Biology at Furman University

17 faculty and 0 courses in Biology at Furman University.

Faculty

• Linnea Freeman, Associate Professor, Biology h-index 19
  Nutritional Neuroscience and Alzheimer's disease. In the Keller Laboratory, she investigated many different aspects of how diet affects the brain: inflammation, oxidative stress, cognitive changes, as well as progressing Alzheimer's dise
  Notable: “Damaging effects of a high-fat diet to the brain and cognition: A review of proposed mechanisms” (2013) · 322 citations
• Adi Dubash, Associate Professor of Biology h-index 18
  Notable: “Regulation of Rho GTPase crosstalk, degradation and activity by RhoGDI1” (2010) · 352 citations
• John Quinn, Henry Keith and Ellen Hard Townes Professor of Biology; Director Environmental Studies h-index 18
  Notable: “Active and Passive Use of Green Space, Health, and Well-Being amongst University Students” (2019) · 230 citations
• Ashley Morris, Professor and Chair of Biology; Curator of the Ives Herbarium h-index 17
  Notable: “Comparative phylogeography of unglaciated eastern North America” (2006) · 1,084 citations
• Wade Worthen, Rose J. Forgione Professor of Biology h-index 17
  Notable: “Community Composition and Nested-Subset Analyses: Basic Descriptors for Community Ecology” (1996) · 207 citations
• Dennis Haney, Professor of Biology h-index 15
  Notable: “Physiological and Hematological Changes in Chum Salmon Artificially Infected with Erythrocytic Necrosis Virus” (1992) · 119 citations
• Jason Rawlings, Associate Professor of Biology h-index 8
  Notable: “The JAK/STAT signaling pathway” (2004) · 1,889 citations
• Victoria Turgeon, Professor, Biology; Academic Director, Prisma Health Partnership h-index 8
  Notable: “The role of thrombin-like (serine) proteases in the development, plasticity and pathology of the nervous system” (1997) · 129 citations
• Gregory Lewis, Professor of Biology h-index 8
  Notable: “Influence of wastewater-treatment effluent on concentrations and fluxes of solutes in the Bush River, South Carolina, during extreme drought conditions” (2004) · 69 citations
• Alison Roark, Professor of Biology h-index 8
  Notable: “Composition of guano produced by frugivorous, sanguivorous, and insectivorous bats” (2007) · 46 citations
• Min-Ken Liao, William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Biology h-index 8
  Es on the anthropogenic impacts on bacterial communities in urban environment. More specifically, she and her undergraduate researchers are using microbiological and molecular genetic techniques to investigate the genetic diversity of bacte
  Notable: “Urban Influences on Stream Chemistry and Biology in the Big Brushy Creek Watershed, South Carolina” (2007) · 47 citations
• David Hollis, Professor of Biology h-index 6
  Ed on the molecular characterization of the GABAA receptor, and its modulation by neurosteroids, in the amphibian brain. He then took a position as a postdoctoral scientist at Oregon State University where his worked focused on pheromone re
  Notable: “Plethodontid modulating factor, a hypervariable salamander courtship pheromone in the three‐finger protein superfamily” (2007) · 44 citations
• Travis Perry, Professor of Biology h-index 5
  Notable: “Somewhere to hide: Home range and habitat selection of cheetahs in an arid, enclosed system” (2014) · 18 citations
• Srikripa Chandrasekaran, Associate Professor, Biology; Assistant Dean of Inclusive Excellence h-index 4
  Notable: “Recruitment of the human Cdt1 replication licensing protein by the loop domain of Hec1 is required for stable kinetochore–microtubule attachment” (2012) · 104 citations
• Grace Freundlich, Assistant Professor, Biology h-index 3
  Notable: “Impacts of Groundwater Discharge at Myora Springs (North Stradbroke Island, Australia) on the Phenolic Metabolism of Eelgrass, Zostera muelleri, and Grazing by the Juvenile Rabbitfish, Siganus fuscescens” (2014) · 28 citations
• Mara Robu, Senior Lecturer, Biology
• Marna Costanzo, Adjunct Professor, 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.