Cell, Molecular & Physiological (CMP) Biology Faculty

Active Faculty

  • 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
  • Greg Beilman: Cell biology of lung injury, sepsis, and shock
  • Steve Berry: Metalloprotein engineering, metal binding site design
  • Clay Carter: Plant cell & molecular biology
  • Benjamin Clarke: Neuroendocrine peptide hormones as regulators of immune function
  • Robert Cormier: Identification and functional characterization of susceptibility genes for colorectal cancer
  • 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
  • Jon Holy: Anticancer activity of natural products
  • 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
  • Shun-Qing (Simon) Liang: Applying CRISPR-mediated, genome-editing techniques for gene therapy and cancer research
  • Yu Liu: Functional interactions between the cerebellum, cerebrocortical areas, and subcortical regions
  • Elizabeth Lusczek: Metabolomics in critical illness and disease, circadian rhythms
  • Allen Mensinger: Neural mechanism of behavior
  • Venkatram Mereddy: Discovery of new synthetic methods and reagents
  • 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
  • Andrew Skildum: Fuel metabolism in cancer cells, with particular interest in drug resistance in breast cancer cells
  • 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

Emeritus/Retired Faculty