Executive Team
Patrick Drew
- Associate Director, Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences
- Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics, of Neurosurgery, of Biology, and of Biomedical Engineering
Optical imaging of brain dynamics during sleep and behavior; Role of blood flow and cerebrospinal fluid movement in. . .
Christina Grozinger
- Director of the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences
- Publius Vergilius Maro Professor and Huck Scholar of Entomology
Genomics of social behavior and health in bees
Camelia Kantor
- Associate Director of Strategic Initiatives
- Research Professor
Camelia Kantor is a highly interdisciplinary geospatial researcher and integrator. Before joining Huck, her prior work. . .
Emily Martell
- Managing Director
Responsible for Huck business administration and operations management
Dipanjan Pan
- Huck Director of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Ecosystems
- Huck Chair Professor in Nanomedicine
David Puts
- Huck Associate Director for Graduate Education
- Professor of Anthropology
Understanding both the endocrine mechanisms underlying human sexual differentiation and the evolution of these mechanisms,. . .
Center and Institute Directors
Jared Ali
- Associate Chair, Intercollege Graduate Degree Program in Ecology
- Director of the Center for Chemical Ecology
Behavior and chemical ecology of multi-trophic interactions, including plant responses to below-ground herbivory and. . .
Charles Anderson
- Chair, Intercollege Graduate Degree Program in Plant Biology
- Professor of Biology
In vivo imaging of plant cell wall dynamics. Molecular genetic analysis of genes involved in cell growth. Cell wall. . .
Igor Aronson
- Co-Director of the Center for Mathematics of Living and Mimetic Matter
- Huck Chair Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Chemistry and Mathematics
Paul Babitzke
- Co-Director of the Center for RNA Molecular Biology
- Don Bryant Chair in Microbial Physiology
Regulation of gene expression by RNA structure and RNA-binding proteins
Leonid Berlyand
- Co-Director of the Center for Mathematics of Living and Mimetic Matter
- Professor of Mathematics
Philip Bevilacqua
- Co-Director, Center for RNA Molecular Biology
- Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
RNA folding in vivo and genome-wide; RNA regulation of gene expression; Ribozyme Mechanism; roles RNA may have played in the. . .
Seth Bordenstein
- Director of the One Health Microbiome Center
- Huck Chair in Microbiome Sciences
The evolutionary and genetic principles that shape symbiotic interactions between animals, microbes, and viruses and the. . .
Liana Burghardt
- Director of the Center for Root and Rhizosphere Biology
- Huck Early Career Chair of Root Biology and Rhizosphere Interactions
Plant-microbe-climate interactions; the evolution and ecology of legumes and nitrogen-fixing rhizobia; the genomic basis and. . .
Margherita Cantorna
- Director of the Center for Molecular Immunology and Infectious Disease
- Distinguished Professor of Molecular Immunology
Understanding the working of the immune system. Utilizing animal models of several human diseases including enteric. . .
Sonia Cavigelli
- Chair, Intercollege Graduate Degree Program in Neuroscience
- Associate Professor of Biobehavioral Health
Development of temperament/personality; relationship of temperament and social status to stress and health; individual. . .
Daniel Ciolkosz
- Director, Center for Biorenewables
- Associate Research Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Nikki Crowley
- Director, Penn State Neuroscience Institute – University Park
- Huck Chair in Neural Engineering
Investigation of peptidergic transmission throughout the brain, using cell-specific and pathway-specific manipulations to. . .
Francisco Diaz
- Director of the Center for Reproductive Health and Biology
- Associate Professor of Reproductive Biology
Ovarian physiology. Role of SMAD-mediated signaling in follicular and female germ cell (oocyte) development.
Matthew Ferrari
- Director of the Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics
- Huck Career Development Professor
Public Health, Quantitative Epidemiology, Population Ecology, Statistics, Computational and Mathematical Biology
Bruce Gluckman
- Director of the Center for Neural Engineering
- Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics, of Neurosurgery, and of Biomedical Engineering
The dynamics of neural systems, how group dynamics form or emerge from the coupled dynamics of individual units, and how to. . .
Daniel Hayes
- Director, Center of Excellence in Industrial Biotechnology
- Huck Chair in Nanotherapeutics and Regenerative Medicine
Biomaterials engineering for applications ranging from regenerative medicine to lab-on-a-chip technologies. An emphasis on. . .
Heather Hines
- Interim Director, Center for Pollinator Research
- Interim Director, Insect Biodiversity Center
Applies genomic, transcriptomic, phylogenomic, and bioinformatic approaches to study the evolution and genetics of diverse. . .
Donna Korzick
- Director of Graduate Training Initiatives
- Professor of Physiology and Kinesiology
My research is focused on aging, post-menopausal women, and cardiac ischemia reperfusion injury using animal models. We are. . .
Janine Kwapis
- Director of the Center for Molecular Investigation of Neurological Disorders
- Associate Professor of Biology
Molecular and epigenetic mechanisms underlying learning and memory and age-related memory impairments.
Jennifer Macalady
- Director of the Ecology Institute
- Professor of Geosciences
Microbial interactions with earth materials: soils, sediments, solutes, atmospheric gases, minerals, and rocks. Early. . .
Paul Medvedev
- Director of the Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
- Professor of Computer Science and Engineering
Please see the researcher's homepage at https://medvedevgroup.com/.
Katsuhiko Murakami
- Director of the Center for Structural Biology
- Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Structural and Mechanistic Enzymology of Prokaryotic RNA Polymerases
Gary Perdew
- H. Thomas and Dorothy Willits Hallowell Chair in Agricultural Sciences
Mechanisms of receptor-mediated carcinogenesis. Regulation and functional analysis of Ah receptor activity: role in cancer. . .
Melissa Rolls
- Lead Huck Graduate Chair
- Chair, Intercollege Graduate Degree Program in Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Biosciences
Subcellular compartmentalization of neurons. The cellular basis of neuronal polarity and neuronal responses to injury. . .
Robert Sainburg
- Huck Distinguished Chair in Kinesiology and Neurology
- Professor of Kinesiology and of Neurology
The neural mechanisms that underlie control, coordination, and learning of voluntary movements in humans. Functional. . .
Krishnankutty Sathian
- Director, Neuroscience Institute – Hershey
- Professor and Chair of Neurology
Song Tan
- Director of the Center for Eukaryotic Gene Regulation
- Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Structural biology of eukaryotic gene regulation.
Core Facilities Directors
Sung Hyun (Joseph) Cho
- Co-Director, Cryo-Electron Microscopy Core Facility
- Associate Research Professor
Cheryl Keller
- Director, Genomics Core Facility
- Research Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Tatiana Laremore
- Director, Proteomics and Mass Spectrometry Core Facility
- Associate Research Professor
Rajeswaran Mani
- Assistant Director of Core Facilities for Public Engagement and Outreach
- Director, Flow Cytometry Facility
Thomas Neuberger
- Director, High Field Magnetic Resonance Imaging Facility
- Research Professor
Gang Ning
- Director, Microscopy Core Facility
- Research Professor
Using microscopy and flow cytometry to analyze structures and biochemical properties of cells.
Ashley Shay
- Director, Metabolomics Core Facility
The implementation and expansion of liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry for the structural elucidation of novel. . .
Mekala Venkatachalam
- Director of the CSL Behring Fermentation Facility
- Assistant Research Professor
Jenny Wang
- Co-Director, Cryo-Electron Microscopy Core Facility
- Associate Research Professor
Neela Yennawar
- Director, Biomolecular Interactions Core Facility
- Co-Director, X-Ray Crystallography and Scattering Core Facility
Biological calorimetry, protein characterization, molecular modeling, X-ray crystallography, and small-angle X-ray. . .
2026-2027 Leadership Fellows
Le Bao
- Professor of Statistics
Bayesian methods, data mining, computational methods, applications in health, environmental and social sciences.
Andrew Deans
- Professor of Entomology, Director of the Frost Entomological Museum
Joshua Kellogg
- Emphasis Area Representative, Molecular Toxicology
- Associate Professor of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences
Development of new metabolomics tools for chemical and biological characterization of complex systems. Discovery of new. . .
Office Directors and Coordinators
Dana Coval-Dinant
- Graduate Program Office Coordinator and Supervisor
Oversight of the six Huck inter-college graduate degree programs and supervision of day-to-day operations of graduate office. . .
Emily Martell
- Managing Director
Responsible for Huck business administration and operations management
Michael Uchneat
- Director of Facilities
Oversight and coordination of all facility issues for the Huck Institutes buildings including renovation, space planning,. . .