More than 50 faculty members teach and train about 1,600 undergraduate majors and
60 graduate students. We're part of a large, top tier research university, but within
the department, we foster a mutual respect among faculty and students which enables
each student to share knowledge and experience with fellow students, and to draw on
the expertise of any professor in the department.
You'll learn from faculty members whose specialties include integrative biology; plant
biology; cancer biology; molecular, cellular, and developmental biology; biotechnology,
and bioinformatics.
Through our faculty members, undergraduate and graduate students have plentiful opportunities
to participate in research beyond the classroom
Our Students
We currently offer undergraduate (B.S.) graduate (M.S. and Ph.D.)
Featured News
Congratulations to Bob Friedman
Bob Friedman published "Neuronal Morphology and Synapse Count in the Nematode Worm”
in Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience (https://doi.org/10.3389/fncom.2019.00074 ).
Congratulations to Jeff Twiss’s research group
Congratulations to Jeff Twiss’s research group who received a $1,320,000, 3 year grant
award from the Dr. Miriam and Sheldon G. Adelson Medical Research Foundation entitled
"Targeting Axonal Mechanisms For Supporting Neural Repair & Function”.
Congratulations to David Wethey, Jerry Hilbish, and Sally Woodin
Congratulations to David Wethey, Jerry Hilbish, and Sally Woodin who received a $382,180,
3 year grant award from NASA entitled "ECOSTRESS- Heat and Desiccation Risk Prediction
in Intertidal Shellfisheries”.
Congratulations Cryptophyte Group
(CSIRO via Wikicommons under CC BY 3.0 )
Congrats to Jeff Dudycha, Tammi Richardson, Matt Greenwold, and Kristin Heidenreich
for their work with cryptophytes being featured in Smithsonian Magazine. Check out
the article at : https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/species-algae-has-evolved-absorb-more-light-photosynthesis-other-plants-180973389/
We are pleased to start recruiting for 3 new tenure-track Assistant Professor faculty
to join us in Biological Sciences. Links to UofSC Jobs web site for applying and
with more details, contact information, and minimal position qualifications are:
1.) Microbiome in Health and Disease - View Posting
2.) Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology focusing on cell-cell interactions in the
nervous system - View Posting
3.) Neurobiology of Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders using mouse models to
address pathophysiology - View Posting
Application review for each position will begin November 1, 2019.
The Undergraduate Office for the Department of Biological Sciences has moved to Sumwalt
College Rm 311
Our department has weekly seminars over the regular semester, typically at 4:00 PM
in the Coker Life Sciences Building, Room 005. Our calendar of events is here:
Department of Biological Sciences Calendar
Upcoming seminars include:
11/18/19 - Judy Liu from Brown University - Causes & Consequences of Cortical Malformations
