Faculty

Charles Smith

Chuck earned his Ph.D. from Ohio State University in 1977. His research includes the distribution and reproductive behavior of freshwater fishes, especially Catostomids and "threatened" and "endangered" species. He is also interested in neurophysiology, especially neurotransmitters and synaptic functions. At Guilford, he teaches human anatomy and physiology, animal physiology, comparative vertebrate anatomy, ichthyology, general ecology, North Carolina freshwater fishes, developmental biology, environmental science and human biology.

Lynn Moseley

As an undergraduate at the College of William and Mary, Lynn became fascinated with fieldwork in biology, particularly in the areas of ornithology and animal behavior (ethology). She pursued these interests at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, earning a Ph.D. in zoology.

Her research interests are in the areas of social behavior and communication in birds and other terrestrial vertebrates. These interests have led to a wide variety of opportunities to work with students in the field, from monitoring a nest of Bald Eagles only 10 minutes from campus to studying predators and prey in East Africa with students over the summer

Lynn teaches courses in general zoology, vertebrate field zoology, ornithology and animal behavior. In recent years, she has also taught a special topics course on Barrier Island ecology. Every other summer, she teaches a field course with the geology department, spending a month camping and hiking while studying the natural history of the desert Southwest or East African savannahs.

Frank Keegan

Frank received his Ph.D. from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where his research focused on nucleic acid metabolism. He joined the Department of Biology at Guilford in 1975. He teaches Introduction to Forensic Science, Forensic Chemistry and General Botany with an emphasis on forensic applications. He currently serves as director of the Forensics Institute of Guilford College. His research interests include the interpretation of forensic DNA profiles and the recognition of positive stutter, and the extraction and analysis of typable DNA from unusual tissue sources. In his spare time he likes to read political history, travel, garden and spend time with his wife and two children.

Melanie Lee-Brown

Melanie Lee-Brown is a New Jersey native. She studied biology at High Point University and completed her Bachelor of Science in Biology at N.C. A & T State University, Summa Cum Laude. She received her Ph.D. in Microbiology from N.C. State University with an emphasis in genetics. She completed a three-year post-doctoral research program in the Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy at Wake Forest University School of Medicine in the area of Developmental Neurobiology. Her research examined the effects of muscle-derived trophic factors on the oculomotor, trochlear and abducens neurons in the brain stem of embryonic chickens during the period of programmed-cell-death.

Melanie joined the Department of Biology at Guilford College in 2002 and teaches courses in general zoology, microbiology, genetics and biochemistry. The focus of her undergraduate research program includes microbial genetics and the study of the free-living, nitrogen-fixing bacteria of the family Azotobacteracea.

Bryan Brendley

Michele Malotky

Tom Tucker