Additional information on individual faculty members can be obtained by accessing their home departments: Biological Sciences, Chemistry and Biochemistry, Psychology, and Family, Consumer and Nutrition Sciences.

Gary M. Baker (Ph.D., Purdue) associate professor in Chemistry and Biochemistry: mechanisms of energy coupling in cytochrome c oxidase

Rathindra N. Bose (Ph.D., Georgetown Univ.) Vice President for Research, Dean of the Graduate School, professor in Chemistry and Biochemistry: carcinogenesis by chromium compounds, mechanisms of platinum anticancer drugs

Neil W. Blackstone (Ph.D., Yale), professor in Biological Sciences: mechanisms of the evolution of development

Jozef Bujarski (Ph.D., A. Mickiewicz U., Poland), Presidential Research Professor in Biological Sciences: plant molecular biology; molecular virology

Ana M. Calvo (Ph.D., University of Alcala de Henares, Madrid, Spain), assistant professor of Biological Sciences:  genetics and molecular biology of fungi

Sonya Conway (Ph.D., California, Berkeley), professor in Biological Sciences: examination of factors influencing neurosecretory control mechanisms

James V. Corwin (PhD, Kentucky}, professor in Psychology: recovery of function following prefrontal cortex damage; animal models of human neurological syndromes; neuroanatomy

James E. Erman (Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Distinguished Research Professor in Chemistry and Biochemistry: mechanisms of enzyme catalyzed oxidation reduction reactions; electron transfer in biological systems utilizing rapid reaction techniques

Elizabeth R. Gaillard (Ph.D., Texas, Austin), associate professor in Chemistry and Biochemistry: photochemistry and photobiology, time resolved spectroscopy; photooxidative damage and aging in the human eye

Kenneth W. Gasser (Ph.D, Washington State), associate professor in Biological Sciences: membrane biochemistry; epithelial transport; exocrine secretion; exocytosis

W. Scott Grayburn (Ph.D., U. of Washington), Core DNA Synthesis and Sequencing Facility Supervisor: plant molecular biology; lipid metabolism

Richard Hahin (Ph.D., Maryland), associate professor in Biological Sciences: membrane physiology; electrophysiology; neuromuscular disease; anesthesia

Stuart A. Hill (Ph.D., Univ. of Montana, Missoula), associate professor in Biological Sciences:  Prokaryotic recombination, especially as applied to the molecular genetics of Neisseria gonorrhoeae

Heike Hofstetter (Dr.rer.nat., Univ. of Tubingen, Germany), adjunct assistant professor in Chemistry and Biochemistry: protein chemistry; affinity techniques and labeling of biomolecules

Oliver Hofstetter (Dr.rer.nat., Univ. of Tubingen, Germany), associate professor in Chemistry and Biochemistry:   biorecognition; immunochemistry; chiral separations; affinity techniques and sensors

Gabriel P. Holbrook (Ph.D., University of York and Rothamsted Experimental Station, England), associate professor in Biological Sciences: photosynthesis and photorespiration in higher plants; regulation of RuBP carboxylase/oxygenase in plants and bacteria

James R. Horn (Ph.D., Univ. of Iowa, Iowa City), assistant professor in Chemistry and Biochemistry:  energetics of protein-protein and protein-small molecule interactions; molecular recognition; protein engineering; drug design

Narayan S. Hosmane (Ph.D., Univ. of Edinburgh, Scotland), professor in Chemistry and Biochemistry: synthetic and structural chemistry of polyhedral boron cage molecules for cancer therapy; Ziegler-Natta catalysis for olefin polymerization; solvent extraction of radionuclides from nuclear waste

Christopher J. Hubbard (Ph.D., Wake Forest), associate professor in Biological Sciences: mRNA stability, growth factor, and oncogene interaction

Mitrick Johns (Ph.D., Oregon), associate professor in Biological Sciences: developing rapid ways of mapping useful traits in the genomes of domesticated plants and animals

Barbara Johnson-Wint (Ph.D., Michigan State). associate professor in Biological Sciences: collagen degradation in vertebrate morphogenesis; wound healing and pathogenesis; cytokine regulation of collagenase gene expression

David P. Lotshaw (Ph.D., University of New York, Albany), associate professor in Biological Sciences: role of ion channels in control of cellular functions

Leslie Matuszewich (Ph.D., State University of New York at Buffalo), assistant professor in Psychology: brain neurochemistry, stress and behavior

Rangaswamy Meganathan (Ph.D., Oklahoma), professor in Biological Sciences: microbiology; microbial physiology and biochemistry

Jon S. Miller (Ph.D., University of Nebraska), associate professor in Biological Sciences:  cell physiology, invertebrate immunology, eicosanoids

John L.A. Mitchell (Ph.D., Princeton), Distinguished Research Professor in Biological Sciences, and Chemistry and Biochemistry: Regulation of polyamine synthesis and transport; protein turnover

Neil O. Polans (Ph.D., California, Davis), associate professor in Biological Sciences: plant genetics; molecular population genetics, systematics, and evolution

Victor Ryzhof (Ph.D., Case Western Reserve), associate professor in Chemistry and Biochemistry:  bioanalytical mass spectrometry; thermochemistry of non-covalent binding; gas-phase ion reactivity and energetics

Joel P. Stafstrom (Ph.D., Colorado, Boulder), associate professor in Biological Sciences: plant development and molecular biology; cell cycle control; regulation of growth and dormancy

Josephine Umoren (Ph.D., Nebraska), associate professor Family, Consumer and Nutrition sciences: human nutrition; mineral metabolism in aging; nutrition and physical activity

Patricia S. Vary (Ph.D., Stanford), Presidential Research Professor in Biological Sciences: microbial genetics; genetic engineering; regulation of sporulation and plasmid analysis in Bacillus megaterium

Lidia B. Vitello (Ph.D., Clarkson College of Technology), adjunct assistant professor in Chemistry and Biochemistry: characterization of protein interactions

Douglas G. Wallace (Ph.D., Kent State), assistant professor in Psychology: behavioral evaluation of animal models of neurodegenerative disorders, neural basis of naturally occurring behaviors

Tao Xu (Ph.D., U. of Alabama), assistant professor in Chemistry and Biochemistry: inorganic-organic hybrid interfaces and nanomaterials for applications in sensors, energy storage and conversion, solid-state lighting, and molecular electronics

Linda S. Yasui (Ph.D., Florida State). associate professor in Biological Sciences: radiation effects of ¹²⁵I decay in chromatin

Jerrold H. Zar (Ph.D., Illinois), professor in Biological Sciences: relationship of fatty acid composition of animal lipids to environmental stress

Chong Zheng (Ph.D., Cornell), professor in Chemistry and Biochemistry: theoretical studies and computer modeling of protein dynamics; electron and proton transfer processes in biological systems

Shengde Zhou (Ph.D., Auburn), assistant professor in Biological Sciences: microbial genetics, molecular biology, metabolic engineering, biotechnology