Faculty

Core Faculty

Burt Anderson, Ph.D.
Professor
Regulation of bacterial virulence
Michael Barber , D PHIL
Assoc. Dean & Professor
Metalloenzymes, Flavoproteins
George Blanck , Ph.D.
Professor
Genomics, Vaccine Development
Nick Burdash , Ph.D.
Professor
Immunomodulation, infection
Denise Cooper, Ph.D.
Professor
Regulation of PKCßII splicing
Robert J. Deschenes, PhD
Chair & Professor
Signal transduction/Cancer
Ferreira Gloria Ferreira, Ph.D.
Professor
Heme biosynthesis
Peter Medveczky , MD
Professor
Tumor virology
Susan Pross, Ph.D.
Professor
Nicotine and immune system
Kenneth Ugen, Ph.D.
Professor
Vaccine Development
Michael White, Ph.D.
Professor
Genomics, Genetics, Development, Replication
Ted Williams, Ph.D.
Professor & Associate Vice President for Diversity & Equal Opportunity

Associate Professors

Ingrid Bahner, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Chad Dickey , Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Chaperone and neuro degeneration

Vladimir Uversky, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Phenomenon of protein intrinsic disorder

David Kang, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Neurodegenration & neuroprotection

Assistant Professors

Yu Chen, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Structure based drug design

Caralina Marin de Evsikova , Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Developmental Programming of Metabolism

Subhra Mohapatra, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Tumor Biology & Therapeutics
Jaya Padmanabhan, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Alzheimer's Disease
Andreas Seyfang, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Opportunistic Microbial Pathogens
Danielle Gulick
Assistant Professor
Substrates of Schizophrenia and Addiction

 

Alexei Evsikov , Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor
Comparative Genomics and Reproduction

Tomar Ghansah , Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor
Tumor Immunology and Signal Transduction
Greg Hunter , Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor
Heme biosynthesis
   
Mitchell David Mitchell, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor
Postranslational Modifications

Niketa Patel, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor
Obesity, Alternative Splicing

Bin Xue, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor
Neurodegneration & Neuroprotection
 

Instructors

Cathy Newton , MS
Instructor
Immunology, Bacteriology
Laura C. Pendleton, MS
Instructor
Regulation of nitric oxide synthesis

Emeritus

Duane C. Eichler, Ph.D.
Vascular Endothelial Function
John Hassell , Ph.D.
Wound Healing, Extracellular Matrix
R. Kennedy Keller , Ph.D.
Regulation of Isoprenoid Biosynthesis
Thomas Klein , Ph.D.
Cellular immunology
Gene Ness , Ph.D.
Cholesterol biosynthesis


Larry Solomonson, Ph.D.
Nitric oxide synthase



Core Facilities

Charlie Szekeres, PhD.
Director, Flow Cytometry Facility
Cytometry and cell sorting
Jinyi Zhu, Ph.D.
Director, Protein Core Facility
Recombinant Protein production & Characterizaton