Curricula Vitae in BFT Natural Sciences

Name	Personal Focus	Summary
Beda E Alvarez Senior Instructor	development of new classes of inhibitor enzyme drug-targets for Neglected Tropical Diseases	Beda (Butch) E. Alvarez, Jr., MD is a Senior Instructor in the Natural Sciences Department who specializes in the Biological Sciences for the pre-med/pre-nursing/pre-professional courses such as Microbiology and Human Anatomy and Physiology I & II. He earned my Bachelor of Science in Natural Sciences at Xavier University and his Medical Doctor at Cebu Doctors’ College of Medicine.
Dr. Stephen A. Borgianini Associate Professor	Evolutionary biology and ecology	As a marine ecologist and an evolutionary biologist, Dr. Borgianini is particularly interested in the evolution of the transition of life forms from salt water to fresh water, and then from fresh water to a terrestrial environment, a process that continues today.
W. Patrick Boyle Instructor		Patrick Boyle, MS hails from Ohio. He earned his undergraduate and graduate degrees in physics from Miami University. His work there was focused on physics education research; figuring out ways to make physics laboratory classes relevant and lectures less painful.His students would often ask what life was like after college, and having never experienced that he decided a brief foray into industry for perspective might be worthwhile and discovered after 2 years his passion lies in teaching.
Mercer Robert Brugler Associate Professor		Mercer R. Brugler is an Associate Professor of Marine Biology at the University of South Carolina Beaufort campus since August 2020.
Dr. Edward Lawrence D'Antonio Professor	Biochemistry, Structural Biology, Medicinal Chemistry	Our work has been centered on finding new inhibitors to target the glucose kinases in the protozoa of Trypanosoma cruzi and Leishmania by structure-based drug design and high-throughput screening.
Dr. Jennifer D'Antonio Instructor	Molecular Biotechnology, Enzymatic Mechanism Elucidation	Jennifer D'Antonio, PhD earned a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from the University of Puerto Rico at Cayey and a doctoral degree in chemistry with a minor in biotechnology from North Carolina State University (NCSU). She has multiple published scientific articles, including some in collaboration with the pharmaceutical company, GlaxoSmithKline, and secured a patent. She currently work as a chemistry professor at the University of South Carolina Beaufort (USCB).
Ian Gibson Instructor	Human medicine, Genome sequencing, Structures and molecular mechanisms	Ian B. Gibson, MS been a biology and chemistry lab instructor, lab manager, and lab safety officer at USCB since 2014. He teach labs for Biological Principles I and II, Human Anatomy and Physiology I, Ecology and Evolution Lab, Gen Physiology Lab, and General Chemistry I and II. He relocated to the United States in 1999 from the United Kingdom. He received my MS in Human & Medical Genetics from Baylor College of Medicine in 2013.
Miss Rebecca Gail Krygiel Instructor		Rebecca Krygiel Capello, MSc went to the University of South Carolina, Columbia, and graduated in 2009 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Biology and a Minor in Spanish. She went to graduate school at King’s College London, in London, England, where she majored in Human and Applied Physiology. Her favorite area of Physiology is Environmental Physiology, which is learning how the body responds and adapts to extreme environments, such as diving, altitude, and space.
Kathryn R Madden Instructor	Biology	Kathryn Madden is an Instructor of Biology and Environmental Biology at University of South Carolina Beaufort.
Dr. Eric Wilson Montie Associate Professor	Marine sensory biology and neurobiology, Environmental toxicology, Marine biology	My interests concern the effects of chemical pollutants and marine toxins on the brain and hearing, neuroimaging of marine mammals, hearing of fish and marine mammals, acoustic communication of aquatic vertebrates, effects of chemical pollutants, anthropogenic noise, and climate change on sound production and spawning of fish.
Dr. Daniel Tyler Pettay Assistant Professor	temperate microalgal and cyanobacterial communities of the eastern United States, algal symbionts of tropical invertebrates, particularly coral	Dr. Pettay is a broadly trained molecular ecologist interested in how microalgal populations, species and communities respond to environmental change, both natural and anthropogenic in nature, and influence tidal, seasonal and long-term trends in biogeochemical processes. He investigates these processes over spatial scales ranging from meters to thousands of kilometers using an interdisciplinary approach that includes molecular genetics, environmental monitoring and comparative physiology.
Kimberly Ritchie Associate Professor	Marine biology	I am a marine microbial ecologist. I have studied coral and coral reef invertebrate diseases since 1992. In 2004 I began studying beneficial host-microbe interactions in corals and have since broadened these investigations to include beneficial associations and antibiotic-producing bacteria associated with sharks and rays. I have also, by necessity, become well versed in the effects of excess CO2 (warming and ocean acidification) on the marine systems that I study.
Heather Thornton Instructor		Heather Thornton, MS earned a bachelor’s degree in Marine Biology from the University of North Carolina – Wilmington, an MS in Zoology from Clemson University, and an MEd in Higher Education from Georgia Southern University. At USCB she teaches various major and non-major courses including Biological Principles I & II, Human Anatomy and Physiology I & II, Introduction to Environmental Biology, Ecology and Evolution, and Oceans and Society.
Miss Emily Morgan Webb Visiting Assistant Professor