Biology at Dartmouth College

31 faculty and 40 courses in Biology at Dartmouth College.

Faculty

• Kevin J. Peterson, Professor of Biological Sciences h-index 120
  Notable: “Novel methods improve prediction of species’ distributions from occurrence data” (2006) · 9,110 citations
• Lee Alan Witters, Professor of Biological Sciences h-index 77
  Notable: “The tumor suppressor LKB1 kinase directly activates AMP-activated kinase and regulates apoptosis in response to energy stress” (2004) · 1,774 citations
• Robert Hill, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences h-index 76
  Notable: “Meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus with a novel mecA homologue in human and bovine populations in the UK and Denmark: a descriptive study” (2011) · 924 citations
• G. Eric Schaller, Professor of Biological Sciences h-index 72
  Notable: “Type-A Arabidopsis Response Regulators Are Partially Redundant Negative Regulators of Cytokinin Signaling[W]” (2004) · 768 citations
• Matthew P. Ayres, Professor of Biological Sciences h-index 68
  Notable: “Biological Feedbacks in Global Desertification” (1990) · 2,521 citations
• Mark Alan McPeek, David T. McLaughlin Distinguished Professor h-index 64
  Notable: “Phylogenies and Community Ecology” (2002) · 4,623 citations
• Elizabeth F. Smith, Paul M. Dauten, Jr. Professor h-index 51
  Notable: “Prevention and Management of Chemotherapy-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy in Survivors of Adult Cancers: American Society of Clinical Oncology Clinical Practice Guideline” (2014) · 1,220 citations
• Kathryn L. Cottingham, Dartmouth Professor in the Arts and Sciences h-index 51
  The dynamics of lake plankton communities, linkages between terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, and the applications of ecological principles to public and environmental health. Lab members typically work collaboratively on to
  Notable: “Impacts of multiple stressors on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: the role of species co‐tolerance” (2004) · 758 citations
• Mary Lou Guerinot, Professor of Biological Sciences h-index 49
  In the area of metal transport and regulation of gene expression by metals. For most of the world, plants are the major point of entry for metals into the food chain, so work in our lab is laying the foundation for crops that offe
  Notable: “IRT1, an Arabidopsis Transporter Essential for Iron Uptake from the Soil and for Plant Growth” (2002) · 1,654 citations
• Magdalena Bezanilla, Chair, Department of Biological Sciences h-index 43
  Notable: “Tapping mode atomic force microscopy in liquids” (1994) · 868 citations
• Tracy Punshon, Research Associate Professor h-index 42
  Notable: “Localization of Iron in Arabidopsis Seed Requires the Vacuolar Membrane Transporter VIT1” (2006) · 688 citations
• Celia Y. Chen, Research Professor h-index 41
  Notable: “Mercury Contamination in Forest and Freshwater Ecosystems in the Northeastern United States” (2007) · 576 citations
• Bing He, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences h-index 40
  Notable: “RETRACTED ARTICLE: DCs induce CD40-independent immunoglobulin class switching through BLyS and APRIL” (2002) · 1,239 citations
• Carey D. Nadell, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences h-index 39
  Notable: “Spatial structure, cooperation and competition in biofilms” (2016) · 1,074 citations
• Ryan Calsbeek, Professor of Biological Sciences h-index 37
  Notable: “Sexually Antagonistic Selection, Sexual Dimorphism, and the Resolution of Intralocus Sexual Conflict” (2009) · 475 citations
• Olga Zhaxybayeva, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences h-index 33
  To understand how microbes change over time. Recent advances in DNA sequencing technologies brought us an avalanche of data: thousands of genomes and terabases of environmental DNA (metagenomes). I mine these data sets to assess the imp
  Notable: “Bootstrap, Bayesian probability and maximum likelihood mapping: exploring new tools for comparative genome analyses” (2002) · 435 citations
• Caitlin E. Hicks Pries, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences h-index 32
  Notable: “A rapid and sensitive sub-micro phosphorus determination” (1961) · 958 citations
• Thomas P. Jack, Professor of Biological Sciences h-index 27
  Notable: “The homeotic gene APETALA3 of Arabidopsis thaliana encodes a MADS box and is expressed in petals and stamens” (1992) · 904 citations
• Wei-Lih Lee, Professor of Biological Sciences h-index 24
  Notable: “Interaction of Cortactin and N-WASp with Arp2/3 Complex” (2002) · 257 citations
• Michael B. Hoppa, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences h-index 23
  Notable: “α2δ expression sets presynaptic calcium channel abundance and release probability” (2012) · 379 citations
• Patrick Dolph, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences h-index 23
  Notable: “Arrestin Function in Inactivation of G Protein-Coupled Receptor Rhodopsin in Vivo” (1993) · 320 citations
• Emily L. Behrman, Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences h-index 16
  Notable: “Genomic Evidence of Rapid and Stable Adaptive Oscillations over Seasonal Time Scales in Drosophila” (2014) · 606 citations
• Amanda L. Socha, Special Instructor h-index 12
  Notable: “Mn-euvering manganese: the role of transporter gene family members in manganese uptake and mobilization in plants” (2014) · 300 citations
• Amanda A. Amodeo, Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences h-index 10
  Notable: “Cell-Size Control” (2015) · 189 citations
• Natasha M. Grotz, Senior Lecturer of Biological Sciences h-index 8
  Notable: “IRT1, an Arabidopsis Transporter Essential for Iron Uptake from the Soil and for Plant Growth” (2002) · 1,654 citations
• Craig Layne, Principal Instructor h-index 4
  Notable: “NUTRIENT RECYCLING AND HERBIVORY AS MECHANISMS IN THE “TOP–DOWN” EFFECT OF FISH ON ALGAE IN LAKES” (1997) · 265 citations
• Jessica DeSimone Warren, Lecturer h-index 2
  Notable: “Small‐molecule inhibition of aging‐associated chromosomal instability delays cellular senescence” (2020) · 54 citations
• Dipon Ghosh, Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences
• Jessie Mutz, Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences
• Nicholas R. Sylvain, Lecturer
• Wilbur Ryan, Lecturer

Courses

• Mindful Physiology BIOL 3
• Researching Cellular Mysteries BIOL 9
• Emerging Infectious Diseases: How Microbes Rule the World BIOL 11.03
• Why can't we all just get along? Cooperation and Conflict across the Biological Sciences BIOL 11.06
• Biology of the Brain BIOL 11.09
• Cell Structure and Function BIOL 12
• Gene Expression and Inheritance BIOL 13
• Physiology BIOL 14
• Genetic Variation and Evolution BIOL 15
• Ecology BIOL 16
• Population Ecology BIOL 21
• Methods in Ecology BIOL 22
• Vertebrate Zoology BIOL 24
• Introductory Marine Biology and Ecology BIOL 25
• Global Change Biology BIOL 26
• Animal Behavior BIOL 27
• Macroevolution BIOL 28
• Biostatistics BIOL 29
• Physiological Ecology BIOL 31
• Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience BIOL 35
• Endocrinology BIOL 37
• Biochemistry BIOL 40
• Cells into Organs: Assembly, Function and Disease BIOL 41
• Biology of the Immune Response BIOL 42
• Microbiology, without Laboratory BIOL 44
• Molecular Biology BIOL 45
• Microbiology, with Lab BIOL 46
• Genomics: From Data to Analysis BIOL 47
• Ecology of Infectious Disease BIOL 50.02
• Advanced Population Ecology BIOL 51
• Aquatic Ecology BIOL 53
• Advanced Methods in Ecological Research BIOL 54
• Ecological Research in the Tropics I BIOL 55
• Ecological Research in the Tropics II BIOL 56
• Ecological Research on Coral Reefs BIOL 57
• Advanced Community Ecology BIOL 58
• General Linear Models BIOL 59.01
• Evolutionary Ecology BIOL 60.01
• Evolution of Sex BIOL 60.02
• End of Winter: Winter Ecology BIOL 61

Roster/catalog compiled from the college’s public directory. Faculty counts are directory headcounts; the named list may be a subset. h-index shown only for ORCID-backed or high-confidence OpenAlex matches. Data as of 2026-07-02.