Biology Education

Dr. Toth is the Director of the Multi-Disciplinary Laboratories in the Biology Undergraduate Education Office in the Division of Biology and Medicine. He received his BS degree in Biology from the University of Toledo and his PhD in Microbiology and Immunology from the University of Virginia. He was a post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of California, San Francisco. Prior to Brown, Chuck was an Associate Professor of Biology at Providence College, he taught courses in Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics (science writing course); Developmental Biology; Immunology, Research; General Biology; Human Biology; Advanced Topic Seminars on Public Health, Stem Cells, Drug Discovery, Bioinformatics and HIV; Liberal Arts Honors Colloquia on Personalized Medicine, HIV, the Human Brain, Public Health- A Global Perspective; and the Neuroscience Capstone. His research focused on utilizing human induced pluripotent cells to develop disease models. He was the long-time department chair of Biology, served as co-director of the Neuroscience Concentration, and received the Joseph R. Accinno Faculty Teaching Award while at Providence College. He was a member of the IDeA Networks of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE) Steering Committee, a University of Rhode Island led NIH state-wide research grant. Dr. Toth teaches BIOL 1050/2050 Biology of the Eukaryotic Cell.