School of Sciences

Dr. Stan Eisen  (home page)

Title: Professor of Biology and Director of Pre-Health Professional Programs.
Office:  AH 110
Phone:  321-3447
e-mail:  seisen@cbu.edu

Length of service at CBU: Dr. Eisen has been teaching at CBU since 1979.

Courses regularly taught: Biology of Addiction (BIOL 103) lecture and lab; Human Biology (BIOL 109) lecture and lab; Principles of Biology I (BIOL 111) lecture and lab, Principles of Biology II (BIOL 112) lecture and lab; Invertebrate Zoology (BIOL 335) Lecture and Lab; Parasitology (BIOL 413) lecture and lab; and Bioinformatics (BIOL 495).

He has also taught Parasitology at the University of Memphis and the parasitology unit of the Microbiology course for 2nd-year medical students at the University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center, for which he received a Teaching Excellence Award.

Formal Education: Dr. Eisen has a B.S. in Biology from the State University of New York at Stony Brook (1972), and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Zoology from Indiana University-Bloomington (1974 and 1978, respectively).

Background: Dr. Eisen grew up in New Rochelle, N.Y. He is the son of two Holocaust survivors. During World War II, his parents, both born in Lodz, Poland, were deported to Auschwitz, and were liberated in 1945 by the Russian Army.

Professional interests: Dr. Eisen’s professional interests have undergone an evolution. His Ph.D. dissertation was The population ecology of Lernaea cyprinacea, a parasite of freshwater fishes. Subsequent research has been on distribution patterns of helminth parasites among centrarchid fishes. More recently, however, he has focused his research on the effects of larval exposure to ethanol among wild-type and mutant strains of Drosophila melanogaster. Currently, he is writing a textbook on the biology of addiction.

Service: Currently, Dr. Eisen is acting faculty advisor to the Mu Tau chapter of Beta Beta Beta, the Biology Honor Society. He has also joined the newly-formed Blue Note Combo, 'a student-run jazz and pep ensemble whose purpose is to bring music to Christian Brothers University in the form of jazz, swing, bebop, blues, Latin and whatever else happens to catch the eye of its members.'   The home page for the Blue Note Combo is http://illustrious.johnnymac.googlepages.com/home."

Interests: Music, plain and simple. Dr. Eisen plays the keyboard, guitar, electric bass and trombone. The Drummer’s Attic has played a number of functions on the CBU campus, including induction ceremonies for Beta Beta Beta, the Biology Honor Society, and a Chuckie (Charles) Darwin Birthday Bash. He has also played several Halloween Day Lunchtime Benefit Concerts for Le Bonheur Children’s Medical Center at the Alfonso Dining Hall, assisted by fellow faculty members and students who felt sorry for him and couldn’t bear to see him twisting in the wind alone.