The Department of Biological Sciences has the mission of advancing human and environmental health at the national and international level through excellence in research, education and outreach.
News
- Eck Institute for Global Health joins AMPATH Consortium
- April 24, 2012
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- Study finds mild winters are detrimental to butterflies
- April 20, 2012
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Events
- Department Seminar: Matthew Hahn
- Tue Mar 19, 2013 • 4:00PM - 5:00PM
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Faculty Spotlight
Crislyn D'Souza-Schorey
Professor of Biological Sciences
A new study by a team of researchers, led by Crislyn D’Souza-Schorey, sheds light on the molecular basis by which tumor cells modulate their surroundings to favor cancer progression.
Giles Duffield
Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences
Notre Dame researchers, led by Duffield, provide new genetic information about the circadian rhythms of the malaria mosquito.
Jessica Hellmann
Associate Professor of Biological Sciences
Hellmann and her students and researchers study how the world is changing due to global warming. They ask where species will live in the future, how species and ecosystem are molded by changing climate, habitat loss, and invasive species, and what humans might do to help counteract negative impacts of these changes. Her work includes field research, modeling, genomics, bioinformatics, and policy studies.
David Hyde
Professor of Biological Sciences
David Hyde's research with adult stem cells avoids ethical concerns and shows promising results.
David Lodge
Professor of Biological Sciences
Director of Notre Dame’s Center for Aquatic Conservation, Lodge is a world-renowned expert on invasive species. He served as the first chair of the national Invasive Species Advisory Committee and was the lead author of the Ecological Society of America’s paper calling for a stronger government response to the problem of invasive species.
Molly Duman Scheel
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Molly Duman Scheel studies nervous system development in a variety of arthropods, including vector mosquitoes.
Gary Belovsky
Professor of Biological Sciences
Director Environmental Research Center (UNDERC), one of twenty core sites for the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON). A well-known population/community/conservation ecologist, Belovsky conducts long-term (> 15 years) projects on grasshoppers in Montana and brine shrimp in Great Salt Lake, Utah. Other projects in his lab involve rainforests, pitcher plants, grasshopper diseases, tadpoles, stream insects, small mammals, wolves, mountain lions and birds.
Malcolm Fraser
Professor of Biological Sciences
A research and development effort by the University of Notre Dame (including the Fraser Lab), the University of Wyoming, and Kraig Biocraft Laboratories, Inc. has succeeded in producing transgenic silkworms capable of spinning artificial spider silks.
Nora Besansky
Professor of Biological Sciences
Named O'Hara chair
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New study examines immunity in emerging species of a major mosquito carrier of malaria
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Jennifer Tank
Galla Professor of Biological Sciences
New study focuses on nitrogen in waterways as cause of nitrous oxide in the atmosphere
Kasturi Haldar
Julius Nieuwland Professor of Biological Sciences
Founding Director, Center for Rare and Neglected Diseases
“Dedicate some of your life to others,” Thomas A. Dooley, the 1948 Notre Dame alumnus and physician who became internationally famous for his devotion to the poor of Southeast Asia, his fondness for the University’s Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes and his cheerful acceptance of death at 34 years of age, once said. “Your dedication will not be a sacrifice. It will be an exhilarating experience because it is an intensive effort applied toward a meaningful end.”
Bob Schulz
Notre Dame Professor of Biological Sciences
Researchers from the laboratory of Robert Schulz have discovered that common genetic factors control the fate of stem cells in the development of the reproductive system and the blood cells of the fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster), a model genetic organism. Their work is published in the September 15 issue of the journal Development.
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