Faculty & Staff

Molecular and Cellular Life Sciences, Ph.D.

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.

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Department of Chemistry

Areas of study: proteomics, mass spectrometry, biodetection

Assistant Professor

Department of Zoology and Physiology

Areas of study: genetic and neural circuit basis of behavioral diversity, systems neuroscience, behavioral genetics, evolutionary biology, lab mice, deer mice

Department Head | Associate Professor

Department of Animal Science

Areas of study: food safety microbiology, antimicrobial resistance, rapid microbial diagnostics, single cell methods

Associate Professor

Department of Molecular Biology

Areas of study: molecular mechanisms of stress tolerance

Grant Bowman

Associate Professor

Department of Molecular Biology

Areas of study: sub-cellular organization in bacteria, macromolecular structures, prokaryotic cell cycle

Associate Professor

Division of Kinesiology and Health

Areas of study: molecular mechanisms of heart failure, aging, and exercise as medicine for the aging heart

Associate Professor

School of Pharmacy

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

Areas of study: molecular mechanisms of bacterial pathogenesis, host-pathogen interactions, cell biology, microbiology

Associate Professor

Department of Zoology and Physiology

Areas of study: hormonal and epigenetic control of lactation

Assistant Professor

School of Pharmacy

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

Areas of study: development, genetics, cell biology, signal transduction, trafficking, and extracellular matrix

Assistant Professor

School of Pharmacy

Areas of study: alcohol use disorder, GPCR signal transduction, neuropharmacology, drug discovery, protein engineering

Professor

Department of Molecular Biology

Areas of study: regulation of immune responses, cellular differentiation and host-pathogen interaction, toxoplasma gondii

Professor

Department of Molecular Biology

Areas of study: optogenetics, synthetic biology, bacterial anticancer therapy, c-di-GMP signaling, listeria monocytogenes biofilms

Associate Professor

School of Pharmacy

Areas of study: neuroscience, neurophysiology

Associate Professor

Department of Chemistry

Areas of study: structural biology, biomedically relevant compounds, NMR, EPR

Professor

Department of Molecular Biology

Areas of study: size control of the nucleus and other organelles, xenopus frogs, cell biology

Associate Professor

Department of Zoology and Physiology

Areas of study: neural coding mechanism, neural circuit, mental disorders, neurodegenerative disorders

Professor

Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering

Areas of study: molecular mechanism of chromatin organization, links between biomolecular phase separation and diseases, biomolecular engineering, modeling, simulation & theory

Professor

School of Pharmacy

Areas of study: vascular complications of diabetes, cell signaling, antioxidants

Associate Professor

Department of Zoology and Physiology

Areas of study: endocrine control of reproduction and role of the cytoskeleton

Adam Nelson

Assistant Professor

Department of Zoology and Physiology

Areas of study: neurobiology, neurogenetics, social behavior, group behavior

Professor

Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering

Areas of study: biomaterials, tissue scaffolds, bioengineering, microfluidic processes

Assistant Professor

Department of Molecular Biology

Areas of study: plant-microbe interaction, organelle dynamics, inter-organellar communication, plant immunity, invasion strategy of microbial pathogen

Professor

Department of Veterinary Sciences

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

Department of Animal Science

Areas of study: reproductive physiology, tissue regeneration, non-classical steroid hormone signaling, cancer, women’s reproductive diseases

Assistant Professor

Department of Zoology and Physiology

Areas of study: neurophysiology, chronobiology, metabolic function, neural development

Assistant Professor

Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering

Areas of study: biomaterials, surface science, tissue engineering, biosensors

Associate Professor

Division of Kinesiology and Health

Areas of study: exercise physiology, toxicology, genetics, circadian rhythms

Assistant Professor

Department of Molecular Biology

Areas of study: human disease modeling, genetics, cell biology, development, x-ray and light microscopy

Assistant Professor

Department of Zoology and Physiology

Areas of study: translational neuroscience (neurobiology of depression and stress)

Professor

Department of Zoology and Physiology

Areas of study: neurobiology, olfaction, learning, microcircuits

Professor

Department of Molecular Biology

Areas of study: microbiology, cell-cell signaling, development & pili dependent motility; biotechnology, antibiotics & resistance

Associate Professor

Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering

Areas of study: biofuels, bacterial engineering, biomedical diagnostics, resource recovery from waste

Professor

Department of Botany

Areas of study: evolutionary genetics

Research Scientist, Sr ETT

Department of Zoology and Physiology

Areas of study: apoptosis, cohesin, budding yeast