Huck Kitchen Cabinet

Huck Kitchen Cabinet

This informal group of around 30 thought leaders in life sciences research at Penn State meets monthly to advise the Huck director and Executive Team on policy, opportunities, and benchmarking. Members serve voluntarily and are appointed by the Huck director. Suggestions and inquiries about membership are welcome and should be sent to the Huck’s director.

Stephen Benkovic

Evan Pugh University Professor and Eberly Chair in Chemistry

Leonid Berlyand

Co-Director of the Center for Mathematics of Living and Mimetic Matter; Professor of Mathematics

Seth Bordenstein

Director of the Microbiome Center; Huck Chair in Microbiome Sciences; Professor of Biology and Entomology

Orfeu Buxton

Elizabeth Fenton Susman Professor of Biobehavioral Health

Francesca Chiaromonte

Director of the Genome Sciences Institute; Huck Chair in Statistics for the Life Sciences; Professor of Statistics

Mary Jane De Souza

Distinguished Professor of Kinesiology

Christina Grozinger

Director of the Center for Pollinator Research; Director of the Insect Biodiversity Center; Publius Vergilius Maro Professor and Huck Scholar of Entomology

Mark Guiltinan

Director, Plant Institute; J. Franklin Styer Professor of Horticultural Botany; Professor of Plant Molecular Biology

Camelia Kantor

Associate Director of Strategic Initiatives; Associate Research Professor

Teh-hui Kao

Chair, Intercollege Graduate Degree Program in Plant Biology; Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Vivek Kapur

Associate Director, Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences; Huck Distinguished Chair in Global Health; Professor of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases

Manuel Llinas

Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Kateryna Makova

Director of the Center for Medical Genomics; Professor of Biology

James Marden

Associate Director of Operations, Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences; Professor of Biology

Gustavo Nader

Dorothy Foher and J. Lloyd Huck Chair in Molecular, Cellular and Integrative Physiology, Professor of Kinesiology

Troy Ott

C. Lee Rumberger and Family Chair in Agricultural Sciences; Professor of Reproductive Physiology

Andrew Patterson

Professor and Huck Chair of Molecular Toxicology; Faculty Oversight, Metabolomics Core Facility

Jeffrey Peters

Distinguished Professor of Molecular Toxicology and Carcinogenesis

Jason Rasgon

Professor of Entomology and Disease Epidemiology

Andrew Read

Senior Vice President for Research; Evan Pugh Professor of Biology and Entomology; Eberly Professor of Biotechnology

Melissa Rolls

Chair, Intercollege Graduate Degree Program in Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Biosciences; Director of the Center for Cellular Dynamics; Paul Berg Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Denise Solomon

Head and Liberal Arts Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences

Laura Weyrich

Associate Professor of Anthropology

Nanyin Zhang

Director of the Center for Neurotechnology in Mental Health Research; Huck Chair in Brain Imaging; Professor of Bioengineering