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Jessica Goldstein
Senior Lecturer
jgoldste@barnard.edu | 212.854.5298
259 Barnard Hall
Hometown: I was born in the Bronx and grew up in a few different suburbs of NYC (in Westchester) and Connecticut
Undergraduate Major: Biology with Chemistry and Psychology minors at Macalester College
PhD: Cell biology and developmental genetics, characterizing genes involved in cell fate decisions in the small nematode worm, Caenorhabditis elegans at Washington University in St. Louis
Favorite Departmental Event: I look forward to Professor Snow's annual honey extraction and love any excuse to gather on the Diana Center Green Roof!
Favorite Podcasts: I love listening to podcasts. My current favorites are Ologies by Alie Ward and Invisibilia on NPR.
Favorite Hobbies: When I am not in Altschul, you can find me chasing after my two young (and very energetic!) boys, hiking, or jogging.
Additional Information: I am the Director of the Introductory Biology Labs at Barnard and the Co-Director of the Sibyl-Levy Golden ('38) Ecological Learning Center with Professor Terryanne Maenza-Gmelch in Environmental Science. I am also part of the Biology Department's Anti-Racism Working Group.
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Jonathan Snow
Associate Professor, Associate Chair
jsnow@barnard.edu | 212.854.2084
255 Barnard Hall
Hometown: Nashville, TN
Undergraduate Major: Biology at Williams College
PhD: My graduate work at the University of California, San Francisco and postgraduate work at Harvard Medical School focused on signal transduction, regulation of gene expression, and organismal stress responses in the blood development of mammals.
Research Interests: In the Snow Lab, we study cellular stress responses and infectious disease in honey bees.
Favorite Departmental Event: The annual honey extraction, of course!
Favorite Hobbies: Running and snowboarding
Must-go-to-spot in NYC: Central Park
Additional Information: I am the Biology departmental representative for the Summer Research Institute (SRI) and was a part of the Hughes Science Pipeline Project.
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Hilary Callahan
Professor
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Hometown: Ayer, MA, a semi-rural Army town
Undergraduate Major: Biology, the track in environmental biology at Yale University
PhD: I earned my PhD in the Department of Botany at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and also did my postdoctoral work in a Botany Department
Research Interests: We generally focus on plant reproduction, especially the timing of reproduction. We often work with Arabidopsis thaliana, a model species for genomics and a weedy, temperate annual. Agricultural thinking helps contextualize many of our efforts.
Favorite Departmental Event: Darwin Day (Feb 12th)
Favorite Hobbies: I enjoy moving, athletically or otherwise, by hiking, biking, running, or ideally, getting on the water to row or kayak.
Favorite Musical Artists: Some of my favorite bands are Wussy, Yo La Tengo, Mekons, Prince, and Lucinda Williams. I also adore opera, especially the lyric tenors Lawrence Brownlee and Javier Camarena
Must-go-to-spot in NYC: My 1901 house and my neighbors' equally old houses on Terrace View Avenue in Marble Hill, a place magically on the mainland and part of Manhattan, but really the Bronx. I regularly go to Van Cortlandt and Inwood Hill Parks, and to our farmer's market—one of NYC's best.
Additional Information: I'm a botanist and ecologist who loves both local temperate forests and life in New York City. My personal interests are as eclectic as my academic efforts are interdisciplinary. I try to engage politically with my neighborhood, city, state, country, and world. I am the Faculty Director of the Arthur Ross Greenhouse and serve as President of Black Rock Forest, a non-profit with the mission of research, environmental teaching, and nature conservation. I am part of Columbia's Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology (E3B). Over the years, I've helped originate Barnard's Noyce Teacher Scholars Program, the Research Apprenticeship Program, the Beckman Scholars Program, the Science Pathways Scholars Program (SP)2, and the Speaking Fellows. I am an "academic first gen" professor who grew up in a large Catholic family, learning many lessons from my four grandparents who never finished high school, my dad who worked multiple jobs, and my mom who attended college while raising me.
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Jordan Balaban
Lecturer
jbalaban@barnard.edu | 212.853.8088
232 Barnard Hall
Hometown: Chatham, NY, a small town about 2.5 hours north of NYC
Undergraduate Major: Biological Sciences with a minor in Psychology at the University of Rhode Island
PhD: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of California, Irvine. I studied the effects of temperature on muscle physiology and biomechanics in western fence lizards, Sceloporus occidentalis
Favorite Departmental Event: The annual research symposium!
Favorite Hobbies: I love hiking (I highly recommend getting up to the Hudson valley with some friends!), multi-day bike trips, and hanging out with my dog, Luna
Additional Information: I am a part of the Biology Department’s Anti-Racism Working Group
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Jennifer Mansfield
Professor
jmansfie@barnard.edu | 212.854.4381
246 Barnard Hall
Hometown: I grew up in Maine
Undergraduate Major: Biology with minors in Chemistry and English at Oberlin College
PhD: I studied embryonic development in animals, using the fruit fly model organism at Columbia University. My thesis research focused on molecular genetic mechanisms that set up the head-to-tail body axis.
Research Interests: I still study how pattern and body form is generated in animals, now in vertebrates. My lab works on Hox transcription factors, and we want to understand how they act within a cascade of gene expression that happens during early development. This cascade sets up the whole body plan as well as the structure of individual organs and tissues.
Favorite Departmental Event: The Annual Research Symposium! It's a fantastic opportunity to hear from students about the research they are doing and always a celebration of Barnard science.
Favorite Podcast: The Moth
Favorite Hobbies: I unwind with music, books, TV, and exploring New York.
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Brian Morton
Professor
bmorton@barnard.edu | 212.854.5454
247 Barnard Hall
Hometown: Hamilton in Ontario, Canada
Undergraduate Major: Molecular Biology and Genetics and a minor in Anthropology at the University of Toronto
PhD: University of California, Riverside
Research Interests: We study the factors that affect mutation dynamics and contribute to mutation variation across and within genomes. We are also studying the evolution of genome structure in addition to starting to work on the evolution of gene regulatory networks.
Favorite Books & TV Show: Most recently, the (somewhat) new Rachel Cusk trilogy and the Baroness von Sketch Show
Favorite Hobbies: Photography
Additional Information: I am also the Co-Directory of the Science and Public Policy Minor at Barnard
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Alison Pischedda
Assistant Professor
apisched@barnard.edu | 212.854.9865
249 Barnard Hall
Undergraduate Major: Biology and Mathematics at Queen's University
PhD: Evolutionary Biology at the University of California, Santa Barbara
Research Interests: In the Pischedda Lab, we study sexual selection and sexual conflict in fruit flies.
Favorite Departmental Event: The Annual Research Symposium!
Additional Information: I am Canadian and I was a first-generation college student! I completed my Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Canada and then came to the US as an international student for my PhD.
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Rishita Shah
Lecturer
rshah@barnard.edu | 212.853.0790
263 Barnard Hall
Hometown: Austin, TX
Undergraduate Major: Cell and Molecular Biology at the University of Texas at Austin
PhD: Developmental Biology at the University of Pennsylvania
Favorite Departmental Event: The annual honey extraction!
Must-go-to-spot in NYC: The Met
Additional Information: I don't have a lab at Barnard, but my research interests are in stem cells and regeneration, especially in the zebrafish model system.
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Elizabeth Bauer
Professor, Chair
ebauer@barnard.edu | 212.854.2349
724 Teachers College 528 Building
Hometown: Larchmont, NY
Undergraduate Major: Neuroscience at Amherst College
PhD: Neural Science at New York University
Research Interests: My lab studies the interactions of several brain structures involved in aversive learning. These include the amygdala, the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BNST), and the ventral subiculum. We are currently determining which neural circuits are active when an animal is in an aversive vs. safe vs. novel environment, and whether these interactions are different in males and females.
Favorite Hobbies: Playing tennis, playing the piano, and playing board games with my kids (not all at the same time!)
Must-go-to-spot in NYC: The Conservatory Garden in Central Park
Additional Information: I am also a faculty member in the Department of Neuroscience at Barnard. I am an advisor in both the Biology and Neuroscience Departments for summer research projects during the Summer Research Institute (SRI) as well as am a Neuroscience mentor in the Science Pathways Scholars Program (SP)2.
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John Glendinning
Professor, Associate Chair
jglendin@barnard.edu | 212.854.4749
724 Teachers College 528 Building
Hometown: Philadelphia, PA
Undergraduate Major: Natural Science at Hampshire College
PhD: I studied the predators of Monarch butterflies at their overwintering sites in Mexico at the University of Florida
Research Interests: We study the chemical senses, ingestive behavior, food likes and dislikes. We are exploring how the sense of taste mediates behavioral and metabolic responses to sweeteners, complex carbohydrates, and alcohol. We also study how pre- and post-natal experience with foods can make them taste better (or worse).
Favorite Departmental Event: The annual honey extraction, as it combines hard work and sweet taste
Favorite Hobbies: I like to hike and play tennis
Additional Information: I mentor research students in the Biology and Neuroscience Departments, both during the academic year and the summer (as part of the Summer Research Institute (SRI)). I am also Director of the Science Pathways Scholars Program (SP)2 and mentor students in this program.
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JJ Miranda
Assistant Professor
jmiranda@barnard.edu | 212.854.6770
416S Milbank Hall
Undergraduate Major: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Reed College
PhD: Biochemistry at Harvard University
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Emlyn Resetarits
Assistant Professor
eresetarits@barnard.edu | 212.854.2151
1002A Fairchild Center
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Research Interests: The Resetarits lab will be investigating variation in infection, immunology, and genetics in the Eastern Mudsnail, Ilyanassa obsoleta. This work will entail conducting field work in estuaries across the East Coast (from ME to FL), dissecting hosts to look at infection prevalence and intensity, sequencing host populations, conducting immunity assays, and starting lab-reared colonies.
Additional Information:
Website link: https://eresetarits.github.io/
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