Biology at Dartmouth College

31 faculty and 40 courses in Biology at Dartmouth College.

Faculty

• Matthew P. Ayres, Professor of Biological Sciences h-index 68
• Kevin J. Peterson, Professor of Biological Sciences h-index 63
• Magdalena Bezanilla, Chair, Department of Biological Sciences h-index 43
• Tracy Punshon, Research Associate Professor h-index 42
• Bing He, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences h-index 40
• Ryan Calsbeek, Professor of Biological Sciences h-index 37
• Elizabeth F. Smith, Paul M. Dauten, Jr. Professor h-index 36
• 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
• Wei-Lih Lee, Professor of Biological Sciences h-index 24
• Michael B. Hoppa, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences h-index 23
• Patrick Dolph, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences h-index 23
• Amanda A. Amodeo, Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences h-index 10
• Amanda L. Socha, Special Instructor
• Caitlin E. Hicks Pries, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences
• Carey D. Nadell, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences
• Celia Y. Chen, Research Professor
• Craig Layne, Principal Instructor
• Dipon Ghosh, Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences
• Emily L. Behrman, Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences
• G. Eric Schaller, Professor of Biological Sciences
• Jessica DeSimone Warren, Lecturer
• Jessie Mutz, Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences
• Kathryn L. Cottingham, Dartmouth Professor in the Arts and Sciences
  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
• Lee Alan Witters, Professor of Biological Sciences
• Mark Alan McPeek, David T. McLaughlin Distinguished Professor
• Mary Lou Guerinot, Professor of Biological Sciences
  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
• Natasha M. Grotz, Senior Lecturer of Biological Sciences
• Nicholas R. Sylvain, Lecturer
• Robert Hill, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences
• Thomas P. Jack, Professor of Biological Sciences
• 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 2026-07-01.