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.