Mónica Quiñones-Frías

Expert in "cell-biology"

Mónica Quiñones-Frías

Assistant Professor of Biology

Biology

cell biology, genetics, neuroscience

Daniel Slane

Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology

Biology

cell biology, chromatin dynamics, developmental biology, embryogenesis, genetics, microscopy, molecular biology, next-generation sequencing, plant physiology, stress memory

Martin Kruse

Associate Professor of Biology and Neuroscience

Biology, Neuroscience

biochemistry, cell biology, computational neuroscience, electrophysiology, molecular biology, neuroscience

News & Updates

September 17, 2026

Reentry Sisters join Bates courses

This fall, in addition to the 552 first-year students and 13 transfer students, an additional five students enrolled in a few courses across campus: previously incarcerated women joined first-year seminars through the Reentry Sisters Alumni Scholar Program.

September 17, 2026

Bates welcomes the last of this year’s new faculty

Bates welcomed 11 new tenured or tenure-track faculty for the 2026-2027 academic year, and Bates News is highlighting these faculty in three installments. Read about our new faculty here and here, and read below for the final group of new faculty this year.

September 17, 2026

Bates student honored as Newman Civic Fellow

Natalie Gersen ‘28 of Belmont, Mass., has been named a Newman Civic Fellow through Campus Compact, a national coalition of colleges and universities working to advance the public purposes of higher education.

Expert in "cell-biology"

Assistant Professor of Biology

Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology

Associate Professor of Biology and Neuroscience

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