Participating Faculty
| Name | Emphasis | Topic Description | Funding Source Cohort | Accepting Applications |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Streisfeld, Matt | Biology, Ecology & Evolution | Ecological and evolutionary genetics in natural plant populations; evolution of transcriptional regulation. | NSF REU | |
| Garcia, David | Biology, Molecular | Epigenetic traits that influence how cells respond to stress and new environments. | AHA, NSF REU, NIH R25 | ✓ |
| Kern, Andrew | Biology, Ecology Evolution | Role of natural selection in shaping patterns of genome variation | NSF REU | |
| Wehr, Michael | Psychology, Neuroscience | Systems neuroscience, neural coding, auditory cortex. | NIH R25 | |
| Greenhouse, Ian | Human Physiology | Neurophysiology and how humans initiate and cancel movement | AHA, NIH R25 | ✓ |
| Zeithamova-Demircan, Dasa | Psychology, Neuroscience | Cognitive-Neuroscience, Memory | NIH R25 | |
| Mazzucato, Luca | Biology, Math, Neuroscience | Neural basis of sensory perception, decision-making, and associative learning | NIH R25 | |
| Murray, James | Biology, Neuroscience | Theoretical and computational neuroscience; learning in the brain; neural control of movement. | NIH R25 | |
| Barkan, Alice | Biology, Molecular | Control of chloroplast gene expression; nuclear-chloroplast interactions. | NSF REU | |
| Barber, Matt | Biology, Ecology & Evolution | Host Microbe Interaction and evolution on a molecular scale | NSF REU | |
| Guenza, Marina | Chemistry | Dynamics of complex macromolecular fluids using equilibrium and non-equilibrium statistical mechanics | NSF REU | |
| McGuire, Krista | Biology, Ecology & Evolution | Understanding how the community assembly processes of soil microbial communities influence the diversity and distribution patterns of plant communities | NSF REU | |
| Ralph, Peter | Math, Biology | Evolutionary biology, population genetics, probability, and statistics | NSF REU | |
| Ursell, Tristan | Physics | Collective behavior, mechanics of biomolecules and microbes, active fluids, biological transport phenomena, microbial physiology. | NSF REU | |
| Pluth, Michael | Chemical Biology | Chemical biology, molecular recognition, fluorescent biosensors. | NSF REU | |
| Sutherland, Kelly | Marine Biology | Interactions among marine organisms and with marine environments. | NSF REU | |
| Cresko, William | Biology, Ecology & Evolution | Developmental genetics of evolving traits, gene and genome duplication, evolutionary genetics, speciation | NSF REU, NIH R25 | |
| Doe, Chris | Biology, Neuroscience | Neural stem cells, cell polarity, CNS development in Drosophila. | AHA, NSF REU, NIH R25 | ✓ |
| Miller, Adam | Biology, Neuroscience, Development | Neural circuit wiring, synapse formation, and electrical synaptogenesis in zebrafish. | NSF REU, NIH R25 | |
| Bowerman, Bruce | Biology, Molecular | Cell polarity and cell division in the early Caenorhabditis elegans embryo. | AHA, NSF REU, NIH R25 | ✓ |
| Grimes, Dan | Biology, Molecular | Bone patterning in vertebrates | AHA, NSF REU, NIH R25 | ✓ |
| Guillemin, Karen | Biology, Molecular, Development | Helicobacter pylori mechanisms of pathogenesis, bacterial-host interactions in development. | AHA, NSF REU, NIH R25 | ✓ |
| Hawley, Diane | Biochemistry, Molecular Biology | RNA polymerase, regulation of gene expression, and protein-DNA interactions. | NSF REU, NIH R25 | |
| Herman, Tory | Biology, Molecular | Neural target selection and synapse formation of Drosophila. | NSF REU, NIH R25 | |
| Prehoda, Kenneth | Biochemistry, Molecular Biology | Signal transduction, protein interaction networks, x-ray crystallography. | NSF REU, NIH R25 | |
| Nolen, Brad | Biochemistry, Molecular Biology | Molecular basis for cytoskeleton regulation. | AHA, NSF REU, NIH R25 | ✓ |
| Selker, Eric | Biology, Molecular | Epigenetics, DNA methylation, genome dynamics, gene silencing, position effects. | NSF REU, NIH R25 | |
| Stankunas, Kryn | Biology, Molecular, Development | Chromatin dynamics and epigenetic control of vertebrate development. | AHA, NSF REU, NIH R25 | ✓ |
| Libuda, Diana | Biology, Molecular | DNA repair, recombination, and chromosome dynamics during meiosis. | AHA, NSF REU, NIH R25 | ✓ |
| DeRose, Victoria | Biochemistry, Chemical Biology | Investigating chemical activity and structure in nucleic acids and proteins, with an emphasis on metal interactions. | AHA, NSF REU, NIH R25 | ✓ |
| Niell, Cris | Biology, Neuroscience | Function and development of neural circuits for visual processing. | NSF REU, NIH R25 | |
| Washbourne, Philip | Biology, Neuroscience, Development | Molecular mechanisms of synapse formation between neurons during development and repair. | NSF REU, NIH R25 | |
| Prell, Jim | Chemistry | Mass spectrometry and ion mobility techniques to investigate the physical and chemical properties that govern the organization of macromolecular assemblies at the nanoscale, including those found in biological membranes. | NSF REU, NIH R25 | |
| Hansen, Scott | Biochemistry, Molecular Biology | Emergent properties and enzymology of membrane proximal signaling reactions. | NSF REU, NIH R25 | |
| Huxtable, Adrianne | Human Physiology | Respiratory Neurophysiology and Plasticity | AHA, NSF REU, NIH R25 | |
| Postlethwait, John | Biology, Development | Genome evolution, evolution of development, sex determination, skeletal development | NSF REU, NIH R25 | |
| Eisen, Judith | Biology, Neuroscience, Development | Interactions between the nervous system, microbiota, and immune system | AHA, NSF REU, NIH R25 | |
| Westerfield, Monte | Biology, Neuroscience, Development | Developmental genetics of human diseases | NSF REU, NIH R25 | |
| Ting, Nelson | Anthropology | Genetics/genomics, evolutionary ecology, and conservation in natural animal populations, with a focus on African primates. | NSF REU, NIH R25 | |
| Singh, Nadia | Biology, Ecology, Evolution | Evolutionary Genetics | NSF REU, NIH R25 | |
| Bohannan, Brendan | Biology, Ecology Evolution | Microbial biodiversity, molecular microbial ecology, microbial ecology and evolution. | NSF REU, NIH R25 | |
| Phillips, Patrick | Biology, Ecology Evolution | Evolutionary genetics and the genetics of complex traits. | NSF REU, NIH R25 | |
| Parthasarathy, Raghu | Physics | Biological membranes; multicellular organization and bacterial population dynamics; advanced microscopy techniques and computational image analysis | NSF REU, NIH R25 | |
| Harms, Michael | Biochemistry, Molecular Biology | Biophysical properties of proteins and their evolution. | AHA, NSF REU, NIH R25 | ✓ |
| Sylwestrak, Emily | Biology, Neuroscience | Molecular and cellular organization of subcortical networks driving motivated behavior. | NSF REU, NIH R25 | |
| Zemper, Annie | Biology, Molecular | Intestinal stem cells during development, homeostasis and disease. | AHA, NSF REU, NIH R25 | ✓ |
| Jaramillo, Santiago | Biology, Neuroscience | Attention and learning in hearing. | NIH R25 | |
| Lockery, Shawn | Biology, Neuroscience | Parallel and distributed processing in simple biological networks. | NIH R25 | |
| Smear, Matt | Psychology, Neuroscience | Systems Neuroscience. | NIH R25 | |
| McCurdy, Carrie | Human Physiology | Obesity and Insulin Resistance | AHA, NIH R25 | ✓ |
| Halliwill, John | Human Physiology | Exercise & Environmental Physiology. | AHA, NIH R25 | ✓ |
| Minson, Chris | Human Physiology | Human cardiovascular control | AHA, NIH R25 | ✓ |
| Kuhl, Brice | Psychology, Neuroscience | Cognitive Neuroscience, Memory, Cognitive Control, fMRI Methods | NIH R25 | |
| McCormick, David | Biology, Neuroscience | Neural networks of brain function and neural mechanics of optimal performance | NIH R25 | |
| Takahashi, Terry | Biology, Neuroscience | Coding and integraton of sensory information neuroethology. | NIH R25 | |
| Callahan, Damien | Human Physiology | Effects of acute and prolonged disuse on skeletal muscle structure and function | AHA, NIH R25 | ✓ |
| Dreyer, Hans | Human Physiology | Skeletal muscle physiology | AHA, NIH R25 | |
| Karduna, Andy | Human Physiology | Upper extremity biomechanics, with an emphasis on kinematics, EMG analysis, proprioception and occupational disorders | AHA, NIH R25 | |
| Saucier, Gerard | Psychology | Social/Personality, Values, Cultural Psychology, Moral Psychology, Political Psychology | NIH R25 | |
| Pfeifer, Jennifer | Psychology, Neuroscience | Developmental changes on the neural level affecting motivation, regulation, and choice making within adolescents; as well as puberty and mental health | NIH R25 | |
| Mayr, Ulrich | Psychology | Cognitive system "configuring itself" to meet changing internal or external demands | NIH R25 | |
| Sereno, Margaret | Psychology | Representations of shape and space in the primate brain using experimental and computational approaches | NIH R25 | |
| Dassonville, Paul | Psychology, Neuroscience | Spatiotemporal patterns of neural activity. | NIH R25 | |
| Lovering, Andrew | Human Physiology | Cardiopulmonary & Respiratory Physiology. | AHA, NIH R25 | ✓ |
| Swann, Nicole | Human Physiology, Neuroscience | Neurophysiology of movement and disruption by disease | AHA, NIH R25 | ✓ |
| Walker, Ashley | Human Physiology | Age-Related Vascular Function | AHA, NIH R25 | ✓ |
| Hettiaratchi, Marian | Biology | Biomaterials for Protein Delivery and Tissue Engineering | NSF REU, NIH R25 | |
| Widom, Julia | Biochemistry | RNA structure and dynamics | AHA | ✓ |