College of Arts & Sciences

Biological Sciences

  • Laura Aldrich-Wolfe
    community ecology, mycorrhizas, plant-fungal interactions
  • Julia Bowsher
    evolutionary development and biology
  • Kendra Greenlee
    developmental physiology and immunology
  • Tim Grieves
    endocrine regulation of seasonality, reproductive neuroendocrinology, hormones and behavior
  • Britt Heidinger
    physiological ecology
  • Jiha Kim
    cancer cell biology, tumor microenvironment, and enhanced drug delivery through vascular functionality
  • Katie Reindl
    cancer cell biology, cancer prevention and treatment, and evaluating bioactive food components
  • Sarah Signor
    insect evolutionary genomics

Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

  • Chris Colbert
    structure biology with a focus on the biochemistry of proteins involved in iron import and utilization
  • Stuart Haring
    genome maintenance through cellular DNA duplication (replication) and mutation prevention (repair and cell cycle regulation)
  • Kent Rodgers
    inorganic and bioinorganic chemistry
  • Sangita Sinha
    biochemistry and structural biology of host-pathogen interactions
  • John Wilkinson
    cancer cell metabolism, cell death pathways, mitochondrial gene expression, and animal models of tumorigenesis

Coatings & Polymeric Materials

  • Mohi Quadir - polymeric materials for drug delivery

Physics

  • Yongki Choi
    early detection of cancer cells, single molecule enzymology, and biotechnology

College of Agriculture, Food Systems, & Natural Resources

Animal Sciences

  • Carl Dahlen
    applied reproductive physiology and systems that control estrous cycles to facilitate artificial insemination and embryo transfer
  • Lauren Hanna
    quantitative genetics, animal breeding, and whole system approaches to genomic associations of quantitative traits
  • Larry Reynolds
    nutrition and pregnancy in ruminants
  • Kendall Swanson
    ruminant nutrition, energy metabolism, protein metabolism, pancreatic function, and beef cattle production

Microbiological Sciences

  • Glenn Dorsam
    epigenetic regulation
  • Birgit Pruess
    bacterial physiology, biofilm biology, and food safety
  • Sheela Ramamoorthy
    virology, immunology, and vaccinology

Plant Sciences

  • Phil McClean
    dry bean genetics and biotechnology
  • Jiajia Rao
    food chemistry and ingredient technology

College of Health and Human Sciences

Pharmaceutical Sciences

  • Ang Guo [
    molecular and cellular mechanisms of cardiovascular disease
  • Yagna Jarajapu
    bone marrow dysfunction and vascular repair in diabetes, ACE2-Angiotensin-(1-7)/Mas receptor pathway in bone marrow cells, and regulation of bone marrow mobilization by leptin
  • Estelle Leclerc [
    melanoma, pancreatic cancer; monoclonal antibodies as diagnostic and therapeutic agents; mechanism of RAGE signaling
  • Kristine Steffan
    biology of obesity and post-bariatric outcomes; gastrointestinal microbiome research
  • Chengwen Sun
    blood pressure regulation and cell signaling
  • Sathish Venkatachalem
    pulmonary physiology and pharmacology
  • Steffan Vetter
    development of small molecules and peptides for the modulation of Receptor for Advanced Glycation Endproducts (RAGE) in disease states

College of Engineering

Electrical & Computer Engineering

  • Danling Wang
    sensor design, fabrication, and application of early-state human disease monitoring and diagnosis
  • Qifeng Zhang
    nanomaterials for sensor and biomedical applications; nanotechnology