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				 Office : VLW 410 
					Office Phone : 337 482 6627 
					Lab : VLW 410 
					Lab Phone : 337 482 1045 
					E-mail : james.albert@louisiana.edu
  
					Area of Research: 
					Phylogeny of Teleost Fishes, Fish Diversity and Biology 
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					Jaymes Awbrey Instructor
				Office : BLD 205 
				E-mail : jaymes.awbrey1@louisiana.edu 
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					Heather Olivier Birdsong Senior Instructor
				Office : BLD 108-E 
					Office Phone : 337 482 5236 
					E-mail : heather.birdsong@louisiana.edu 
  
					Area of Research: 
					Amphibian conservation, contaminants, ecotoxicology 
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				 South Louisiana Mid-Winter Fair/BORSF Professorship in Environmental Science II 
				Office : VLW 510 
					Office Phone : 337 482 5916 
					Lab : VLW 519B 
					E-mail : Loren Cassin Sackett
  
					Area of Research: 
					Evolution in small populations, conservation genomics, ecology and evolution of infectious diseases 
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				 Office : VLW 526 
					Office Phone : 337 482 1330 
					Lab : VLW 505 
					Lab Phone : 337 482 5056 
					E-mail : Andrei.Chistoserdov@louisiana.edu
  
					Area of Research: 
					Microorganisms, Biogeochemistry and Environmental Processes 
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				 Freeport McMoRan/BORSF Professorship for Coastal Biodiversity Research Development 
				Office : VLW 519-A 
					Office Phone : NA 
					Lab : VLW 524 
					Lab Phone : 337 482 5057 
					E-mail : suzanne.fredericq@louisiana.edu
  
					Area of Research: 
					Systematics and Molecular Evolution of the Red Algae, Algal Morphology 
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				 James H. Harper South Louisiana Mid-Winter Fair Association/BORSF Professor of Biology 
				Office : BLD 224 
					Office Phone : 337 482 6277 
					Lab : BLD 225 
					Lab Phone : 337 482 6527 
					E-mail : mark.genung@louisiana.edu
  
					Area of Research: 
					Community and theoretical ecology, plant and pollinator ecology, biodiversity and ecosystem services 
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				 Office : BLD 104 
					Office Phone : 337 482 5153 
					E-mail : Marla Gomez  
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					Brandon Hendrickson 
					Visiting Assistant Professor
				Office : BLD 228 
					E-mail : brandon.hendrickson@louisiana.edu 
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				 Office : BLD 215 
					Office Phone : 337 482 5246 
					Lab : BLD 226 
					Lab Phone : 337 482 5231 
					E-mail : Emily.Kane@louisiana.edu
  thekanelab.com
  
					Area of Research: 
					Ecological and Evolutionary Biomechanics 
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				 Harold and Adele Comeaux/BORSF Professor of Biology 
				Office : VLW 506A 
					Office Phone : 337 482 1258 
					Lab : VLW 506 
					Lab Phone : 337 482 5661 
					E-mail : Nicholas.Kooyers@louisiana.edu
  
					Area of Research: 
					Plant ecological genetics and genomics, adaptation, plant evolutionary ecology, global change biology 
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					Sherry Krayesky
				
					Executive Director of the Student Center for Research, Creativity, and Scholarship
				
					Adjunct Faculty 
				Director of the Student Center for Research, Creativity, and Scholarship (SCRCS) 
				Office : BLD 103 
					Office Phone :482.6754 
					E-mail : Sherry.Krayesky@louisiana.edu 
					  
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				 Drs. Roderick & Tina Clark/BORSF Endowed Professorship in The Ray P. Authement College of Sciences for Pre-Professional Advising Center 
				
				
					Effects of Environmental Pollutants on the Immuno-Pathogenesis of Respiratory Infections; Role of Inflammasomes in Bacterial Urinary Tract Infections 
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				 John E. and Joretta Achee Chance Professor of Biology 
				Office : BLD 142 
					Office Phone : 337 482 1068
  
					E-mail : paul.leberg@louisiana.edu
  
					Area of Research: 
					Population Biology of Vertebrates, Conservation Biology and Genetics 
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					Sohyoung Lee Assistant Professor
				Office : VLW 520 
					Office Phone : 337 482 5008 
					Lab : VLW 522
  
					E-mail : sohyoung.lee@louisiana.edu 
				
					Area of Research: 
				
					Glycan-mediated host-pathogen interactions 
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					Caroline Matkin 
					Instructor
				Office : BLD 108-G 
					Office Phone: 337.482.6751 
				E-mail : caroline.matkin@louisiana.edu 
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				 Office : VLW 530 
					Office Phone : 337.482.6640 
					Lab : VLW 518 
					Lab Phone : TBD 
					E-mail : mirna.marinic@louisiana.edu
 
  
					Area of Research: 
					Using cell culture-based methodologies to study developmental and genetic basis of mammalian pregnancy, and evolution of placentation variations across eutherian mammals 
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				 Office : BLD 111 
					Office Phone : TBD 
					Lab : BLD 112 
					Lab Phone : TBD 
					E-mail: craig.mcclain@louisiana.edu 
					Website: craigmcclain.com 
				 
					Area of Research: 
					Marine biodiversity, body size and energetics. 
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					Beth A. Middleton Adjunct Faculty 
				Research Ecologist 
				USGS National Wetlands Research Center 
					E-mail : middletonb@usgs.gov 
  
					Area of Research: 
					Wetland plant ecology, and wetland restoration 
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					Ivan Moberly Instructor
				Office : BLD 105 
					E-mail : Ivan.Moberly1@louisiana.edu 
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				 Graduate Coordinator 
				Office : VLW 509 
					Office Phone : 337 482 5662 
					Lab : VLW 507 
					Lab Phone : 337 482 1375 
					E-mail : brad.moon@louisiana.edu 
  
					Area of Research: 
					Vertebrate Functional Morphology and Physiology, Muscle Structure and Function 
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				 Office: VLW 519-D 
					Lab: VLW 516 
					E-mail: Ian.Patterson@louisiana.edu 
				Area of Research: 
					Transmission of viruses in mosquitoes 
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				 Director, ULL Microscopy Center 
				Office : BLD 134 
					Office Phone : 337 482 5233 
					Lab : BLD 137 
					Lab Phone : 337 482 5769 
					E-mail : thomas.pesacreta@louisiana.edu 
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				 Office : BLD 108 
					Office Phone : 337 230 5698 
					E-mail : sophie.plouviez@louisiana.edu
  
					Area of Research: 
					Molecular Evolution, Population Genetics/Genomics, Bioinformatics 
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				 Office : BLD 228 
					E-mail : daniel.povinellli@louisiana.edu 
					Website: www.danielpovinelli.com
  
					Area of Research: 
					Evolution of Learning and Cognition 
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					Penny E. Powell Master Instructor
				Microbiology and A&P Lab Coordinator 
				Office : VLW 417-A 
					Office Phone : 337 482 6634 
					E-mail : penny.powell@louisiana.edu 
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					Joseph Richards Instructor
				Office : BLD 217 
					Office Phone : TBD 
					E-mail : Joseph.Richards@louisiana.edu 
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				 Assistant Professor, LUMCON 
				Phone : 985 223 7421 
					E-mail : grieucau@lumcon.edu
  
					Area of Research: 
					Marine and estuarine behavioral ecology, fish collective behavior, predator-prey interaction, ecology of fear. 
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				 South Louisiana Mid-Winter Fair #1 Endowed Professorship in Renewable Resources I 
				Office : BLD 234 
					Office Phone : 337 482 5705 
					Lab: BLD 250 
					E-mail : kelly.robinson@louisiana.edu
  
					Area of Research: 
					Zooplankton ecology; Climate Change; Marine Food Webs 
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					Kenneth Rogers Adjunct Faculty
				E-mail : Kenneth.Rogers@louisiana.edu 
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					William E. Schmidt Senior Instructor 
				Office : VLW 524 
					Office Phone : 337 482 5057 
					E-mail : william.schmidt@louisiana.edu
  
					Area of Research: 
					Red Algal Systematics and Biogeography, Plastid Genomes, Metagenomes and Rhodoliths 
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				 Lafayette Parish Medical Society Endowed Professorship in Biology 
				Office : VLW 452 
					Office Phone : 337 482 6755 
					Lab : VLW 512 
					Lab Phone : 337 482 1759 
					E-mail : karen.smith@louisiana.edu 
  
					Area of Research: 
					Neurobiology and development 
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				 SLEMCO/BORSF Professorship in General Studies (Science II) 
				Office : BLD 141 
					Office Phone : 337 482 5232 
					Lab : BLD 120 
					Lab Phone : 337 482 6717 
					E-mail : beth.stauffer@louisiana.edu
  
					Area of Research: 
					Phytoplankton/Protistan Ecology, Coastal Water Quality Issues 
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					Michael Sulak 
					Visiting Assistant Professor
				Office : BLD 222A 
				E-mail : michael.sulak@louisiana.edu | 
		
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				 Office : VLW 508-B 
					Lab : VLW 528 
					E-mail : Yoichiro.Tamori@louisiana.edu 
				https://www.morphomeostasis.com/ 
				Area of Research: 
					Evolution of cancer cells 
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					Melissa Toups 
					Assistant Professor
				Office : BLD 235 
					Office Phone : 337 482 6636 
					E-mail : melissa.toups@louisiana.edu 
				https://melissaatoups.wordpress.com/ 
				Area of Research: 
				sex-chromosome evolution, transitions between sexual systems, polyploidy, genome evolution | 
		
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				 Director of the New Iberia Research Center 
				Office : New Iberia Research Center 
					Office Phone : 337 482 0225 
					E-mail : Fjv5939@louisiana.edu 
				Area of Research: 
					Immune response and vaccine development 
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				 Office : BLD 242 
					Office Phone : 337 482 6756 
					Lab : BLD 249 
					Lab Phone : 337 482 5229 
					E-mail : yihong.wang@louisiana.edu
  
					Area of Research: 
					Genetics and Biotechnology 
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					Office : BLD 205 
				
				https://www.andreawesterband.com/ 
				Area of Research: 
				Plant functional ecology and ecophysiology, population dynamics, invasion | 
		
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					Robyn Zerebecki Assistant Professor
				
					Office : BLD 243 
					Office Phone : 
				
					Lab: BLD 226 
				
					Lab Phone: 
				E-mail : Robyn.Zerebecki@louisiana.edu 
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