The Department of Biology began its activities right after the Faculty of Sciences was built and established at the University of Guilan. The department accepted its first students in 1979. Currently, the department has the following sub-majors: Bachelor Programs in Plant Sciences, Animal Sciences, Marine Biology and Cellular and Molecular Biology. Master Programs in Animal Biosystematics, Biology of Marine Animals, Plant Physiology, Genetics, Biochemistry, Plant Systematic and Ecology, Developmental Biology and Plant Systematic. PhD programs in Biology of Marine Animals, Biochemistry and Plant Systematic. The department's faculty members have published more than 397 papers in the academic journals, 210 of which were published in ISI Journals. Also, the department members have 726 papers accepted in the national and international conferences.

Head of the Department
	Dr. Farzam Ajamian Assistant Professor Email: ajamian@guilan.ac.ir

Faculty Members
	Dr. Farzam Ajamian		Dr. Akbar Noraste Nia		Dr. Ali Bani
	Dr. Behrouz Heydari		Dr. Farhad Mashayekhi		Dr. Hamidreza Vaziri
	Dr. Hossein Ghafouri		Dr. Hossein Javan Bakht		Dr. Jonat Sarmad
	Dr. Kobra Seyam		Dr. Mahdi Rasa		Dr. Mahmoudreza Aghamaali
	Dr. Mansour Afshar Mohammadian		Dr. Marziye Bigam Faghir		Dr. Mohammad Haseli
	Dr. Mohammad Javad Mehdipour Moghadam		Dr. Mohsen Asghari		Dr. Mostafa Shourian
	Dr. Nader Shabani Pour Dahbane		Dr. Reyhaneh Sariri		Dr. Shahriyar Saeedi Mehrvarz
	Dr. Soheyla Talesh Sasani		Dr. Zivar Salehi		Dr. Hojjatollah Zamani Almani
	Dr. Shirin Shahangian		Dr. Fatemeh Ghasemiyan		Dr. Fatemeh Safari
	Dr. Akram Sadat Naeemi