics, Herpetology.
Gary A. Toranzos Soria	Department of Biology	Microbial Ecology.
Raymond Tremblay	Wildlife Research
Irving Vega	Department of Biology	Neurodegeneration and the Aggregation of the Microtubule-associated Protein Tau.
Joseph M. Wunderle	Institute for Tropical Ecosystem Studies	Avian Behavior and Ecology.
Jess Zimmerman	Institute for Tropical Ecosystem Studies	Dynamics of Tropical Plant Communities, Tropical Tree Life Histories, Restoration Ecology, Orchid Reproductive Ecology, Ant Ecology.
Xiaoming Zou	Institute for Tropical Ecosystem Studies	Ecosystem Ecology and Carbon Cycle.