60 faculty and 0 courses in Biology at Duke University.
- Rytas J. Vilgalys, Professor of Biology h-index 92
Notable: “Rapid genetic identification and mapping of enzymatically amplified ribosomal DNA from several Cryptococcus species” (1990) · 5,888 citations
- Sheng-Yang He, Benjamin E. Powell Distinguished Professor of Biology h-index 88
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Notable: “JAZ repressor proteins are targets of the SCFCOI1 complex during jasmonate signalling” (2007) · 2,531 citations
- Susan C. Alberts, Robert F. Durden Distinguished Professor of Biology h-index 86
Notable: “Moving in the Anthropocene: Global reductions in terrestrial mammalian movements” (2018) · 1,290 citations
- Emily S. Bernhardt, Chair, James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Biology h-index 84
Notable: “Synthesizing U.S. River Restoration Efforts” (2005) · 1,884 citations
- Mohamed A. F. Noor, Professor of Biology h-index 82
Notable: “Evolution of a Species' Range” (1997) · 1,443 citations
- Xinnian Dong, Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Biology h-index 76
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Notable: “SYSTEMIC ACQUIRED RESISTANCE” (2004) · 3,130 citations
- Francois M. Lutzoni, Professor of Biology h-index 71
Notable: “A higher-level phylogenetic classification of the Fungi” (2007) · 2,385 citations
- H. Frederik Nijhout, John Franklin Crowell Distinguished Professor of Biology h-index 66
Notable: “Development and evolution of adaptive polyphenisms” (2002) · 641 citations
- Gregory Allan Wray, Director of Graduate Studies, Professor of Biology h-index 65
Notable: “Convergent adaptation of human lactase persistence in Africa and Europe” (2006) · 1,650 citations
- A. Jonathan Shaw, Professor of Biology h-index 61
Notable: “Phylotranscriptomic analysis of the origin and early diversification of land plants” (2014) · 1,344 citations
- Clifford W. Cunningham, Professor of Biology h-index 59
Notable: “Arthropod relationships revealed by phylogenomic analysis of nuclear protein-coding sequences” (2010) · 1,040 citations
- Tai-ping Sun, John Carlisle Kilgo Distinguished Professor of Biology h-index 55
Notable: “Mutational hot spot in the p53 gene in human hepatocellular carcinomas” (1991) · 1,533 citations
- Ke Dong, Professor in Biology h-index 55
Notable: “Molecular biology of insect sodium channels and pyrethroid resistance” (2014) · 560 citations
- William F. Morris, Professor of Biology h-index 54
Notable: “Biotic interactions and plant invasions” (2006) · 800 citations
- Soenke Johnsen, Ida Stephens Owens Distinguished Professor h-index 52
Notable: “Coevolution to the edge of chaos: Coupled fitness landscapes, poised states, and coevolutionary avalanches” (1991) · 552 citations
- Justin Prouty Wright, Professor of Biology h-index 49
Es on understanding the causes and consequences of patterns of biological diversity across the planet. I am particularly interested in two broad questions: 1)How does the modification of the environment by organisms affect community structu
Notable: “Effects of biodiversity on the functioning of trophic groups and ecosystems” (2006) · 1,877 citations
- Kathleen Donohue, Professor of Biology h-index 49
Notable: “Relaxed selection in the wild” (2009) · 650 citations
- Paul S. Manos, Professor in the Department of Biology h-index 46
Involve a range of evolutionary and ecological questions within the Fagaceae. For example, we have reinterpreted cupule evolution in the Fagaceae and calibrated the phylogeny for the American clades of Quercus. Ongoing collaborations with A
Notable: “Comparative phylogeography of unglaciated eastern North America” (2006) · 1,084 citations
- Lucia Carol Strader, Professor of Biology h-index 46
Es on a molecular understanding of auxin signaling, auxin homeostasis, and auxin crosstalk with other hormones. Understanding these molecular details will yield insight into strategies used by plants to alter growth in response to various e
Notable: “The Arabidopsis SLEEPY1 Gene Encodes a Putative F-Box Subunit of an SCF E3 Ubiquitin Ligase[W]” (2003) · 589 citations
- Lisa Cameron, Associate Research Professor in the Department of Biology h-index 46
Notable: “Eosinophil-associated TGF-β1 mRNA Expression and Airways Fibrosis in Bronchial Asthma” (1997) · 637 citations
- John H. Willis, Professor of Biology h-index 45
Notable: “The genetics of inbreeding depression” (2009) · 2,267 citations
- Daniel P. Kiehart, Professor of Biology h-index 45
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Notable: “Visualizing Intracellular Organelle and Cytoskeletal Interactions at Nanoscale Resolution on Millisecond Timescales” (2018) · 677 citations
- Jolanta Maria Miadlikowska, Instructor B in the Department of Biology h-index 44
Notable: “A higher-level phylogenetic classification of the Fungi” (2007) · 2,385 citations
- David R. Sherwood, Professor of Biology h-index 42
Early development Fellowship Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · View All Grants Education Duke University · 1997 Ph.D. Wesleyan University · 1990 B.A. External Links http:/
Notable: “Basement membranes” (2017) · 352 citations
- Sheila N Patek, Professor of Biology h-index 40
Notable: “Integrative and Comparative Biology” (2006) · 1,061 citations
- Fay-Wei Li, Scholar In Residence in the Department of Biology h-index 39
Notable: “Fern genomes elucidate land plant evolution and cyanobacterial symbioses” (2018) · 545 citations
- L. Ryan Baugh, Professor of Biology h-index 35
Notable: “Quantitative analysis of mRNA amplification by in vitro transcription” (2001) · 499 citations
- Zhen-Ming Pei, Associate Professor of Biology h-index 34
Notable: “Calcium channels activated by hydrogen peroxide mediate abscisic acid signalling in guard cells” (2000) · 2,111 citations
- Daniel W. McShea, Professor of Biology h-index 34
Hierarchy theory, especially the causal relationship between higher-level wholes and their components (Spencer, Simon, Campbell, Salthe, Wimsatt). In biology, for example, we might want to know how large-scale processes within a multicel
Notable: “MECHANISMS OF LARGE-SCALE EVOLUTIONARY TRENDS” (1994) · 370 citations
- Marcy K. Uyenoyama, Professor of Biology h-index 33
Notable: “Speciation and its consequences” (1989) · 822 citations
- Amy Bejsovec, Associate Professor of Biology h-index 28
Notable: “Armadillo Coactivates Transcription Driven by the Product of the Drosophila Segment Polarity Gene dTCF” (1997) · 1,201 citations
- Amy K. Schmid, Professor of Biology h-index 27
Notable: “A Predictive Model for Transcriptional Control of Physiology in a Free Living Cell” (2007) · 308 citations
- Steven B. Haase, Professor of Biology h-index 26
Notable: “Global control of cell-cycle transcription by coupled CDK and network oscillators” (2008) · 315 citations
- Paul Mitaari Magwene, Professor of Biology h-index 25
Notable: “The Statistics of Bulk Segregant Analysis Using Next Generation Sequencing” (2011) · 475 citations
- Masayuki Onishi, Assistant Professor of Biology h-index 25
Notable: “ASH1L Links Histone H3 Lysine 36 Dimethylation to MLL Leukemia” (2016) · 160 citations
- Eric P. Spana, Associate Professor of the Practice of Biology h-index 24
Notable: “Numb Antagonizes Notch Signaling to Specify Sibling Neuron Cell Fates” (1996) · 433 citations
- V. Louise Roth, Professor of Biology h-index 24
Notable: “Biodiversity and Topographic Complexity: Modern and Geohistorical Perspectives” (2017) · 316 citations
- Jean Philippe Gibert, Joanne W. Markman and A. Morris Williams Jr. Associate Professor of Biology h-index 23
Notable: “The combined effects of reactant kinetics and enzyme stability explain the temperature dependence of metabolic rates” (2017) · 123 citations
- Julie Reynolds, Professor of the Practice in the Department of Biology h-index 22
Notable: “Earth Stewardship: science for action to sustain the human-earth system” (2011) · 240 citations
- Sara E Lipshutz, Assistant Professor of Biology h-index 15
Es on the evolution of behavior across weird and wonderfully diverse species of birds. This work bridges “muddy boots” experimental fieldwork with a variety of molecular and computational approaches in genetics, genomics, neuroscience, and
Notable: “Multivariate Models of Animal Sex: Breaking Binaries Leads to a Better Understanding of Ecology and Evolution” (2023) · 89 citations
- Anyi Mazo-Vargas, Assistant Professor of Biology h-index 14
Notable: “Single master regulatory gene coordinates the evolution and development of butterfly color and iridescence” (2017) · 196 citations
- Kelly Hogan, Director of Undergraduate Studies, Professor of the Practice of Biology h-index 11
Notable: “Getting Under the Hood: How and for Whom Does Increasing Course Structure Work?” (2014) · 549 citations
- Nina Tang Sherwood, Associate Professor of the Practice of Biology h-index 10
Notable: “Drosophila Spastin Regulates Synaptic Microtubule Networks and Is Required for Normal Motor Function” (2004) · 266 citations
- Pelin Cayirlioglu Volkan, Associate Professor of Biology h-index 10
Notable: “Social Context Enhances Hormonal Modulation of Pheromone Detection in Drosophila” (2019) · 81 citations
- John M. Mercer, Professor of the Practice of Biology h-index 9
Notable: “The Effects of Cenozoic Global Change on Squirrel Phylogeny” (2003) · 283 citations
- Gustavo M. Silva, Jack H. Neely Associate Professor of Biology h-index 9
Notable: “In vivo anti-inflammatory effect and toxicological screening of Maytenus heterophylla and Maytenus senegalensis extracts” (2010) · 50 citations
- Nadeesha S Perera, Instructor B in the Department of Biology h-index 7
Notable: “Named Entity Recognition and Relation Detection for Biomedical Information Extraction” (2020) · 174 citations
- Emily Franklin Ozdowski, Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies, Lecturer of Biology h-index 6
Notable: “Functional conservation of human Spastin in a Drosophila model of autosomal dominant-hereditary spastic paraplegia” (2010) · 25 citations
- Charlotte Lee, Scholar in Residence of Biology h-index 3
Notable: “Long-Term Oncological Outcomes in Women Undergoing Radical Cystectomy and Orthotopic Diversion for Bladder Cancer” (2009) · 89 citations
- Shannon Dougherty, Instructor B in the Department of Biology h-index 3
Notable: “Expanding Role of Ubiquitin in Translational Control” (2020) · 75 citations
- Lindsay Saunders, Lecturer of Biology h-index 2
Notable: “Sub-circuits of a gene regulatory network control a developmental epithelial-mesenchymal transition” (2014) · 115 citations
- Lara Marcia Linden-High, Instructor B in the Department of Biology h-index 1
Notable: “Ectopic Germ Cells Can Induce Niche-like Enwrapment by Neighboring Body Wall Muscle” (2019) · 28 citations
- Alison Hill, Senior Lecturer of Biology
- Andrea Marie Marritt-Pabalate, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs
- Arnaldo Carreira-Rosario, Assistant Professor of Biology
- Jacob Levine, Scholar In Residence in the Department of Biology
- Rachel Wadleigh, Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Biology
- Rebecca Cary, Instructor B in the Department of Biology
- Sherryl A. Broverman, Professor of the Practice of Biology
- William Freimuth, Instructor B in the Department of Biology
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.