Michael Temkin
Associate Professor of Biology

Among Michael Temkin’s courses are Genetics, Evolution, Research Methods, Molecular Biology, Developmental Biology and General Biology, the introductory course. He also works with students on independent research projects both during the academic year and in the summer. Thus he works with all levels of students, from first-year students to senior majors.

While at St. Lawrence, Temkin has been awarded several grants that help fund student research. His own research interests are quite diverse, streteching from invertebrate reproductive biology and evolution, to population genetics of freshwater mussels in North Country waterways (with Professor of Geology Mark Erickson), to gene expression during the development of rat brains (with Associate Professor of Biology Joe Erlichman). He has published a chapter in the textbook Atlas of Marine Invertebrate Larvae and has published scholarly articles in journals such as the Biological Bulletin and Marine Biology.

Prof. Temkin is co-chair of the Information Technology Advisory Committee and member of the Radiation Safety Committee, and the advisor to the biology honorary society and a pre-college opportunities program hosted on campus. He has worked at the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology, the Smithsonian Marine Station in Florida and the Jules Stein Eye Institute at UCLA.

Michael Temkin earned his B.S and M.S at the American University and his Ph.D. at the University of Southern California.