Integrated Biosciences Graduate Program

Cell, Molecular, and Physiological Biology Faculty


* Accepting New Student(s) for Fall 2010 (list is updated weekly)

Mustafa al’Absi - psychobiology of stress, pain, nicotine addiction and risk for heart disease

Grant Anderson - brain development, lipid metabolism

Matthew T. Andrews - genetic factors controlling mammalian hibernation 

Gerald Ankley - fate and biological effects of chemical contaminants in the environment

Edgar Arriaga - biochemical anaylisis of organellar function

Subhash Basak - computational and mathematical chemistry

Bjoern Bauer - regulation of drug efflux transporters at the blood-brain barrier

Greg Beilman - cell biology of lung injury, sepsis, and shock

Steve Berry - metalloprotein engineering, metal binding site design

* Clay Carter, CMP Assoc. DGS - plant, molecular, and cell biology

Benjamin Clarke - neuroendocrine peptide hormones as regulators of immune function

John Dahl - examining the ability of bacteria to survive stressful conditions

Sigmund Degitz - ecological stressors and amphibian development

* Lester Drewes - cerebral vascular biology

Haim Einat - biological basis of affective and anxiety disorders

Barb Elliot - outcomes research, especially access to care for the underserved

Janet Fitzakerley - auditory system development

* Jeffrey Gilbert - cardiovascular and renal mechanisms of hypertension and endothelial dysfunction

Stephanie Guildford - phytoplankton and nutrient dynamics

Marshall Hampton - bioinformatics, dynamics of gene regulation, mammalian hibernation

* Goran Hellekant - comparative studies of the nature of sweet and bitter taste receptors. 

Lois Heller - cardiovascular biology

* Randall Hicks - ecology and molecular biology of aquatic microorganisms

Anne Hinderliter - membrane-localized phenomena

Jon Holy - anticancer activity of natural products

Joseph Johnson - characterization of protein-protein interactions

* Tim Kroft - genetics of gametogenesis, sperm-egg interactions and fertilization in C. elegans

* Jennifer Liang - using zebrafish to uncover mechanisms that control development of the vertebrate nervous system


* Allen Mensinger - neural mechanism of behavior

Venkatram Mereddy - discovery of new synthetic methods and reagents

Glenn Nordehn, D.O. - Artificial intelligence systems of human heart sounds

Ayman Noreddin - pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic modeling of anti-infectives

Joseph Prohaska - nutritional biochemistry of tace elements

* Jean Regal - mechanistic pathways to the asthma phenotype

Teresa Rose-Hellekant - breast cancer: hormonal and growth factor interactions

Jon Rumbley - protein folding, protein thermodynamics

Patricia Scott - role of GGAs in membrane trafficking of receptors implicated in pathogenesis of human diseases

George Trachte, Director of Graduate Studies - natriuretic peptide receptors