Faculty and Research Areas
Participating Faculty, Departments, and Research Areas
College of Arts & Sciences
Biological Sciences
- Laura Aldrich-Wolfe [email/website] - community ecology, mycorrhizas, plant-fungal interactions
- Julia Bowsher [email/website] - evolutionary development and biology
- Kendra Greenlee [email/website] - developmental physiology and immunology
- Tim Grieves [email/website] - endocrine regulation of seasonality, reproductive neuroendocrinology, hormones and behavior
- Britt Heidinger [email/website] - physiological ecology
- Jiha Kim [email] - cancer cell biology, tumor microenvironment, and enhanced drug delivery through vascular functionality
- Katie Reindl [email] - cancer cell biology, cancer prevention and treatment, and evaluating bioactive food components
- Sarah Signor [email / website] - insect evolutionary genomics
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
- Chris Colbert [email/website] - structure biology with a focus on the biochemistry of proteins involved in iron import and utilization
- Stuart Haring [email] - genome maintenance through cellular DNA duplication (replication) and mutation prevention (repair and cell cycle regulation)
- Kent Rodgers [email] - inorganic and bioinorganic chemistry
- Sangita Sinha [email/website] - biochemistry and structural biology of host-pathogen interactions
- John Wilkinson [email] - cancer cell metabolism, cell death pathways, mitochondrial gene expression, and animal models of tumorigenesis
Coatings & Polymeric Materials
- Mohi Quadir [email/website] - polymeric materials for drug delivery
Physics
- Yongki Choi [email/website] - early detection of cancer cells, single molecule enzymology, and biotechnology
College of Agriculture, Food Systems, & Natural Resources
Animal Sciences
- Carl Dahlen [email] - applied reproductive physiology and systems that control estrous cycles to facilitate artificial insemination and embryo transfer
- Lauren Hanna [email/website] - quantitative genetics, animal breeding, and whole system approaches to genomic associations of quantitative traits
- Larry Reynolds [email] - nutrition and pregnancy in ruminants
- Kendall Swanson [email] - ruminant nutrition, energy metabolism, protein metabolism, pancreatic function, and beef cattle production
Microbiological Sciences
- Glenn Dorsam [email] - epigenetic regulation
- Birgit Pruess [email] - bacterial physiology, biofilm biology, and food safety
- Sheela Ramamoorthy [email] - virology, immunology, and vaccinology
Plant Sciences
- Phil McClean [email/website] - dry bean genetics and biotechnology
- Jiajia Rao [email] - food chemistry and ingredient technology
College of Health and Human Sciences
Pharmaceutical Sciences
- Ang Guo [email] - molecular and cellular mechanisms of cardiovascular disease
- Yagna Jarajapu [email] - bone marrow dysfunction and vascular repair in diabetes, ACE2-Angiotensin-(1-7)/Mas receptor pathway in bone marrow cells, and regulation of bone marrow mobilization by leptin
- Estelle Leclerc [email] - melanoma, pancreatic cancer; monoclonal antibodies as diagnostic and therapeutic agents; mechanism of RAGE signaling
- Kristine Steffan [email] - biology of obesity and post-bariatric outcomes; gastrointestinal microbiome research
- Chengwen Sun [email] - blood pressure regulation and cell signaling
- Sathish Venkatachalem [email] - pulmonary physiology and pharmacology
- Steffan Vetter [email] - development of small molecules and peptides for the modulation of Receptor for Advanced Glycation Endproducts (RAGE) in disease states
College of Engineering
Electrical & Computer Engineering
- Danling Wang [email/website] - sensor design, fabrication, and application of early-state human disease monitoring and diagnosis
- Qifeng Zhang [email/website] - nanomaterials for sensor and biomedical applications; nanotechnology
College of Arts & Sciences
Biological Sciences
- Laura Aldrich-Wolfe [email/website] - community ecology, mycorrhizas, plant-fungal interactions
- Julia Bowsher [email/website] - evolutionary development and biology
- Kendra Greenlee [email/website] - developmental physiology and immunology
- Tim Grieves [email/website] - endocrine regulation of seasonality, reproductive neuroendocrinology, hormones and behavior
- Britt Heidinger [email/website] - physiological ecology
- Jiha Kim [email] - cancer cell biology, tumor microenvironment, and enhanced drug delivery through vascular functionality
- Katie Reindl [email] - cancer cell biology, cancer prevention and treatment, and evaluating bioactive food components
- Sarah Signor [email / website] - insect evolutionary genomics
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
- Chris Colbert [email/website] - structure biology with a focus on the biochemistry of proteins involved in iron import and utilization
- Stuart Haring [email] - genome maintenance through cellular DNA duplication (replication) and mutation prevention (repair and cell cycle regulation)
- Kent Rodgers [email] - inorganic and bioinorganic chemistry
- Sangita Sinha [email/website] - biochemistry and structural biology of host-pathogen interactions
- John Wilkinson [email] - cancer cell metabolism, cell death pathways, mitochondrial gene expression, and animal models of tumorigenesis
Coatings & Polymeric Materials
- Mohi Quadir [email/website] - polymeric materials for drug delivery
Physics
- Yongki Choi [email/website] - early detection of cancer cells, single molecule enzymology, and biotechnology
College of Agriculture, Food Systems, & Natural Resources
Animal Sciences
- Carl Dahlen [email] - applied reproductive physiology and systems that control estrous cycles to facilitate artificial insemination and embryo transfer
- Lauren Hanna [email/website] - quantitative genetics, animal breeding, and whole system approaches to genomic associations of quantitative traits
- Larry Reynolds [email] - nutrition and pregnancy in ruminants
- Kendall Swanson [email] - ruminant nutrition, energy metabolism, protein metabolism, pancreatic function, and beef cattle production
Microbiological Sciences
- Glenn Dorsam [email] - epigenetic regulation
- Birgit Pruess [email] - bacterial physiology, biofilm biology, and food safety
- Sheela Ramamoorthy [email] - virology, immunology, and vaccinology
Plant Sciences
- Phil McClean [email/website] - dry bean genetics and biotechnology
- Jiajia Rao [email] - food chemistry and ingredient technology
- Md. Mukhlesur Rahman [email] - plant breeding and genetics
College of Health and Human Sciences
Pharmaceutical Sciences
- Ang Guo [email] - molecular and cellular mechanisms of cardiovascular disease
- Yagna Jarajapu [email] - bone marrow dysfunction and vascular repair in diabetes, ACE2-Angiotensin-(1-7)/Mas receptor pathway in bone marrow cells, and regulation of bone marrow mobilization by leptin
- Estelle Leclerc [email] - melanoma, pancreatic cancer; monoclonal antibodies as diagnostic and therapeutic agents; mechanism of RAGE signaling
- Sanku Mallik [email] - bio-organic chemistry, polymer nanoparticles for cancer drug delivery
- Kristine Steffan [email] - biology of obesity and post-bariatric outcomes; gastrointestinal microbiome research
- Chengwen Sun [email] - blood pressure regulation and cell signaling
- Sathish Venkatachalem [email] - pulmonary physiology and pharmacology
- Steffan Vetter [email] - development of small molecules and peptides for the modulation of Receptor for Advanced Glycation Endproducts (RAGE) in disease states
College of Engineering
Electrical & Computer Engineering
- Danling Wang [email/website] - sensor design, fabrication, and application of early-state human disease monitoring and diagnosis
- Qifeng Zhang [email/website] - nanomaterials for sensor and biomedical applications; nanotechnology