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 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/
Congratulations to Kate Levasseur
Congratulations to Kate Levasseur for her paper being selected as the Cindy & Dan Carson Best Graduate Student Paper of the Year Award . Kate’s paper, “Exceptionally high natal homing precision in hawksbill sea turtles”
in Marine Ecology Progressive Series, describing large genetic differentiation among
nesting Hawksbill sea turtles, has numerous implications for rare, threatened, and
endangered species. We want to congratulate Kate and her mentor, Dr. Joe Quattro,
for her truly outstanding work.
Above Picture - Kate Levasseur receiving Carson Best Graduate Student Paper of the
Year Award from Dr. David Reisman at her thesis defense (roughly 3 hours after this
picture was taken, Kate became Dr. Levasseur!)
Dr. Jay Pinckney Interviewed on WIS-TV
Recently, Dr. Jay Pinckney was interviewed by local news channel WIS-TV 10 about
the unusal taste and smell of municipal water in Lexington, SC. Check out the full
story here.
WIS-TV interview
Zhengqing Fu and his team published "NPR1 Promotes Its Own and Target Gene Expression
in Plant Defense by Recruiting CDK8” in Plant Physiology, one of the top plant journals
(http://www.plantphysiol.org/content/181/1/289.abstract ). The importance of their work was emphasized by a commentary in News and Views
(http://www.plantphysiol.org/content/181/1/6 ).
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
