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.

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.

Adam J. Chicco
Assistant Professor (Health & Exercise Science); Ph.D. University of Northern Colorado 2004. How changes in cardiac fatty acid metabolism and mitochondrial dysfunction contribute to the development and/or progression of heart disease, and how dietary and pharmaceutical interventions may modulate these processes.

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.

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.

David D. Frisbie
Associate 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
Associate Professor (Biology); Ph.D. Cornell 1998.  Molecular genetic approaches to gastrulation and organogenesis (especially heart development) in zebrafish.

Mercedes Gonzalez-Juarrero
Associate Professor (Microbiology, Immunology & Pathology); Ph.D. Plum Island 1990.  Study of macrophages and dendritic cells during chronic inflammatory responses.

Daniel Gustafson
Associate Professor (Clinical Sciences); Ph.D., University of Nevada, Reno, 1992. Cancer pharmacology, pharmacokinetics and toxicology.

Karyn L. Hamilton

Assistant Professor (Health & Exercise Science); PhD., University of Florida, 2000. Mechanism(s) of exercise- and estrogen-induced protection of the heart and vascular endothelium against hypoxia-reoxygenation injury.

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
Associate Professor (Chemistry); Ph.D., Arkansas, 1998.  Bioanalytical chemistry; chemical separations and chemical nature of disease.

Matthew S. Hickey
Professor (Health & Exercise Science); PhD. Ball State University, 1993.

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
Professor (Environmental & Radiological Health Sciences); Ph.D., Washington State University, 1991. Cancer imaging, Magnetic Resonance Imaging and spectroscopy, radiation therapy and neuroradiology.

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
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.

Jac A. Nickoloff
Dept. Head & Professor (Environmental & Radiological Health Sciences); PhD. University of Colorado. Cellular processes that maintain eukaryotic genome stability, including homologous recombination, nonhomologous end-joining and other DNA repair processes.

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.

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.

Sandra L. Quackenbush

Associate Professor, Associate Department Head (Microbiology, Immunology & Pathology); Ph.D.,Colorado State University. Viral pathogenesis, particularly viral-induced oncogenesis.

Rajinder S. Ranu
Professor (Bioagricultural Sciences & Pest Management); Ph.D. Pennsylvania 1971. Eukaryotic protein synthesis; plant molecular biology; plant gene expression.

F. Andrew Ray
Associate Professor (Environmental & Radiological Health Sciences); PhD. University of New Mexico School of Medicine. How the SV40 virus causes cancer traits in normal human cells.

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 A. Slayden
Associate 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 A. Stargell
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.

Jozsef Vigh
Assistant Professor (Biomedical Sciences); PhD. Janus Pannonius University, Pecs, Hungary. Visual signal processing in the retina.

Jorge M. Vivanco
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.

John Volckens
Assistant Professor (Environmental & Radiological Health Sciences); PhD. University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. Development of methods for aerosol and air pollution measurement, understanding the generation, fate, and transport of semivolatile organic compounds in rural, urban, and industrial environments, and development of improved diagnostic techniques for assessing human exposures to and adverse health effects of air pollution.

Michael M. Weil
Associate Professor (Environmental & Radiological Health Sciences); Ph.D. University of Texas, Austin 1987.  Genetic susceptibility to radiation-induced cancers.

Carol Wilusz
Associate 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.