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Training Faculty	Department	Research Interest
Jose Almirall -- Assistant Professor	Chemistry	Improved Detection and Analysis of GHB and GBL
Lorraine Bahrick -- Professor	Psychology	Intersensory redundancy and the development of perception, learning, and memory in human infants
Bradley Bennett -- Associate Professor	Environmental Studies & Biology	Field to Pharmacy

Charles Bigger -- Associate Professor	Biology	Immunity and Disease in marine animals
Richard A. Bone -- Professor	Physics	Vision-macular pigment, temporal processing
Christopher Brown -- Professor and Director	Marine Biology	Use of IGF-I as an indicator of growth in juvenile tilapia
Yong Cai -- Associate Professor	Chemistry & SERC	Thiols and their roles for arsenic hyperaccumulation in Brake fern
David Chatfield -- Associate Professor	Chemistry	The dynamics of amino acid side chains
Eric Crumpler -- Assistant Professor	Biomedical Engineering	Isolation of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) from murine bone marrow
Ching-Hua Fan -- Assistant Professor	Mechanical and Materials Engineering	Novel Technique to Characterize and Diagnose Vulnerable Atherosclerotic Plaques Using Laser-Induced Fluorescence (LIF) Lifetime
Rene J. Herrera -- Associate Professor	Biology	Expression and function of U1 and U2 RNA Isoforms during development
Krish Jayachandran -- Associate Professor	Environmental Studies and SERC	Ribotyping to Identify Host Origin of Nonpoint Fecal Contamination in South Florida’s Coastal Waters
Konstantinos Kavallieratos -- Assistant Professor	Chemistry	Investigation of Main Group Coordination Chemistry with Thiol-rich Oligopeptides – Biomimetic Probes for Complexation and Metabolism
Leung Kim -- Assistant Professor	Biology	Characterization of the tumor suppressor LKB1 in the model organism Dictyostelium discoidem
Lidia Kos -- Assistant Professor	Biology	The role of endothelin receptor B/endothelin 3 signaling pathway in neural crest development
David N. Kuhn -- Associate Professor	Biology	Molecular genetics of fungi
John T. Landrum -- Associate Professor	Chemistry	Carotenoid chemistry, macular pigment
Watson J. Lees -- Associate Professor	Chemistry and Biochemistry	Folding Disulfide Containing Proteins
Fenfei Leng -- Assistant Professor	Chemistry	Effects of Transcription on DNA Topology and Replication
Robert Lickliter -- Professor	Psychology	The role of intersensory redundancy in perceptual learning and memory in bobwhite quail embryos and chicks
John Makemson - Professor	Biology	Kinetic diversity of bacterial luciferases
Kalai Mathee -- Assistant Professor	Biology	Regulation of alginate production in P. aeruginosa; Biofilm formation of P. aeruginosa; Environmental effects in the conversion to mucoidy
Anthony McGoron -- Assistant Professor	Biomedical Engineering	Microelectrode sensors for detection of anti-cancer drugs
Giri Narasimhan -- Associate Professor	Computer Science	Pattern Discovery Tools for Protein Motif Detection and Protein Structure Prediction
Fernando G. Noriega -- Assistant Professor	Biology	Nutritional regulation of juvenile hormone levels in mosquitoes; Functional proteomic analysis of the mosquito neuroendocrine system
Kevin O'Shea -- Associate Professor	Chemistry	Chemical reactivity and biological activity of naturally occurring Thiarubrine A
Kathleen S. Rein -- Assistant Professor	Chemistry	Molecular genetics of dinoflagellate polyketide biosynthesis
Laurie Richardson -- Associate Professor	Biological Sciences	Microbial Community Organization and Development of a Pathogenic Consortium
Diana Rincon --Assistant Professor	Mechanical Engineering	Biomechanical model of the wrist joint exposed to vibrations
Richard T. Schoephoerster -- Professor	Mechanical Engineering	Biofluid mechanics, Thrombosis
Sylvia L. Smith -- Professor	Biology	Evolutionary origins of mammalian innate immunity with emphasis on comparative aspects of molecular mechanisms and genetics
Philip K. Stoddard -- Associate Professor	Biology	Neurobiology and Behavior
Nikolaos Tsoukias -- Assistant Professor	Biomedical Engineering	Nitric Oxide dependent signaling in the regulation of vascular tone
Ophelia Weeks -- Associate Professor	Biology	HIV and the nervous system
Stanislaw Wnuk -- Associate Professor	Chemistry	Novel Probes for Structure Determination of the S-Adenosylhomocysteine Hydrolase with “Vinyl” or “Halovinyl” Moieties Incorporated in Place of the Sulfur Atom