Grad Programs Directory
Meet the faculty, staff, and students advancing life sciences research and education across the Huck Institutes.
Caio Brunharo
- Associate Professor of Plant Sciences
Weed adaptation to agricultural practices and climate change; Weed biology, ecology, and evolution; Abiotic stress; Herbicide. . .
Franny Buderman
- Assistant Professor of Quantitative Wildlife Ecology
Quantitative ecology, with a focus on the demography, space-use, and movement of wildlife.
Carolee Bull
- Professor of Plant Pathology
- Bacterial Systematics Head
Bacterial systematics, epidemiology, and population biology of bacterial plant pathogens and biological control agents to. . .
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. . .
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. . .
Laura Cabrera
- Huck Early Career Chair in Neuroethics
- Associate Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics
The ethical and societal implications of neurotechnologies used for treatment as well as for enhancement purposes.
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.
Laura Carrel
- Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Genetic, epigenetic, and genomic regulation of expression on the mammalian X chromosome.
