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Faculty Directory

Integrative and Biomedical Physiology Program Personnel

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Lacy Alexander

  • Professor of Kinesiology

In vivo and in vitro approaches using the human cutaneous circulation to examine the underlying signaling mechanisms. . .

Marco Archetti

  • Associate Professor of Biology

Evolutionary Genetics. Cancer dynamics. Defective interfering viruses. Evolutionary game theory.

Paul Bartell

  • Associate Professor of Avian Biology

The regulation of biological clocks in birds at the systems level.

Peter Butler

  • Professor of Bioengineering

Fundamental molecular mechanisms by which vascular endothelial cells sense the forces from flowing blood and transduce this. . .

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. . .

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. . .

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. . .

Mary Jane De Souza

  • Distinguished Professor of Kinesiology

The etiology of and treatment of the Female Athlete Triad, skeletal health in exercising women and athletes, reproductive. . .

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.

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. . .

Manyu Du

  • Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

How transcription machineries and regulatory DNA elements organize in 3D in the nucleus to regulate gene expression.

Erika Ganda

  • Emphasis Area Representative, Microbiome Sciences
  • Associate Professor of Food Animal Microbiomes

Developing practical ways to leverage the microbiome to improve food safety and improve food production animals' production. . .

Alison Gernand

  • Ann Atherton Hertzler Early Career Professor in Global Health
  • Professor of Nutritional Sciences

Santhosh Girirajan

  • Professor of Genomics
  • Professor of Anthropology

Understanding the genetic basis of neurodevelopmental disorders.