{"id":222,"date":"2009-10-13T13:06:36","date_gmt":"2009-10-13T17:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/?page_id=222"},"modified":"2025-10-17T13:26:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T17:26:20","slug":"biochemistry-and-physiology","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/biochemistry-and-physiology\/","title":{"rendered":"Biochemistry, Physiology and Toxicology"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Biology Professors<\/h2>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%; height: 693px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 76px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 76px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/people\/kyle-biggar\/\">Dr. Kyle Biggar<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Functional Proteomics<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Protein methylation<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Drug development<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Peptide biochemistry<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 76px; text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/people\/jenny-bruin\/\">Dr. Jenny Bruin<\/a><\/p>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: disc;\">\n<li><strong>Diabetes<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;\">Islet biology<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;\">Toxicology<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;\">Stem cells<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 25%;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/people\/dr-james-cheetham\/\">Dr. James Cheetham<\/a><\/p>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: disc;\">\n<li><strong>Membrane Biochemistry<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%; text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/people\/steven-j-cooke\/\">Dr. Steven Cooke<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Aquatic ecology<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;\">Conservation Biology<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;\">Physiological Ecology<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;\">Animal Behavior<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;\">Environmental Science.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 192px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 192px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/people\/jeff-dawson\/\">Dr. Jeffrey Dawson<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Neuroethology and Biomechanics of Insect Flight<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 192px;\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/people\/eugene-fletcher\/\">Dr. Eugene Fletcher<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Industrial biotechnology<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Synthetic biology<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Fermentation<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Metabolism<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Microbial physiology and stress<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 68px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 68px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/people\/ashkan-golshani\/\">Dr. Ashkan Golshani<\/a><\/p>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: disc;\">\n<li><strong>Functional Genomics<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Microbiology<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Molecular Biology<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Interaction Networks<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Systems Biology<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 68px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/people\/shelley-hepworth\/\">Dr. Shelley Hepworth<\/a><\/p>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: disc;\">\n<li><strong>Plant Molecular Genetics, <\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Developmental Biology<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 25%;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/people\/iain-lambert\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dr. Iain Lambert<\/a> <em>&#8211; Professor Emeritus<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Molecular Biology<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Genetic Toxicology<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/people\/heath-macmillan\/\">Dr. Heath MacMillan<\/a><\/p>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: disc;\">\n<li><strong>Integrative and Comparative Animal Ecophysiology<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 168px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 168px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/people\/bruce-mckay\/\">Dr. Bruce McKay<\/a><\/p>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: disc;\">\n<li><strong>Molecular Biology<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Cell Biology<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Genomics<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Cancer Biology<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%; 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