We are Delighted to Welcome New Faculty

Darius Balciunas, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Department of Biology

Dr. Balciunas received his Ph.D in molecular cell biology from Uppsala University in Sweden before working as a postdoctoral fellow at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and, most recently, at the University of Minnesota. His research interests include cell-cell signaling in development, embryonic patterning, transposable elements for gene discovery in vertebrates, and functional genomics in zebrafish.

Mark Alan Feitelson, Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Biology

Dr. Feitelson was previously a professor in the Department of Pathology, Anatomy and Cell Biology at Thomas Jefferson University. His research focus is on how hepatitis B and C viruses cause liver cancer. Dr. Feitelson received his Ph.D. in Microbiology and Immunology from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1979, did a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford, and then worked in a Nobel lab for 9 years before moving to Jefferson.

Frederic Biemar, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Department of Biology

Dr. Biemar will be joining the College in January 2008. He received his Ph.D. from Université de Liège in Belgium before working as a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California, Berkeley. His research focus is the role on microRNAs and other non-coding RNAs in the gene regulatory networks that control animal development and disease.