Faculty & Staff

Stefan Kanzok, PhD

Associate Professor
Department of Biology
Program Director
skanzok AT luc.edu

Research: Malaria biology
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Heather Wheeler, PhD

Associate Professor
Department of Biology
Graduate Program Director
hwheeler1 AT luc.edu

Research: Human genetics and computational genomics
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Miguel Ballicora, PhD

Professor
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
mballic AT luc.edu

Research: Starch and enzyme evolution
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Progna Banerjee, PhD

Assistant Professor
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
pbanerjee AT luc.edu

Research: Nanoscale energy materials, machine learning
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Swarnali Banerjee, PhD

Associate Professor
Department of Mathematics & Statistics
sbanerjee AT luc.edu

Research: Statistical ecology, biostatistics
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Michael Burns, PhD

Associate Professor
Department of Biology
mburns16 AT luc.edu

Research: Human microbiome, cancer biology
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James Cheverud, PhD

Professor
Department of Biology
jcheverud AT luc.edu

Research: Evolutionary genetics, morphology
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Tauana Cunha, PhD

Assistant Professor
Department of Biology
tcunha AT luc.edu

Research: Evolution of invertebrates, genomics, phylogenomics
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Rodney Dale, PhD

Associate Professor
Department of Biology
rdale1 AT luc.edu

Research: Developmental biology
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Dmitriy Dligach, PhD

Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
ddligach AT luc.edu

Research: Machine learning, natural language processing
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Qunfeng Dong, PhD

Professor
Stritch School of Medicine
qdong AT luc.edu

Research: Genomics and metagenomics, human microbiome
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Xiang Gao, PhD

Assistant Professor
Stritch School of Medicine
xgao4 AT luc.edu

Research: Biostatistics, human microbiome
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Colin Gates, PhD

Assistant Professor
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
cgates4AT luc.edu

Terry Grande, PhD

Professor
Department of Biology
tgrande AT luc.edu

Research: Evolution, biogeography
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Michael Grillo, PhD

Assistant Professor
Department of Biology
mgrillo1 AT luc.edu

Research: Plant evolutionary genetics

Peter Kekenes-Huskey, PhD

Associate Professor
Stritch School of Medicine
pkekeneshuskey AT luc.edu

Research: Cellular and molecular biophysics
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John Kelly PhD

Professor
Department of Biology
jkelly7 AT luc.edu

Research: Microbial ecology
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Konstantin Läufer, PhD

Professor
Department of Computer Science
laufer AT cs.luc.edu

Research: Programming languages
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Dali Liu, PhD

Professor
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
dliu AT luc.edu

Research: X-ray crystallography, biological and computational chemistry
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Gregory Matthews, PhD

Associate Professor
Department of Mathematics & Statistics
gmatthews1 AT luc.edu

Research: Statistical genetics, missing data methods
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Jennifer Mierisch, PhD

Associate Professor
Department of Biology
jmierisch AT luc.edu

Research: Developmental biology
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Whelton Miller, PhD

Assistant Professor
Stritch School of Medicine
wmiller6 AT luc.edu

Research: Computational chemistry

Timothy O’Brien, PhD

Professor
Department of Mathematics & Statistics
tobrie1 AT luc.edu

Research: Environmental and spatial statistics
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F. Bryan Pickett, PhD

Associate Professor
Department of Biology
fpicket AT luc.edu

Research: Genetics, transcriptional regulation
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Catherine Putonti, PhD

Professor
Department of Biology
cputonti AT luc.edu

Research: viral evolution, human microbiome
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Jonathan Rennhack, PhD

Assistant Professor
Stritch School of Medicine 
jrennhack AT luc.edu

Research: Cancer biology, young-onset colorectal cancer
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Thomas Sanger, PhD

Associate Professor
Department of Biology
tsanger AT luc.edu

Research: Evolutionary and developmental biology
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Yoel Stuart, PhD

Associate Professor
Department of Biology
ystuart AT luc.edu

Research: Evolutionary biology
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George Thiruvathukal, PhD

Professor
Department of Computer Science
gkt AT cs.luc.edu

Research: Distributed computing, bioinspired computational models
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Caroline Turner, PhD

Assistant Professor
Department of Biology
cturner9 AT luc.edu

Research: Microbial experimental evolution
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Hui Ye, PhD

Professor
Department of Biology
hye1 AT luc.edu

Research: Neurobiology, electrophysiology
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Staff