People

Tenure Faculty

• 

  Dean Adams

  • Distinguished Professor

  • Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies

  dcadams@iastate.edu
• 

  Tracy Heath

  • Associate Professor

  • Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Genetics and Genomics
  • Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies

  phylo@iastate.edu
• 

  Matthew Hufford

  • Associate Professor
  • Cassling Family Professor

  • Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Genetics and Genomics
  • Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies
  • Plant Biology

  mhufford@iastate.edu
• 

  Dennis Lavrov

  • Professor

  • Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Genetics and Genomics
  • Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies

  dlavrov@iastate.edu
• 

  Chaoqun (Crystal) Lu

  • Associate Professor

  • Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Environmental Science
  • Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies

  clu@iastate.edu
• 

  Jeanne Serb

  • Professor
  • Director, Office of Biotechnology

  • Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Genetics and Genomics
  • Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies

  serb@iastate.edu
• 

  Amy Toth

  she/her/hers

  • Professor
  • Chair - Graduate Program in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

  • Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Genetics and Genomics
  • Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies

  amytoth@iastate.edu
• 

  Nicole Valenzuela

  • Professor

  • Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Genetics and Genomics
  • Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies

  nvalenzu@iastate.edu
• 

  Ryan Weaver

  • Assistant Professor

  • Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies

  rjweaver@iastate.edu
• 

  Jonathan Wendel

  • Distinguished Professor

  • Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Genetics and Genomics
  • Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies
  • Plant Biology

  jfw@iastate.edu