Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology
Biology
Biography
Biography
Yanagitsuru joined Wilkes as an adjunct professor of biology in 2024, winning the 2025 Teacher Recognition and Effectiveness Committee Adjunct Faculty Award for her work. Recently named a visiting professor of biology, she’s adding classes in mammalian physiology and animal behavior to her teaching schedule, sharing her lifelong curiosity with upper-level biology students.
For the next few years, her research will focus on making the unknown a little more familiar as a research team focuses on relationships, breeding and parenting in the puffin community.