Faculty and Staff
Faculty and Staff
Morgan Churchill, Ph.D.
Mammalogist
Email: churchim@uwosh.edu
Office: HS 153
Research Interests: Evolution and ecology of marine mammals
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Lisa Dorn, Ph.D.
Evolution and Genetics, School Co-Coordinator
Email: dorn@uwosh.edu
Office: HS 45
Research Interests: Plant genetics and evolution
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David Krause, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Email: krausedj@uwosh.edu
Office: HS 252
Research Interests: Microbiology, budding yeast, anaerobic growth
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Courtney Kurtz, Ph.D.
Gut Immunologist, School Co-Coordinator
Email: kurtzc@uwosh.edu
Office: HS 245/243
Research Interests: Immunology, digestive physiology, hibernation physiology
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Laura Ladwig, Ph.D.
Plant Ecologist
Email: ladwigl@uwosh.edu
Office: HS 43
Research Interests: Plant community ecology, grassland ecology, temperate lianas
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Jessica Lucas, Ph.D.
Plant Cell & Molecular Biologist
Email: lucasjr@uwosh.edu
Office: HS 254/15
Research Interests: Cellular and molecular mechanisms that underpin essential plant processes (growth, cell division, gas exchange). Main research tools are molecular genetics, biotechnology, and microscopy.
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Elsbeth “Misty” McPhee, Ph.D.
Conservation Biology
Email: mcpheem@uwosh.edu
Office: 3448 Sage Hall
Phone: (920) 424-0644
Research Interests: Effects of captivity on behavior & morphology; effects of captive breeding on the success of reintroduction programs for endangered wildlife; behavioral response to novel environments
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Shelly Michalski, MS, Ph.D.
Parasitologist
Email: michalsk@uwosh.edu
Office: HS 152
Research Interests: Gene expression in filarial nematodes that cause neglected tropical diseases, vector borne disease
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Sabrina Mueller-Spitz, Ph.D.
Environmental Microbiologist
Email: muellesr@uwosh.edu
Office: HS 151
Research Interests: Microbial ecology, freshwater biofilms, nanotoxicology, quorum quenching
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Teri Shors, Ph.D.
Virologist
Email: shors@uwosh.edu
Office: HS 155
Research Interests: Virology, poxviruses and environmental virology
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Bob Stelzer, Ph.D.
Aquatic Ecology
Email: stelzer@uwosh.edu
Office: HS 150
Research Interests: Nutrient flux and cycling in streams, roles of species in freshwater ecosystems, lake and stream food webs
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Staff
Christie Demosthenous
Administrative Assistant
Email: demosthe@uwosh.edu
Office: HS 330B
Phone: (920) 424-7064
Kelly Lippert
Courtney Maron
Academic Staff
Emeritus Faculty
Greg Adler, Ph.D.
Ecologist
Email: adler@uwosh.edu
Office: HS 45
Research Interests: Tropical Ecology
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Toivo Kallas, Ph.D.
Microbiologist and Protein Biochemist
Email: kallas@uwosh.edu
Research Interests: Molecular genetics and biochemistry of electron transport mechanisms, redox-signaling and oxygen radicals in microalgae
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Todd Kostman, Ph.D.
Plant Cell Biologist
Email: kostman@uwosh.edu
Office: HS 156/142
Phone: (920) 424-1102
Research Interests: Calcium regulation in plants
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Dubear Kroening, Ph.D.
Professor
Email: kroenind@uwosh.edu
Phone: (920) 832-0117
Research Interests: Microbiology
Thomas Lammers, Ph.D.
Plant Taxonomist
Email: lammers@uwosh.edu
Office: HS 9C
Research Interests: Classification and evolution of the flowering plant family Campanulaceae
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Dana Merriman, Ph.D.
Neurophysiologist, Director of the Squirrel Colony
Email: merrimad@uwosh.edu
Office: HS 249
Research Interests: Physiology and cell biology of vertebrate CNS/retina in health and disease; hibernation physiology
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Colleen McDermott, DVM, Ph.D.
Medical Microbiologist
Email: mcdermot@uwosh.edu
Research Interests: Microbial contamination of beaches, source tracking of microbial contamination, cyanobacterial toxins
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Bob Wise, Ph.D.
Plant Physiologist
Email: wise@uwosh.edu
Research Interests: Plant stress physiology and ultrastructure
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David Demezas, Ph.D.
Soil Microbial Ecologist
Email: demezasd@uwosh.edu
Research Interests: Plant-microbe interactions and plant allelopathy
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Bob Pillsbury, Ph.D.
Aquatic Ecologist
Email: pillsbur@uwosh.edu
Research Interests: Wetland ecology, freshwater algae
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