School of Natural and Social Sciences:
Biology Faculty (Board of Study)

Elysse Craddock
Professor of Biology
B.S., Ph.D., University of Sydney (Australia). SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. Molecular evolution of eukaryotic genome; adaptive radiation of Hawaiian Drosophila; links between behavior and reproductive physiology; regulation of gene expression.
elysse.craddock@purchase.edu

James G. Daly
Associate Professor of Biology
B.S., Ph.D., University of Guelph. Bacterial pathogenesis; bacterial diseases of aquacultural fish species; basic and applied immunology of salmonid fish.
james.daly@purchase.edu

Lee Ehrman
Distinguished Professor of Biology
B.S., Queens College; M.A., Ph.D., Columbia University. SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. Genetics of sexual isolation; sexual selection and hybrid sterility of insects; genetics of human laterality and other human traits; behavior genetics; endosymbiosis.
lee.ehrman@purchase.edu

Jan Robert Factor
Professor of Biology
B.S., Brooklyn College; M.S., Ph.D., Cornell University. Electron microscopy and histology; feeding mechanisms and structure/function of the digestive system of lobsters and crabs; lobster immune system; ultrastructure of basement membranes.
jan.factor@purchase.edu

George Kraemer
Professor of Environmental Studies and Biology
B.S., Florida Institute of Technology; M.S., Texas A&M University; Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles. SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. Marine and estuarine ecology; macrophyte physiology, aquaculture, ecology of nonnative species.
george.kraemer@purchase.edu

Maryann McEnroe
Associate Professor of Biology
B.S., Southeastern Massachusetts University; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Davis. Circulatory and respiratory physiology; circulatory and respiratory adaptations to hypoxia; endocrinology of osmoregulation.
maryann.mcenroe@purchase.edu

Joanne Kivela Tillotson
Associate Professor of Biology
B.S., University of Dubuque; Ph.D., Michigan State University. SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. Cancer cell growth; role of fatty acids in breast cancer; cancer chemoprevention; the enzyme thymidine kinase; lymphomas induced by virus; growth factors in cell cycling and apoptosis.
joanne.tillotson@purchase.edu

James Utter
Associate Professor of Environmental Studies and Biology
B.S., State University of New York, Oneonta; Ph.D., Rutgers University. Avian ecology and behavior; plant ecology; wetlands ecology; conservation biology; ecosystem management.
james.utter@purchase.edu

Cooperating Faculty

Joseph Skrivanek: Chemistry

Updated Aug. 19, 2008