Dr. Claire Fuller

Dr. Fuller is a broadly trained ecologist with specializations in animal behavior, population ecology and parasitologists. Her MS thesis (Zoology) was on kin recognition in Townsend's Chipmunk (Neotamias townsendii), under the guidance of Dr. Andrew Blaustein at Oregon State University. She continued at Oregon State, completing a PhD under Dr. Blaustein on the influence of parasites on population ecology, behavior and ecological immunology of deer mice (Peromyscus maniculatus).

After the PhD, she moved to the US Virgin Islands where she began examining similar questions in the tropical degrader, Nasutitermes acajutlae, a termite. She has been a faculty member in the Department of Biological Sciences at Murray State since the fall of 1997.

Current Position(s)

• Dean, Jones College of Science, Engineering and Technology
• Professor of Biological Sciences

Education

• BA in General Biology, University of California, San Diego
• MS in Zoology, Oregon State University
• PhD in Zoology, Oregon State University

Courses taught at Murray State:

• BIO 101 Biological Concepts

• BIO 103 Saving Planet Earth

• BIO 216 Biological Inquiry and Analysis

• BIO 221 Zoology: Animal Form and Function

• BIO 227 Human Anatomy Lecture

• BIO 228 Human Anatomy Laboratory

• BIO 499 Senior Seminar

• BIO 538/539 Animal Behavior Lecture and Lab (undergraduate)

• BIO 638/639 Animal Behavior Lecture and Lab (graduate)