Faculty Listing
Cell and Molecular Biology (CEMB) Program

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Name/E-mail	Key Words	Personal Web Site/Links
Adams, Paul	Biophysical characterization of proteins associated with signal transduction	website
Anthony, Nicholas	Poultry breeding and quantitative genetics	website
Bacon, Robert	wheat, oats and canola breeding and genetics, molecular markers	website
Beitle, Bob	Bioseparation and fermentation	website
Bluhm, Burton	Plant Pathology	website
Bottje, Walter	Poultry physiology	website
Burgos, Nilda	Weed and herbicide physiology, genetic diversity of weeds, herbicide-resistant plants	website
Chen, Pengyin	Soybean breeding and genetics, molecular markers, seed chemistry, abiotic stress tolerance and host-pathogen interactions	website
Correll, Jim	Biology, genetics and molecular biology of fungal pathogens of vegetables and rice	website
Curtin, Kathy	Development and Cancer using Fruit Fly as a Model	website
Davis, Dan	Structure-function relationships involving proteins associated with photosynthetic processes	website
Deaton, Russell	Computer systems engineering	website
Donoghue, Annie	(USDA/ARS) Poultry Production and Product Safety Research Unit (research leader), physiology	website
Donoghue, Dan	Poultry physiology and food safety	website
Du, Yuchun	Mass spectrometry based quantitative proteomics; mammalian cell biology	under construction
Durdik, Jeannine	Genetics of the immune system	website
Durham, Bill	Electron-transfer reactions in biological systems with emphasis on the reactions involved in respiration	website
Erf, Gisela	Poultry immunology; autoimmunity	website
Etges, William	Population genetics, pheromone chemistry, genetics of reproductive isolation	website
Fritsch, Ingrid	Lab-on-a-chip design and analysis of biological substances: microorganisms, allergens, DNA, proteins	website
Goforth, Robin	Protein export systems in pro- and eukaryotes; posttranslational SRP targeting system in chloroplasts	website
Goggin, Fiona L	Host plant resistance and plant insect interaction	website
Hargis, Billy	Poultry veterinarian, poultry health lab director, poultry diseases	website
Henry, Ralph	Protein targeting, chloroplast biogenesis, agrimedicine, protein transport, recombinant protein expression	website
Hettiarachchy, Navam	Nutraceuticals, phytochemicals, natural antioxidants, food safety	website
Ivey, Mack	Molecular microbiology and genetics	website
Johnson, Mike	Microbial food safety; Listeria; monoclonals; bacteriocins; in vitro virulence assays	website
Kavdia, Mahendra	Biochemical pathway modeling, Computational modeling, Molecular and cellular modeling, and Vascular physiology and biotransport.	website
Kim, Jin Woo	Biocatalysis technology, nucleic acid technology, and micro/nano-biotechnology	website
Koeppe, Roger	Membrane biochemistry; ion channels for molecular signaling	website
Kong, Byung-Whi	Molecular virology; functional genomics in host-virus interactions.	website
Korth, Ken	Plant:insect interactions, plant gene expression, terpenoid metabolism	website
Kral, Tim	Methanogenic metabolism, physiology and ecology life on Mars; exobiology; astrobiology; bioastronomy	website
Kreider, David	Physiology and endocrine factors regulating postpartum anestrus in the cow	website
Kuenzel, Wayne	Poultry physiology; neurobiology	website
Kumar, TK Suresh	Protein 3-D structure, dynamics, folding and interactions	website
Kwon, Young Min	Genetic/genomic analysis of bacterial pathogens	website
Lay, Jackson	Protein mass spectrometry, biomarkers	website
Lehmann, Michael	Gene regulation, chromatin structure, steroid hormone action, apoptosis, Drosophila genetics and development	website
Li, Jiali	Nanofabrication, nanoscale materials science, and single DNA and protein detection	website
Li, Yanbin	Biosensors, food safety, biological security	website
McIntosh, Matt	Synthetic organic chemistry, natural product total synthesis, methods development	website
McNabb, David	Regulation of gene expression, pathogenesis of Candida albicans	website
Millett, Frank	Bioenergetics; electron transfer reactions	website
Murphy, Brad	Seed physiology, plant biochemistry and molecular biology	website
Oosterhuis, Derrick	Crop physiology; plant stress, photosynthesis, plant nutrition and plant water relations	website
Paul, David	Chemical sensors; electronics and transducer design; enzyme electrodes; acoustic wave devices for bioanaytical analysis, rapid diagnosis of food pathogens.	website
Pinto, Ines	Chromatin, histones, yeast, chromosome segregation, mitosis	website
Pumford, Neil	Protein biochemistry; mitochondria oxidative stress in poultry; chemical-induced autoimmunity
Rath, Narayan	Molecular Mechanisms of Metabolic Diseases in Poultry; Increasing Gastrointestinal Resistance to Disease	website
Rhoads, Douglas, Director	Eukaryotic molecular genetics; developmental genetics, genomics, transgenics	website
Ricke, Steve	Food Safety, Salmonella pathognenesis, genetics, and physiology; Food fermentations; Gastrointestinal microbiology	website
Rorie, Rick	Reproductive Physiology; In vitro investigations of infertility in livestock through oocyte maturation, and embryo culture; Physiological processes in fescue toxicosis in cattle.	website
Rosenkranz, Charles	Embryonic development, cloning, transgenics, gene regulation	website
Sakon, Joshua	Protein crystallography; structure of medically or industrially important proteins	website
Savin, Mary	Microbial ecology and soil biology.	website
Silberman, Jeff	Molecular phylogeny of eukaryotes to determine relationships within and among major protistan lines of descent, and assessing the contribution of prokaryotic genetic material that led to the creation of the eukaryotic cell and its integral components.	website
Slavik, Mike	Food safety/pathogenic bacteria	website
Smith-Blair, Nan	Research areas include muscle fatigue, diaphragm fatigue, diaphragm perfusion using microsphere techniques, free radial formation in diaphragm fatigue.
Song, Joon Jin	Bayesian analysis for microarray analysis and proteomics; statistical bioinformatics	website
Spiegel, Fred	Protozoology; mycology	website
Srivastava, Vibha	Development of molecular tools for precise integration of foreign genes in the plant genome and of strategies for generating environmentally safe transgenic plants	website
Stenken, Julie	Bioanalytical chemistry; Bioengineering; Signal transduction; Inflammatory responses to implants	website
Stephenson, Steve	Assemblages of myxomycetes associated with boreal forest, tundra and other ecosystems of high-latitude; the myxomycetes associated with Neotropical forests; the ecological distribution patterns of all three groups of mycetozoans	website
Stewart, Mac	Cotton genomics, molecular gene tagging, and utilization of exotic germplasm	website
Stites, Wes	Chemical and physical understanding of protein structure, interactions and function	website
Szalanski, Allen	Insect population genetics, molecular systematics, molecular diagnostics	website
TeBeest, David	Fungal Plant Pathology	website
Tian, Ryan	nanostructure surface chemistry and the interface for biomedical application and sensor catalysis and the new area of nanoscale architecture	website
Tzanetakis, Ioannis	New plant diseases, plant virus characterization and epidemiology, virus genes as disease determinants.	website
Wideman, Robert	Physiological and genetic limitations associated with pumonary hypertension syndrome in the chicken	website
Wilkins, Charles	Bacteria and tissue analysis by mass spectrometry	website
Ye, Kaiming	Stem cell/tissue engineering, nanodiagnostics, vaccine development, biosensing/imaging, molecular cell biology.	website