Molecular and Cellular Life Sciences | Interdisciplinary Program
Dr. Daniel Levy
Director, Molecular and Cellular Life Sciences
Debbie Swierczek
Program Coordinator
School of Graduate Education
Knight Hall 247
Phone: (307) 766-4128
Email: mcls@uwyo.edu
The faculty involved with the Molecular and Cellular Life Sciences interdisciplinary program possess extensive expertise in diverse fields, including but not limited to the life sciences, engineering, health sciences, and veterinary fields. They have a robust publication record and remain active in their ongoing research endeavors.
Professor
Physical Sciences Building 311
(307) 766-4376 | basile@uwyo.edu
Areas of study: proteomics, mass spectrometry, biodetection
Assistant Professor
Department of Zoology and Physiology
(307) 766-4376 | nbedford@uwyo.edu
Areas of study: genetic and neural circuit basis of behavioral diversity, systems neuroscience, behavioral genetics, evolutionary biology, lab mice, deer mice
Associate Professor
Animal Science/Molecular Biology Complex 115
(307) 766-3140 | bbisha@uwyo.edu
Areas of study: food safety microbiology, antimicrobial resistance, rapid microbial diagnostics, single cell methods
Associate Professor
Department of Molecular Biology
Animal Science/Molecular Biology Complex 203
(307) 766-4993 | thomas.boothby@uwyo.edu
Areas of study: molecular mechanisms of stress tolerance
Associate Professor
Department of Molecular Biology
Animal Science/Molecular Biology Complex 244
(307) 766-2147 | grant.bowman@uwyo.edu
Areas of study: sub-cellular organization in bacteria, macromolecular structures, prokaryotic cell cycle
Associate Professor
Science Initiative Building 3210
Areas of study: molecular mechanisms of heart failure, aging, and exercise as medicine for the aging heart
Associate Professor
Health Sciences Center 480
(307) 766-4198 | jbushman@uwyo.edu
Areas of study: roles of astrocytes and other glia in the central nervous system and regeneration of the central and peripheral nervous systems following traumatic injury or disease
Assistant Professor
Department of Veterinary Sciences
Wyoming State Veterinary Laboratory 124
Areas of study: molecular mechanisms of bacterial pathogenesis, host-pathogen interactions, cell biology, microbiology
Associate Professor
Department of Zoology and Physiology
Biological Sciences Building 404
(307) 766-6482 | bcherrin@uwyo.edu
Areas of study: hormonal and epigenetic control of lactation
Assistant Professor
Health Sciences Center 292
(307) 766-6482 | snakkada@uwyo.edu
Areas of study: skin pathology permeation of drug through skin, drug delivery through skin, drug interaction with skin, personalized dosage for treatment regimen through skin
Professor
Department of Molecular Biology
Animal Science/Molecular Biology Complex 235
(307) 766-4961 | DavidFay@uwyo.edu
Areas of study: development, genetics, cell biology, signal transduction, trafficking, and extracellular matrix
Assistant Professor
Health Sciences Building 498
(307) 766-6532 | alex.french@uwyo.edu
Areas of study: alcohol use disorder, GPCR signal transduction, neuropharmacology, drug discovery, protein engineering
Professor
Department of Molecular Biology
Science Initiative Building 2238
(307) 766-3498 | jgatlin@uwyo.edu
Areas of study: dynamics and function of the cytoskeleton, cell division, mitotic spindle assembly, quantitative light microscopy
Professor
Department of Molecular Biology
Agriculture Building 6033
(307) 766-6151 | jgigley@uwyo.edu
Areas of study: regulation of immune responses, cellular differentiation and host-pathogen interaction, toxoplasma gondii
Professor
Department of Molecular Biology
Agriculture Building 6007
(307) 766-3522 | gomelsky@uwyo.edu
Areas of study: optogenetics, synthetic biology, bacterial anticancer therapy, c-di-GMP signaling, listeria monocytogenes biofilms
Associate Professor
Health Sciences Center 594
(307) 766-6637 | ghe@uwyo.edu
Areas of study: neuroscience, neurophysiology
Professor
Physical Sciences Building 305
(307) 766-2772 | tlehmann@uwyo.edu
Areas of study: structural biology, biomedically relevant compounds, NMR, EPR
Professor
Department of Molecular Biology
Science Initiative Building 2232
(307) 417-0354 | dlevy1@uwyo.edu
Areas of study: size control of the nucleus and other organelles, xenopus frogs, cell biology
Associate Professor
Department of Zoology and Physiology
Biological Sciences Building 414
(307) 766-4207 | yli30@uwyo.edu
Areas of study: neural coding mechanism, neural circuit, mental disorders, neurodegenerative disorders
Professor
Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
Engineering Education and Research Building (EERB) 361B
(307) 766-3592 | dli1@uwyo.edu
Areas of study: biomaterials, separation and purification materials and processes, energy materials
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
Engineering Building 4055
(307) 766-2512 | Utkarsh.Kapoor@uwyo.edu
Areas of study: molecular mechanism of chromatin organization, links between biomolecular phase separation and diseases, biomolecular engineering, modeling, simulation & theory
Professor
Health Sciences Center 484
(307) 766-6138 | sreejay@uwyo.edu
Areas of study: vascular complications of diabetes, cell signaling, antioxidants
Associate Professor
Department of Zoology and Physiology
Biological Sciences Building 406
(307) 766-4236 | anavrati@uwyo.edu
Areas of study: endocrine control of reproduction and role of the cytoskeleton
Assistant Professor
Department of Zoology and Physiology
Biological Sciences Building 200A
(307) 766-4207 | adam.nelson@uwyo.edu
Areas of study: neurobiology, neurogenetics, social behavior, group behavior
Professor
Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
Engineering Education and Research Building (EERB) 435A
(307) 766-2518 | joakey@uwyo.edu
Areas of study: biomaterials, tissue scaffolds, bioengineering, microfluidic processes
Assistant Professor
Department of Molecular Biology
Science Initiative Building 2224
(307) 766-4984 | epark4@uwyo.edu
Areas of study: plant-microbe interaction, organelle dynamics, inter-organellar communication, plant immunity, invasion strategy of microbial pathogen
Professor
Department of Veterinary Sciences
Agriculture Building
(307) 766-4577 | dpascual@uwyo.edu
Areas of study: mucosal immunology, vaccines, infectious diseases, brucellosis, autoimmunity
Assistant Professor
Department of Molecular Biology
Areas of study: conserved molecular mechanisms of fertilization, gamete membrane adhesion and fusion, vaccine design for blocking the sexual transmission of parasitic disease
Professor
Animal Science/Molecular Biology Complex 101
Areas of study: reproductive physiology, tissue regeneration, non-classical steroid hormone signaling, cancer, women’s reproductive diseases
Assistant Professor
Department of Zoology and Physiology
Biological Sciences Building 322
(307) 766-4207 | brandon.roberts@uwyo.edu
Areas of study: neurophysiology, chronobiology, metabolic function, neural development
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
Engineering Building 4055
(307) 766-2500 | rmaiasab@uwyo.edu
Areas of study: biomaterials, surface science, tissue engineering, biosensors
Associate Professor
Department of Kinesiology and Health
Science Initiative Building 3228
Areas of study: exercise physiology, toxicology, genetics, circadian rhythms
Assistant Professor
Department of Molecular Biology
Science Initiative Building 2264
Areas of study: human disease modeling, genetics, cell biology, development, x-ray and light microscopy
Assistant Professor
Department of Zoology and Physiology
Biological Sciences Building 314F
(307) 766-4207 | rshukla@uwyo.edu
Areas of study: translational neuroscience (neurobiology of depression and stress)
Professor
Department of Zoology and Physiology
Biological Sciences Building 200B
(307) 766-5602 | neuron@uwyo.edu
Areas of study: neurobiology, olfaction, learning, microcircuits
Professor
Department of Molecular Biology
Agriculture Building 6006
(307) 766-3542 | dwall2@uwyo.edu
Areas of study: microbiology, cell-cell signaling, development & pili dependent motility; biotechnology, antibiotics & resistance
Associate Professor
Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
Engineering Building 4055
(307) 766-5409 | kwawrous@uwyo.edu
Areas of study: biofuels, bacterial engineering, biomedical diagnostics, resource recovery from waste
Professor
Aven Nelson Building 110A
(307) 766-6378 | cweinig@uwyo.edu
Areas of study: evolutionary genetics
Research Scientist, Sr ETT
Department of Zoology and Physiology
Biological Sciences Building 29
(307) 766-3038 | zzhang@uwyo.edu
Areas of study: apoptosis, cohesin, budding yeast
Molecular and Cellular Life Sciences | Interdisciplinary Program
Dr. Daniel Levy
Director, Molecular and Cellular Life Sciences
Debbie Swierczek
Program Coordinator
School of Graduate Education
Knight Hall 247
Phone: (307) 766-4128
Email: mcls@uwyo.edu