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Faculty and Staff


Morgan Churchill, Ph.D.

Mammalogist
Email: churchim@uwosh.edu
Office: HS159
Phone: (920) 424-4622
Research Interests: Evolution and ecology of marine mammals
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David Demezas, Ph.D.

Soil Microbial Ecologist
Email: demezasd@uwosh.edu
Office: S-226 Fond du Lac Campus
Phone: (920) 929-1171
Research Interests: Plant-microbe interactions and plant allelopathy
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Lisa Dorn, Ph.D.

Evolution and Genetics, Co-Chair of the Department
Email: dorn@uwosh.edu
Office: HS45
Phone: (920)424-3064
Research Interests:  Plant genetics and evolution
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David Krause, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
Email: krausedj@uwosh.edu
Office: HS252
Phone: (920) 424-7084
Research Interests: Microbiology, budding yeast, anaerobic growth
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Courtney Kurtz, Ph.D.

Gut Immunologist, Co-Chair of the Department
Email: kurtzc@uwosh.edu
Office: HS245/243
Phone: (920) 424-1076
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: HS254/15
Phone: (920) 424-7085
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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Eric Matson, Ph.D.

Microbial Ecologist
Email: matsone@uwosh.edu
Office: Halsey 253
Phone: (920) 424-2077
Research Interests: Microbial Ecology

 

 

Dr. Misty McPheeElsbeth “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: HS152
Phone: (920) 424-7082
Research Interests: Gene expression in filarial nematodes that cause neglected tropical diseases, vector borne disease
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Robert Mitchell, Ph.D.

Entomologist
Email: mitchellr@uwosh.edu
Office: HS 111
Phone: (920) 424-0930
Research Interests: Entomology, chemical ecology, chemoreception
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Sabrina Mueller-Spitz, Ph.D.

Environmental Microbiologist
Email: muellesr@uwosh.edu
Office: HS151
Phone: (920) 424-1104
Research Interests: Microbial ecology, freshwater biofilms, nanotoxicology, quorum quenching
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Bob Pillsbury, Ph.D.

Aquatic Ecologist
Email: pillsbur@uwosh.edu
Office: HS41
Phone: (920) 424-3069
Research Interests: Wetland ecology, freshwater algae
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Teri Shors, Ph.D.

Virologist
Email: shors@uwosh.edu
Office: HS155
Phone: (920) 424-7083
Research Interests:  Virology, poxviruses and environmental virology
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Bob Stelzer, Ph.D.

Aquatic Ecology
Email: stelzer@uwosh.edu
Office: HS150
Phone: (920) 424-0845
Research Interests: Nutrient flux and cycling in streams, roles of species in freshwater ecosystems, lake and stream food webs
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Department Staff

Christie Demosthenous

Department Assistant
Email:
 demosthe@uwosh.edu
Office: HS142
Phone: (920) 424-7064

 

 

 

Sara Hagedorn

Animal Facility Manager
Email: 
hagedorns@uwosh.edu
Office: HS35
Phone: (920) 424-0931

 

 

Photo of Kelly LippertKelly Lippert

Department Assistant
Email:
 dibblek@uwosh.edu
Office: HS142
Phone: (920) 424-7064

 

 

Courtney Maron

Department Assistant
Email:
 maron@uwosh.edu
Office: HS127
Phone: (920) 424-7064

 

 

 

Vicki Van Deurzen

Email: verbrick@uwosh.edu
Office: HS170
Phone: (920) 424-3397

 

 

 

Academic Staff

Andrew Bosma

Email: bosmaa@uwosh.edu
Office: HS39
Phone: (920)424-1102

 

 

 

Shannon Davis-Foust, Ph.D.

Email: davisfos@uwosh.edu
Office: HS255
Phone: (920) 424-1548

 

 

Nariman Hussein

Lecturer
Email: husseinn@uwosh.edu
Office: FOX-1033, Fox Cities Campus
Phone: (920) 832-2684

 

Sonja Jeter, M.S., Dr.P.H.

Email: jeters@uwosh.edu
Office: HS256
Phone: (920) 424-3490

 

 

 

 

Katrina Olsen, Ph.D.

Email: olsenk10@uwosh.edu
Office: HS44
Phone: (920) 424-0280

 

 

 

Benjamin Sajdak, Ph.D.

Email: sajdakb@uwosh.edu
Office: HS160
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Ryan Sprenger, Ph.D.

Email: sprenr03@uwosh.edu
Office: HS156

 

 

 

Roberta Torunsky

Email: torunskyr@uwosh.edu
Office: HS036
Phone: (920) 424-1044

 

 

Emeritus Faculty

Greg Adler, Ph.D.

Ecologist
Email: adler@uwosh.edu
Office: HS45
Phone: (920) 424-3068
Research Interests: Tropical Ecology
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Sheldon Cooper, Ph.D.

Animal Physiologist
Email: cooper@uwosh.edu
Office: HS153
Phone: (920) 424-7091
Research Interest: Animal ecological physiology, avian thermoregulation and energetics
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Dr. H. Gene DrecktrahH. Gene Drecktrah, Ph.D.

Email: drecktra@uwosh.edu
Office: HS54
Phone: (920) 424-3072

 

 

 

Photo of Dr. Toivo KallasToivo 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: HS156/142
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: HS9C
Phone: (920) 424-1002
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: HS249
Phone: (920) 424-3076
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
Office: HS16
Phone: (920) 424-3404
Research Interests:  Plant stress physiology and ultrastructure
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