News, Events, Awards and Graduates:

Day of Darwin Symposium and Panel Discussion - Friday February 13th - Info Here

USDA grant awarded to Biology Professor Mitchell Baker. Title: "Rotation distance and resistance management in Colorado potato beetle: Is movement a cost of resistance?"

NSF grant awarded to Biology Professor Mike Hickerson. Title: "Testing biogeographic models of community assembly, colonization and vicariance with comparative phylogeographic data and hierarchical Bayesian models"

2008 QC Award Winners

2008 Biology Undergraduates receiving degrees

2008 Masters of Arts in Biology Graduates

NIH grant awarded to Biology Professor Joni Seeling. Title: "The role of B56alpha/gamma regulatory subunits of protein phosphatase 2A in Wnt signaling"

NSF grant awarded to Biology Professor Joni Seeling . Title: "Molecular Characterization of the Influence of B56 regulatory subunits of protein phosphatase 2A on Wnt signaling"

NIH grant "Genetic Bases of Sarcopenia and Muscle Healthspan in C. elegans" awarded to Biology Professor Alicia Meléndez.

Colloquium: Wednesdays at 11:15am, NSB D-139

NSF grant "Undergraduate Research Mentoring in Ecology, Evolution and Behavior " awarded to Biology Professor Stephane Boissinot. Apply here to conduct research overseas under this new summer program.

"BioBlitz Participants Storm Jamaica Bay", (article in Queens Chronicle). Bioblitz orchestrated by Professors Gillian Stewart and John Waldman.

"Like Ducks and Penguins, With Nervous Stomachs". A New York Times article featuring graduate student Colin Grubel and Biology Professor John Waldman

"Swimming with the Fishes (The Death and Life of New York’s Waterways)". A cuny radio Podcast featuring Biology Professor John Waldman. Listen Now

Biology Department Group Photograph

2007 Queens College President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching was given to Tim Short.

Information on nine previous teaching awards given to Biology Department faculty

Departmental Information :

Chair: Corinne A. Michels

Deputy Chair: Pokay Ma

Graduate Deputy Executive Officer: Cathy Savage-Dunn

Graduate Evaluation: Mitchell Baker

Address: Biology Department
Queens College, City University of New York
65-30 Kissena Blvd
Flushing, New York 11367

Administrative Assistants:

Carla Pisko  

Derek Ivery  

Department Phone: (718) 997-3400
Fax1: (718) 997-3445; Fax2: (718) 997-3321
Department Office: D346 New Science Bldg
Office Hours: 9:00 am - 5:00 pm