Faculty Directory
Ramesh K. Akkina
Professor (Microbiology, Immunology & Pathology); Ph.D. Minnesota 1982. Virology; AIDS gene therapy; stem cells;
viral vectors; RNA therapuetics.
Kenneth G. D. Allen
Professor (Food Science & Human Nutrition); Ph.D. Montana 1973. Omega-3 fatty acids; gene
expression; nutrition and eicosanoids.
Lorinda K. Anderson
Assistant Professor (Biology); Ph.D. Colorado State
University,
1993. Meiotic recombination in plants and animals; role of
recombination-related proteins in homologous synapsis and the control
of crossing over.
Susan
M. Bailey
Associate Professor (Environmental &
Radiology
Health Sciences); Ph.D. New
Mexico 2000. Potential role of dysfunctional (uncapped)
telomeres
in tumorigenesis studied with fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH).
James
R. Bamburg
Professor (Biochemistry and Molecular
Biology);
Ph.D.
Wisconsin 1969. Regulation of the cytoskeleton in neuronal growth and
pathfinding;
signal transduction pathways regulating actin dynamics; abnormalities
in actin behavior in neurodegenative diseases.
B. George
Barisas
Professor (Chemistry and Microbiology,
Immunology
& Pathology); Ph.D. Yale
1971. Biomedical instrumentation; cellular immunology; molecular
endocrinology.
Joel S. Bedford
Professor (Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences); Ph.D. Oxford 1966. Cellular radiation biology; radiation cytogenetics.
Patricia
A. Bedinger
Professor (Biology); Ph.D. University of California, San
Francisco
1982. Pollen development and function at the molecular and cellular
level.
Barbara J. Biller
Assistant Professor (Clinical Sciences); Ph.D. Colorado State University 2007. Chemotherapy and antitumor immunity; preclinical and clinical cancer immunotherapeutics.
Michael E. Bizeau
Assistant Professor (Food Science & Human Nutrition); Ph.D. Arizona
State 1999. Role of transcription factor SREBP-1 in the
development of obesity and type II diabetes in skeletal muscle.
Gerrit J. Bouma
Assistant Professor (Biomedical Sciences); Ph.D. University of Idaho 2003. Transcriptional control and cellular signaling pathways
mediating mammalian fetal gonadal development and differentiation.
Daniel
Bush
Professor and Chair (Biology); Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley
1984. Signal transduction pathways that regulate the systemic
distribution of organic nutrients in plants.
Jonathan
O. Carlson
Professor (Microbiology, Immunology &
Pathology); Ph.D. California
(Berkeley)
1974. Molecular virology; molecular biology of mosquitoes and
arboviruses.
Chaoping Chen
Assistant Professor (Biochemistry & Molecular Biology);Ph.D. Purdue University 1999. Molecular and Cell Biology of retrovirus assembly and budding.
Stephen Chisholm
Assistant Professor (Bioagricutural Sicences & Pest Management); Ph.D. Washington State University 2000.
Interactions between host and pathogen proteomes that mediate bacterial pathogenesis.
Colin
M.
Clay
Professor (Biomedical
Sciences); Ph.D.ColoradoState
1988. Endocrine and environmental regulation of the
hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal
axis; gonadotropin gene expression; structure-function relationships in
the glycotein hormones.
Debbie C.
Crans
Professor (Chemistry); Ph.D. Harvard 1985.
Biological
chemistry; vanadium and transition metal chemistry relating to insulin
mimetic effects;
vanadium
compounds with bone stimulating activities; enzyme mechanisms;
phosphorus
metabolism.
Norman
P. Curthoys
Professor (Biochemistry and
Molecular
Biology);
Ph.D. California
(Berkeley)
1970. Effect of acidosis on renal gene expression; mRNA stability;
structure of glutaminase.
Jennifer G. DeLuca
Assistant Professor (Biochemistry & Molecular Biology); Ph.D. University of California at Santa Barbara 2000. Mechanisms of Mitotic Chromosome Segregation.
William
S. Dernell
Associate Professor (Clinical Sciences); Ph.D. D.V.M., Illinois,
1985. Preclinical testing of anticancer and antimicrobial
chemotherapy agents.
Stephen
W. Dow
Professor (Microbiology,
Immunology & Pathology and Clinical Sciences);
Ph.D.
Colorado State University, 1992. Innate immunity and the lung;
bacterial pathogenesis; cancer immunology; vaccines.
Dawn L. Duval
Assistant Professor (Clinical Sciences); Ph.D. University of Nevada 1994. Molecular mechanisms of carcinogenesis and metastasis in osteosarcoma and breast cancer models.
Scott Earley
Assistant Professor (Biomedical Sciences); Ph.D. University of New Mexico School of Medicine 2002; Cardiovascular Physiology
Nicole Ehrhart
Associate Professor (Clinical Sciences); V.M.D. University of Pennsylvania 1990.
Limb preservation; musculoskeletal sarcoma; orthopaedic oncology; bone regeneration, and tissue engineering.
Gregory
L. Florant
Professor (Biology); Ph.D. Stanford 1978.
Mammalian
physiology; lipid metabolism and energetics.
Michael
H. Fox
Professor (Environmental & Radiological
Health
Sciences) Ph.D. Kansas State
1977. Flow cytometry, hyperthermia, cell cycle, apoptosis; mutagenesis.
David
D. Frisbie
Assistant Professor (Clinical Sciences);
Ph.D.;
Colorado State University, 1999. In vitro and in vivo
approaches to diagnostic and therapeutic musculoskeletal disease with
an emphasis on molecular and surgical techniques.
Deborah M. Garrity
Assistant Professor (Biology); Ph.D. Cornell 1998. Molecular
genetic approaches to gastrulation and organogenesis (especially heart development) in zebrafish.
Mercedes Gonzalez-Juarrero
Assistant Professor (Biology); Ph.D. Plum Island 1990. Study of
macrophages and dendritic cells during chronic inflammatory responses.
David
W. Grainger
Professor (Chemistry); Ph.D., Utah,
1987. Cell-surface and bacteria-surface adhesion and signaling
mechanisms
related to biomaterials and biotechnology applications.
Daniel Gustafson
Associate Professor (Clinical Sciences); Ph.D., University of Nevada, Reno, 1992. Cancer pharmacology, pharmacokinetics and toxicology.
Robert
J. Handa
Professor (Biomedical Sciences); Ph.D., UCLA, 1983. Molecular
mechanisms of estrogen and androgen receptor action in the developing
brain.
William
H. Hanneman
Associate Professor (Environmental &
Radiological Health Sciences);
Ph.D., Texas
A&M, 1995. Developmental neurotoxicology,identification and
characterization
of developmental genes involved in response to hazardous environmental
chemicals.
Jeffrey C. Hansen
Professor (Biochemistry & Molecular Biology); Ph.D., University of Wisconsin - Madison, 1986. Higher order chromatin structure
and chromatin architectural proteins.
Charles S. Henry
Assistant Professor (Chemistry); Ph.D., Arkansas, 1998. Bioanalytical chemistry; chemical separations and chemical nature of
disease.
Douglas
N. Ishii
Professor (Biomedical Sciences and
Biochemistry and
Molecular
Biology); Ph.D. Stanford 1974. Neurobiology of insulin-like growth
factors; diabetic neuropathy; blood-brain barrier and brain disorders.
John Kisiday
Assistant Professor (Clinical Sciences);
Ph.D., MIT, 2003. Mechanobiology of cartilage regeneration;
cartilage tissue engineering.
Susan Kraft
Associate Professor (Environmental & Radiological Health Sciences); Ph.D., Washington State University, 1991. Cancer imaging, Magnetic Resonance Imaging and spectroscopy, radiation therapy and neuroradiology.
Paul
Kugrens
Professor (Biology); Ph.D., California
(Berkeley)
1971. Algal ultrastructure, development, and molecular phylogeny.
Nora
Lapitan
Professor (Soil & Crop Sciences);
Ph.D., Kansas State,
1986. Molecular genetics and genomics of plants, molecular genetic
techniques to clone genes for economically important traits in wheat
and barley.
Susan M. LaRue
Professor (Environmental &
Radiological Health Sciences);
D.V.M., Georgia; Ph.D., ColoradoState
1992. Experimental therapeutics; hyperthermia; tumor physiology; tumor
cytogenetics.
Paul
J. Laybourn
Professor (Biochemistry and
Molecular
Biology);
Ph.D. California
(Davis)
1989. The mechanism of transcription regulation in a chromatin
context.
Marie M. Legare
Assistant Professor (Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences);
Ph.D., Texas
A&M, 1995. Genetic and molecular approaches to studying
neurotoxicology.
Howard
L. Liber
Professor (Environmental and Radiological
Health
Sciences);
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute
of Technology,
1980. Molecular mechanisms of mutagenesis in human cell.
Karolin
Luger
University Distiguished Professor, Howard Hughes Investigator (Biochemistry &
Molecular
Biology); Ph.D.University
of Basal (Switzerland)
1989. X-ray crystallography of macromolecular assemblies,
crystallographic
and biochemical analysis of transcription regulation in a chromatin
context.
June
I. Medford
Associate Professor (Biology); Ph.D. Yale
1986.
Molecular
and genetic studies of Arabidopsis: in vivo imaging; plant
sentinels.
Donald
L. Mykles
Professor (Biology); Ph.D. California
(Berkeley)
1979. Regulation of protein turnover; calcium-dependent and
ATP/ubiquitin-dependent
proteinases; myofibrillar proteins.
Jennifer
K. Nyborg
Professor (Biochemistry & Molecular
Biology);
Ph.D. California
(Riverside)
1986. The mechanism of transcriptional deregulation by the human T-cell
leukemia virus (HTLV-I) tax protein.
Michael J.
Pagliassotti
Professor (Food Science & Human Nutrition); Ph.D. University of
Southern California, 1988. Nutrient regulation of hepatic glucose
metabolism and gene expression.
Marvin
R. Paule
Professor (Biochemistry
& Molecular
Biology);
Ph.D. California
(Davis)
1970. Molecular mechanisms of transcription initiation and control in
eukaryotic
cells; coordinate expression of ribosomal components.
Leonard
D. Pearson
Professor (Microbiology, Immunology
Pathology); Ph.D. California
(Davis)
1970. Immunology (immunity to lentiviruses, herpes viruses, pox
viruses),
monoclonal antibodies.
Olve
B. Peersen
Associate Professor (Biochemestry &
Molecular Biology); Ph.D., Yale University,
1994. Structural and biophysical studies of viral polymerases and
picornaviral replication complexes.
Marinus
Pilon
Associate Professor (Biology);
Ph.D., Utrecht
(Netherlands),
1992. Intracellular protein trafficking; metal cofactor transport and
metal
cofactor assembly of proteins involved in photosynthesis.
Rajinder
S. Ranu
Professor (Bioagricultural Sciences
& Pest
Management); Ph.D. Pennsylvania
1971. Eukaryotic protein synthesis; plant molecular biology; plant
gene
expression.
Kenneth Reardon
Professor & Associate Department Head
(Chemical Engineering); Ph.D. California Institute of Technology 1988. Proteomics, systems biology, metabolic engineering, and enzyme-based
biosensors.
Anireddy
S.N. Reddy
Professor (Biology); Ph.D.
Jawaharlal
Nehru
1984. Signal transduction mechanisms; regulation of gene expression;
crop
improvement by genetic engineering.
Noreen E. Reist
Associate Professor (Biomedical Sciences); Ph.D. Stanford University 1990; Molecular dissection of neurotransmitter release.
Deborah
A. Roess
Professor (Biomedical Sciences); Ph.D. St.
Louis
1982. Plasma membrane events associated with membrane signaling and
cell
activation.
Eric D. Ross
Assistant Professor (Biochemistry & Molecular Biology); Ph.D. Mayo Clinic 2001. Yeast prions as a model for amyloid diseases.
Barbara M.
Sanborn
Professor and Head (Biomedical Sciences); Ph.D. Boston
University 1968. Signal transduction, molecular mechanisms of
hormone action, calcium homeostasis.
Herbert
P. Schweizer
Professor (Microbiology, Immunology
Pathology); Ph.D. University
of Konstanz, Germany
(1983). Molecular genetics and biology of pathogenic bacteria;
cell-cell communicaton; multidrug resistance.
George
E. Seidel, Jr.
Professor (Biomedical Sciences); Ph.D.
Cornell
1970. In
vitro
oocyte maturation; fertilization, metabolism, microsurgery and
cryopreservation
of mammalian embryos; genes regulating embryonic
development.
Richard Slayden
Assistant Professor (Microbiology, Immunology Pathology); Ph.D. Colorado State University, 1997. Phenotypic differentiation and host-pathogen interactions to gain knowledge regarding pathogenesis and drug development.
Stephen
M. Stack
Professor (Biology); Ph.D. Texas
1969. Structure and behavior of chromosomes throughout both the mitotic
and meiotic cell cycles, the synaptonemal complex, recombination
nodules, and genetic crossing over.
Laurie Stargell
Associate Professor & Associate Chair (Biochemistry & Molecular Biology); Ph.D. University of Rochester 1993. Mechanims of transcription initiation in yeast: the role of TBP and TFIIA in Regulated Expression
Erica
L. Suchman
Associate Professor (Microbiology, Immunology Pathology); Ph.D.
California, Irvine 1994. Effects of densonucleosis viruses on
mosquitoes for use as possible biocontrol agents.
Michael
M. Tamkun
Professor (Biomedical Sciences &
Biochemistry Molecular Biology); Ph.D. Washington
1983. Ion channel molecular biology.
Douglas
H. Thamm
Assistant Professor (Clinical Sciences);
V.M.D. University
of Pennsylvania
1995. Signal transduction and its inhibition in comparative cancer
models.
Henry
J. Thompson
Professor (Horticulture & Landscape
Architecture and Head of the Cancer Prevention Laboratory); Ph.D. Rutgers
1975. Biochemical and molecular approaches to cancer prevention;
preclinical models and clinical investigations.
Ronald B. Tjalkens
Associate Professor (Environmental
Radiological Health Sciences);
Ph.D. University of Colorado Health Sciences Center 1998. Molecular neurotoxicology, regulation of
nitric oxide
synthase in mammalian astroglia, role of astroglial cells in
parkinsonian syndromes.
Stuart
A. Tobet
Professor (Biomedical Sciences);
Ph.D. M.I.T.
1985. Development and differentiation of the neuroendocrine brain.
Robert
L. Ullrich
Professor (Environmental & Radiological
Health
Sciences); PhD.University
of Rochester
1975. Carcinogenesis and genetic modifiers of
susceptibility.
Jorge
M. Vivanco
Associate Professor (Horticulture & Landscape
Architecture); Ph.D.Pennsylvania
1999. Biochemical,
molecular
and metabolic profiling approaches to root exudations processes;
biology and biochemistry of ribosome-inactivating proteins in plants.
Michael M. Weil
Associate Professor (Environmental & Radiological Health Sciences);
Ph.D. University of Texas, Austin 1987. Genetic susceptibility to
radiation-induced cancers.
Carol Wilusz
Assistant
Professor (Microbiology, Immunology & Pathology); Ph.D Imerial College, London. Post-transcriptional
control of gene expression in myotonic dystrophy. Interactions between viruses and the cellular mRNA decay machinery.
Jeffrey Wilusz
Professor (Microbiology, Immunology & Pathology); Ph.D.
Duke, 1985. Mechanisms of regulated
post-transcriptional control in mammalian cells.
Stephen
J. Withrow
University Distinguished Professor
(Clinical Sciences) and Director
(Animal
Cancer
Center); Ph.D. Tennessee
1972. Comparative pet animal models for cancer, with an emphasis
on sarcomas and limb-sparing techniques using a multidisciplinary
approach.
Raymond
S.H. Yang
Professor (Environmental & Radiological
Health
Sciences); Ph.D.North
Carolina State
1970. Molecular and cellular aspects of chemical carcinogenesis;
integration of mathematical modeling and biomedical experimentation.
Mark Zabel
Assistant Professor (Microbiology, Immunoloby & Pathology); Ph.D. University of Utah 2001. Prion immunology.