Biology at Reed College

13 faculty and 0 courses in Biology at Reed College.

Faculty

• Jay Mellies, Professor of Biology (sabbatical 2026-27) h-index 26
  Notable: “Quorum sensing controls expression of the type III secretion gene transcription and protein secretion in enterohemorrhagic and enteropathogenic Escherichia coli” (1999) · 512 citations
• Sarah Schaack, Professor of Biology (sabbatical spring 2026) h-index 25
  Notable: “The Ecoresponsive Genome of Daphnia pulex” (2011) · 1,236 citations
• Jeremy Coate, Professor of Biology h-index 21
  Notable: “Polyploidy, the Nucleotype, and Novelty: The Impact of Genome Doubling on the Biology of the Cell” (2018) · 382 citations
• Anna Ritz, Professor of Biology (Chair) h-index 21
  Notable: “Transforming the Language of Life” (2020) · 97 citations
• Samuel Fey, Professor of Biology h-index 20
  Notable: “Recent shifts in the occurrence, cause, and magnitude of animal mass mortality events” (2015) · 352 citations
• Erik Zornik, Professor of Biology (sabbatical 2025-26) h-index 15
  Notable: “Neural transmitters and a peptide modulate Drosophila heart rate” (1999) · 126 citations
• Aaron Ramirez, Professor of Biology h-index 14
  Notable: “Defining Ecological Drought for the Twenty-First Century” (2017) · 479 citations
• Suzy C.P. Renn, Professor of Biology; Associate Dean h-index 14
  Notable: “The genomic substrate for adaptive radiation in African cichlid fish” (2014) · 1,052 citations
• José Miguel Simões, Visiting Assistant Professor of Neurobiology h-index 14
  Notable: “Fighting Zebrafish: Characterization of Aggressive Behavior and Winner–Loser Effects” (2011) · 217 citations
• Keith Karoly, Professor of Biology h-index 14
  Notable: “INBREEDING DEPRESSION IN SCHIEDEA GLOBOSA AND S. SALICARIA (CARYOPHYLLACEAE), SUBDIOECIOUS AND GYNODIOECIOUS HAWAIIAN SPECIES” (1989) · 109 citations
• Kara L. Cerveny, Professor of Biology (sabbatical 2026-27) h-index 12
  Notable: “Regulation of mitochondrial fusion and division” (2007) · 258 citations
• Pietro D'Amelio, Professor of Biology h-index 11
  Notable: “Same data, different analysts: variation in effect sizes due to analytical decisions in ecology and evolutionary biology” (2025) · 50 citations
• Derek A. Applewhite, Professor of Biology h-index 10
  Notable: “Lamellipodial Versus Filopodial Mode of the Actin Nanomachinery” (2004) · 423 citations

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.