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.