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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

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Faculty & Staff

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.

Franco Basile

Professor

Department of Chemistry

Physical Sciences Building 311

(307) 766-4376 | basile@uwyo.edu

Areas of study: proteomics, mass spectrometry, biodetection

Nicole Bedford

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

Bledar Bisha

Associate Professor

Department of Animal Science

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

Thomas Boothby

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

Grant Bowman

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

Danielle Bruns

Associate Professor

Kinesiology and Health

Science Initiative Building 3210

dbruns1@uwyo.edu

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

Jared Bushman

Associate Professor

School of Pharmacy

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

Elizabeth D. Case

Assistant Professor

Department of Veterinary Sciences

Wyoming State Veterinary Laboratory 124

ecase2@uwyo.edu

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

Brian Cherrington

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

Sheba David

Assistant Professor

School of Pharmacy

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

David Fay

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

Alexander French

Assistant Professor

School of Pharmacy

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

Jay Gatlin

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

Jason Gigley

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

Mark Gomelsky

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

Guanglong He

Associate Professor

School of Pharmacy

Health Sciences Center 594

(307) 766-6637 | ghe@uwyo.edu

Areas of study: neuroscience, neurophysiology

Teresa Erika Lehmann

Professor

Department of Chemistry

Physical Sciences Building 305

(307) 766-2772 | tlehmann@uwyo.edu

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

Daniel Levy

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

Yun Li

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

Katie Dongmei Li-Oakey

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

Utkarsh Kapoor

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

Sreejayan Nair

Professor

School of Pharmacy

Health Sciences Center 484

(307) 766-6138 | sreejay@uwyo.edu

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

Amy Navratil

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

Adam Nelson

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

John S. Oakey

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

Eunsook Park

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

David W. Pascual

Professor

Department of Veterinary Sciences

Agriculture Building

(307) 766-4577 | dpascual@uwyo.edu

Areas of study: mucosal immunology, vaccines, infectious diseases, brucellosis, autoimmunity

Jennifer F. Pinello

Assistant Professor

Department of Molecular Biology

jpinello@uwyo.edu

Areas of study: conserved molecular mechanisms of fertilization, gamete membrane adhesion and fusion, vaccine design for blocking the sexual transmission of parasitic disease

Jim Pru

Professor

Department of Animal Science

Animal Science/Molecular Biology Complex 101

jpru@uwyo.edu

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

Brandon Roberts

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

Roberta Maia Sabino

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

Emily Schmitt

Associate Professor

Department of Kinesiology and Health

Science Initiative Building 3228

eschmit4@uwyo.edu

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

Todd Schoborg

Assistant Professor

Department of Molecular Biology

Science Initiative Building 2264

todd.schoborg@uwyo.edu

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

Rammohan Shukla

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)

Qian-Quan Sun

Professor

Department of Zoology and Physiology

Biological Sciences Building 200B

(307) 766-5602 | neuron@uwyo.edu

Areas of study: neurobiology, olfaction, learning, microcircuits

Daniel Wall

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

Karen Wawrousek

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

Cynthia Weinig

Professor

Department of Botany

Aven Nelson Building 110A

(307) 766-6378 | cweinig@uwyo.edu

Areas of study: evolutionary genetics

Zhaojie Zhang

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

Contact Us

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

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