Faculty Directory
Connect with faculty experts in molecular, cellular, and integrative biosciences
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. . .
John Carlson
- Professor of Molecular Genetics
- Director, Schatz Center for Tree Molecular Genetics
Genome mapping, including genetic linkage mapping, molecular cytogenetics; studies of genetic diversity in forests.
Isabella Cattadori
- Professor of Biology
Immuno-epidemiology of co-infection, how host immunity modulates parasite interactions and transmission and how host. . .
Douglas Cavener
- Huck Distinguished Chair in Evolutionary Genetics
- Professor of Biology
Regulation of protein synthesis and control of translation initiation of mRNAs in higher eukaryotes and the evolution of. . .
Surinder Chopra
- Professor of Maize Genetics
Regulation of flavonoid biosynthesis during plant development and plant-pathogen interaction. Epigenetic regulation and. . .
Daniel Cosgrove
- Eberly Chair and Professor of Biology
Mechanism of plant growth. Function and evolution of expansins. Biochemistry and rheology of plant cell walls. Growth. . .
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. . .
Timothy Currier
- Assistant Professor, Department of Biology
Joining the Huck in January 2027. Open to taking graduate students. Developmental mechanisms that build properly functioning. . .
Emily Davenport
- Assistant Professor of Biology
Understanding the complex relationship humans have with our microbiomes, using high-throughput sequencing technologies and. . .
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.
Francisco Dini-Andreote
- Huck Early Career Chair in Microbial Community Ecology, Associate Professor of Plant Science
Microbiome, plant-microbe interactions, and community ecology. Harnessing the plant microbiome to enhance protection against. . .
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.
Edward Dudley
- Professor of Food Science
- Director of E. coli Reference Center
Mechanisms driving toxin production in Shiga-toxigenic Escherichia coli; use of genome sequencing to track pathogen. . .
Robert Eckhardt
- Professor
Genetic and environmental influences on growth and development in human populations.