29 faculty and 31 courses in Biology at St. Olaf College.
- Norman Lee, Associate Professor of Biology; Director of Neuroscience h-index 29
Notable: “The complete genome sequence of the gastric pathogen Helicobacter pylori” (1997) · 3,553 citations
- Eric S Cole, Professor of Biology h-index 21
Notable: “Germline and Somatic Transformation of Mating Tetrahymena thermophila by Particle Bombardment” (1997) · 283 citations
- Laura Listenberger, Professor of Biology and Chemistry; Department Chair of Chemistry h-index 20
Notable: “Triglyceride accumulation protects against fatty acid-induced lipotoxicity” (2003) · 2,066 citations
- Charles Umbanhowar Jr, Professor of Biology and Environmental Studies; Director of Natural Lands h-index 16
Paleoecology, prairie community ecology, fire history of Big Woods and Great Plains and Manitoba, insect herbivory and plant-insect interactions, multivariate statistical methods, prairie and oak savanna restoration St. Olaf College 1520 S
Notable: “Late‐glacial and Holocene climatic effects on fire and vegetation dynamics at the prairie–forest ecotone in south‐central Minnesota” (2003) · 85 citations
- Ranjan Muthukrishnan, Assistant Professor of Biology h-index 15
Notable: “Integrating the underlying structure of stochasticity into community ecology” (2019) · 221 citations
- Jake Grossman, Assistant Professor of Biology and Environmental Studies; Director of Environmental Conversation h-index 14
Notable: “Synthesis and future research directions linking tree diversity to growth, survival, and damage in a global network of tree diversity experiments” (2018) · 163 citations
- Takashi Maie, Assistant Professor of Biology h-index 14
Notable: “Performance and scaling of a novel locomotor structure: adhesive capacity of climbing gobiid fishes” (2012) · 78 citations
- Lisa M Bowers, Associate Professor of Biology h-index 14
Molecular Microbiology, Genetics, Synthetic Biology (iGEM) Just because bacteria are thought to be the simplest living organisms, they are by no means “simple” When a single bacterium divides by binary fission, the result is t
Notable: “"I Was Born Full Deaf." Written Language Outcomes After 1 Year of Strategic and Interactive Writing Instruction” (2011) · 77 citations
- Claire Riggs, Assistant Professor of Biology h-index 13
Notable: “Mammalian stress granules and P bodies at a glance” (2020) · 388 citations
- Steven Freedberg, Professor of Biology h-index 12
Theoretical Evolutionary Genetics, Simulation Modeling, Turtles Website - pages.stolaf.edu/freedberg St. Olaf College 1520 St. Olaf Avenue Northfield, MN 55057 Get Directions Legal Navigation Emergency Information
Notable: “CULTURAL INHERITANCE AS A MECHANISM FOR POPULATION SEX-RATIO BIAS IN REPTILES” (2001) · 78 citations
- Kevin Crisp, Professor of Biology; Department Chair of Biology; Director of Health Professions Committee h-index 12
Notable: “Nanowires Precisely Grown on The Ends of Microwire Electrodes Permit The Recording of Intracellular Action Potentials Within Deeper Neural Structures” (2012) · 40 citations
- Beth Pettitt, Associate Professor of Practice in Biology h-index 11
Notable: “Advertisement Call Variation in the Golden Rocket Frog (Anomaloglossus beebei): Evidence for Individual Distinctiveness” (2013) · 54 citations
- Sara Fruehling, Associate Professor of Practice in Biology h-index 6
Notable: “The Immunoreceptor Tyrosine-Based Activation Motif of Epstein–Barr Virus LMP2A Is Essential for Blocking BCR-Mediated Signal Transduction” (1997) · 233 citations
- James Demas, Associate Professor of Biology and Physics h-index 6
The retinas in your eyes are not just for seeing While most of the millions of retinal cells are involved in processing visual information and relaying that information to the brain, a small population of cells has a simpler job: reporting
Notable: “A small molecule accelerates neuronal differentiation in the adult rat” (2010) · 118 citations
- Emily Mohl, Associate Professor of Biology and Education h-index 5
Notable: “Natural enemy‐mediated indirect interactions among prey species: potential for enhancing biocontrol services in agroecosystems” (2014) · 115 citations
- Kathleen Stuart, Research Technician h-index 5
Notable: “Chapter 12 Nuclear and Cytoskeletal Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques” (1999) · 41 citations
- Kim Kandl, Professor of Biology; Paul and Mildred Hardy Distinguished Professor of Science; Director of Biomolecular Science h-index 1
Notable: “Integrated Chemistry and Biology for First-Year College Students” (2011) · 16 citations
- Jean Porterfield, Associate Professor of Biology h-index 1
Notable: “Course‐based Undergraduate Research Linked Across Two Core Biology Courses” (2022) · 1 citations
- Lauren Bitner, Postbaccalaureate Research Associate h-index 1
Notable: “How relaxed preferences facilitate the evolution of novel animal signals” (2025) · 1 citations
- Diane K Angell, Associate Professor of Practice in Biology
Small Mammals and Bumble Bees in Mosaics of Restored and Remnant Prairies Restoring and reconstructing prairies has become increasingly common and currently a mosaic of small remnant and large restored prairie patches now coexist around Nor
- Kathie J Towler, Academic Administrative Assistant – Team South
- Kraig F Gregor, Biology Stockroom Technician
- Lou Schlatter, Postdoctoral Research Associate
- Lynn N Schofield, Visiting Instructor of Biology
- Rob Weiner, Postdoctoral Research Associate
- Sean M Peterson, Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology
- Steven D Cole, Instructor in Biology
- Wade W Schulz, Biology Stockroom Manager
- Will Matchett, Visiting Assistant Professor 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.