Full-time, tenured, and tenure track

Malcolm R. (Mack) Powell, Ph.D., Professor and Department Head; elucidating host - pathogen interactions, with a focus on Chagas' disease

Greg Adkison, Ph.D., Instructor; environmental biology, plant biology, human biology, general biology

Indrani Bose, Ph.D., Assistant Professor; molecular biology of Cryptoccucus neoformans virulence

Kefyn M. Catley, Ph.D., Associate Professor, science education; systematics and biology of spiders

Chris Coburn, Ph.D., Assistant Professor; control of gene expression

Beverly Collins, Ph.D.,  Associate Professor; plant community ecology

James T. Costa, Ph.D., Director, Highlands Biological Station and H. F. and Katherine P. Robinson Professor of Biology; evolutionary genetics and behavior of social insects, especially social Lepidoptera and Symphyta

Laura E. DeWald, Ph.D., Assistant Professor; ecological genetics, restoration ecology, conservation biology

Sonja Himes, M.S., Instructor; anatomy and physiology, environmental biology

Fred D. Hinson, Ph.D., Associate Professor; Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Director Learning Communities; bacterial cytotechnique, antigen-antibody reactions involving Salmonella species.

Jeremy Hyman, Ph.D., Assistant Professor; evolution, behavioral ecology, ornithology

Karen Kandl, Ph.D., Instructor; anatomy and physiology, ecology

Thomas H. Martin, Ph.D., Associate Professor; population and community ecology of aquatic organisms, with particular emphasis on the life history and population dynamics of littoral predators and their prey, and on stream fish movement and habitat fragmentation
 
Kathy Gould Mathews, Ph.D., Assistant Professor; plant systematics

Ron C. Michaelis, Ph.D., Instructor; biochemistry, human genetics, general biology

Seán P. O'Connell, Ph.D., Associate Professor; microbial ecology, diversity of bacteria and archaea in soils and waters, zymurgy

Joseph Pechmann, Ph.D., Associate Professor; population and community ecology, herpetology, wetlands ecology

Sabine J. Rundle, Ph.D., Associate Professor; molecular biology of plant development

Lori Seischab, Ph.D., Assistant Professor; molecular pathology and biophysics

Anjana Sharma, Ph.D., Instructor; human biology, plant biology.

Librarian and Liaison to Biology, and Chemistry and Physics

Krista Schmidt, M.S.L.S., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Emeritus Faculty

Richard C. Bruce, Ph.D., Duke University; life histories, ecology, and evolution of plethodontid salamanders

Frederick A. Coyle, Ph.D., Harvard University; systematics, behavior, and ecology of spiders.

James Horton, Ph.D., University of North Carolina; plant anatomy

Roger H. Lumb, Ph.D., University of South Carolina; lipid biochemistry, dynamics of lipids in membranes

Henry R. Mainwaring, Ph.D., University of College of Wales, Aberystwyth; mycology, cell biology, DNA content and cell division rates

Allen Moore, Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin; aquatic ecology

James W. Wallace, Jr., Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin; plant biochemistry, physiology, and distribution of secondary metabolites; medicinal plants of the southern Appalachians; biological photography

Jerry L. West, Ph.D., North Carolina State University; fishery biology, ecology of fish in the southern Appalachians

C. Paul Wright, Ph.D., University of Utah; lethal mutants and developmental genetics of Drosophila melanogaster

Administrative Secretary

Debbie Smith, A.A.S., Business Administration, Haywood Community College