Biology at Haverford College

17 faculty and 40 courses in Biology at Haverford College.

Faculty

• Robert Fairman h-index 41
  Notable: “Mechanism of XIAP-Mediated Inhibition of Caspase-9” (2003) · 730 citations
• Eric Miller h-index 30
  Notable: “Socially mediated induction and suppression of antibiosis during bacterial coexistence” (2015) · 250 citations
• Jonathan Wilson h-index 28
  Notable: “Climate, pCO2 and terrestrial carbon cycle linkages during late Palaeozoic glacial–interglacial cycles” (2016) · 262 citations
• Philip Meneely, Professor Emeritus of Biology h-index 18
  Notable: “HIM-8 Binds to the X Chromosome Pairing Center and Mediates Chromosome-Specific Meiotic Synapsis” (2005) · 310 citations
• Karl Johnson h-index 17
  Notable: “A motility in the eukaryotic flagellum unrelated to flagellar beating.” (1993) · 1,014 citations
• Kristen Whalen h-index 16
  Notable: “Multiple defensive roles for triterpene glycosides from two Caribbean sponges” (2002) · 165 citations
• Lee Dietterich h-index 14
  Notable: “Increasing CO2 threatens human nutrition” (2014) · 1,429 citations
• Amy Campbell h-index 14
  Notable: “Commensal microbiota regulates skin barrier function and repair via signaling through the aryl hydrocarbon receptor” (2021) · 306 citations
• Geoffrey Hutinet h-index 13
  Notable: “Temperate Phages Acquire DNA from Defective Prophages by Relaxed Homologous Recombination: The Role of Rad52-Like Recombinases” (2014) · 133 citations
• Roshan Jain h-index 12
  Notable: “Estrogens Suppress a Behavioral Phenotype in Zebrafish Mutants of the Autism Risk Gene, CNTNAP2” (2016) · 229 citations
• Amy Cooke h-index 9
  Notable: “A conserved PUF–Ago–eEF1A complex attenuates translation elongation” (2012) · 145 citations
• Foen Peng h-index 9
  Notable: “Two MYB Proteins in a Self-Organizing Activator-Inhibitor System Produce Spotted Pigmentation Patterns” (2020) · 140 citations
• Judith Owen, Professor Emeritus of Biology h-index 9
  Notable: “Regulation of intracellular pH in human melanoma: potential therapeutic implications.” (2002) · 143 citations
• Rachel Hoang h-index 2
  Notable: “Adhesion of Crithidia fasciculata promotes a rapid change in developmental fate driven by cAMP signaling” (2024) · 9 citations
• Dustin Haskell
• Emily Black
• Jenea Adams, Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology

Courses

• Introduction to Biological Sciences BIOL H100
• Introduction to Programming in Biology BIOL H104
• Exploring Biology - Biology Seminar with Lab BIOL H115
• Evolution, Genetics & Genomics BIOL H200
• Biochemistry & Cell Physiology BIOL H201
• Behavioral Neuroscience BIOL H217
• Advanced Lab in Biology Sem 1 BIOL H300
• Advanced Lab in Biology Sem 2 BIOL H301
• Advanced Lab in Neuroscience BIOL H302
• Laboratory in Biochemical Research BIOL H303
• Neurobiology of Aging BIOL H304
• Advanced Genetic Analysis BIOL H311
• Development & Evolution BIOL H312
• Structure and Function of Macromolecules BIOL H313
• Biochemistry: Metabolic Basis of Disease BIOL H314
• Molecular Neurobiology BIOL H319
• Molecular Microbiology BIOL H320
• Molecular Virology BIOL H325
• Immunology BIOL H328
• Comparative Cell Biology of Invertebrates BIOL H329
• Biochemistry of Gene Expression BIOL H334
• Bioinformatics BIOL H335
• Pathogenic Microbiology BIOL H337
• Biostatistics BIOL H338
• Ecology BIOL H339
• Independent Study for Juniors BIOL H380
• Senior Research Tutorial at Off-Campus Research Labs BIOL H400
• Senior Research Tutorial in Protein Aggregation and Disease BIOL H403
• Senior Research Tutorial in Molecular Microbiology BIOL H404
• Senior Research Tutorial in Marine Natural Product Drug Discovery BIOL H405
• Senior Research Tutorial in Developmental Biology and Evolution BIOL H406
• Senior Research Tutorial in Bioarchitecture BIOL H407
• Senior Research Tutorial in Plant Biology and Evolution BIOL H408
• Senior Research Tutorial in Molecular Neurobiology BIOL H409
• Senior Research Tutorial in Molecular Genomics/Biochemistry BIOL H417
• Senior Research Tutorial in Evolutionary Genetics BIOL H418
• Advanced Topics in Biology BIOL H450
• Molecular Motors and Biological Nano-Machines BIOL H451
• Advanced Topics in Neurobiology: Neural Control of Gene Expression BIOL H453
• Advanced Topics in Biology of Marine Life BIOL H456

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.