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CAS Research Professors

Curators at the California Academy of Sciences (CAS) may have graduate faculty status in the Biology Department as CAS Research Professors. These faculty may accept and direct their own graduate students. Students working for CAS Research Professors are normal M.S. students in the Biology Department.

CAS Research Professors (by department at CAS):

Botany

Frank Almeda
Thomas Daniel
Peter Fritsch

Center for Comparative Genomics

Brian Simison

Entomology

Brian Fisher
Charles Griswold
David Kavanaugh

Invertebrate Zoology & Geology

Terrance Gosliner
Richard Mooi
Peter Roopnarine
Robert Van Syoc
Gary Williams

Microbiology

Shannon Bennett

Vertebrate Zoology & Anthropology

Zeresenay Alemseged
David Blackburn
Robert Drewes
Jack Dumbacher
Luiz Rocha