40 faculty and 40 courses in Biology at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
- Jones, Corbin, Professor h-index 109
Notable: “Integrated Genomic Characterization of Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma” (2014) · 3,075 citations
- Kieber, Joseph, Kenan Distinguished Professor h-index 79
Notable: “CTR1, a negative regulator of the ethylene response pathway in arabidopsis, encodes a member of the Raf family of protein kinases” (1993) · 1,953 citations
- Marzluff, William F., William Rand Kenan Professor h-index 72
Notable: “Circular RNAs are abundant, conserved, and associated with ALU repeats” (2012) · 4,558 citations
- Bruno, John, Chi Omega Distinguished Professor h-index 66
Notable: “A Global Map of Human Impact on Marine Ecosystems” (2008) · 6,452 citations
- Bloom, Kerry S., Thad L. Beyle Distinguished Professor h-index 66
Notable: “Systematic exploration of essential yeast gene function with temperature-sensitive mutants” (2011) · 441 citations
- Matera, Gregory, Professor h-index 59
Notable: “A day in the life of the spliceosome” (2014) · 1,071 citations
- Duronio, Robert J., Cary C. Boshamer Professor, Department Chair h-index 50
Notable: “Metabolism and regulation of canonical histone mRNAs: life without a poly(A) tail” (2008) · 778 citations
- Maddox, Paul, Associate Professor h-index 50
Notable: “Merotelic Kinetochore Orientation Is a Major Mechanism of Aneuploidy in Mitotic Mammalian Tissue Cells” (2001) · 571 citations
- Goldstein, Bob, James L. Peacock III Distinguished Professor h-index 49
Notable: “Engineering the Caenorhabditis elegans genome using Cas9-triggered homologous recombination” (2013) · 1,066 citations
- Lohmann, Kenneth J., Charles P. Postelle Jr. Distinguished Professor h-index 49
Notable: “True navigation and magnetic maps in spiny lobsters” (2003) · 409 citations
- Bautch, Victoria L., Beverly Long Chapin Distinguished Professor h-index 49
Notable: “A sonic hedgehog signaling domain in the arterial adventitia supports resident Sca1 + smooth muscle progenitor cells” (2008) · 306 citations
- Copenhaver, Gregory P., Chancellor's Eminent Professor h-index 45
Notable: “Sequence and analysis of chromosome 2 of the plant Arabidopsis thaliana” (1999) · 715 citations
- Hurlbert, Allen, Professor h-index 43
Notable: “Evolution and the latitudinal diversity gradient: speciation, extinction and biogeography” (2007) · 1,745 citations
- Hedrick, Tyson L., Professor, Associate Chair h-index 43
Notable: “Software techniques for two- and three-dimensional kinematic measurements of biological and biomimetic systems” (2008) · 1,376 citations
- Laederach, Alain, Professor h-index 41
Notable: “Common genetic variation in the HLA region is associated with late-onset sporadic Parkinson's disease” (2010) · 815 citations
- Conlon, Frank, Professor h-index 37
Notable: “The role of microRNA-1 and microRNA-133 in skeletal muscle proliferation and differentiation” (2005) · 2,786 citations
- Matthysse, Ann G., Professor h-index 35
Notable: “Elaboration of cellulose fibrils by Agrobacterium tumefaciens during attachment to carrot cells” (1981) · 217 citations
- Burch, Christina, Professor h-index 29
Notable: “Architecture and secondary structure of an entire HIV-1 RNA genome” (2009) · 844 citations
- Feng, Xiao, Assistant Professor h-index 27
Notable: “A standard protocol for reporting species distribution models” (2020) · 913 citations
- Maddox, Amy Shaub, Professor, Associate Chair (Academic Affairs) h-index 25
Notable: “RhoA is required for cortical retraction and rigidity during mitotic cell rounding” (2003) · 305 citations
- Ahmed, Shawn, Professor h-index 24
Notable: “piRNAs Can Trigger a Multigenerational Epigenetic Memory in the Germline of C. elegans” (2012) · 801 citations
- Johnson, Corey, Teaching Professor h-index 23
Notable: “Interventions on rethinking ‘the border’ in border studies” (2011) · 611 citations
- Chen, Jiakun, Assistant Professor h-index 22
Notable: “Live-imaging of astrocyte morphogenesis and function in zebrafish neural circuits” (2020) · 175 citations
- Hastie, Eric, Teaching Assistant Professor h-index 16
Notable: “Adeno-Associated Virus at 50: A Golden Anniversary of Discovery, Research, and Gene Therapy Success—A Personal Perspective” (2015) · 272 citations
- Garland, Alaina, Teaching Associate Professor h-index 13
Notable: “Molecular basis for pH-dependent mucosal dehydration in cystic fibrosis airways” (2013) · 172 citations
- Dangl, Jeff, HHMI Investigator, John N. Couch Professor h-index 12
Notable: “Expansion of the global RNA virome reveals diverse clades of bacteriophages” (2022) · 304 citations
- Blaimont, Pauline, Teaching Assistant Professor h-index 11
Notable: “Lizards from warm and declining populations are born with extremely short telomeres” (2022) · 47 citations
- Johri, Parul, Assistant Professor h-index 10
Notable: “Pharmaceutically active micropollutants: origin, hazards and removal” (2024) · 51 citations
- Hige, Toshihide, Associate Professor h-index 8
Notable: “A connectome of a learning and memory center in the adult Drosophila brain” (2017) · 400 citations
- Evans, Mara, STEM Teaching Associate Professor h-index 7
Notable: “Ecological implications of behavioural syndromes” (2012) · 897 citations
- Baldwin, Albert S. Jr., William Rand Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor h-index 1
Notable: “Structure and evolution of the human IKBA gene” (2022) · 1 citations
- Burmeister, Sabrina, Professor
- Claytor, Jordan, Teaching Assistant Professor
- DeSaix, Jean S., Teaching Professor
- Dowen, Jill, Associate Professor
- Dowen, Rob, Assistant Professor
- Furey, Terry, Professor
Notable: “Liver single-nucleus multiome profiling reveals cell-type mechanisms for cardiometabolic traits” (2026)
- Gordon, Kacy, Assistant Professor
- Lee, Laura, Assistant Professor
- Lohmann, Catherine, Teaching Associate 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.