Find below the directory of our faculty emeriti.
A list of both past and present faculty emeriti—including retirement tributes and biographical memorials—is also available.
Past and present faculty emeriti
Faculty Emeriti
José Bonner
Professor Emeritus, Biology
- bonner@indiana.edu
Research Interests
improving science literacy
Yves Brun
Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Biology
- yves.brun@umontreal.ca
- 514-343-7184
Research Interests
mechanism, regulation, and evolution of bacterial shape, differentiation, and biofilm formation
Karen Bush
Professor of Practice Emerita, Biology (Biotechnology)
(she/her/hers)
- karbush@iu.edu
- 812-855-1542
- Biology Bldg. A305
Research Interests
antibiotic mechanisms of action and resistance; antibacterial drug discovery and drug development.
Peter Cherbas
Professor Emeritus, Biology
- cherbas@iu.edu
Research Interests
chromatin; chromosomes; genome integrity; developmental mechanisms; regulation in eukaryotic systems; genomics; bioinformatics
Keith Clay
Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Biology
Professor and Chair, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Tulane University
- clay@tulane.edu
- 504-865-5563
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Research Interests
microbial interactions, ecology, symbiosis, disease
Thomas Doak
Manager, Principal Investigator, National Center for Genome Analysis Support
Senior Research Scientist Emeritus, Biology
- tdoak@iu.edu
Research Interests
ciliated protozoa, their endosymbionts, and transposons
Tom Donahue
Professor Emeritus, Biology
- tfdonahu@iu.edu
Research Interests
genetic, molecular and biochemical analysis of translation intitiation in yeast.
Patricia Foster
Professor Emerita, Biology
- plfoster@iu.edu
- 812-855-4084
- Biology Bldg. 142A
Research Interests
mutagenesis, DNA repair, replication, and recombination
Gerald Gastony
Professor Emeritus, Biology
- gastony@iu.edu
Research Interests
systematics and genome mapping of ferns; molecular phylogenetics of desert-adapted ferns
Roger Hangarter
Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Biology
Class of 1968 Chancellor’s Professor, Biology
- rhangart@iu.edu
- 812-855-5456
- Myers Hall 352
Research Interests
plant physiology: environmental sensory-response systems and plant development
George Hegeman
Student Advocate
Professor Emeritus, Biology
- hegemang@iu.edu
- 812-855-0761
- Eigenmann Hall 206
Research Interests
bacterial physiology and biochemistry
Susan Hengeveld
Teaching Professor Emerita, Biology
(she/her/hers)
- shengeve@iu.edu
- 812-855-5239
- Biology Bldg. 324C
Thom Kaufman
Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Biology
(ikh, er, mir, im, zeyn [Yiddish])
- kaufman@iu.edu
- 812-855-3033
- Biology Bldg. 337
Research Interests
cytogenetics, developmental genetics, and molecular genetics of drosophila
Michael Lynch
Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Biology
Class of 1954 Professor Emeritus, Biology
Director of the Biodesign Institute for Mechanisms of Evolution, Arizona State University
- mlynch11@asu.edu
Research Interests
evolution; population genetics and genomics; cell biology
George Malacinski
Professor Emeritus, Biology
- malacins@iu.edu
- 812-855-1131
- Woodburn Hall 356
Research Interests
bone strengthening and molecular biology of bone remodeling
Jeffrey Palmer
Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Biology
- jpalmer@iu.edu
Research Interests
horizontal gene transfer in plants and fungi; evolution of plant mitochondrial genomes; intracellular transfer of organellar genes to the nucleus; evolution of mutation rates
Elizabeth Raff
Professor Emerita, Biology
(she/her/hers)
- raff@iu.edu
Research Interests
developmental mechanisms and regulation in eukaryotic systems; eukaryotic cell biology, cytoskeleton and signaling; evolution
Paul Rothrock
Associate Curator Emeritus, Biology
Associate Research Scientist Emeritus, Biology
- perothro@iu.edu
- 812-855-5007
- Smith Research Center 130
Michael J. Wade
Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Biology
- mjwade@iu.edu
- 812-856-4680
- Biology Bldg. 131C
Research Interests
behavior; evolution; microbial interactions and pathogenesis
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