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Graduate Faculty for the
Ph.D. in Biology program (Doctoral Faculty) are listed alphabetically below
under their respective departments. A brief description of their area of
research expertise also is given.
Note: Only Doctoral Faculty can
serve as major advisors and teach courses for the Ph.D. program.
Department of Biology
Dr. Kenneth L. Bost, Belk Distinguished Professor of Biology.
Ph.D., University of Mississippi Medical Center. Initiation of mucosal immune
responses against viral and bacterial pathogens and vaccine development.
Dr. Mark G. Clemens, Professor and Department Vice Chair. Ph.D., St.
Louis University. Vascular and metabolic physiology.
Dr. Didier Dréau.
Assistant Professor. Ph.D., College of Agriculture of
Rennes (France). Mechanisms of Cancer Metastasis, Vascular and Immune
Interactions During Cancer Growth.
Dr. Julie Goodliffe.
Assistant Professor. Ph.D.,
Johns
Hopkins University. Molecular genetics of cancer.
Dr.
Valery Grdzelishvili. Assistant Professor. Ph.D., Moscow State
University. Molecular virology,
virus-host interactions, virus-based vectors.
Dr.
Michael C. Hudson. Professor and Department Chair.
Ph.D., University of Kansas. Staphylococcus aureus invasion of
osteoblasts; bio-nanotechnology..
Dr. Yvette M. Huet-Hudson, Professor. Ph.D.,
University of Kansas Medical School. Reproduction, developmental biology and
endocrine-immune interactions.
Dr. Francis "Monty" Hughes, Assistant Professor. Ph.D.,
Medical University of South Carolina. Reproductive cell biology and cell
death.
Dr. Larry Leamy. Professor. Ph.D., University of Illinois. Quantitative
genetics
Dr. Ian Marriott
Associate Professor. Ph.D., Tulane University. The initiation of immune responses.
Dr. Iain McKillopAssociate Professor. Ph.D., University of Sheffield,
Sheffield, UK.
Alterations in the
expression and function of intracellular signal transduction pathways that regulate the transformation and
progression of normal liver cells to a proliferative tumorigenic state.
Dr. James. D. Oliver
, Professor. Ph.D., Georgetown University. Microbial physiology and ecology;
biology of the human pathogen, Vibrio vulnificus.
Dr. Matt Parrow,
Assistant Professor. Ph.D., North Carolina State University.
Dr.
Christine Richardson, Associate Professor. Ph.D. DNA repair,
chromosomal rearrangements, & hematopoietic malignancies
Dr. Amy Ringwood, Assistant Professor. PhD., University of Hawaii.
Environmental toxicology; biology and ecology of aquatic invertebrates.
Dr. Laura W. Schrum, Assistant
Professor. Ph.D., North Carolina State University. Molecular
mechanisms and signaling pathways initiated by transforming growth factor
beta-1 during liver fibrosis.
Dr. Stan
Schneider, Professor. PhD, University of California at
Davis. Decision making in social insects; invasion biology of the African honey
bee
Dr. Inna Sokolova, Assistant Professor. Ph.D., Zoological Institute
of Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg. Ecophysiology and ecotoxicology
of marine mollusks; metabolic response to environmental stress.
Dr. Todd R. Steck, Associate Professor. Ph.D., University of
Rochester. The role of the viable but nonculturable condition in disease
etiology. Bacterial source tracking through use of genetically modified
organisms.
Dr. Alexey
Sukhotin, Assistant Professor. Ph.D. Ecological physiology and aging
in aquatic invertebrates
Dr. Christopher M. Yengo, Assistant Professor. Ph.D. University of
Vermont, Biophysics, Structure/function of contractile proteins.
Dr. Jian X. Zhang, Associate Professor. Ph.D., University
of South Carolina. Vascular and molecular physiology.
Carolinas Medical Center
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Department of Chemistry
Dr. Kenneth Gonsalves,
Celanese Acetate Distinguished Professor of
Polymer Chemistry. Ph.D., University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Polymer and
Organic Chemistry. Polymer synthesis and characterization focusing on
bioresorbable materials; micromolding and nanopatterning leading to the
fabrication of 3-D structures for tissue engineering applications. Biomimetic
approaches to molecular switches, actuators.
Dr. Joanna Krueger, Associate Professor. Ph.D., Princeton University.
Biophysical Chemistry: structural information on biomolecular associations using
the techniques of small-angle X-ray and neutron scattering, selected-site
mutagenesis and spectroscopy (FTIR, CD, UV-VIS); and visualized through the use
of Monte Carlo molecular modeling.
Dr. John M. Risley, Associate Professor. Ph.D., Purdue University.
Bio/physical organic chemistry and Biochemistry: The enzymes of glycoprotein
catabolism. Structure and function of the carbohydrate moiety of glycoproteins.
Biochemical mechanisms of diseases and abnormalities. Mechanisms and kinetics of
enzyme- and non-enzyme catalyzed reactions. Applications of the 18O-isotope
effect in (particularly 13C) NMR spectroscopy in various mechanistic
and kinetic studies.
Department of Civil Engineering
Dr. Helene A. Hilger, Associate Professor. Ph.D., North
Carolina State University. Applications of microbiology to environmental
engineering: methane oxidizers in landfill cover soil, pathogens in reclaimed
wastewater, anaerobic digestion of municipal solid waste, biological nutrient
removal, microbial ecology of soil biofilms.
Department of
Public
Health Sciences
Dr. Andrew
Harver, Chair and Professor, Ph.D., Ohio University.
Human electrophysiology,
respiratory sensation, and the mechanics of breathing.
Dr. Larissa
B. Huber, Assistant Professor, Ph.D. Emory University. Reproductive
epidemiology, specifically the role of obesity in contraceptive failure,
contraceptive trends, and reasons for discontinuing contraception.
Department of
IT / Computer Science / Bioinformatics Research Center
Dr. Dennis Livesay,
Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Development and application
of computational techniques to elucidate sequence/structure/function
relationships within protein families.
Dr.
Min Shin, Ph.D., Skin Detection, Medical Image Analysis, Gesture
Recognition, Computer Vision, Digital Image Processing.
Department of Kinesiology
Dr. Mitch Cordova, Associate Professor. Ph.D., University of Toledo.
Neuromechanical basis of lower extremity joint injury and rehabilitation;
chronic ankle instability.
Dr. Tricia Hubbard, Assistant Professor. Ph.D., Penn State Univ. Chronic
ankle instability, mechanical instability, lower extremity pathology, and
evidence based medical practice.
Dr. J. Timothy Lightfoot, Associate Professor. Ph.D.,
University of Tennessee. Acute neural control of blood pressure and genetics of
aerobic capacity.
Dr. Michael J. Turner, Associate Professor. Ph.D.,
University of Tennessee at Knoxville. Exercise physiology, cardiovascular
physiology, metabolism, and aging.
Dr. Susan K. Tsivitse, Assistant Professor.
PhD., University of Toledo. The
influence of classic developmental signaling pathways on young and aged adult
skeletal muscle stem cells using physiological stimuli models of muscle injury
(injurious exercise, in situ skeletal muscle lengthening, synergistic
ablation).
Department of Mechanical
Engineering
Dr. Robin N. Coger, Associate Professor. Ph.D., University of
California at Berkeley. Thermosciences, heat and mass transfer in biomaterials,
bioinstrumentation, and characterization of biomaterials.
Dr. Gloria Elliott Assistant
Professor. Ph.D. Michigan State University. cryo and anhydrobiology; cell
and tissue preservation; protein stabilization; green chemistry and engineering
(biocompatible materials development and biofuels).
Dr. Charles Lee,
Associate Professor. Ph.D. University of California at
Berkeley. Low temperature biology and bioengineering; tissue and cell
preservation.
Department of Physics and Optical Sciences
Dr.
Donald Jacobs. Assistant Professor,
Ph.D. Purdue University in Physics. Understanding protein stability and function
using computational models. I am interested in collaborating
with experimental groups with joint mentoring of Ph.D. students who do
Biological experiments.
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