Faculty Listing
Cell and Molecular Biology (CEMB) Program

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Name/E-mail	Research Area(s)	Personal Web Site/Links
Adams, Paul	Biophysical characterization of proteins associated with signal transduction	website
Alverson, Andrew	Diatom comparative genomics, molecular evolution, and phylogenetics	website
Anthony, Nicholas	Poultry breeding and quantitative genetics	website
Bacon, Robert	Wheat, oats and canola breeding and genetics; Molecular markers	website
Balachandran, Kartik	Cardiovascular mechanobiology and structure-function relationships; Organ-on-chip development; Development of  hybrid polymers for regenerative medicine	website
Barabote, Ravi	Microbial genomics; Bioinformatics; Microbial production of Biofuels	website
Baum, Jamie	Metabolic programming, mitochondrial function, energy metabolism, cell signaling, and gene expression, related to obesity and type 2 diabetes.	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
Carbonero, Franck	Effect of the diet on the gut microbiome, and gut health and disease. Human and animal gut microbiota characterization.
Cartwright, Rick	Molecular aspects of plant host interaction with pathogens interaction and how to integrate this information into rice disease management.	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
Davis, Dan	Structure-function relationships involving proteins associated with photosynthetic processes	website
Donoghue, Annie	(USDA/ARS) Poultry Production and Product Safety Research Unit (research leader), physiology	website
Donoghue, Dan	Poultry physiology and food safety	website
Douglas, Michael	Genetic population structure of avian species	website
Dowling, Ashley	Molecular systematics of Acari (mites) and other arthropods and its use in studying biogeography, evolution, and the evolution of parasitism; population genetics of pest mites focusing on origins, invasive pathways, and diagnostics.	website
Dridi, Sami	Avian endocrinology and molecular genetics
Du, Yuchun	Mass spectrometry based quantitative proteomics; mammalian cell biology	website
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
Evans, Timothy	Genetics of neural development, evolution of axon guidance mechanisms, embryonic development in Drosophila and Tribolium.	website
Fritsch, Ingrid	Lab-on-a-chip design and analysis of biological substances: microorganisms, allergens, DNA, proteins	website
Gibson, Kristen	Molecular investigation of foodborne viruses; application of molecular methods to foodborne and waterborne virus ecology; control of microbial cross contamination from farm to fork	website
Goforth, Robyn	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
Greene, Nicholas	Skeletal muscle biology, mitochondrial biogenesis and quality control, exercise response and adaptation, dyslipidemia, obesity/diabetes, cell signaling, muscle protein synthesis.	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
Hestekin, Christa	Separation of biomolecules (DNA and proteins) using microchannel electrophoresis for applications in medicinal and environmental applications.	website
Hettiarachchy, Navam	Nutraceuticals, phytochemicals, natural antioxidants, food safety; Biochemical mechanisms of biopeptides and diseases	website
Ivey, Mack	Molecular microbiology and genetics	website
Jia, Yulin	Host resistance, host-pathogen interaction and co-evolution.	website
Jin, Sha	Stem cells/iPS cell and tissue engineering, Mechanobiology; Molecular genetics and cell biology in disease prevention, control, and drug discovery; Nanosensor development; Vaccine development	website
Kim, Jin Woo	Biocatalysis technology, nucleic acid technology, and micro/nano-biotechnology	website
Kirkpatrick, Terrence	Biology, ecology and control of plant-parasitic nematodes in crop production systems	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
Kwon, Young Min	Genetic/genomic analysis of bacterial pathogens	website
Lay, Jackson	Protein mass spectrometry, biomarkers	website
Lee, Sun-Ok	Role of bioactive components in the prevention of CVD, type 2 diabetes, and colon cancer; Bioavailability and bioefficacy of phytochemicals in pre-clinical and clinical trials	website
Lehmann, Michael	Gene regulation, chromatin structure, steroid hormone action, apoptosis, Drosophila genetics and development	website
Lessner, Daniel	Archeobacteria; Sulfur cluster proteins	website
Lewis, Jeff	Functional and comparative genomics of microbial stress responses.  Natural variation and the physiology of microbes in the wild.  Yeast and bacterial genetics, biochemistry, and molecular biology.	website
Li, Jiali	Nanofabrication, nanoscale materials science, and single DNA and protein detection	website
Li, Yanbin	Biosensors, food safety, biological security	website
Mason, R. Esten	Wheat breeding, genetics and genomics	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
Muldoon, Timothy	Biomedical optics and imaging systems for diagnosis of disease	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
Pereira, Andy	Rice functional genomics, disease resistance, drought tolerance	website
Pinto, Ines	Chromatin, histones, yeast, chromosome segregation, mitosis	website
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.  Molecular genetics of medical diseases using the chicken as a model.	website
Ricke, Steve	Food Safety, Salmonella pathognenesis, genetics, and physiology; Food fermentations; Gastrointestinal microbiology	website
Roper, Keith	Photon-induced plasmons in nanoparticle-conjugated nucleotides for DNA assays, sensors, cancer therapy, and cell & gene engineering.	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
Rothrock, Craig	Soilborne plant pathogens: chemical, cultural and alternative strategies for control. Sustainable cropping systems for cotton and other field crops.	website
Sakon, Joshua	Protein crystallography; structure of medically or industrially important proteins	website
Savin, Mary	Microbial ecology in soil and water. Antibiotic resistance and broad host range plasmid dissemination from treated effluent. Nutrient cycling and microbial ecology in organic and sustainable agricultural production systems.	website
Sayler, Ron	Development of molecular methods identify plant pathogens; Development of rapid tests for transgene candidates; Identification of new sources of beneficial transgenes.	website
Servoss, Shannon	Development of biomimetic, peptoid constructs for biomedical applications; peptoid-based affinity reagents and surface coatings for antibody microarrays.	website
Shi, Ainong	Germplasm development and cultivar improvement for vegetable crops; Molecular breeding including QTL analysis, marker identification and marker-assisted selection; Predictive breeding in crops	website
Shi, Wei	Chemical Biology; Chemical Proteomics; Medicinal Chemistry; Drug Design; Biological target identification of bio-active small molecules	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 radical formation in diaphragm fatigue.	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; Inflammatory responses to implants; In vivo chemical analysis of peptides and proteins	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
Stites, Wes	Chemical and physical understanding of protein structure, interactions and function	website
Striegler, Susanne	Organic Chemistry: carbohydrates, glycosidases, catalysis, molecular recognition, micro- and nanogels	website
Szalanski, Allen	Insect population genetics, molecular systematics, molecular diagnostics	website
TeBeest, David	Fungal Plant Pathology	website
Thallapuranam, T Kumar Suresh	Protein 3-D structure, dynamics, folding and interactions	website
Tian, Ryan	Nanostructure surface chemistry for biomedical application; sensor catalysis and  nanoscale architecture	website
Tipsmark, Christian	Fish physiology.	website
Tzanetakis, Ioannis	New plant diseases, plant virus characterization and epidemiology, virus genes as disease determinants.	website
Washington, Tyrone	Human skeletal muscle regeneration, cell signaling, gene expression, fatigue, atrophy	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
Wolchok, Jeffery	Development of regenerative biomaterials for biological implants with clinical relevancy. Remodeling of extracellular matrices for human primary and stem cells for tissue repair in muscle and vocal tissues.	website
Zaharoff, David	Development of translatable delivery systems for vaccines and immunotherapies; cancer immunotherapies; biopolymers	website