Cell, Molecular & Physiological (CMP) Biology Faculty

Active Faculty - Duluth campus

  • Mustafa al'Absi: Psychobiology of stress, pain, nicotine addiction and risk for heart disease
  • Grant Anderson: Brain development, lipid metabolism
  • Gerald Ankley: Fate and biological effects of chemical contaminants in the environment
  • Steve Berry: Metalloprotein engineering, metal binding site design
  • Clay Carter: Plant cell & molecular biology
  • Benjamin Clarke: Neuroendocrine peptide hormones as regulators of immune function
  • Huai (Howard) Deng: Developmental roles of xenobiotic response signaling, imaging protein complexes on chromatin
  • Pedro Fernandez-Funez: Unraveling the molecular mechanisms underlying neurodegeneration using Drosophila models of several proteinopathies
  • Briana Gross: Origin and evolution of wild, weedy, and domesticated plants
  • Marshall Hampton: Bioinformatics, dynamics of gene regulation, mammalian hibernation
  • Detlef Heck: Systems neuroscience perspective of neuronal communication in healthy brains and brain disorders such as Alzheimer's disease, autism and traumatic brain injury
  • Anne Hinderliter: Membrane-localized phenomena
  • Joseph Johnson: Characterization of protein - protein interactions
  • Nam Chul Kim: Age-related neuromuscular degeneration such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, frontotemporal dementia and multisystem proteinopathy with Drosophila models and mammalian cell culture
  • Carlie LaLone: Chemical effects across species
  • Jennifer Liang: Using zebrafish to uncover mechanisms that control development of the vertebrate nervous system
  • Yu Liu: Functional interactions between the cerebellum, cerebrocortical areas, and subcortical regions
  • Allen Mensinger: Neural mechanism of behavior
  • Venkatram Mereddy: Discovery of new synthetic methods and reagents
  • Bill Perry: Stream and lake ecology with an emphasis on the effects of human modification of these ecosystems directly or through introduced species
  • Jean Regal: High blood pressure in pregnancy: role of innate immune system
  • Jon Rumbley: Protein folding, protein thermodynamics
  • Jessica Savage: Plant physiology, physiological ecology and plant-environment interactions
  • Patricia Scott: Role of GGAs in membrane trafficking of receptors implicated in pathogenesis of human diseases
  • Sabrina Scroggins: Immunotherapy development, maternal-fetal immune tolerance, developmental immunology
  • Clara Shaw: Ecology and evolution of viral host jumps in a Caenorhabditis model system
  • Erin Sheets: Immunoglobulin E (IgE) receptor signaling
  • Eric Singsaas: Plant physiology and biochemistry, biorefinery technology and natural materials development
  • Matthew Slattery: Using DNA binding specificity, context-specific genomics, and cis-regulatory element dissection to characterize gene regulatory networks controlling the response to environmental stress in various disease states
  • Yi-Mei (Amy) Yang: Neurophysiology, synaptic transmission, developmental plasticity
  • Sara Zimmer: Molecular parasitology and RNA biology

 

Active Faculty - Twin Cities campus

 

Hormel Institute - Active Faculty

  • Aleksandra Babicheva - molecular and cellular mechanisms of pulmonary vascular remodeling in pulmonary hypertension
  • Ewa Bielczyk-Maczynska - molecular metabolism and using functional genomics to identify new regulators of metabolic disease
  • David Guinovart - mathematical modeling of critical areas within bioscience, focusing on epidemiology, cell proliferation, and material science
  • Eric Rahrmann - understanding the fundamentals of why cancer spreads
  • Qi Tan - investigates how cellular identity, epigenetic memory, metabolic stress, hypoxia, DAMP signaling, and epithelial–mesenchymal interactions converge to determine whether injured lung tissue successfully regenerates or progresses toward fibrosis
  • Amer Alam - deciphering the molecular details of membrane transport processes
  • Luke Hoeppner - studying the molecular events that drive lung cancer initiation, progression, metastasis, and resistance to therapy with the goal of discovering new ways to treat cancer
  • Bin Liu - providing a structural basis for understanding the mechanisms of transcription initiation, elongation and termination by the bacterial RNAP
  • Jarrod French - identifying the molecular determinants of protein function and dysfunction in various physiological contexts
  • Sergio Gradilone - tumor cell biology and translational research

Emeritus/Retired Faculty