Marquette Biological Sciences

We are hiring!

The Department of Biological Sciences at Marquette University invites applications for a full-time non-tenure-track Teaching Faculty position with the possibility of renewal after one year. The primary responsibility is to develop and lead BIOL 1101H: Honors Foundations in Biological Inquiry, beginning August 2026. The successful candidate will also teach non-majors biology courses within the Marquette Core Curriculum.

This position supports a long-term departmental commitment to providing early, authentic research experiences in the biological and biomedical sciences. The successful candidate will play a central role in building this infrastructure by developing and leading an Honors-designated Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience (CURE) for first- and second-year students.

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Teaching Assistant Professor - Biological Sciences Below you will find the details for the position including any supplementary documentation and questions you should review before applying for the opening. To apply for the position, please click the Apply for this Job link/button.

Congratulations to Dr. Lisa Petrella on receiving a Teaching Excellence Award at this year's Pere Marquette Dinner! See https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Ftoday.marquette.edu%2F2025%2F04%2F2025-teaching-excellence-and-excellence-in-diversity-and-inclusion-award-faculty-winners-announced%2F&psig=AOvVaw3DpLZwy9uJLi5pgnftVWrw&ust=1746650018569000&source=images&cd=vfe&opi=89978449&ved=0CBQQjRxqFwoTCPD3-MbYj40DFQAAAAAdAAAAABAE for more details.

Congratulations to Sarah Rolli for her successful defense of her dissertation "Investigating the role of chaperones and sequestrases in misfolded protein sequestration" carried out under the tutelage of Dr. Emily Sontag. The beer can is in homage to her new position at Molson Coors.

🍻 Sarah Rolli, a fifth-year doctoral student in the department of Biological Sciences, was recently hired as a Senior Yeast and Fermentation Scientist at Molson Coors in Milwaukee, WI.

🔬 As a Senior Yeast and Fermentation Scientist at Molson Coors, Rolli will research new microbiology techniques to improve the quality of brewing to aid in new product innovation.

Learn more: marquetteu.com/3FZMlH1

Congratulations to Cole Doolittle on the successful defense of his dissertation on "Conspecific density dependence and ecological disturbance". This makes the second defense for a student in Dr. Joe LaManna's research group in less than a week!

On Friday April 25, 2025, the Department of Biological Sciences celebrated our undergraduate researchers with 32 students presenting their work in 11 different laboratory groups.

A couple of weeks ago on a snowy Wednesday, Biological Sciences hosted their first Chili cookoff with ~100 students, faculty, and staff in attendance. 6 large crocks of chili disappeared in less than an hour. Kian Howe took first place with his midwestern mom's mild beef chili recipe with Dr. Dan Meer and Dr. Jane Dorweiler tying for second with 4-bean vegetarian chili and red chili with meat, respectively.

Great day last Friday for the grad students in Biological Sciences! Kristen Qu***ia (Petrella Lab) won runner-up and the People's choice award at the 3-MT competition. Casey Lambert (Cook Lab) and Sumaiya Chowdhury (Petrella Lab) took 2nd and 3rd in the graduate poster session. Congratulations to all!

Congratulations to Hannah Buchholz on the successful defense of her dissertation "Understanding how chaperones influence protein aggregation" completed in Dr. Anita Manogaran's lab.

Congratulations to Nick Schneider who successfully defended his dissertation "Characterizing substituted imidazolidinetriones as a novel class of pyruvare carboxylase inhibitors" carried out in Dr. Martin St. Maurice's labortory. This makes Nick a double Marquette grad - BS followed by PhD!

Two weeks ago we hosted Dr. Judd Hultquist (BS 2008, now assistant professor at Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine) to present his research "New Host-directed Therapeutic Strategies to Target the HIV Latent Reservoir".

Judd is the third alum speaker this semester with two of our former PhD students also in the mix - Dr. Yin Lee and Dr. Rachel Morris.