Faculty & Staff
Faculty

- peter.meberg@UND.edu
- 701.777.4674
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Starcher Hall Room 219
Grand Forks, ND 58202-9019

Associate Chair, Associate Professor
Specialties: Introductory Biology Coordinator
- jeffrey.carmichael@UND.edu
- 701.777.4666
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Starcher Hall Room 305
Grand Forks, ND 58202-9019

Brian Darby
PhD
Associate Professor
Specialties: Soil Ecology, Nematology, Ecology, Genomics, Genetics, Statistics, Biometry
- brian.darby@UND.edu
- 701.777.4678
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Starcher Hall Room 101
Grand Forks, ND 58202-9019

Professor
Specialties: Neural-vascular development, epigenetic regulation of vascular-microenvironmental interactions in development and disease
- diane.darland@UND.edu
- 701.777.4597
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Starcher Hall Room 113
Grand Forks, ND 58202-9019

Associate Professor
- tristan.darland@UND.edu
- 701.777.3375
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Starcher Hall Room 309
Grand Forks, ND 58202-9019

Teaching Assistant Professor
- chris.felege@email.UND.edu
- 701.777.6419
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Starcher Hall Room 101
Grand Forks, ND 58202-9019

- susan.felege@UND.edu
- 701.777.3699
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Starcher Hall Room 101
Grand Forks, ND 58202-9019

Mark Kaemingk
PhD
Assistant Professor
Specialties: Spatiotemporal, Social-Ecological Systems, Recreational Fisheries, Aquatic Ecology, Fish Ecology
- mark.kaemingk@UND.edu
- 701.777.4284
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Starcher Hall Rm 107
Grand Forks, ND 58202-9019

Associate Professor
- manu.manu@UND.edu
- 701.777.4671
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Starcher Hall Room 209
Grand Forks, ND 58202-9019

Professor
Specialties: Ecology, Wildlife Conservation, Population Genetics, Climate Change, Amphibian ecology, Wetlands, Movement Ecology, Data Analysis, Remote Sensing
- robert.newman@UND.edu
- 701.777.4290
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Starcher Hall Room 211
Grand Forks, ND 58202-9019

Associate Professor
Specialties: Ancient genomics, forensic DNA, bison paleoecology & genetics, human populations, microbiomics
- igor.ovtchinnikov@UND.edu
- 701.777.4471
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Starcher Hall Room 309
Grand Forks, ND 58202-9019

- sally.pyle@UND.edu
- 701.777.4598
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Starcher Hall Room 207
Grand Forks, ND 58202-9019

Turk Rhen
BS, MS, PhD
Professor
Specialties: Animal Behavior, Endocrinology, Genetics, Genomics, Molecular Biology, Sex Determination, Sexual Differentiation
- turk.rhen@UND.edu
- 701.777.4667
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Starcher Hall Room 307
Grand Forks, ND 58202-9019

Professor
- bill.sheridan@UND.edu
- 701.777.4479
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Starcher Hall Room 317
Grand Forks, ND 58202-9019

Professor
Specialties: Insect Evolution, Insect Mimicry, Evolution of Courtship Behaviors
- rebecca.simmons@UND.edu
- 701.777.3439
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Starcher Hall Room 315
Grand Forks, ND 58202-9019

Professor (full)
Specialties: Parasitology, parasite evolution, systematics, distribution, biodiversity and life histories
- vasyl.tkach@UND.edu
- 701.777.4675
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Starcher Hall Room 215
Grand Forks, ND 58202-9019

Professor
- jefferson.vaughan@UND.edu
- 701.777.2199
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Starcher Hall Room 109
Grand Forks, ND 58202-9019

Assistant Professor
Specialties: Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Systems Biology, Integrative Omics
- xusheng.wang@UND.edu
- 701.777.4673
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Starcher Hall Room 215
Grand Forks, ND 58202

Kathryn Yurkonis
Field Station Station Director
Associate Professor
Specialties: Plant Community Ecology, Restoration Ecology, Invasion Ecology, Biodiversity-Ecosystem Function Relationships
- kathryn.yurkonis@UND.edu
- 701.777.4676
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Starcher Hall Room 205
Grand Forks, ND 58202-9019
Research Associates

Post Doc Research Fellow
- javier.lenzi@UND.edu
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Starcher Hall Room 101
Grand Forks, ND 58202-9019

Post Doc Research Fellow
- ling.li.1@UND.edu
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Starcher Hall Rm 101
Grand Forks, ND 58202
Staff

Office Manager
- cheryl.misialek@UND.edu
- 701.777.2622
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Starcher Hall Room 101
Grand Forks, ND 58202-9019

Research Specialist
- matthew.flom@UND.edu
- 701.777.4669
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Starcher Hall Room 101
Grand Forks, ND 58202-9019

Laboratory Technician
- robert.sheppard@UND.edu
- 701.777.2680
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Starcher Hall Room 335
Grand Forks, ND 58202-9019
Emeritus Faculty
Richard Crawford
Albert Fivizzani
Steven Kelsch
John La Duke
Jeff Lang
- jeff.w.lang@gmail.com
- 651.646.0203
- 1385 Brompton Street
Saint Paul, MN
55108-1622
Omer Larson
- 701.777.3675
Isaac Schlosser
- isaac.schlosser@ndus.edu
- 701.777.2254
Robert Seabloom
- robert.seabloom@ndus.edu
- 701.777.3675