Regular Faculty
Non-Tenure Track Faculty
Alejandra Martínez Berdeja
Visiting Assistant Professor, Biology
B.S., Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; Ph.D, University of California, Riverside
Stephanie S.L. Birnbaum
Visiting Assistant Professor, Biology
B.S., Emory University; P.h.D., Vanderbilt University
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Babak Hassanzadeh
Visiting Assistant Professor, Biology
B.S., UCLA; Ph.D. University of Southern California
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Zoë J. Kitchel
Visiting Assistant Professor, Biology
B.S., Yale University; Ph.D, Rutgers University
Mia Mattioli
Visiting Assistant Professor, Biology
B.A., Barnard College; M.D., The Pennsylvania State University
Karen Molinder
Resident Assistant Professor, Biology
B.A. Occidental, Ph.D U.C.L.A.
Dr. Molinder teaches biochemistry and molecular biology.
Jeffrey Morse
Visiting Assistant Professor, Biology
A.B., Pennsylvania State University; M.S., Ph.D., University of Rhode Island
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Gary Schindelman
Resident Full Professor, Biochemistry
B.S., State University of New York at Binghamton; Ph.D., New York University
In addition to teaching at Occidental, Gary Schindelman is a biological curator for WormBase at Caltech.
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Jonathan P. Williams
Resident Senior Instructor, Biology
B.S., UNC Wilmington, M.S., CSU Northridge
Research Scientist, Vantuna Research Group
Sigfrido A. Zimmermann
Visiting Instructor, Biology
B.A., M.S., California State University, Northridge