Advisory Board
Stephen Benkovic
- Evan Pugh University Professor and Eberly Chair in Chemistry
Peter Hudson
- Former Director, Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences
- Willaman Professor of Biology
Population dynamics of infectious diseases in wildlife and the dynamics of parasite community structure.
Vivek Kapur
- Huck Distinguished Chair in Global Health
- Professor of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
The basic mechanisms by which pathogenic microbes successfully infect, colonize, and cause disease in their hosts.
James Marden
- Emeritus Professor of Biology
How physiological variation within species affects their ecology and evolution. Primarily with insects, but recently also. . .
Kitchen Cabinet
Michael Axtell
- Professor of Biology
- Louis and Hedwig Sternberg Chair in Plant Biology
Discovery and characterization of plant microRNAs and siRNAs. Functions of microRNAs and siRNAs in the evolution of plant. . .
Amie Boal
- Professor of Chemistry and of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
The structural differences between members of large metalloenzyme superfamilies that share common features but promote. . .
Orfeu Buxton
- Elizabeth Fenton Susman Professor of Biobehavioral Health
The causes of chronic sleep deficiency in the workplace, home, and society; the health consequences of chronic sleep. . .
Micah Clark
- Research Professor & Senior Scientist for Autonomy, AI, and Cognitive Science, Applied Research Laboratory
Erin Connolly
- Professor and Head of Plant Science
Molecular mechanisms of micronutrient transport. Iron uptake and compartmentalization. Metal ion homeostasis
Donna Fick
- Elouise Ross Eberly Professor
- Director of the Tressa Nese and Helen Diskevich Center of Geriatric Nursing Excellence
John Hayes
- Professor of Food Science
- Director, Sensory Evaluation Center
Perception of taste, smell and chemesthesis; eating behavior; individual differences in sensation and food preferences; COVID. . .
Vasant Honavar
- Huck Chair in Biomedical Data Sciences and AI
- Professor and Edward Frymoyer Chair of Information Sciences and Technology
Statistical machine learning algorithms for predictive modeling; modeling and inference of biological networks;. . .
Teh-hui Kao
- Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Molecular, biochemical, and structural bases of the S-RNase-based self-incompatibility system in flowering plants. F-box. . .
Gustavo Nader
- Dorothy Foher and J. Lloyd Huck Chair in Molecular, Cellular and Integrative Physiology
- Professor of Kinesiology
Ribosome biogenesis and cellular growth control. Transcription and epigenetic regulation of ribosomal RNA genes.
Dipanjan Pan
- Huck Director of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Ecosystems
- Huck Chair Professor in Nanomedicine
George Perry
- Professor of Anthropology and Biology
Anthropological genomics, paleogenomics, human body size evolution, parasite evolution, and evolutionary medicine.
Justin Pritchard
- Huck Early Career Entrepreneurial Professorship
- Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Using systems and synthetic biology approaches to understand and control drug resistance.
Jason Rasgon
- Professor of Entomology and Disease Epidemiology
Integrating population biology, ecology, molecular tools and theory to address fundamental and applied questions related to. . .
Justin Silverman
- Associate Professor of Information Sciences and Technology
Statistical methods for the analysis of biomedical data (or any other interesting data/questions)
Vishal Singh
- Associate Professor of Nutritional Physiology and Microbiome
Denise Solomon
- Head and Liberal Arts Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences
Erika Swift
- Executive Director, Center for Medical Innovation
- Professor of Practice, Penn State College of Medicine and Penn State Harrisburg
Guy Townsend
- Associate Professor of Molecular & Precision Medicine
My laboratory investigates mechanisms facilitating bacterial colonization of the mammalian intestine to understand how and. . .
Kimberly Van Haitsma
- Professor
- Associate Director, Tressa Nese and Helen Diskevich Center of Geriatric Nursing Excellence
Dean's Council
B Stephen Carpenter II
- Michael J. and Aimee Rusinko Kakos Dean, College of Arts and Architecture
- Professor of Art Education and African American Studies
Lee Kump
- Dean Emeritus of the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences
- Professor of Geosciences
Thomas La Porta
- Interim Harold and Inge Marcus Dean of Engineering
- Evan Pugh Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and Electrical Engineering
Clarence Lang
- Susan Welch Dean of the College of the Liberal Arts
- Professor of African American Studies
Tracy Langkilde
- Verne M. Willaman Dean of the Eberly College of Science
- Professor of Biology
The interface of ecology and evolution to understand how an organism's traits are matched to its environment and responds to. . .
Craig Newschaffer
- Raymond E. and Erin Stuart Schultz Dean of the College of Health and Human Development
- Professor of Biobehavioral Health
Troy Ott
- Dean of the College of Agricultural Sciences
- C. Lee Rumberger and Family Chair in Agricultural Sciences
Reproductive immunology and the physiology of early pregnancy.
Andrea Tapia
- Dean of the College of Information Sciences and Technology
- Professor of Information Sciences and Technology