Title: Professor of Biology & Joe T. McKibben Chair of Biological Science
Email: ggaley@cofo.edu
Teaching Focus: Anatomy & Physiology
Education: M.A., Western Seminary, 1992; University of Heidelberg, Germany, Medical School. 1999
Dr. Galey's main interest is the Anatomy and Physiology of the human body. Her dissertation was entitled: The Current Therapy of the Spontaneous Pneumothorax: Conventional Drainage vs. Thoracoscopic Bulla Resection. After graduating from medical school, she worked several years in pediatric surgery and became a GGB Certified Health Advisor from the Society for Health, Lahnstein, Germany.
Title: Associate Professor of Biology & The Henry Robert Herold Chair of Biological Science
Email: dzimmerman@cofo.edu
Teaching Focus: Fundamentals of Cell Biology and Genetics (BIO233), Microbiology (BIO304), Cell and Molecular Biology (BIO384) and Genetics and Genomics (BIO444), and Introduction to Human Biology (BIO 1004) and Medical Microbiology (BIO214)
Education: A.S., Lincoln Land Community College, 1997; B.S., University of Illinois Urbana- Champaign, 1999; Ph.D., University of Illinois Urbana - Champaign, 2012; Postdoc., University of Illinois Urbana - Champaign, 2013
Dr. Zimmerman joined the faculty at College of the Ozarks in 2013. He serves as an academic advisor for Human and Molecular Biology majors and the Physician’s Assistant Pre-Professional Program and is co-sponsor of the Pre-Medicine Club. Dr. Zimmerman is interested in mechanisms of gene regulation and the application of new techniques in gene editing.He has previously overseen Senior Thesis (BIO462) research projects involving synthetic biology systems to study the effects of cis-element copy number and location on reporter gene expression, and the expression of clinically relevant transgenes in probiotics using drug-free selection systems. He is currently investigating the ability of a CRISPR-Cas9 base editor to modify disease associated SNPs in mammalian tissue culture.
Title: Assistant Professor of Biology and Conservation & Wildlife Management
Email: AExendine@cofo.edu
Teaching Focus: Ecology and Conservation Communication
Education: B.S., Missouri State University, 2009; M.S., Missouri State University, 2012
Professor Exendine joined College of the Ozarks in 2022 and teaches a variety of courses in biology, ecology, and conservation communication.
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