Biology at Tufts University

37 faculty and 0 courses in Biology at Tufts University.

Faculty

• David Kaplan, Distinguished Professor (Affiliate) h-index 197
  Notable: “Porosity of 3D biomaterial scaffolds and osteogenesis” (2005) · 6,515 citations
• Anthony Monaco, Affiliate Faculty h-index 111
  Notable: “Complete cloning of the duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) cDNA and preliminary genomic organization of the DMD gene in normal and affected individuals” (1987) · 2,398 citations
• Michael Levin, Vannevar Bush Professor h-index 95
  Notable: “A molecular pathway determining left-right asymmetry in chick embryogenesis” (1995) · 791 citations
• Daniel Promislow, Affiliate Faculty h-index 61
  Notable: “Living fast and dying young: A comparative analysis of life‐history variation among mammals” (1990) · 1,207 citations
• Elizabeth Crone, Affiliate Faculty h-index 51
  Notable: “Pollination and other ecosystem services produced by mobile organisms: a conceptual framework for the effects of land‐use change” (2007) · 1,470 citations
• Sergei Mirkin, Professor and White Family Chair h-index 51
  Notable: “Expandable DNA repeats and human disease” (2007) · 969 citations
• Colin Orians, Professor and Department Chair h-index 48
  Notable: “Environmental Factors Variably Impact Tea Secondary Metabolites in the Context of Climate Change” (2019) · 204 citations
• Barry Trimmer, Henry Bromfield Pearson Professor h-index 43
  Notable: “Soft robotics: a bioinspired evolution in robotics” (2013) · 2,050 citations
• Catherine Freudenreich, Professor h-index 37
  Notable: “Expansion and Length-Dependent Fragility of CTG Repeats in Yeast” (1998) · 402 citations
• Zarin Machanda, Affiliate Faculty h-index 33
  Notable: “Chimpanzee Alarm Call Production Meets Key Criteria for Intentionality” (2013) · 320 citations
• Randi Rotjan, Associate Professor h-index 31
  Notable: “Impact of coral predators on tropical reefs” (2008) · 371 citations
• Philip Starks, Associate Professor h-index 30
  Notable: “Genetic, Individual, and Group Facilitation of Disease Resistance in Insect Societies” (2008) · 432 citations
• Mitch McVey, Professor h-index 29
  Notable: “The SIR2/3/4 complex and SIR2 alone promote longevity in Saccharomyces cerevisiae by two different mechanisms” (1999) · 2,264 citations
• Eric Tytell, Associate Professor h-index 28
  Notable: “The hydrodynamics of eel swimming” (2004) · 434 citations
• Erik Dopman, Associate Professor h-index 26
  Notable: “A genome-wide view of the spectrum of spontaneous mutations in yeast” (2008) · 748 citations
• Ethan Deyle, Research Assistant Professor h-index 22
  Notable: “Detecting Causality in Complex Ecosystems” (2012) · 2,548 citations
• Douglas Blackiston, Assistant Professor h-index 20
  Notable: “Bioelectric controls of cell proliferation: Ion channels, membrane voltage and the cell cycle” (2009) · 476 citations
• Kelly McLaughlin, Associate Professor h-index 19
  Notable: “Apoptotic signals delivered through the T-cell receptor of a T-cell hybrid require the immediate–early gene nur77” (1994) · 552 citations
• Lawrence Uricchio, Youniss Family Assistant Professor h-index 16
  Notable: “Inflammasome-Mediated Production of IL-1β Is Required for Neutrophil Recruitment against Staphylococcus aureus In Vivo” (2007) · 331 citations
• Robert de Bruijn, Assistant Teaching Professor h-index 16
  Notable: “The role of glucocorticoids in the vertebrate response to weather” (2018) · 107 citations
• George Ellmore, Associate Professor h-index 15
  Notable: “Hydraulic Conductivity in Trunk Xylem of Elm, Ulmus Americana” (1985) · 110 citations
• Katherine Mattaini, Assistant Teaching Professor h-index 14
  Notable: “Reductive glutamine metabolism by IDH1 mediates lipogenesis under hypoxia” (2011) · 1,778 citations
• Jennifer Mortensen, Research Assistant Professor h-index 14
  Notable: “Cortical excitability changes induced by deafferentation of the contralateral hemisphere” (2002) · 189 citations
• Scott Frost, Affiliate Faculty h-index 14
  Notable: “Essential oil composition of four Lomatium Raf. species and their chemotaxonomy” (2004) · 89 citations
• Fatima Hussain, Assistant Professor h-index 13
  Notable: “Ecological Populations of Bacteria Act as Socially Cohesive Units of Antibiotic Production and Resistance” (2012) · 289 citations
• Frank David, Professor of the Practice h-index 12
  Notable: “Activating Mutations of the Noonan Syndrome-Associated SHP2/PTPN11 Gene in Human Solid Tumors and Adult Acute Myelogenous Leukemia” (2004) · 513 citations
• Khoa Tran, Assistant Professor h-index 12
  Notable: “Autosis is a Na + ,K + -ATPase–regulated form of cell death triggered by autophagy-inducing peptides, starvation, and hypoxia–ischemia” (2013) · 578 citations
• Alfredo Hernandez, Assistant Professor h-index 11
  Notable: “Regulatory Interactions between RNA and Polycomb Repressive Complex 2” (2014) · 287 citations
• Helen McCreery, Assistant Teaching Professor h-index 11
  Notable: “Transforming mentorship in STEM by training scientists to be better leaders” (2018) · 118 citations
• Mimi Kao, Associate Professor h-index 10
  Notable: “Contributions of an avian basal ganglia–forebrain circuit to real-time modulation of song” (2005) · 535 citations
• Sarah Hengel, Assistant Professor h-index 9
  Notable: “RAD51 Gene Family Structure and Function” (2020) · 244 citations
• Ekaterina Mirkin, Associate Teaching Professor h-index 8
  Notable: “Replication Fork Stalling at Natural Impediments” (2007) · 498 citations
• Jaye Gardiner, Assistant Professor h-index 7
  Notable: “Antigen structure affects cellular routing through DC-SIGN” (2019) · 61 citations
• Michael Romero, Professor h-index 4
  Notable: “Do Marine Mammals Experience Stress Related to Anthropogenic Noise?” (2007) · 196 citations
• Lauren Crowe, Associate Teaching Professor h-index 3
  Notable: “A Fluorescent Hsp90 Probe Demonstrates the Unique Association between Extracellular Hsp90 and Malignancy in Vivo” (2017) · 55 citations
• Julia Svoboda, Affiliate Faculty
• Michael Reed, Professor

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.