Faculty

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Faculty Mentor Department Research Interest
Alejandro Barbieri, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Biological Sciences Receptor mediated endocytosis on signal transductions
Armando Barreto, Ph.D.Associate Professor Biomedical Engineering Biomedical signal and image processing
Bradley Bennett, Ph.D. Associate Professor Biological Sciences Medicinal plants, Ethnopharmacology
Richard A. Bone, Ph.D. Professor Physics Age-related macular degeneration and the competing influences of light and macular pigment
Yong Cai, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Chemistry and Biochemistry Bioanalytical chemistry
Fatma Huffman, Ph.D.
Chair & Professor
Dietetics and Nutrition Study of chronic diseases and ethnicity, biomarkers and risk factors for CVD and type-2 diabetes
Rene J. Herrera, Ph.D. Associate Professor Biological Sciences Molecular Biology
Konstantinos Kavallieratos, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Chemistry and Biochemistry Inorganic and organic supramolecular chemistry: Ligand design for separation and sensing of toxic metals and other biomedically and environmentally important targets
Leung Kim, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Biological Sciences Signal transduction
Lidia Kos, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Biological Sciences Signaling pathways involved in the development and pathogenesis of neural crest cells
John Landrum, Ph.D. Professor Chemistry and Biochemistry Carotenoids, carotenoid chemistry, biochemistry and metabolism, and the role of carotenoids in health and disease
Watson J. Lees, Ph.D. Associate Professor Chemistry and Biochemistry Understanding and improving the in vitro folding of disulfide containing proteins 
Fenfei Leng, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Chemistry and Biochemistry Transcription-coupled DNA supercoiling and the interaction of the mammalian high mobility group protein AT hook 2 (HMGA2) with AT rich DNA
Robert Lickliter, Ph.D. Professor Psychology Developmental psychobiology, with a focus on the prenatal determinants of intersensory perception
Kalai Mathee, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Biological Sciences Pathogenic microbiology, esp. Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Anthony McGoron, Ph.D. Associate Professor Biomedical Engineering Drug delivery and drug transport modeling in the areas of cancer and cardiovascular diseases
Giri Narasimhan, Ph.D. Professor Computer Science Bioinformatics and Data Mining
Fernando G. Noriega, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Biological Sciences Biochemistry, physiology and molecular biology used to address fundamental questions in insect biology
Kevin O'Shea, Ph.D. Professor Chemistry and Biochemistry Investigation of the role of reactive oxygen species in the degradation of biologically active compounds
Laurie Richardson, Ph.D. Professor Biological Sciences Microbiology
Sylvia L. Smith, Ph.D. Professor Biological Sciences Evolution of nonspecific immunity, specifically the complement system and its role in the regulation and modulation of innate and adaptive immune responses, and identification and characterization of shark antibacterial proteins/peptides, and study of the immunomodulatory properties of shark cartilage
Philip K. Stoddard, Ph.D. Professor Biological Sciences Integrative biology of behavior
Nikolaos Tsoukias, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Biomedical Engineering Computational physiology and biotransport

Enrique Villamor, Ph.D. Professor

Mathematics Partial differential equations, potenital theory and financial engineering/risk management
Stanislaw Wnuk, Ph.D. Associate Professor Chemistry and Biochemistry Organic chemistry of carbohydrates nucleosides with applications in biochemistry and in anti-cancer and anti-viral medicine