Regular Faculty
Non-Tenure Track Faculty
Alejandra Berdeja
Visiting Assistant Professor, Biology
B.S, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; P.h.D., University of California, Riverside
Alejandra Martínez Berdeja
Visiting Assistant Professor, Biology
B.S., Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; Ph.D, University of California, Riverside
Stephanie S.L. Birnbaum
Visiting Assistant Professor, Biology
B.S., Emory University; P.h.D., Vanderbilt University

Babak Hassanzadeh
Non-Tenure Track Instructor, Biology
B.S., UCLA; Ph.D. (in progress) University of Southern California
Karen Molinder
Resident Assistant Professor, Biology
B.A. Occidental, Ph.D U.C.L.A.
Dr. Molinder teaches biochemistry and molecular biology.
Jessie F. Salter
Visiting Assistant Professor, Biology
B.A., Occidental College; P.h.D, Louisiana State University

Gary Schindelman
Resident Full Professor, Biochemistry
B.S., State University of New York at Binghamton; Ph.D., New York University
In addition to teaching at Occidental, Gary Schindelman is a biological curator for WormBase at Caltech.

Jonathan P. Williams
Resident Senior Instructor, Biology
B.S., UNC Wilmington, M.S., CSU Northridge
Research Scientist, Vantuna Research Group