Biology Faculty

Byron James Adams - Professor

BS, Brigham Young University, 1993
PhD, University of Nebraska, 1998

Rachel Buck - Assistant Professor

BS, Brigham Young University, 2012
MS, Brigham Young University, 2013
PhD, Utah State University, 2021

Elizabeth Gibbons Bailey - Assistant Professor

BS, Brigham Young University, 2008
PhD, Brigham Young University, 2013

Mark C Belk - Professor

AS, Ricks College, 1983
BS, Brigham Young University, 1985
MS, Brigham Young University, 1987
PhD, University of Georgia, 1992

Seth Mikaya Bybee - Associate Professor

BS, Brigham Young University, 2004
PhD, University of Florida, 2008

Shawn M Clark - Research Professor

BS, Brigham Young University, 1979
MS, Brigham Young University, 1982
PhD, Ohio State, 1987

Richard Angus Gill - Professor

BS, Brigham Young University, 1993
PhD, Colorado State University, 1998

Blaine D Griffen - Associate Professor

BS, Brigham Young University, 1998
MS, Oregon State University, 2002
PhD, University of New Hampshire, 2007

Jamie L Jensen - Associate Professor

BS, Brigham Young University, 1999
MS, Brigham Young University, 2003
PhD, Arizona State University, 2008

Leigh A Johnson - Professor

BS, Brigham Young University, 1991
PhD, Washington State University, 1996

Robert L Johnson - Research Professor

BS, Brigham Young University, 1991
MS, Brigham Young University, 1993
PhD, Brigham Young University, 2008

John Sai Keong Kauwe - Professor

BS, Brigham Young University, 1999
MS, Brigham Young University, 2001
PhD, Washington University, St. Louis, 2007

Steven D Leavitt - Assistant Professor

BA, Brigham Young University, 2004
PhD, Brigham Young University, 2010

C Riley Nelson - Professor

BS, Utah State University, 1980
MS, Utah State University, 1984
PhD, Brigham Young University, 1986

Samuel Harris Payne - Associate Professor

BS, Brigham Young University, 2002
PhD, University of California San Diego, 2008

Steven Lee Peck - Associate Professor

BS, Brigham Young University, 1986
MS, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1988
PhD, North Carolina State University, 1997

Stephen R Piccolo - Assistant Professor

BS, Brigham Young University, 2001
PhD, University of Utah, 2011

Russell Ben Rader - Professor

BS, Brigham Young University, 1977
MS, Brigham Young University, 1982
PhD, Colorado State University, 1987

Perry Gene Ridge - Associate Professor

BS, Brigham Young University, 2005
MS, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2008
PhD, Brigham Young University, 2013

John Sproul- Assistant Professor

Joshua Adam Stowers - Assistant Teaching Professor

BS, Brigham Young University, 1999
MA, Western Governors University, 2004

Clinton Jeremy Whipple - Associate Professor

BS, Brigham Young University, 2000
PhD, University of California, San Diego, 2006

Michael Frank Whiting - Professor

BS, Brigham Young University, 1990
PhD, Cornell University, 1994

Edward R Wilcox - Research Associate Professor

BA, University of California, Davis, 1977
PhD, University of California, Davis, 1982