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Name Email/phone Interests include:
Chen, Gong
  • Associate Professor of Biology
gongchen@psu.edu
814-865-2488
  (University Park)

Molecular mechanism of synaptogenesis and plasticity.

Lai, Zhi-Chun
  • Professor of Biology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
  • Chair, Intercollege Graduate Degree Program in Cell and Developmental Biology
zcl1@psu.edu
814-863-0479
  (University Park)

Signal Transduction, Growth Control, and Cancer Genetics

Liu, David
  • Associate Professor of Neural and Behavioral Sciences
dxl39@psu.edu
717-531-4168
  (Hershey)

Regulation of neuronal cell death and neural differentiation.

Luscher, Bernhard
  • Professor of Biology, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, and Psychiatry
bxl25@psu.edu
814-865-5549
  (University Park)

Development and regulation of GABAergic inhibitory synapses; neural substrates regulating anxiety and cognition.

McLaughlin, Patricia
  • Professor of Neural and Behavioral Sciences
  • Director, Graduate Program in Anatomy
pxm9@psu.edu
717-531-6414
  (Hershey)

Growth factors and receptors in brain and heart development and cancer.

Mitchell, Pamela (Pam)
  • Associate Director, Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences
  • Associate Professor of Biology
pjm23@psu.edu
814-865-5802
  (University Park)

Regulation of gene expression during mouse and Drosophila embryogenesis.

Ordway, Richard
  • Associate Professor of Biology
  • Chair, Intercollege Graduate Degree Program in Genetics
rwo4@psu.edu
814-863-5693
  (University Park)

Cellular neurobiology using Drosophila.

Patterson, Randen
  • Assistant Professor of Biology
rlp25@psu.edu
814-865-1668
  (University Park)

Hormonal and growth factor regulation of neuronal calcium; the role of calcium in neuronal development.

Rolls, Melissa
  • Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
  • Director, Center for Cellular Dyamics
mur22@psu.edu
814-867-1395
  (University Park)

Subcellular compartmentalization of neurons.

Thomas, Graham
  • Associate Professor of Biology and of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
gxt5@psu.edu
814-863-0716
  (University Park)

Roles of the cytoskeleton at the cell membrane in epithelial cells, including issues of cell polarity and adhesion, cell signaling, and morphogenesis.

Whim, Matthew
  • Assistant Professor of Biology
mdw13@psu.edu
814-863-3891
  (University Park)

Regulation of neuropeptide exocytosis.

Zagon, Ian
  • Distinguished Professor of Neural and Behavioral Science
  • Director, Program on Education in Human Structure
isz1@psu.edu
717-531-8650
  (Hershey)

Peptides and receptors in development, cancer, cell renewal, wound healing, angiogenesis, cornea, neurodegeneration, diabetes and Crohn's Disease.