Below is a list of faculty that are active in the department, and available to students with course specific questions. If you need administrative support, we encourage you to refer your questions to one of the following;
- The Chair of the department can address detailed program questions, including program requirements, planning and selection, research opportunities, graduate studies, and more.
- The Academic Advisor, if available, can offer support including course registration and course load, important dates, academic policies and more.
- The Academic Deans serve as the academic and administrative anchors to the professors within their Faculties or Schools as well as the students.
Faculty of Biology and Biochemistry

Dr. Patrick Bergeron
Associate Professor
Dr. Patrick Bergeron is an associate professor in the Department of Biology and Biochemistry. He earned his Bachelor’s degree in Wildlife Biology at McGill and his PhD in Evolutionary Biology and Behavioural Ecology at the Université de Sherbrooke. He was also a postdoctoral fellow in population genetics at Dartmouth College (NH) and in biostatistics and epidemiology at the CRCHUS. His main research themes focus on life-history trade-offs and behavioral ecology.
Website: https://bergeron-ecophysio.wixsite.com/b-lab

Dr. Marylène Boulet
Senior Instructor

Dr. Estelle Chamoux
Full Professor
My teaching interests are focused on cell biology and molecular biology related to human health and diseases. Firstly educated in France for undergraduate and MSc degrees, I then earned my PhD in cell biology at Sherbrooke’s University, with a specialization in gland development in early human life. Since then, I continued with a Post-doctoral fellowship in immunology at Laval University. I’m now part of Dr Roux’s laboratory in Sherbrooke’s hospital, where I’m working on skeletal diseases. My studies are particularly concentrated on discovering how bone-notching cells (osteoclasts) become out of control in several pathologies. My best motivation is to help students to realize their dreams.

Patricia Elias
Contract Faculty

Dr. Kerry Hull
Full Professor, Vice-Principal Academic and Research
Dr. Hull is a Full Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences. She teaches courses in Animal/Human Physiology, Human Anatomy, Exercise Physiology, and the History of Biology. She earned her Bachelor’s degree in Biology and her PhD in Endocrinology at University of Alberta, and has also undertaken research projects at universities in Delaware, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. Her research interests focus on the involvement of hormones in growth and reproduction. She has recently co-authored an Anatomy and Physiology textbook entitled “Human Form, Human Function” and is also involved in the preparation of pedagogical material, lab manuals and study guides.

Andreanne Lessard
Contract Faculty

Genevieve Levasseur
Laboratory Coordinator

Dr. Elizabeth Prusak
Full Professor
Dr. Prusak is Full Professor in the Department of Chemistry, and teaches courses in biochemistry, organic chemistry, and immunology. She received her Master’s degree in Chemical Engineering from Technical University, Poland and her doctorate in Biochemistry at the Polish Academy of Sciences. She worked as Research Associate at the Biochemical Laboratory of the Polish Academy of Sciences from 1979 to 1986 and at the Biotechnology Research Institute in Montreal from 1987 to 1990. Her research interest is microbial physiology and involves the study of enzymes and metabolic pathways in which quinoprotein enzymes participate in the utilization and production of microbial primary and secondary metabolites.

Dr. Michael Richardson
Associate Professor
Dr Michael Richardson is Associate Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences. He teaches a variety of courses including Introductory Biology, Ichthyology and Herpetology, Ornithology and Mammalogy, Comparative Anatomy, Freshwater Biology, Animal Behaviour, and Introduction to Evolution and Ecology. His undergraduate and graduate training was in Wildlife Biology from the Macdonald Campus of McGill University. Michael’s graduate research involved using goldfish (Carassius auratus) as a model for better understanding how exotic fish become established in local lakes and ponds, and the impacts they have on native ecosystems.
Dr Richardson has supervised a diverse selection of undergraduate honours and independent project students involved in behavioural ecology, including studies in the activity budgets of wild turkeys, testicular adduction in howler monkeys, anti-predator vigilance in Harbour seals, age related fecundity in Tree Swallows, and the factors affecting the reproductive performance of Red-breasted Mergansers.
In recent years, Dr. Richardson has been focused on teaching and administrative duties, primarily as Chair of the Biology Department and coordinator for the Peter Curry Marsh.
The Peter Curry Marsh (PCM) is a 3-hectare (7.4 acres) area of wetland surrounded by approximately 11 hectares (27.2 acres) of hayfields and woodland that is located on the eastern side of the campus. Located within a hundred meters of the main campus, this area is protected under a joint agreement between Bishop’s University and Duck’s Unlimited Canada. The area represents an important natural laboratory for students and faculty, and a popular spot for local birders and nature lovers.

Dr. Jade Savage
Full Professor
Dr. Jade Savage completed her bachelor’s degree in Biology in 1998 and her PhD in Entomology in 2004 at McGill University. She joined the Department of Biological Sciences at Bishop’s University in July 2004. She has travelled extensively, throughout North America and abroad, to take part in conferences and research field expeditions in Canada, the United States, Costa Rica, Australia, and Sweden. Dr. Savage was recently awarded four grants from NSERC and FQRNT totalling $108,485 to pursue her work on the systematics and biodiversity of Diptera (true flies).
She is an adjunct professor at the University of Manitoba and an emeritus curator at the Lyman Museum of McGill University and is currently co-supervising two M.Sc. projects through these institutions. The first, by Amy Moores, investigates the impact of patch size on the Diptera fauna of peat bogs of southern Quebec and northern Vermont. The second project, by Anais Renaud, is looking at changes in the distribution and composition of the Diptera fauna of Churchill (Manitoba) over the last century.

Dr. Ginny (Virginia) Stroeher
Full Professor
Dr. Stroeher is a Full Professor in the Biology Department at Bishop’s University. She earned her Bachelor’s degree in Zoology at Montana State University and completed her graduate work at the University of Washington, studying the role of Hox genes in early development of Drosophila melanogaster. She continued her research development as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Calgary, studying the genetic regulation of early cell lineage decisions in Caenorhabditis elegans, and subsequently worked as a Research Associate at the University of Alberta, examining the molecular mechanisms of metabolic changes associated with abiotic stress in plants.

Dr. Sarathi Weraduwage
Full Professor
Dr. Sarathi Weraduwage is a full professor in the Department of Biology and Biochemistry. She holds her bachelor’s degree in Botany from the University of Colombo and earned her Ph.D. in Plant Agriculture from the University of Guelph. She has 20 years of academic experience, including 15 years of research and many years of teaching and mentoring.