CGRB-Affiliated Faculty

Name Department Keywords
Dan Arp Botany & Plant Pathology N Cycles; Nitrification; Bioremediation; Butane Metabolism
William Baird Environ & Molecular Toxicology Mechanisms of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Carcinogenesis; DNA Repair; Cytochrome P450
Alan Bakalinsky Food Science & Technology Yeast Genetics; Saccharomyces cerevisiae; Stress; Toxicity; Wine; Fermentation
Elisar Barbar Biochemistry & Biophysics Dynein Motor Protein Complex, Protein Structure and Dynamics, Protein Folding, Protein-Protein Interactions
Joseph Beckman Biochemistry & Biophysics Lou Gehrig's Disease (ALS); Peroxynitrite; Zinc and Superoxide Dismutase
Samuel Bennett Environ & Molecular Toxicology Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis; DNA Replication and Repair
Luiz Bermudez Biomedical Sciences (CVM) Pathogenesis of Mycobacteria Infections; Brucella Infection; Macrophages; Mucosal Defenses; Intracellular Pathogens
Michael Blouin Zoology Evolutionary Biology; Population Genetics
Peter Bottomley Microbiology Microbial Ecology; Plant-Microbe Interactions; Biodegradation of Xenobiotic Compounds
Robert Burton Mathematics Probability, Modern Analysis Random Fields, Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems
Mark Camara Fisheries & Wildlife Selective Breeding
James Carrington Botany & Plant Pathology microRNAs; RNA Interference; Epigenetics
Jeff Chang Botany & Plant Pathology Microbial Genomics; Pathogenesis; Symbiosis; Type III Effector Proteins; Pseudomonas syringae, Rhizobia
Frank Chaplen Biological and Ecological Engineering Metabolic Engineering; Industrial Animal Cell Culture
Patrick Chappell Zoology Reproductive Neuroendo-crinology; Circadian Neurobiology; Steroid Hormone Influence in Brain
Tony Chen Horticulture Molecular Biology of Cold Acclimation; Genetic Engineering
Lynda Ciuffetti Botany & Plant Pathology PTR Toxin; Host-Specific Toxins; Pathogenesis; Pathogenicity
Dee Denver Zoology Mutation, Genome Evolution, Transcriptome Evolution, DNA Repair, Phylogenetics, Mitochondrial DNA, Microarrays, Next Generation Sequencing, Salamanders, Nematodes
Valerian Dolja Botany & Plant Pathology Molecular Biology; Evolution of Plant Viruses with Positive-Strand RNA Genome; Structure; Replication and Expression of Viral Genome; Cell-to-Cell and Long Distance Movement of Plant Viruses
Theo Dreher Microbiology Gene Expression and Replication of Positive Strand RNA Viruses; Turnip Yellow Mosaic Virus, Dengue Virus, West Nile Virus
Roger Ely Biological and Ecological Engineering Environmental Engineering; Microbial Systems Engineering; Environmental Biotechnology
Katharine Field Microbiology Environmental Microbiology; Fecal Source Detection; Molecular Evolution
Theresa Filtz Pharmaceutical Sciences Signal Transduction Mechanisms; G Proteins; CNS and Autonomic Pharmacology
John Fowler Botany & Plant Pathology Cell Polarity; Small GTPases; Cytoskeleton; Brown Algae; Maize
Balz Frei Linus Pauling Institute Free Radical Biochemistry; Atherosclerosis; Lipid Peroxidation; Antioxidant Vitamins
Michael Freitag Biochemistry & Biophysics Epigenomics; Heterochromatin; Centromeres; Gene Silencing; Fungi
David Froman Animal Sciences Spermatazoa; Sperm Cell Physiology; Andrology
Bruce Geller Microbiology Protein Secretion; Membrane Biogenesis; Bacteriophage Receptors
Jadwiga Giebultowicz Zoology Regulation of Gene Expresion; Molecular Basis of Biological Clocks; Drosophila; Circadian Rhythms; Insect Physiology
Stephen Giovannoni Microbiology Ribosomal RNA ; Molecular Phylogeny; Microbial Ecology
Adrian Gombart Linus Pauling Institute Vitamin D; Innate Immunity; Antimicrobial Peptides; Aging; Infectious Disease; Nutrition
Aymeric Goyer Botany & Plant Pathology Vitamins, Metabolic Engineering, Potato, Arabidopsis
Jeffrey Greenwood Biochemistry & Biophysics Signaling Mechanisms Regulating Cell Adhesion
Michael Gross Biochemistry & Biophysics Spinal Cord; Embryogenesis; Transcription Factors; Networks
Niklaus Grunwald Botany & Plant Pathology Phytophthora spp., Sudden Oak Death, P. ramorum, Epidemiology, Population Genetics, Functional Genomics
Tory Hagen Linus Pauling Institute Mitochondrial Function; Intermediary Metabolism; Mechanisms and Analysis of Free Radical-Induced Damage to Biomolecules and Cellular Consequences of Free Radical-Induced Oxidative Damage
Claudia Häse Biomedical Sciences (CVM) Pathogenesis of Vibrio Cholerae
Patrick Hayes Crop & Soil Science Barley; Breeding and Genetics; Genome Mapping; Molecular Marker Assisted Selection Strategies
John Hays Environ & Molecular Toxicology Genome Stability; DNA Mismatch Repair; Repair and Recombination of UV-Damaged DNA
Scott Heppell Fisheries & Wildlife Ecology; Physiology; Behavior; Marine and Freshwater Fishes and Ecosystems
Emily Ho Nutrition and Exercise Sciences Zinc; Transcriptional Regulation; DNA Damage and Repair; Cancer
Dennis Hruby Microbiology Vaccinia Virus; Gene Expression; Expression Vectors
Victor Hsu Biochemistry & Biophysics NMR Spectroscopy; DNA Structures; DNA-Binding Proteins; Biomolecular Recognition; Dynamics
Arup Indra College of Pharmacy Nuclear Receptors; Transcriptional Regulation of Skin Homeostasis; Tumor Micro-Environment in Melanoma and Non-Melanoma Skin Cancer; Cancer Stem Cells; Mouse Models of Human Cancer and Other Diseases; Cancer Chemoprevention
Pankaj Jaiswal Botany & Plant Pathology Comparative Plant Genomics; Functional genomics; Systems Biology; Bioinformatics; Genome Annotation; Biochemical and Regulatory Pathway Databases; Genome Databases; Ontology Development
Andrew Karplus Biochemistry & Biophysics Protein Structure-Function Relations; Protein Crystallography; Flavoenzymes; Enzyme Catalysis
Chrissa Kioussi College of Pharmacy Development; Embryogenesis; Organogenesis; Heart; Homeobox Genes; Signaling Molecules; Transcription Factors
Siva Kolluri Environ & Molecular Toxicology Cancer Biology; Drug Discovery; Ligand-activated Transcription Factors; Genomic and Non-genomic Actions of Nuclear Receptors; Regulation of Proliferation and Cell Death
Mark Leid Pharmaceutical Sciences Signal Transduction; Nuclear Receptors; Transcriptional Activation
Aaron Liston Botany & Plant Pathology Molecular Systematics; Plant Evolution
Hong Liu Biological and Ecological Engineering Environmental Microbiology; Microbial Fuel Cell; Bio-Based Energy Technology
Joyce Loper Botany & Plant Pathology Microbial Genomics; Microbial Ecology; Plant-Microbe Interactions
Kathy Magnusson Biomedical Sciences (CVM) Aging, Learning, Memory, NMDA Receptors, Glutamate Receptors
Taifo Mahmud College of Pharmacy Bioorganic Chemistry; Natural Products Chemistry; Molecular Genetics; Medicinal Chemistry
Robert Martin Botany & Plant Pathology Virus Diseases of Small Fruits
John Mata Biomedical Sciences (CVM) Metabolism, Drug Transport, Multi-Drug Resistance, Chemoprevention, Cancer Therapeutics, Nanotechnology
Phil McFadden Biochemistry & Biophysics Aging; Biochemistry; Neurochemistry; Protein Repair
Fred Menino Animal Sciences Embryo; Plasminogen Activator; Development; Blastocysts
Gary Merrill Biochemistry & Biophysics Thioredoxin; Cancer; P53; Tumor Suppressors; Oncogenes; Deoxy- ribonucleotide Metabolism; Saccharomyces cerevisiae; Oxidative Stress; Redox Regulation; Protein Thiols
Todd Mockler Botany & Plant Pathology Bioinformatics, Functional Genomics, Promoter Architecture, Gene Expression, RNA processing, Alternative Splicing, RNA Binding Proteins, Arabidopsis thaliana, Brachypodium distachyon, Flowering Time, Circadian Clock
David Myrold Crop & Soil Science Microbial Ecology; Nitrogen Cycle; Frankia; Soil Biology
Hiro Nonogaki Horticulture Seed; Germination; Development; Embryo; Endosperm; Arabidopsis; Tomato
Manoj Pastey Biomedical Sciences (CVM) Virology; Immunology; Viral Pathogenesis
Michael Penner Food Science & Technology Bio-Based Industrial Processing; Cellulose; Cellulase; Fiber; Biomass; Enzymes
Annie Qu Statistics Estimating Equations; Correlated Data; Cell Cycle Microarray Data; Biostatistics
Walt Ream Microbiology Bacterial Genetics; Plant-Microbe Interactions; Genetic Recombination; DNA-Protein Interactions; Ancient DNA
Oscar Riera-Lizarazu Crop & Soil Science Wheat; Cereals; Genetics; DNA-Based Markers; Genome Mapping
Carol Rivin Botany & Plant Pathology Genetics; Molecular Biology; Maize Embryogenesis
Dan Rockey Biomedical Sciences (CVM) Interactions Between Chlamydiae and Mammalian Host
Rosita Rodriguez-Proteau Pharmaceutical Sciences Xenobiotic Metabolism and Transport; Multi-Drug Resistance; Chemoprevention; Pharmacokinetics
George Rohrmann Microbiology Baculoviridae; Virus Structure; Virus Replication
Greg Rorrer Chemical Engineering Plant Cell Culture; Bioreactor; Chitosan; Marine Development
Mahfuzur Sarker Biomedical Sciences (CVM) Bacterial Pathogenesis; Clostridium perfringens; Food Poisoning; Non-Food-Borne Human Gastrointestinal (GI) diseases
Michael Schimerlik Biochemistry & Biophysics Enzymes Kinetics and Mechanisms; Signal Transduction; and Protein Folding
Carl Schreck Fisheries & Wildlife Stress; Reproduction; Hormone Action; Effects of Fitness
Martin Schuster Microbiology Bacterial Communication; Genomics; Signal Transduction; Gene Regulation; Biofilms; Pathogenesis; Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Barry Sherr Oceanography Marine Microbial Ecology
Evelyn Sherr Oceanography Marine Microbial Ecology
Joseph Spatafora Botany & Plant Pathology Mycology; Fungal Systematics and Evolutionary Biology; Molecular Phylogenetics
Steven Strauss Forest Science Forest Trees; Genetic Engineering; Molecular Population Genetics; Phylogeny; Genome Mapping
Robert Tanguay Environ & Molecular Toxicology Molecular Toxicology
Barbara Taylor Zoology Neurobiology; Drosophila; Neuronal Development; Muscle Development; Physiology; Sexual Behavior
Janine Trempy Microbiology Bacterial Stress Responses; Proteases; Degradation Signals; Gene Fusion
Isabel Vales Crop and Soil Science Potato Breeding and Genetics
Virginia Weis Zoology Cnidarian Algal Symbiosis: Inter-partner Regulation and Communication
David Williams Environ & Molecular Toxicology Drug Metabolism; Cancer Chemoprevention
Thomas Wolpert Botany & Plant Pathology Host-Parasite Interactions; Host-Specific Toxins; Disease Resistance
Mark Zabriskie Pharmaceutical Sciences Mechanistic Enzymology; Non-ribosomal Peptide Biosynthesis; Flavin-Dependent Amine Oxidases; Neuroactive Amino Acid Metabolites
Dahong Zhang Zoology Cell Cycle Regulation; Cytoskeleton Motility; Signaling in Vertebrates and Invertebrates