Faculty

Welcome new ILS Faculty members!

Dan Peach

Assisstant Professor
Infectious Diseases

Dr Peach’s research interests are in the field of vector ecology, with a focus on behavioral and sensory ecology.

Charles A. Easley, IV

Associate Professor
Environmental Health Science, Regenerative Bioscience Center

Research in the Easley lab focuses on 3 major goals: 1) impacts of environmental exposures on spermatogenesis and future generations, 2) regenerative medicine by developing stem cell treatment options for male factor infertility, and 3) drug discovery for identifying unique compounds which may serve as male contraceptives.

Tati Russo-Tait

Assistant Professor
Cellular Biology

We engage in interdisciplinary and collaborative research projects employing various methodological approaches to examine different facets of diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice issues in undergraduate biology and STEM education.

Oshri Avraham

Assistant Professor
Cellular Biology

Deciphering the mechanisms that regulate the diversity of peripheral glial cells to achieve a better understanding of their role in the context of disease and injury.

Courtney Ellison

Assistant Professor
Microiology

Bacterial adhesion and biofilm formation, dynamics of bacterial nanomachines, microbial subcellular organization.

Alex Rosenberg

Assistant Professor
Infectious Diseases

Deciphering the mechanisms of host immune system manipulation by human eukaryotic pathogen – Toxoplasma gondii.

Holly Bik

Assistant Professor
Marine Sciences, Bioinformatics

Invertebrate microbiomes; nematode ecology and evolution; benthic and deep-sea habitats; using environmental DNA for biomonitoring.

Yao Yao

Assistant Professor
Neuroscience

Develop regenerative therapies for neurological diseases by investigating the pathological and therapeutic roles of extracellular vesicles in cellular and animal models.

Xiangyu Deng

Associate Professor
Center for Food Safety

Genomic epidemiology, foodborne pathogens, microbiome, bioinformatics

Hitesh Handa

Associate Professor
Pharmaceutical & Biomedical Sciences

Translational research in biomaterials (antifouling, antiplatelet, antibacterial, and antiviral) for tissue engineering and medical device applications

Natalie Cohen

Assistant Professor
Marine Science, Bioinformatics

Marine microbial ecology; phytoplankton physiology; ocean biogeochemistry; environmental bioinformatics

Kosuke Funato

Assistant Professor
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Molecular and cellular mechanisms of brain tumors; oncohistone mutations; human ES cell-based tumor modeling; tumor heterogeneity and evolution.

C. Robin Buell

Professor
GRA Eminent Scholar in Crop Genomics
Plant Biology, Bioinformatics

Plant genome biology with a focus on crops and medicinal plants; Synthetic biology; Evolution of natural product biosynthesis

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Anna Abraham

Professor
Neuroscience

Neurocognition of creativity & imagination – reality/fiction distinction, self/social cognition, mental time travel, semantic cognition, aesthetics

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Michael Adams

Distinguished Research Professor
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Functional and structural genomics, metabolism and enzymology of organisms
that grow near 100C.

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Mike Adang

Professor
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Entomology

Ecology of macroinvertebrates in freshwater wetlands and streams.

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Magdy Alabady

Associate Research Faculty
Plant Biology

Genomics and computational biology of plant – microbiome interactions, RNA post-translation regulatory networks, and genome characterization

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Jon Amster

Professor
Chemistry

Structural analysis and characterization of glycosaminoglycans using mass spectrometry

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Jill Anderson

Associate Professor
Genetics

Evolutionary genetics and population ecology of plants; global change biology;
field ecology; seed dispersal ecology; frugivorous fish.

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Tessa Andrews

Associate Professor
Genetics

Undergraduate evolution education; instructor experiences, knowledge,
and skills in teaching biology; teaching context and climate in life science departments.

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Oshri Avraham

Assistant Professor
Cellular Biology

Deciphering the mechanisms that regulate the diversity of peripheral glial cells to achieve a better understanding of their role in the context of disease and injury.

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Parastoo Azadi

Senior Research Scientist, CCRC
Technical Director — Analytical Services, CCRC

Structural analysis and hands-on training for all glycoconjugates using mass spectrometry and NMR

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Justin Bahl

Associate Professor
Infectious Diseases; Bioinformatics

Ecology, epidemiology and evolution of infectious RNA viruses (Influenza A virus, avian paramyxovirus,
RSV, MERS-CoV) in animals and humans

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Maor Bar-Peled

Associate Professor
Plant Biology

Molecular cell biology of the wall, Biofuel and BioEnergy, Golgi as model for System biology, Plant Immunity.

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Deborah Barany

Assistant Professor
Neuroscience

Neural mechanisms of goal-directed movement; Functional neuroimaging; non-invasive brain stimulation; neurorehabilitation

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Adam W. Barb

Associate Professor
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Our goal is to define the impact of protein post-translational modifications on structure and function in the immune system.

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Jessica Barb

Assistant Research Scientist
Plant Biology

Crop breeding and genetics.

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Michael Bartlett

University Professor
Pharmaceutical & Biomedical Sciences; Neuroscience

ADME of drugs and environmental toxicants; impact of compounds on memory,
cognition, and neuropathic pain; oligonucleotide therapeutics and biomarkers.

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Darold Batzer

Professor
Entomology

Distinguished Research Professor, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Research interest:
Functional and structural genomics, metabolism and enzymology of organisms that grow near 100C.

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Jeff Bennetzen

Professor
Genetics; Bioinformatics

Plant genomics and genome evolution, transposable elements,
and regulatory gene evolution.

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Douda Bensasson

Associate Professor
Bioinformatics; Plant Biology

Genome bioinformatics, ecological and evolutionary genomics of yeast.

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Casey Bergman

Associate Professor
Bioinformatics; Genetics
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Pengpeng Bi

Assistant Professor
Genetics

We use​ the advanced genetic mouse models to study the molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying
several diseases: obesity, diabetics, muscle and heart diseases.

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Holly Bik

Assistant Professor
Marine Sciences, Bioinformatics

Invertebrate microbiomes; nematode ecology and evolution; benthic and deep-sea habitats; using environmental DNA for biomonitoring

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Blake Billmyre

Assistant Professor, Pharmaceutical & Biomedical Sciences Department/Infectious Diseases Department

High throughput genetics to better understand evolution of fungal pathogens and drive antifungal drug discovery.

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Katie Billmyre

Assistant Professor, Genetics Department

Meiotic chromosome biology using Drosophila as a model system.

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Molly Bolger

Associate Professor, Cellular Biology

Biology education; Understanding student scientific development; Biological modeling in classrooms; Instructor reasoning in non-traditional classrooms

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Tim Bolger

Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression and control of mRNA-protein dynamics by RNA helicases in normal conditions and cell stress.

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Geert-Jan Boons

Professor
Chemistry
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Peggy Brickman

Professor
Plant Biology

Factors that motivate undergraduates to learn science; scientific literacy skill acquisition;
and effective methods to provide instructional feedback.

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Melinda Brindley

Associate Professor
Infectious Diseases

Arenavirus glycoprotein structure and function; virus entry and membrane fusion; emerging virus-host interactions. Functional characterization of viral glycoproteins and host interactions.

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C. Robin Buell

Professor
GRA Eminent Scholar Chair in Crop Genomics
Plant Biology, Bioinformatics

Plant genome biology with a focus on crops and medicinal plants; Synthetic biology; Evolution of natural product biosynthesis

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Gaelen Burke

Associate Professor
Entomology

Functional and evolutionary genomics of microbial associations with insects; virology, symbiosis, immunity

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John Burke

Distinguished Research Professor and Department Head
Plant Biology

Evolutionary genetics; molecular evolution; genomics.

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Haini Cai

Associate Professor
Cellular Biology; Neuroscience

Nuclear and genome organization; Chromatin structure and function; Gene regulation in Drosophila development.

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Houjian Cai

Associate Professor
Pharmaceutical & Biomedical Sciences

Post-translational modification including protein acylation, fatty acid metabolism,
prostate stem cell, Src family kinases, prostate cancer, small molecular inhibitor.

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Liming Cai

Professor
Bioinformatics
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Jarrod Call

Associate Professor
Physiology & Pharmacology

Mitochondrial bioenergetics of muscle, brain, and stem cells. Skeletal muscle physiology. Regenerative medicine and rehabilitation following traumatic tissue damage, disease, aging.

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Maria Belen Cassera

Associate Professor
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Metabolomic approaches applied to drug target selection and validation in human pathogens;
discovery and development of new chemotherapeutic interventions.
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Don Champagne

Associate Professor
Entomology

Role of arthropod salivary factors in pathogen transmission and immune responses in their vertebrate hosts.

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Shu-Mei Chang

Professor
Plant Biology

Evolutionary Ecology of flowering plants; Plant mating system evolution.

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Anny Chung

Assistant Professor
Plant Biology

Plant population and community ecology; plant-microbe interactions, global change biology; microbial ecology

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Leigh Anne Clark

Associate Professor, Department of Genetics

Canine genetics and genomics.

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Brett Clementz

Professor
Neuroscience

Structural, functional & genetic abnormalities in schizophrenia.

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Julie Coffield

Associate Professor
Physiology and Pharmacology; Toxicology; Neuroscience

Neurotoxic agents that alter synaptic transmission. The actions of toxins such as
the Clostridial neurotoxins (Botulinum and Tetanus) at the mammalian neuromuscular junction.

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Natalie Cohen

Assistant Professor
Marine Sciences, Bioinformatics

Marine microbial ecology; phytoplankton physiology; ocean biogeochemistry; environmental bioinformatics

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David Crich

Professor; Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Drug Design
Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences; Chemistry

Organic and medicinal chemistry; carbohydrate chemistry; glycomimetics; drug design and development with emphasis on multi-drug resistant infectious diseases

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Kurt Dahlstrom

Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology

The rules of microbial community formation to restore and engineer beneficial communities for crops under climate stress and human disease states.

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Julie Dangremond Stanton

Associate Professor
Cellular Biology

My research is focused on the use of metacognition to enhance student learning in biology.

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Alan Darvill

Regents Professor, Director Complex Carbohydrate Research Center
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Structures and functions of the noncellulosic polysaccharides of plant primary cell walls.

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Kelly Dawe

Distinguished Research Professor
Genetics; Plant Biology

Plant centromere and kinetochore structure and function.

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Rabinadranath De La Fuente

Associate Professor
Physiology & Pharmacology; Toxicology
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  • Role of Chromatin Modifications during Meiosis
  • Cancer Epigenetics and Chromosome Instability

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Megan DeMarche

Assistant Professor
Plant Biology

Plant evolutionary ecology; population dynamics; responses to climate change

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Xiangyu Deng

Associate Professor
Infectious Diseases, Center for Food Safety

Genomic epidemiology, foodborne pathogens, microbiome, bioinformatics

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Katrien Devos

Distinguished Research Professor
Bioinformatics; Plant Biology

Crop genetics, comparative genomics and genome evolution.

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Roberto Docampo

Professor
Cellular Biology

Cellular and molecular biology of acidocalcisomes; the role of polyphosphate in trypanosomatids.

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Erin L. Dolan

Georgia Athletic Association Professor in Innovative Science Education
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Course-based undergraduate research, student integration into the
scientific community; research mentoring of undergraduate researchers.

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Scott Dougan

Associate Professor
Cellular Biology

Molecular and cellular basis of pattern formation in vertebrates; developmental genetics of zebrafish.

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Eugene Douglass

Assistant Professor
Pharmaceutical & Biomedical Sciences

Multi-drug resistance(MDR) causes most cancer deaths(Nat. Rev. Cancer 2018, 18, 452). We use organic chemistry, cell biology and data-science to overcome MDR.

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Diana Downs

Distinguished Research Professor
Microbiology

Bacterial physiology and metabolic integration using biochemical, genetic and metabolomics approaches.

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Kylee Jo Duberstein

Associate Professor
Neuroscience; Animal and Dairy Science

Animal biomechanics related to disease, injury, conditioning, and nutrition; functional outcomes assessment related to therapeutics development

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Kelly Dyer

Professor
Genetics

Molecular evolution and evolutionary genetics, in particular genetic conflict,
sex chromosome evolution, genetics of adaptation and speciation,
and host-parasite interactions.

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Charles A. Easley, IV

Associate Professor
Environmental Health Science; Regenerative Bioscience Center

Research in the Easley lab focuses on 3 major goals: 1) impacts of environmental exposures on spermatogenesis and future generations, 2) regenerative medicine by developing stem cell treatment options for male factor infertility, and 3) drug discovery for identifying unique compounds which may serve as male contraceptives.

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Arthur Edison

Professor
GRA Eminent Scholar
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Genetics

Metabolomics and systems biology of Caenorhabditis elegans using NMR,
mass spec, and computational approaches.

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Gaylen L. Edwards

Professor
Neuroscience; Physiology & Pharmacology; Toxicology

Neural processing of abdominal sensory information. Control of ingestive behavior and autonomic function.

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Jonathan Eggenschwiler

Associate Professor
Genetics; Neuroscience

Genetic analysis of mouse development; cell fate specification in the embryonic
central nervous system; patterning of the body plan’s left-right axis.

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Mark A. Eiteman

Professor
Microbiology

Fermentation and biotechnology with emphasis on microbial processes to generate fuels and chemicals; nutrient-limited processes; central metabolism and the effect of redox constraints.

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Courtney Ellison

Assistant Professor
Microbiology

Bacterial adhesion and biofilm formation, dynamics of bacterial nanomachines, microbial subcellular organization.

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Jorge Escalante-Semerena

UGA Foundation Distinguished Professor
Microbiology

Prokaryotic metabolism and physiology with emphasis on protein acetylation, toxic metabolites,
and complex metabolic pathway analysis, integration.

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Ronald D. Etheridge

Assistant Professor
Cellular Biology

Toxoplasma’s Strategies to Manipulate Host Immunity

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Mark Farmer

Professor
Cellular Biology

Protist systematics, cell evolution, and flagellar development.

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Nikolay Filipov

Professor
Physiology and Pharmacology; Neuroscience; Cellular Biology; Toxicology

Major research focus areas: Neurotoxicology; Neuroimmunology; Basal ganglia, Neurodevelopmental, and Metabolic disorders.

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Brian Forschler

Professor
Entomology

The mission of the Household and Structural Entomology program is acquisition of information
on behavior, biology, ecology and evolution of associations with arthropods and human habitation.

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Spencer J. Fox

Assistant Professor, Bioinformatics

Understanding and forecasting infectious disease dynamics with the goal of improving public health outcomes and policies; specialize in integrating population-level infectious disease data with epidemiological models through statistical analysis and simulation; primarily work on respiratory viruses like influenza and COVID-19, among others.

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Marc Frischer

Professor
Marine Sciences

Role of microbial diversity in marine environments and the utilization of molecular methods
to investigate microbial diversity, interactions between micro- and macroscopic organisms and
the functioning of marine ecosystems.

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Amanda Frossard

Assistant Professor
Chemistry

Characterization of surface-active organics in marine and anthropogenic aerosol
particles and their effects on particle growth and water uptake

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Jonathan Frye

Research Microbiologist
Microbiology

We investigate the development and spread of antimicrobial resistant Salmonella, which is the most prevalent foodborne bacterial illness in the U.S.

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Kosuke Funato

Assistant Professor
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Molecular and cellular mechanisms of brain tumors; oncohistone mutations; human ES cell-based tumor modeling; tumor heterogeneity and evolution

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Jacek Gaertig

Professor
Cellular Biology

Molecular cell biology of the cytoskeleton; molecular genetics of ciliates.

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David Garfinkel

Professor
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Retrovirus-like transposons in budding yeast, control of transposition, restriction factors.

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 Ankita Garg

Assistant Professor
Infectious Diseases

Immunopathogenesis of intracellular pathogens (HIV and Mycobacterium tuberculosis); non-infectious morbidities in People Living With HIV

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Mandev S. Gill

Assistant Professor, Institute of Bioinformatics

Statistical and computational methods for phylodynamic inference.

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Olivia Ginn

Assistant Professor, Institute of Bioinformatics

Characterization and modeling of antimicrobial resistance and disease transmission in air and water and the implications for human and environmental health.

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Travis Glenn

Professor
Environmental Health Sciences; Bioinformatics; Toxicology

Environmental Genomics; Crocodilians; Reptilian Genomics; Molecular Ecology.

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Mary Goll

Associate Professor
Genetics

Epigenetic regulation in the context of development and cancer. We focus on heterochromatin and primarily use zebrafish as a model system.

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Adam Goodie

Professor
Neuroscience

Judgment and decision making, especially the role of control in decision making,
Bayesian updating, and cognitive contributors to problem gambling.

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Phillip Greenspan

Associate Professor
Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences

Inhibition of glycation and LDL oxidation by natural products and nutraceuticals.

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Adam Greer

Assistant Professor
Marine Sciences

Zooplankton ecology, predator-prey interactions, ocean biophysical coupling, plankton imaging and analysis

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Neil J. Grimsey

Assistant Professor
Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences

Defining the spatiotemporal regulation of kinase pathways and the regulation of GPCR induced
inflammation and proangiogenic signaling, for the development of therapeutic agents.

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Tai L. Guo

Professor
Toxicology; Neuroscience

(Immuno)Toxicology of nanobiomaterials and endocrine disruptors; Diabetes, prostate cancer, asthma, probiotics, microbiome; Translational study (http://www.devertigo.com)

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Brian W. Haas

Assistant Professor
Neuroscience

Biological basis of social behavior and emotion processing in humans.

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Robert Haltiwanger

Professor; GRA Eminent Scholar in Biomedical Glycosciences
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Neuroscience

Role of glycosylation in regulating Notch signaling, assisting protein folding, and development.

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Professor
Neuroscience
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Hitesh Handa

Associate Professor
Pharmaceutical & Biomedical Sciences

Translational research in biomaterials (antifouling, antiplatelet, antibacterial, and antiviral) for tissue engineering and medical device applications

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Donald Harn

Professor
GRA Distinguished Investigator
Infectious Diseases

Mechanistic analysis of parasite induced immune suppression. Translational research
on immuno-modulation pertaining to inflammation based diseases.
Vaccine development and trials.

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Gerald W. Hart

Professor
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Eminent Scholar in Drug Discovery;
Complex Carbohydrate Research Center

Nutrient Regulation of Signaling and Transcription: Mechanisms Underlying Diabetes, Neurodegeneration and Cancer

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Eric T. Harvill

Professor
Infectious Diseases

Interactions between microbial pathogens and host immunity in the
mouse model using bacteria that naturally infect mice and
closely related strains that are important human pathogens.

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Biao He

Professor
GRA Distinguished Investigator
Infectious Diseases

Paramyxovirus-host interactions, vaccine development, emerging paramyxovirus and onocylytic virus.

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Kelly M. Hines

Assistant Professor
Chemistry

Lipidomic and metabolomic analyses of antimicrobial resistant pathogens using ion mobility and mass spectrometry

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Adrienne Hoarfrost

Assistant Professor, Marine Sciences Department

Marine microbiology; carbon cycling and biogeochemistry; AI/machine learning for biology; bioinformatics; astrobiology; space biology; marine biotech.

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Jeff Hogan

Professor
Infectious Diseases
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Philip V. Holmes

Professor
Neuroscience

Behavioral neuropharmacology; neuropeptides and trophic factors; plasticity; stress, depression, and addiction.

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Shelley Hooks

Professor
Pharmaceutical & Biomedical Sciences; Neuroscience

G-protein coupled receptors, molecular pharmacology, signal transduction, ovarian cancer, neural stem cells.

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Tim Hoover

Professor
Microbiology

Gene regulation in bacteria; regulation of flagellar biogenesis; control of RpoN-dependent transcription in bacteria.

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Diego Huet

Assistant Professor
Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences

The Huet Lab will use metabolomics and CRISPR-based approaches to understand the mitochondrial and organellar biology of a class of protozoan parasites, the apicomplexans.

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Kate Hummels

Assistant Professor, Microbiology Department

Our work focuses on understanding the regulation of cell envelope biosynthesis in bacteria using genetic, biochemical, and cell biological approaches.

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Brendan Hunt

Associate Professor
Entomology

Behavioral and evolutionary genetics and epigenetics of social insects.

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Natalia Ivanova

Associate Professor
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Genetics

Transcriptional and epigenetic mechanisms regulating preimplantation development, pluripotency, differentiation and cellular reprogramming in humans

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Samantha Joye

Professor
Marine Sciences

Biogeochemical cycling of nutrients in aquatic systems (saline lakes, coastal environments,
deep ocean sediments). Biogeochemical and molecular ecological dynamics of microbial
community composition and microbial activity.

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Chester Joyner

Assistant Professor
Infectious Diseases

All facets of host-parasite interactions during malaria, ranging from molecular pathogenesis to malaria immunology to transmission

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Daichi Kamiyama

Assistant Professor
Cellular Biology; Neuroscience

Our research is aimed at identifying the principles of neural circuit assembly, which is key to understanding the treatment of neurological disorders. To achieve this, we develop imaging toolkits including fluorescent probes and advanced microscopes. Website

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Natarajan Kannan

Associate Professor
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Bioinformatics

Evolutionary systems biology; protein kinase signaling in plants, pathogens and microbes. Evolution and classification of glycoenzymes.

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Anumantha G. Kanthasamy

John H. “Johnny” Isakson Chair and Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar
Professor, Physiology & Pharmacology Department
Director, Center for Neurological Disease Research

Research focuses on cellular and molecular mechanisms of neurodegeneration, identifying novel druggable targets, discovering prodromal biomarkers and novel reengineered gut microbiome based therapeutics for treatment of neurological disorders such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases and related dementia.

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Arthi Kanthasamy

Professor, Physiology & Pharmacology Department

Research focuses on cellular and molecular mechanisms of neurodegeneration, identifying novel immunomodulatory drugs, discovering biomarkers for diabetes, Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases related dementia.

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Russell Karls

Senior Research Scientist
Infectious Diseases
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Lohitash Karumbaiah

Assistant Professor
Neuroscience

Developing Translational Glycomaterials for Neural Tissue Repair and Neural Interfacing.

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Eileen Kennedy

Professor
Pharmaceutical & Biomedical Sciences

Chemical biology, kinase signaling, cancer, signal transduction, drug discovery.

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Chang Hyun Khang

Associate Professor
Plant Biology

Mechanisms of disease and immunity in the rice blast system; Fungal effector proteins; Nutrient uptake in fungi.

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Edward Kipreos

Professor
Cellular Biology

Regulation of the cell cycle; ubiquitin-mediated proteolysis and development.

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Jessica Kissinger

Distinguished Research Professor
Bioinformatics; Genetics

Parasite genomics and the biology of genome evolution.

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Kim Klonowski

Assistant Professor
Cellular Biology

Development and regulation of immunological memory.

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Natalie Krahn

Assistant Professor, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Department

Engineering tRNA technology to build novel proteins with selenocysteine.

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Samarchith Kurup

Assistant Professor
Cellular Biology

Basic immunology of the liver and blood stages of malaria

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Brian Kvitko

Associate Professor
Microbiology

Molecular mechanisms of plant immune action and bacterial pathogen virulence in model and crop pathosystems. Tool/technique development for phytopathogenesis systems biology and translational research.

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Dennis Kyle

Professor
GRA Eminent Scholar Chair in Antiparasitic Drug Discovery
Cellular Biology & Infectious Diseases

The discovery and development of new drugs to prevent or treat malaria and diseases
caused by brain-eating amoebae. Elucidating mechanism(s) of resistance
and discovering new drug treatment regimens, combinations, or strategies to overcome resistance.

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Eric Lafontaine

Professor
Infectious Diseases

Bacterial pathogenesis; role of adhesins in virulence; vaccine development.

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Stacey L. Lance

Associate Research Scientist
Toxicology; Savannah River Ecology Laboratory

Evolutionary toxicology, disease ecology, impacts of natural and anthropogenic stressors on freshwater vertebrates.

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William Lanzilotta

Associate Professor
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

The mechanisms of metalloproteins involved in radical generation, oxidative stress protection,
as well as heme synthesis, sensing, aquisition and transport.

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James Lauderdale

Associate Professor
Cellular Biology; Neuroscience

Developmental neurobiology: molecular genetic mechanisms of vertebrate eye and forebrain development.

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Franklin E. Leach III

Assistant Professor
Chemistry, Infectious Diseases

Mass spectrometry, imaging, glycosylation, metabolism, environmental exposure (infectious disease, ionizing radiation, emerging pollutants).

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Karl Lechtreck

Associate Professor
Cellular Biology

Cell Biology of Cilia; Cilia-related diseases, Intracellular Transport.

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Jae-Kyung (Jamise) Lee

Associate Professor
Physiology & Pharmacology; Neuroscience

My research is focused on determining key molecules and their intrinsic mechanisms
in neuroinflammation and neurodegenerative diseases.

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Jim Leebens-Mack

Associate Professor
Plant Biology

Phylogenetics, genetics of diversification including speciation; molecular basis of adaptation;
evolutionary genomics; evolution of plant reproduction; organismal and molecular coevolution.

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Paula Lemons

Associate Professor
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

My research investigates problem solving among biochemistry undergraduates and the process
college science instructors go through as they innovate their teaching.

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Zachary Lewis

Associate Professor
Microbiology

Chromatin structure and function; Epigenetics; Eukaryotic genome stability; Histone H1.

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He Li

Assistant Professor, Department of Infectious Disease, Institute of Bioinformatics

Develop novel mathematical methods for integrating human and machine intelligence to continuously improve the capabilities and accuracy of the disease forecasting models.

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Wentao Li

Assistant Professor, Environmental Health Science; Interdisciplinary Toxicology Program

The research in Dr. Li’s laboratory combines biochemistry, genetics, adductomics and computational approaches to investigate effects of epigenetics and spatial genome organization on environmental carcinogen-induced DNA damage formation, DNA repair, mutagenesis, and carcinogenesis.

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Xiaorong Lin

Professor
Microbiology; Plant Biology

Human fungal pathogens, sexual reproduction and development in fungal pathogenesis

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Erin K. Lipp

Professor
Environmental Health Sciences; Microbiology

Environmental microbiology, microbial ecology, marine systems, water quality and public health, disease ecology

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Dexi Liu

Professor
Pharmaceutical & Biomedical Sciences; Neuroscience

Gene therapy, obesity, drug delivery, gene drug discovery.

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Hongxiang Liu

Assistant Professor
Neuroscience

Sensory organs of taste: development, maintenance, and molecular regulations using genetically modified mouse models.

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Liang Liu

Assistant Professor
Bioinformatics

Phylogenetics, evolutionary biology, statistics.

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Shaolin Liu

Associate Professor, Department of Physiology & Pharmacology, Center for Neurological Disease Research

Cellular to network mechanisms of olfaction and olfactory dysfunction in diseases including Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s disease, traumatic or neurotoxic brain injuries.

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Tianming Liu

Professor
Bioinformatics; Neuroscience

Multiscale and multimodal brain mapping with applications to brain diseases.

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Jason Locklin

Professor
Chemistry

Our research is focused on functional polymer interfaces. We are
currently developing methodologies and platforms that can be used
to study biological lubrication, patterning of cellular components in
two and 3 dimensions, patterning of glycosaminoglycans to study
nerve regeneration, 3D printing of biodegradable scaffolds, and antimicrobial coatings.

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Catherine M. Logue

Professor
Microbiology

A bacterial pathogenesis/food safety lab that specializes in the detection and characterization of pathogens from food animal sources that impact human and animal health.

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Wolfgang Lukowitz

Associate Professor
Plant Biology

Fertilization, and early cell-fate decisions in plant embryos.

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Rob Maier

Professor
Microbiology

Physiology and metallobiology of pathogenic bacteria.

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Ania Majewska

Assistant Professor, Physiology & Pharmacology Department

Course-based undergraduate research experiences, virtual reality in learning physiology and anatomy, culturally responsive teaching.

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Leidong Mao

Associate Professor
Bioinformatics

Micro- and nano-technology, lab-on-a-chip systems, microfluidics,
single cell study, cancer diagnostics.

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Jennifer McDowell

Professor
Neuroscience

Schizophrenia, psychosis, cognitive control, plasticity, saccades, ocular motor system, exercise, f/MRI, DTI.

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Joe McHugh

Professor
Entomology

Evolution, systematics and anatomy of insects.

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Amy Medlock

Associate Professor
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Understanding intracellular and intercellular heme transport.

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Christof Meile

Professor
Marine Sciences

Biogeochemical nutrient cycling in porous media and aquatic systems, reactive transport modeling of microbially mediated processes.

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Douglas Menke

Professor
Genetics

Developmental Regulation of Gene Expression; Evolution of Vertebrate Morphology.

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Aaron P. Mitchell

Professor
Microbiology

We use genetic and genomic approaches to understand mechanisms of fungal pathogenesis and drug resistance.

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Piliyur Seshadri MohanKumar

Professor
Neuroscience

Neuroendocrinology Reproductive Aging, Stress Axis and Metabolic Function,
Neuroendocrine-Immune Interactions, Prenatal Programming and its Neuroendocrine Consequences,
Neuroendocrine Effects of Exposure to Environmentally Relevant Chemicals

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Sheba M.J.MohanKumar

Associate Professor
Neuroscience

Neuroendocrine immune interactions in the context of
Reproduction and Stress; Prenatal Stress and programming
of obesity; Environmental exposures and their impact
on Stress and Reproduction; Biomarker development for
various human diseases.

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Debra Mohnen

Professor
Georgia Athletic Association Professor in Complex Carbohydrate Research
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Plant Biology

Biosynthesis and function of the plant cell wall polysaccharide pectin.
Anti-cancer effects of pectin.

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Cory Momany

Associate Professor
Pharmaceutical & Biomedical Sciences

X-ray crystallography of macromolecules, prokaryotic transcriptional regulators.

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Michelle Momany

Professor
Plant Biology

Cellular and molecular biology of polar growth in fungi.

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Patricia Moore

Professor
Entomology

The role of developmental mechanisms in sexual selection and the evolution of reproductive strategies in insects.

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Andy Moorhead

Assistant Professor
Infectious Diseases

Establishment of the parasite/host niche by filarial worms, specifically Brugia malayi, one of the causative agents of lymphatic filariasis.

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Mary Ann Moran

Professor
Marine Sciences

Ecology of marine bacteria in the carbon and sulfur cycles;
application of ecological functional genomics techniques to marine microbes.

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Kelley Moremen

Distinguished Research Professor
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Biochemistry, molecular, and structural biology of mammalian glycoprotein biosynthesis and catabolism.

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Silvia Moreno

Distinguished Research Professor
Cellular Biology, Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases

Metabolism and drug development against protozoan parasites.
Calcium signaling and storage in Toxoplasma gondii.

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Richard Morrison

Associate Professor
Chemistry

Development of synthetic organic methodologies to produce active pharmaceutical ingredients.
Microwave-promoted synthesis of bioactive amines.

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Luke Mortensen

Assistant Professor
Neuroscience

In vivo optical microscopy for bone and tissue regeneration.

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Jan Mrázek

Associate Professor
Bioinformatics; Microbiology

Use bioinformatics and comparative genomics to study
relationships between the genomic DNA sequence and the
organism’s physiological characteristics,and regulatory
processes that govern the flow of genetic information.

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Vasant Muralidharan

Assistant Professor
Cellular Biology

Molecular and cellular biology of the human malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum.

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Ellen Neidle

Professor
Microbiology

We use the easy genetic system of a  soil bacterium, Acinetobacter baylyi ADP1,to study diverse
aspects of gene expression and chromosomal rearrangements.This research has implications
for medical issues (gene amplification), environmental issues (bioremediation),
biotechnology/bioenergy (conversion of lignin to biofuels), and evolution (new methods for experimental evolution).

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Brad Nelms

Assistant Professor
Plant Biology

Cell differentiation during plant reproduction, genomics and gene regulatory networks, single-cell RNA-sequencing, reprogramming cell fate

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Emily Noble

Assistant Professor
Nutritional Sciences; Neuroscience

Central regulation of feeding behavior, diet and cognitive function, the gut microbiome-brain connection, exercise and brain energy metabolism

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Karen Norris

Professor
Infectious Diseases

Vaccine development for prevention of PCP and COPD, RSV infection, COPD; Immunce activation and aging, PAH; Immune-mediated mechanisms of pathogenesis, Type 2 diabetes and metabolic syndrom, therapeuric testing; chronic immune activation/inflammation.

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Kerry Oliver

Associate Professor
Entomology

Ecology and evolution of heritable symbiosis in insects.

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Ron Orlando

Professor
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Solving biological/biomedical problems with mass spectrometry.

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Assaf Oshri

Associate Professor
Neuroscience

Youth and Family Resilience: how neurobiological and socioemotional systems adapt to psychosocial stress using multi-level methods (e.g., fMRI, psychophys, observations)

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Elizabeth Ottesen

Assistant Professor
Microbiology

Ecology and physiology of environmental microbes. The use of community genomics and
transcriptomics to examine microbial behavior in natural systems.

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Dax Ovid

Assistant Professor, Physiology & Pharmacology Department

CORPUS Education Lab: Collaborative Opportunities for Research in Physiology and Under/Graduate Science | DBER | Curriculum Studies | Equity & Inclusion

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Andrew Park

Associate Professor
Infectious Diseases

Transient evolution of pathogens. Evolutionary processes involved in cross-species transmission. Evolutionary constraints in viral epidemiology.

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Ben Parrott

Assistant Professor
Toxicology; Savannah River Ecology Laboratory

Environmental and ecological influences on development, reproduction,
and aging in wildlife and humans.

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Andrew Paterson

Regents Professor and Head, Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory
Plant Biology; Genetics; Bioinformatics

My unit’s work addresses dimensions of plant genome biology relevant toward a more bio-based economy, linking increased fundamental knowledge to improved human lives.

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Douglas Paton

Assistant Professor, Department of Infectious Diseases

Vector mosquito biology, malaria transmission, and vector/pathogen interactions. Novel interventions for malaria elimination.

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Dan Peach

Assistant Professor
Infectious Diseases

Dr Peach’s research interests are in the field of vector ecology, with a focus on behavioral and sensory ecology. He is primarily focused on how arthropod vectors, such as mosquitoes, find and interact with resources such as the hosts they bite, the flowers they nectar-feed from (and pollinate) or the breeding sites they use, and the implications of this information for mosquito management and pathogen transmission as well as understanding species and disease distributions..

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Camilo Perez

Assistant Professor
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Our research aims to elucidate the mechanism of membrane transporters, flippases, and polymerases involved in bacterial cell wall biosynthesis, unravel how their function influences bacterial adaptation, discover inhibitory molecules for the development of new antimicrobials, and repurpose the activity of these proteins for applications in the synthesis of glycoconjugates. Our lab uses a multidisciplinary approach, combining techniques such as single-particle cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM), X-ray crystallography, live cell assays, and various biochemical/biophysical methods to study the function and molecular mechanism of membrane proteins.

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Chris Peterson

Professor
Plant Biology

Response and vulnerability of forests to natural (e.g. wind, fire) and anthropogenic disturbances (e.g. salvage logging),
and geographic patterns of disturbance severity.

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David Peterson

Associate Professor
Infectious Diseases

Characterization of adhesion proteins which mediate host-parasite interactions in Plasmodium falciparum.

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Gregory Phillips

Professor, Department of Infectious Diseases, Center for Neurological Disease Research

Basic and translational research to engineer bacteria to understand and develop new treatments for neurological diseases via the gut-brain axis..

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Robert Phillips

Professor
Chemistry;
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Enzymes involved in amino acid, especially tryptophan, metabolism which may be drug
targets for cancer, hypertension and neurodegenerative diseases.

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Vladimir Popik

Professor of Chemistry
Chemistry

Development of biorothogonal protein modification techniques, novel caging groups, and photoactivatable antitumor antibiotics.

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James Prestegard

Professor Emeritus, Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Application of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy to the characterization of biologically important systems.

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Fred Quinn

Professor
Infectious Diseases

Tuberculosis pathogenesis; host-pathogen interactions.

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Shannon Quinn

Assistant Professor
Cellular Biology

Biomedical imaging and large graph mining in public health applications.

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Balazs Rada

Associate Professor
Infectious Diseases

Role of reactive oxygen species in host-microbe interactions of the respiratory mucosa,
neutrophil biology, pathomechanism of Pseudomonas infection in cystic fibrosis.

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Lisa Renzi-Hammond

Associate Professor
Neuroscience
Director, Institute of Gerontology

Visual neuroscience; risk for neurodegenerative diseases such as age-related macular degeneration and Alzheimer’s and related dementias

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Rachel Roberts-Galbraith

Assistant Professor
Cellular Biology; Neuroscience

Regeneration and development; understanding cellular/molecular mechanisms that underlie neural regeneration in planarians.

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Arthur Roberts

Professor
Pharmaceutical & Biomedical Sciences; Toxicology

Development of high-throughput structural biology tools, biophysical methods,
NMR, and computer-aided drug-design to investigate drug-protein
interactions and human disease.

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Pejman Rohani

Regents’ Professor
Infectious Diseases

The ecology and evolution of infectious diseases, including measles, pertussis, avian influenza, dengue and polio using computational modeling.

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John Rose

Associate Professor
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

X-ray structural biology, the mitochondrial inner membrane space transport system,
structure based vaccine and therapeutic design, improved/automated methods for
synchrotron SAD data collection and structure determination.

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Alex Rosenberg

Assistant Professor
Infectious Diseases

Deciphering the mechanisms of host immune system manipulation by human eukaryotic pathogen – Toxoplasma gondii.

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Ken Ross

Professor
Entomology

Population biology, evolutionary genetics, molecular systematics, and comparative
genomics of social insects (fire ants) with an emphasis on studies of genetic variation.

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Tania Rozario

Assistant Professor
Genetics

Understanding mechanisms that regulate stem cell behavior, regeneration, and reproductive development in tapeworms

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Tati Russo-Tait

Assistant Professor
Cellular Biology

We engage in interdisciplinary and collaborative research projects employing various methodological approaches to examine different facets of diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice issues in undergraduate biology and STEM education.

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Dean Sabatinelli

Associate Professor
Neuroscience

Hemodynamic and electrocortical measures of emotional scene perception.

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Robert Sabatini

Professor
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Molecular and biochemical parasitology: DNA modification, homologous recombination
and the regulation of antigenic variation in Trypanosoma brucei.

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Shayla Salzman

Assistant Professor, Entomology

Multi-modal signaling between plants and insects, evolution and mechanism of inter-species interactions. Techniques include insect behavior, chemical ecology, and phylogenetics.

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Susan Sanchez

Professor
Infectious Diseases

Veterinary diagnostics; emerging clinical problems; antibiotic resistance;
epidemiology of diseases with special emphasis in zoonoses.

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Jaclyn Saunders

Assistant Professor
Marine Sciences

Marine microbial ecology and evolution; oceanography, biogeochemistry, astrobiology, bioinformatics, big data analytics in environmental science

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Jesse Schank

Associate Professor
Neuroscience; Physiology & Pharmacology

The role of stress and neuropeptides in drug seeking behavior using behavioral pharmacology,
neuroanatomy, and molecular neuroscience.

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Paul Schliekelman

Associate Professor
Bioinformatics

My research group develops statistical and and computational approaches to better extract
information from biological data, particularly in the genotype-phenotype relationship.

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Walter K. Schmidt Jr.

Professor
Georgia Cancer Coalition Distinguished Scholar
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Neuroscience

Molecular cell biology and biochemistry of proteases associated with isoprenylated protein
maturation and amyloidogenic peptide degradation; cancer; Alzheimer’s disease.

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Bob Schmitz

Professor
Genetics

Population epigenomics and mechanisms of epigenetic inheritance.

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Cordula Schulz

Assistant Professor
Cellular Biology

Tissue replenishment from stem cells, Drosophila genetics.

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Heinz-Bernd Schüttler

Professor
Bioinformatics

Computational biology, functional genomics, kinetics of biochemical reaction networks.

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Nikki Shariat

Assistant Professor
Population Health; Microbiology

Molecular epidemiology of bacterial pathogens using metagenomics; ecology of Salmonella serovars in host animals and environments.

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Ping Shen

Associate Professor
Cellular Biology; Neuroscience

Molecular and Cellular Basis of Brain Functions and Development in the Drosophila Model.

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Amanda Spivak

Associate Professor
Marine Sciences

Coastal ecosystem ecology and biogeochemistry; ecosystem resilience to and recovery from disturbances; global change; carbon cycling

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Kathrin Stanger-Hall

Associate Professor
Plant Biology;
Adjunct Faculty in Entomology and the College of Education

Phylogeny and Signal Evolution in Fireflies (Coleoptera, Lampyridae); Science education research.

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Vincent Starai

Associate Professor
Infectious Diseases; Microbiology

Bacterial modulation of eukaryotic membrane dynamics for intracellular survival;
SNARE-dependent membrane fusion biochemistry.

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Steven Stice

D.W. Brooks Distinguished Professor
GRA Eminent Scholar
Regenerative Bioscience Center Director
Neuroscience; Toxicology

We are developing stem cell approaches to repairing bone and nerve injury in addition to
use of stem cells as a tool to screen toxins and potential drug therapies.

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Mike Strand

Distinguished Research Professor
Entomology

Molecular and evolutionary biology of insect parasites; virology, immunology, symbiont evolution, reproduction.

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Anne Summers

Professor
Microbiology; Toxicology

Environmental stress biology, using biochemical, biophysical, and ‘omics approaches to define
the roles of toxic metal exposure in chronic and infectious diseases.

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Andrea Sweigart

Professor
Genetics

Evolutionary genetics and genomics of natural plant populations.

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Christine Szymanski

Professor
Microbiology

Microbial glycobiology lab characterizing bacterial glycoconjugate pathways, bacteriophage interactions with their hosts, and benefits of human milk oligosaccharides to develop novel vaccines and therapeutics for the prevention of diarrheal diseases and post-infectious neuropathies such as Guillain-Barré Syndrome.

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Thiab Taha

Professor
Institute of Bioinformatics

Computational Science and Parallel Computing; Bioinformatics: Involved in a project called: Computing Life: to solve system of differential equations that model biochemical reaction networks by using efficient/parallel numerical methods.

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Lili Tang

Associate Professor
Environmental Health Science; Interdisciplinary Toxicology Program

Adverse neurological outcomes; Host-Microbe-Chemical (3-way) interaction; C. elegans model organism.

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Rick Tarleton

Professor
Cellular Biology

Mechanisms of immunity and disease in Trypanosoma cruzi infection (Chagas Disease); Basic and applied biology of T. cruzi.

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Michael Terns

Distinguished Research Professor
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Genetics; Microbiology

We study CRISPR-Cas immune systems that protect prokaryotes from viruses and provide
powerful research tools for important biotechnology and biomedical applications.

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Michael Tiemeyer

Distinguished Research Professor
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Neuroscience

Mechanisms that regulate the expression, function, and structure of tissue-specific glycans.

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S. Mark Tompkins

Professor
Infectious Diseases; Toxicology

Transmission and pathogenicity of zoonotic influenza virus infection and development
of vaccination and the prevention and treatment of viral infections.

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Dorset Trapnell

Assistant Professor
Plant Biology

Evolutionary biology and population genetics of natural plant populations, specifically evolutionary
factors that shape patterns of genetic variation and mechanisms for partitioning and maintaining species-wide diversity.

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M. Stephen Trent

UGA Foundation Distinguished Professor
Infectious Diseases

Characterizing the assembly of bacterial surface structures, Development of vaccines for viral
and bacterial pathogens, Systems approaches to understanding microbial diseases

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Ralph A. Tripp

Professor and Georgia Research Alliance Chair in Vaccine and Therapeutic Studies
Infectious Diseases; Toxicology

Disease intervention strategies for important human pathogens and emerging infectious diseases of zoonotic origin;
mechanisms of immunity; virus-host interface.

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C.J. Tsai

Professor, Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar
Bioinformatics; Genetics; Plant Biology

Growth-defense tradeoff, phenylpropanoid metabolism and carbon allocation,
gene family evolution and functional diversification, alternative splicing and gene duplication.

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Breeanna Urbanowicz

Assistant Professor
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology;
Complex Carbohydrate Research Center

Structure and function of enzymes involved in plant polysaccharide biosynthesis and modification with the long term goal to develop pathway engineering or targeted genomics approaches for enhanced production of bio-materials, -products, and -fuels.

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Jeffrey Urbauer

Associate Professor
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Chemistry

Structural biology of transcription regulation, steroid hormone activation and breast cancer.

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Esther van der Knaap

Professor
Genetics; Plant Biology

The regulation of fruit shape and size of tomato and other Solanaceous crops

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Chelsey VanDrisse

Assistant Professor, Genetics Department

Our lab seeks to uncover novel regulatory mechanisms of biofilm formation to undermine bacterial survival in chronic infections.

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Maria Viveiros

Associate Professor
Physiology & Pharmacology; Toxicology

Mammalian germ cell and early embryonic development; meiotic chromosome segregation in oocytes;
genomic instability; impact of age and environment on meiotic division.

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Kevin Vogel

Assistant Professor
Entomology

Integrating physiology, genomics, evolution, and microbial symbiosis to understand the biology of insect vectors of disease.

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John J. Wagner

Professor
Neuroscience, Physiology & Pharmacology; Toxicology

Neurophysiology of the hippocampus, cellular mechanisms of learning and memory, neuropharmacology of drugs of abuse and rodent models of addiction.

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Ian Wallace

Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Complex Carbohydrate Research Center

Biosynthesis and regulation of plant cell wall synthesis and deposition, post-translational modifications, glycan imaging and dynamics.

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Jason Wallace

Associate Professor
Bioinformatics

Quantitative genetics, crop genomics, crop-microbiome interactions.

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Bi-Cheng Wang

Professor, Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Structure-function studies by X-ray diffraction, transcription proteins,
structural genomics, phasing methods.

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Yifan Wang

Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry

Catalytic mechanisms and structure-function correlations of metalloenzymes; biomedically essential oxygenases

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John Wares

Professor
Genetics

Ecological genetics of natural populations.

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Wendy Watford

Associate Professor
Infectious Diseases

Regulation of host defense and tolerance by Stat transcription factors.

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Ryan Weiss

Assistant Professor
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Complex Carbohydrate Research Center

Investigating the regulatory mechanisms of glycosylation using genomic, chemical, and genetic approaches with particular focus on the discovery of novel drugs and targets to treat human diseases.

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Lance Wells

Professor, Georgia Research Alliance Distinguished Investigator
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Complex Carbohydrate Research Center

Role of protein glycosylation in intellectual disability, congenital muscular dystrophy, cancer, and viral infection.

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Christopher M. West

Professor
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Oxygen- and glycosylation-dependent regulation of polyubiquitin ligases in Dictyostelium and Toxoplasma gondii;
Glycobiology of protozoa.

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Franklin West

Associate Professor
Neuroscience; Regenerative Medicine

Stroke is the second leading cause of death worldwide. We explore the potential of neural stem cells
and other regenerative therapies to recover lost and damaged brain tissue. We utilize a novel
pig ischemic stroke model in conjunction with magnetic resonance imaging, cognitive,
motor function testing and histology.

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Catherine White

Associate Professor
Pharmaceutical & Biomedical Sciences; Toxicology

The influence of gender on the disposition of drugs and drug carriers,
and their subsequent therapeutic or toxic outcomes, and the physiological-based
pharmacokinetic modeling for utilization in predicting toxicity and exposures.

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Michael White

Associate Professor
Genetics

Evolutionary Genomics and Sex Chromosome Evolution.

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Zachary Wood

Associate Professor
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

X-ray crystallographic and biochemical studies of nucleotide sugar metabolism.

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Robert Woods

Professor
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Immunological carbohydrate-protein interactions studied by computational simulation and experimental methods.

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Taotao Wu

Assistant Professor, Institute of Bioinformatics

Traumatic brain injury: brain network under biomechanical attack, understanding the networked brain through its injury, injury biomechanics, network neuroscience.

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Yaguang Xi

Professor and Department Head, Department of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences, UGA Athletic Association Distinguished Professor

Targeted therapy and cancer chemoprevention; preclinical animal models; cancer immunotherapy; tumor microenvironment and exosomal microRNAs; biomarker of tumor metastasis.

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Jin Xie

Associate Professor
Chemistry

Nanoparticle-based imaging and drug delivery; radiation therapy and photodynamic therapy

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Zhong-Ru (Paul) Xie

Assistant Professor
Bioinformatics

Computational drug discovery, simulation model, new computational tools for drug design

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May Xiong

Associate Professor
Pharmaceutical & Biomedical Sciences

Biomaterial-based systems in the area of iron chelation therapy, biological metal sensors,
overcoming antibiotic drug resistance in Gram-negative bacteria,
and chelation of transfusional iron overload.

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Jing Xu

Assistant Professor
Neuroscience

Identify behavioral, cognitive, and neural mechanisms for dexterity; learning and control principles for skilled movement; rehabilitation after neuromuscular injuries.

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Patricia Yager

Professor
Marine Sciences

Marine microbial ecology and biogeochemistry; climate change.

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Yao Yao

Assistant Professor
Neuroscience

Develop regenerative therapies for neurological diseases by investigating the pathological and therapeutic roles of extracellular vesicles in cellular and animal models.

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Kaixiong Ye

Assistant Professor
Genetics; Bioinformatics

Nutritional Genomics; Human Genetics; Population and Quantitative Genomics;
Gene-Diet Interaction during human evolution and in metabolic diseases;

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Xiaoqin Ye

Professor
Physiology and Pharmacology; Toxicology

Molecular mechanism of embryo implantation. Endocrine disruptors on puberty and early pregnancy.

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Zheng-Hua Ye

Professor
Plant Biology
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Hang Yin

Assistant professor
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Stem cell biology, brown fat development and induction, non-coding
RNA, development of novel therapies for human obesity and type 2 diabetes

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Jason Zastre

Associate Professor
Pharmaceutical & Biomedical Sciences; Toxicology

Transport, micronutrient, hypoxia, cancer.

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Nadja Zeltner

Assistant Professor
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Cellular Biology; Neuroscience

Effects of pathological stress on cells of the peripheral nervous system and the adrenal gland. In vitro disease modeling using human pluripotent stem cells.

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Hui (Iris) Zhang

Associate Professor, Department of Physiology & Pharmacology, Center for Neurological Disease Research

Pathophysiology of Parkinson’s disease.

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Shaying Zhao

Professor
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Bioinformatics

Cancer genomics; human junk DNA; genomic instability.

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Y. George Zheng

Professor
Georgia Cancer Coalition Distinguished Scholar
Pharmaceutical & Biomedical Sciences

Drug Development, Chemical Biology, Cancer Disease Mechanism, Epigenetics and Genetics, Histone Modifications, Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, Enzymology, and Biophysics.

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