Undergraduate Education & Summer College

BTS faculty contribute to both undergraduate education and summer college instruction.  BTS runs one (Animal Physiology) of the fourteen undergraduate concentrations in the university's Biological Sciences major.  A director of undergraduate studies (DUS) for Animal Physiology is appointed from within BTS to coordinate with the department Chair to administer the concentration. 

The undergraduate courses taught by the BTS faculty are as follows: 

• BIOAP 3110: Principles of Animal Physiology (Fall)
• BIOAP 3160: Cellular Physiology (Spring)
• BIOAP 3190: Laboratory in Physiology (Fall) 
• BIOAP 3200: Introduction to Veterinary Anatomy (Spring)
• BIOAP 4000: Cancer Genetics and Epigenetics (Fall)
• BIOAP 4020: Cell Signaling and Cancer (Spring)
• BIOAP 4130: Histology - the Biology of Tissues (Fall)
• BIOAP 4140: Principles of Pharmacology (Spring)

The summer college courses taught by BTS faculty are as follows:

• VTBMS 1200: Veterinary Medicine: Science & Practice
• VTBMS 1210: Genomic Data Science in Dogs.

Faculty

Adam Boyko, PhD
Associate Professor
Boyko Lab
Lead Instructor, VTBMS 1210

Richard Cerione, PhD
Distinguished Professor of Arts and Science in Chemistry
Cerione Lab

Charles Danko, PhD
Associate Professor in Life Science and Technology
Danko Lab
Lead Instructor, BIOAP 4000

Keila Dhondt, DVM
Senior Lecturer
Lead Instructor, BIOAP 4130

Jacquelyn Evans, PhD
Assistant Professor
Evans Lab

Jess Hayward, PhD
Senior Research Associate

Brandon Hedrick, PhD
Assistant Professor
Hedrick Lab
Lead Instructor, BIOAP 3200

Saki Ichikawa, PhD
Assistant Professor
Ichikawa Lab
Lead Instructor, BIOAP 4140

Antonia Jameson Jordan, DVM, PhD
Senior Lecturer
Director of Undergraduate Physiology
Lead Instructor, BIOAP 4020

Toshi Kawate, PhD
Associate Professor
Kawate Lab

Dave Lin, PhD
Associate Professor of Neurobiology
Coordinator, CityU Hong Kong Joint PhD Program
Lin Lab
Co-lead Instructor, BIOAP3110

Paul Maza, DVM, PhD
Professor of Practice
Lead Instructor, VTBMS 1200

Alexander Nikitin, MD, PhD
Professor of Pathology
Nikitin Lab

Linda Nowak, PhD
Associate Professor

John Schimenti, PhD
James Law Professor of Genetics
Schimenti Lab

Praveen Sethupathy, PhD
Professor of Physiological Genomics
Chair
Sethupathy Lab
Co-lead Instructor, BIOAP 3110

Andrew White, PhD
Associate Professor
White Lab

Andrew Yen, PhD
Professor of Biomedical Sciences
Yen Lab
Lead Instructor, BIOAP 3190